You think that was stupid of them? How about not lobotomizing all of the people, since they only need their bodies to be functional to produce energy? Heck, just skip the whole humans as batteries idea and build tall buildings to put solar collectors above the clouds. The machines are the dumbest super geniouses I have ever seen. As for the Animatrix, the robots in the history were unaffected by the EMP released by the nuclear explosions in 01, so why does the EMP weapon on the ships work against the sentinels? Have the machines devolved for some reason?
Matrix >>> Reloaded > Revolutions Matrix was by far the best leading to all sorts of potential directions. Reloaded was mostly action, but at least still left some interesting possibilites. Revolutions was a pile of unoriginal and predictable crap wrapped around some impressive fight scenes. I don't think so at all. They are the writers and creators, correct? They could have put all kinds of twists and new interpretations--Neo and company were actually the chief threat as humans created the system so they would not kill themselves and machines were really protecting the rest from Neo/co. Neo and company LOSE and are killed when they realize they are the threat to balance in the system and the events are doomed to repeat. Instead they garbled up a mix of rationalism, humanism, cereal box philosophy, and Christian symbols in a predictable fashion--even Star Wars had creativity and some subtleness compared to the last 2 Matrix flix (further Star Wars doesn't always take itself seriously which allows some of the hokeyness to be swallowed easier). It was too bad because it could have been so much more. It showed the writers to be unorginal pretenders, instead of someone like Asimov or Orwell. To me the movies just showed the weakness in the writing, thinking, an creativity in the writers--how can that not be their fault? At the least they could have stolen from some great sci fi to finish their work. The movies just had poor material to work with after all--at least Tolkein's work could stay interesting for 3 movies. IMO each TLR movie was pretty equal and could stand on its own--dispproving a sequal or even a triology cannot be outstanding. But you need the STORY to do it.
I agree with this. Its think they tried to hard to top the first one in Reloaded. And the story became just too complicated.
they didn't. they just let anyone who wanted to get out (i guess the 1% who didn't accept it and always ended up in zion) to get out without trying to kill them later. i think. and i agree a lot with Raven Lunatic's post. who said no one saw revolutions? i remember there being an enormous amount of hype before it came out. in fact, i remember a lot of people liking Reloaded (the thread on here seemed to be very positive towards it). it's just revolutions was a huge letdown. it seemed plenty of people saw it initially before word of mouth got out that it wasn't that good. i think reloaded broke the record for most money by an R rated movie.
