He blew them up with his mind.
I should probably pint out that recursive Matrixes (matrices doesn’t seem proper) would consume exponentially greater computing power.
I don’t think that Neo destroyed Smith - I think he just thought he did.
Instead, he set Smith free. As symbolized by Smith no longer needing his Agent-Issue earpiece.
-Joe
That’s still infinitely more plausible than using humans for power, no matter how they rationalize it.
I thought Neo’s machine sight was explained in the movies. When he shuts down the sentinels through an act of will, Neo’s mind enters the train station. He can send his mind into the Matrix without a transmitter chair etc, because as the One his mind is connected to the Matrix and all the machines. Even after the destruction of his eyes, Neo is still receiving all kinds of data through his One wifi connection. He’s not using his eyes and it’s not really sight. Sight is just how his brain displays all the data. Which brings me to another question-
Why does Neo have to go to the machine city? He wants to talk to the head machine? What, he can’t just use the ship’s radio to communicate with the machines? He can’t flag down a sentinel and relay a message through it?
Re The AniMatrix
Haven’t seen it yet.
Re Smith’s Death
That didn’t look like just setting Smith free. It looked like Neo entering Smith’s program and decompiling it into non-executable strings and variables. Yes, when Smith resurrects, he is free of past role. But, that is an effect of his death and resurrection. With Neo just come into his power, which is easier- the complete destruction of a program, or a very delicate and complex alteration of a program? Which does it look like he does to Smith?
I don’t think it has anything to do with Smith being a program. Smith is an individual, even in the first film. His chat with the captive Morpheus make it clear that Smith has desires that run counter to his role and purpose. When Neo discovers his abilities, he thinks of them as tools to do the same old thing. When Smith discovers his abilities, he abandons the old methods and his old goals.
What ever happened to those two ghostly twins?
I think they got blown up at the end of the freeway chase. Then again, given their powers, they might very well have survived.
I disagree. If the Architect feels himself bound by his word in the end of movie 3, then there is no reason to suppose he isn’t telling the truth in movie 2. In fact, I don’t think we’re shown any machine actually lying.
Also, if that were true, then we would have to ignore the entire backstory about the previous 5 iterations of the Matrix, which seems rather wasteful from a story telling perspective, and also does not fit in with the conversation with the Merovingian. I think the evidence points more towards the architect telling the truth, rather than the reverse.
One thing I didn’t like was Smith’s role in movie 2 and 3. While I hardly expected him to be a good guy, I would have expected him to be played more evenly. He might be after Neo, but it should have been to prove he was better. They turned him from a trapped, bitter guy made as a killer since “birth” into a random psycho.
If they were going to play a Smith/Neo duality, there were a lot of better ways to do it. I think they should have tried to make Smith into the “dark” version of Neo (Yang to his Yin, baby!) to keep the pseudo-eastern-mysticism. The Christianity angle fell flat, IMHO.
In the first film, the Oracle takes Neo’s hand and tells him that he is not the One.
But she was only half-lying. Obviously, he became the One. OTOH, he wasn’t the One yet, and she acknowledged this. After all, she said that he was waiting for something.In fact, she specifically mentioned “your next life” or something. And since he did die, it seems that she was right.
The scene went like this.
She takes his hands, pretends to read them and go um ah, and then she says something like “And then I tell you…” And Neo finishes the sentence for her “I’m not the one”. Then she says “I’m sorry, hon, it seems like you’re waiting for something”. She never actually says that Neo is not the one, and it appears that she’s actually going out of her way to specifically NOT say that Neo is not the one.
Can someone PLEASE answer this question:
At some point in Matrix Reloaded (or maybe Revolutions), Neo encounters an Asian martial artist employed as some type of guard. Why does this guy have a golden glow, when no one else in the matrix does?
Because he reached the final level. 
ORACLE: But you already know what I’m going to tell you.
NEO: I’m not the One.
ORACLE: Sorry, kid. You got the gift, but it looks like you’re waiting for something.
NEO: What?
ORACLE: Your next life, maybe. Who knows. That’s how these things go.
Cite. That’s right, she says, “You got the gift,” and then qualifies that he isn’t using it. She doesn’t tell him he’s not the One, she tells him he IS the One, but allows him to believe he isn’t. So Tabby_Cat is right, we never see a machine actually lying (that we know of).
Carnac, IIRC, that guy is a special program specifically assigned to guard the oracle. There’s no reason why programs with varying types of code can’t appear as different colors.
cause he’s the last dragon