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Originally posted by OldJeff@May 18 2003, 07:37 AM
I would give Reloaded an OK on the entertainment scale, but it falls way short of what could be done with the concept on an intelectual scale.

I have to agree with you there, but i'm not writing it off until i've seen it a few more times. i have a feeling there's a lot more to the story than what can be picked up on first viewing

bring on the dvd!

The love scene with Neo and Trinity had no bearing on the story, and they seem to have forgotten that they removed the electrodes from Neo's back in the first movie. (Besides which, I don't think anyone over there gets the fact that without the leather suit and cool moves there is nothing sexy about Trinity)

We have been speculating the relevance of the love scene as we thought the same thing, it just came out of nowhere ...

in the next matrix, we think that trinity is pregnant, and that they actually find out that their baby is 'the one', not neo ... hence throwing in a random fuck scene just to make sure we know that they fucked at least once

The Oracle lent nothing to the story, as did the totaly gratuitous orgasm cake. The guys girlfriend wanting a kiss from Neo could only have been to fulfill a contract demand by Reeves that he gets to kiss a hot chick in this movie (again no point at all)

I think the oracle's story was told to explain the concept of programs running within programs ... she confessed she was probably just a program, and therefore couldn't be trusted any more than the other programs ... at the end they say 'the prophecy was false' but i am not sure if that means that everything the oracle said was false ...

the kiss was to illustrate the emotional connection between neo and trinity, because later the dude at the end explains that the reason they keep failing is that neo choses his emotional connection to trinity over opening the door to the source

The fight scenes were good, except for every time Neo strikes a "Bill and Ted" Wild Stallions pose. (Bill and Ted actually had a better storyline)

Totally dude!!
I crack up in the first one when he says 'i know kung fu' and 'woah'

They left out option 3 in Neo's meeting with the architect - tear his head off so there is no one to rebuild the Matrix for a sixth time. (That would have been my choice)

Was this guy supposed to be colonel sanders?!!? I don't really understand all of what he said at the end, but if i got what he was saying right, neo should have gone through the other door to the source and it would have all been ok? If he didn't choose love would he have saved the world!?

Can anyone tell me who it was that survived the destruction of Zion ? I saw the dude on the table at the end, but had absolutely no recolection of who it was.

Earlier in the movie, an agent killed one of the zion folks while he was in the matrix and used the 'phonecall' to get into zion pretending to be the guy he killed ... i *think* this is the same guy ... the guy who was dead on the table at the end of the movie had, earlier in the movie, followed behind neo & trinity with a knife, trying to kill him ... so i think that was the same person but it was really hard to follow