Two more Matrix films announced?

[Redlambs]

In fact I could claim this example perfectly illustrates the nonsense pseudo pop-philosophy employed in these films - taking cool words from bits of different religions and using them as a kind of quick route to credibility amongst (usually) rather unread people who don't engage in much philosophy (or possibly far too much) and who think that referencing various bits of myth, legend, lore, religion, philosophy, paganism, spirituality in a hodge podge kind of a way is really cool and "deep" in itself automatically, whether or not it makes any coherent narrative sense or has a point.

That about sums it all up nicely.

 

[cesc's_mullet]

I loved all three of these Films, The First for obvious reasons, the second for the action and fighting sequences and the third for the story, believe it or not.

After I had watched the third I went onto a few forums and ended up reading quiet in depth about the storyline, the symbolism, philosophy and basically why everything had to happen the way it did and the people that were a bit fanatical about it had actually put the peices together before Revolutions and worked out that Neo would die as a sacrifice because while he is (A) The One he is not (The) The One... because, and I forget if it is a specific religion or wether it is a few religions, but the 7th Being, Phrophet or God or is always the important one while the 6th which is what Neo was usually had to make an ultimate sacrifice but was generally the symbol of hope.

So with all this in mind the Matrix story I always felt was incomplete and along with the garentuee that it will bring in huge revenue, a 3rd and 4th sequel were always coming.

If anyone is interested I'll try and find a couple of the peices I read which are quiet interesting if you like the whole Matrix world. They'll definately make you appreciate the sequels more which in my eyes were only seen as a disappointment to many because all people want to see is Neo kicking ass in the Matrix while using his powers. That would make a pretty shit film btw..

Sounds interesting, reckon you could link me/ post some of it up on here?

 

[Ixion]

Sounds interesting, reckon you could link me/ post some of it up on here?

Don't know if these links are what Pexbo is refering too but they're pretty indepth looks at Reloaded and Revolutions from their mythological/religious/philosophical perspective:

The Matrix: Reloaded, Explained

The Matrix: Revolutions, Explained

 

[Heardy]

Don't know if these links are what Pexbo is refering too but they're pretty indepth looks at Reloaded and Revolutions from their mythological/religious/philosophical perspective:

The Matrix: Reloaded, Explained

The Matrix: Revolutions, Explained

Having read that, my brain has gone to mush

 

[Mockney]

So, if you want to escape the Matrix, but you dont want to be a leather bondage techno gimp....Are you basically fecked?

 

[Big-Red]

So, if you want to escape the Matrix, but you dont want to be a leather bondage techno gimp....Are you basically fecked?

No...if you escape the matrix you dress like a hobo. When you re-enter the matrix you're a leather clad gimp.

 

[Zarlak]

Don't know if these links are what Pexbo is refering too but they're pretty indepth looks at Reloaded and Revolutions from their mythological/religious/philosophical perspective:

The Matrix: Reloaded, Explained

The Matrix: Revolutions, Explained

The revolutions one is fantastic, the reloaded one is a mind feck and hard to read.

It's so in depth, it's the biggest hidden universe I've ever discovered in a film. Everything from Seraph being an angel in the first editions of the matrix to being de winged and exiled which is why the french man refers to him as such, smith as the mirror of neo and the whole 7th day and neo being the 6th incarnation and the 7th would be the one which is also true in religion, the way the train station is a portrayl of the river styxx and the track is the river, the train is the boat, the train man is Charon who escorts the dead i.e Neo and works for Hades i.e the french man whos wife is called Persephone who was the wife of Hades etc. Everything in the storyline has been thought out and contains a deeper meaning and you can sit for hours and read something you just brushed off in the film but actually has a thought out intention that nobody realised before. To sit and get to the bottom of it takes a damn long time. It's very gripping though.

Had the matrix series been done first in books, and fully explained and the whole universe of it so to speak done in books first, I think they would have been epic.

 

[Mockney]

No...if you escape the matrix you dress like a hobo. When you re-enter the matrix you're a leather clad gimp.

But it's basically hobo or gimp from there on out?....Yeah I think I'd be fine just chillin in the Matrix really.


and Zarlak....take a step back......further.....little further......ok now slap yourself

 

[Zarlak]

But it's basically hobo or gimp from there on out?....Yeah I think I'd be fine just chillin in the Matrix really.


and Zarlak....take a step back......further.....little further......ok now slap yourself

I was pretty knackered so it probably wasn't the most rational post. It's true though, it's a mindfeck of a universe, if you sit and read it properly all the story that wasn't explained in the films it makes much more sense, then read about the spiritual intentions of everything and what it's supposed to represent.