Chuck Anstey
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I have a question for those of you who think Revoutions was a worthy ending of the Matrix trilogy and in line style / intelligence / plotwise with the first two. What specific scenes did you find the philosophy and intelligence of the first two? The only scene I remember is the two "programs" with their daughter and that scene never went anywhere after that. I do not care that you liked it and I am not trying to "prove you wrong". I just want some perspective and insights if you are willing to share. I was hugely disappointed after getting really excited with Reloaded.
I have come up with an analogy of my perspective on Revolutions so I will see if I can articulate it sufficiently well. Take the movie "Midway". It was about the turning point of the war in the Pacific between the Japanese and US. To me, the Revolutions "version" of Midway would be:
1st hour: 45 minutes spent on the soldiers on Midway discussing general day to day issues and preparing for invasion. 15 minutes spent on the code breakers and Admiralty deciding to fight the Japanese fleet with whatever carriers they had.
2nd hour: Entire time spent on the Japanese attack on Midway and the soldiers trying to defend the island.
Last 12 minutes: Planes spot Japanese fleet, US attacks and destroys the 4 carriers while losing 1(?).
While such a version is technically accurate, it is completely misleading about the battle. The key to the battle was the US fleet figuring out Midway was the real target, hiding, and trying to find and destroy the Japanese fleet first. Plus a hell of a lot of luck. The soldiers on Midway would have been completely run over had the Japanese fleet not been destroyed by the US fleet so why focus on them as they were irrelevant to the battle had the US fleet failed.
This to me is why Revolutions is a huge disappointment. We have been told continuously in the first two movies that Zion cannot defeat the machines in the real world so we know that they must be defeated in the Matrix. Why spend most of the movie on a group of people and a battle that is effectively irrelevant to the story. I consider all of it just filler and poor story telling given that we "know" and it proves true in the end that Zion was saved by a battle inside the Matrix.
Chuck Anstey
I have come up with an analogy of my perspective on Revolutions so I will see if I can articulate it sufficiently well. Take the movie "Midway". It was about the turning point of the war in the Pacific between the Japanese and US. To me, the Revolutions "version" of Midway would be:
1st hour: 45 minutes spent on the soldiers on Midway discussing general day to day issues and preparing for invasion. 15 minutes spent on the code breakers and Admiralty deciding to fight the Japanese fleet with whatever carriers they had.
2nd hour: Entire time spent on the Japanese attack on Midway and the soldiers trying to defend the island.
Last 12 minutes: Planes spot Japanese fleet, US attacks and destroys the 4 carriers while losing 1(?).
While such a version is technically accurate, it is completely misleading about the battle. The key to the battle was the US fleet figuring out Midway was the real target, hiding, and trying to find and destroy the Japanese fleet first. Plus a hell of a lot of luck. The soldiers on Midway would have been completely run over had the Japanese fleet not been destroyed by the US fleet so why focus on them as they were irrelevant to the battle had the US fleet failed.
This to me is why Revolutions is a huge disappointment. We have been told continuously in the first two movies that Zion cannot defeat the machines in the real world so we know that they must be defeated in the Matrix. Why spend most of the movie on a group of people and a battle that is effectively irrelevant to the story. I consider all of it just filler and poor story telling given that we "know" and it proves true in the end that Zion was saved by a battle inside the Matrix.
Chuck Anstey