I think this is the fair take. I left Reloaded vaguely disappointed, and kind of confused, but not ... *unhappy*. “How come Neo has his powers in the real world? Whaaaa? Well, Revolutions comes out in half a year, this is just half of the story!”

More importantly, a movie is a communal experience. You’re not “cocooned and separated” from others, you’re experiencing the rest of the crowd’s energy and reactions and they’re experiencing yours. If that’s what the Wachowskis think of the cinematic experience and of their audience, the rest of their career makes a…

I totally get why homework isn’t everyone’s favorite part of this series.

Into the sixth population bottleneck, the slow process of unplugging anyone, and with all those sweaty raves, I am going with the alternative.

The NHS only pays worse because the government we’ve had for the last 11 years is trying to cut and cut and cut until its so useless that people have to go private, and the government before that for 13 years spent a lot of time privatising parts of the NHS that absolutely did not benefit from being privatised.

Lol. I’d be interested in where you get your information. Fox News???
Maybe more U.S.-based companies (that are mostly shifting their profits offshore anyways), are investing in medical research, that may be true. But this doesn’t necessarily translate into a better health system for U.S. citizens (that is, when they…

It takes choice away from the local governments and the majorities that elected them.

Maybe now, juuuuust maybe, they’ll start to take climate change seriousl- oh who am I kidding they’ll just blame ANTIFA.

I, for one, will not be surprised when Ron DeSantis signs into law the “Don’t Blame Rising Sea Levels On Human Caused Global Climate Change” Act that will put anyone in jail for mentioning this and give immunity to wingnuts who commit crimes against anyone who does.

Looking at compensation rates in healthcare, while ignoring healthcare costs, is silly. Healthcare is often one of the biggest, if not outright the biggest, expenditure for individuals, so in terms of real income and purchasing power, providers in a more universal system receive greater compensation because they do…

It really is amazing how...dull they all are.

My biggest beef with Reloaded, beyond waiting for all of the slo-mo fight scenes to be over, was how much time and energy the first movie spent building up the myth of the One, just to find out that within Zion itself Morpheus is regarded as a crackpot and a half-baked cult leader. (I don’t actually mind the reveal of…

I think you could take the reasonably clever stuff from the sequels (the Matrix is also a simulation, the computers and humans need each other) and still make a much better movie that would deliver something closer to what people wanted (namely by not killing off most of the heroes)

The Matrix is a great action film with a mind-bendy premise. It’s like Total Recall.

Or, it’s a muddled mess with an overbaked script and constantly repeated beats that thinks its much smarter than it is.

The Wachowskis outright ask audiences to question everything they’re being told on screen. They want us to disengage with Reloaded as a narrative and look at it from an outside perspective—to unplug and see the code, to detect the manipulation in their filmmaking and apply it to their understanding of Neo’s journey.

Despite what happens on TV, vanishingly few innocent people get convicted of anything.

vanishingly few innocent people get convicted of anything.

I’m going to completely guess based on what I read and my personal experiences... The cop didn’t like the loud music so much, but since most noise ordinances are based on sound levels taken with a calibrated meter and most departments don’t have those things... the kind officer was just waiting for the driver to do…