Current mood:

pissed off

what is the shmatrix?
wow, did that movie ever SUCK!!!!!!!!! I honestly can't believe that they would actually produce this 2 hour piece of drivel expecting people to buy it. Lets see if we can see some of the list of flaws in this movie:

1) why the hell did those giant armor plated robotic exoskeletons have no armor for their operators? they're just sitting there waiting to be targets.
2) why the hell did they need operators anyway? they could have just as easily been guided remotely.
3) now why the hell did they even need the robot exoskeletons anyway? if all it took was one EMP that could be fired from a hovercraft, why the hell didn't they just PUT ONE UP THERE IN THE WALL and make it go off when the machines got there????
4) even if they did need robot exoskeletons, couldn't they have come up with a better way of feeding them ammunition instead of having some doofus run out into the middle of a battle and loat it in with a platform??????

5) could they have possibly motivated the whole "the machines are afraid of agent smith?" thing any less? i mean that whole fucking plotline came out of nowhere. pretty pathetic right there.
6) ok i know - the machines have never heard of a distributed system - so that one unit doesn't have the power to make all the important decision... this is how neo could talk to "the machines" and save the world.
7) ok, so even if that was somewhat plausible, couldn't the machines have heard of redundancy? sending in ONE digger to dig a little hole for 250,000 machines to get through doesn't seem like such a smart idea. of all the 250,000 machines, only three of them had drills?
8) so even if they had more diggers, wouldn't it have just made sense to cut a hole in the dome, watch it collapse and destroy zion a whole lot faster?

9) five words: "don't worry, i'll be ok"
10) the final battle: convenient how a computer program can "die" in a kung fu battle... and even then just by being buried under some rocks, even though he can fall from tall buildings without flinching.
11) the economy of unnesccessary characters (props to ebert for that one) when you introduce an unnessicary character just so that they can die. blech.
12) mfune's last words: i never finished the training program either. not "holy fuck my face has been carved like a pumpkin".

13) suppose there was peace, how will the peace last if the machines have no renewable energy source with which to power themselves? In theory its because the little girl made the sun rise so they'll now have solar power, but still it seems pretty stupid to not actually mention that in the movie. maybe they'll invest in natural gas also?
14) talking killer syndrome: why the hell the wade dump trinity down the hatch knowing full well that she could have stopped him somehow? he had a fucking knife to her throat! man, that made no sense. he should have seen more bad movies and he could have learned that one.

things that i DID like:
1) watching trinity die.... "no, you're going to make it... oh wait a minute, maybe not."
2) the way they brushed aside the architect: "yeah, he doesn't know anything." that was so cool :)