Well, I saw ‘Revolutions’ last weekend, and while I didn’t hate it as much as some other dopers did, the third installment did leave me with a few ‘huh’? moments. Even though each movie picks up pretty much directly after the last one ended, in my mind the movies don’t seem to ‘mesh’ that well. In fact I probably would have been pretty satisfied with them just ending the series after the first movie- it leaves plenty of stuff to the imagination.
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In the first Matrix, they talk about how the Agents are trying to get Zion’s mainframe codes. Whatever happened to that in part 2 and 3? I mean, its like the Machines thought it out like this: Step 1: Get Zion mainframe codes. Step 2: Step 3: Profit!
How much time elapsed between each uprising of Zion? In ‘Revolutions’ one of the captains says that in X hundred years nobody has gone within 300 km of machine city. How much time passes before the Architect’s cycle happens?
If the machines were so perfect, how come they didn’t know they’d need Neo’s help right off the bat? why the hell should Neo have to convince THEM?
If you had to conquer a human race would you just try one thing? The mainframe codes would have allowed them to shutdown Zion, as well as open the doors. However, that wasn’t panning out, so they tried the let’s-dig-through-a-couple-of-miles-of-earth-instead-of-just-blasting-the-doors-open-aproach.
A long time. If each time Zion starts out with 16 people and it got to be a quarter million (I know, that’s counting the released people) it had to be a long time.
I didn’t think they needed convincing, I felt that they were reluctant to accept what they knew they had to do. Also, they could not know if Neo was capable of doing it, remember he was an unknown to them.
I looked up the word matrix in my Random House dictionary and found this as an example:
Rome is the matrix of western civilization.
The ship was the Nebachadnezzar. He was a Babylonian king who had a prophetic dream of a statue. The head was gold, the sholders and arms silver, belly and thighs bronze, legs iron, feet iron and clay. Going down the body is traveling thru time and it splits in two at the thighs. The Roman Empire split in two, East and West. This still affects the world today. Czar and kaiser come from caeser. Hail Caeser, Hiel Hitler, Hail to the chief.
In a society that depends on information hiding THE MATRIX of the internet makes it possible to alter the global distribution of knowledge. Just tell people about a good book. Spread information to all of the SMITHs.
Do you ever hear about WAIT STATES in the computer magazines? Can the memory really keep up in a 3 gig computer?
Is it worth the extra money to get the fastest von Neumann machine. You don’t hear the term von Neumann machine much either. Too much info in too small a space.
Dal Timgar
P.S. I can only show you the door. You have to walk thru it.
Here’s a site with some interesting theories, like one that says the phone call at the end of the first Matrix actually occurred AFTER Reloaded and Revolutions.