The Ultimate MATRIX: RELOADED thred (Major Spoilers)

[ZIM]

haha, i already read that. neener neener

this

Plus, the little bits of old technology that allow the protagonists to switch between the Matrix and the real world reminds me a lot of Zizek's notion of the traumatic real: an knot or a scar that mars the inside of the simulacrum that is your reality, reminding you of the simulacrum's limits but reminding you that you can't get outside of that simulacrum to the really real.

I´m thinking of announcing a contest -- to condense the basic philosophical point of The Matrix to a haiku

[Kristoffer]

My head is spinning... On a side note, I like the pics in this site
http://www.speakeasy.org/~chipper/Pi...itive-pics.htm

[MasterKiller]

The world that we know,
is not the real world, I know.
Computers cannot taste chicken.

[MasterKiller]

I watched the Animatrix last night. In two of the episodes, they detail how machines came to power, and how they created the Matrix, so all the speculation about people actually being behind the concept are out the door.

[@PLUGO]

planning on watching it this weekend at my friend's place. He's got a DVD projector so we can watch it on his wall...

[MasterKiller]

It was pretty cool. One of the episodes explains the story behind the kid who follows Neo around in Zion during Reloaded.

Another one is a story about a "haunted house" that kind of expands on all that stuff said in Reloaded about Vampires and ghosts, etc...

There is also a cartoon about Trinity's early years....

The one about the Track Runner confused me, though. Wasn't quite sure what they were getting at. It seemed like a very Ch'an theme, where he transcends the illusions of life by pushing himself beyond physical limits....But I dunno. They could have been just insinuating that athletes are manipulating the Matrix without being consciously aware of it.

[@PLUGO]

Yeah some amazing stuff...

That track racing story,

World Record

Was quite a piece. But yeah I got it as he was pushing the very boundaries of what was possible. His continual beating of his own record (implied) attractd the attention of agent who seem to want to keep any individual from standing too far apart from the rest.
Like he said to that reporter about feeling like flying, like anything was possible. His running was a means to transend the confines of the Matrix.

Now what was the deals with him in the wheelchair with some "nuts" in his hands?
Was is a sort of castration? By trying to take away his ability to walk they where making him "impotent" & thus unable to effect The Matrix in such a way. A situation he seems entent on freeing himself from anyway as he attempts to stand anyway.

The SECOND RENNASIANCE series was amazing as well.

I particularly enjoyed the haunted house story Beyond

but you gotta give props to tha final story when they set out to "free" the mind of a machine....


Oh and you gotta love that Sword Porn in the first sequence!!!

[MasterKiller]

I missed whatever happened after that private eye tracked down Trinity. Whenever it rains hard, my Direct TV goes out.

[@PLUGO]

Duuuuude . . .

That last episode was AMAZING!!!
It was called matriculation and was done by the folks who did MTV's AEON FLUX.

It follows the story of a group of humans who are unplugged and offer themselves as bait for machines. They then run the machines into traps so as to capture and attempt to reprogram them. It becomes a whole matrix/with-in/Matrix thing while effectively blending flat cell animation with CGI animation. Durring a mind-blowing sequence the humans all plug into a virtual world along with a captured machine and attepmt to convince the machine that it's actually human (sort of).
P S C H O D E L I C 2 T H E M A X ! ! !

[ZIM]

I finally bothered to see the matrix reloaded. jesus what a bore ...i want my time back, never mind the money. ugh. it was like rereading atlas shrugged or anything by stephen king. ugh ugh ugh pretentious twaddle.

the whole choice at the architects crib thing was just a pale replay of "the lady or the tiger?" to me. This is Tron, just Tron.

The animatrix was better, tho, imo.

[Kristoffer]