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To fecking LOVE the matrix....

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realhousewifeofdevoncounty · 04/04/2012 00:11

It is on now. It is soooo 90s! And so full of cliches, that were probably born out if this film to be fair, but hey ho!

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SparkyMcSparrowLaidMiniEggs · 04/04/2012 00:16

Dh loves it too.

I don't get it Confused

AgentZigzag · 04/04/2012 00:18

YANBU!

I was like this Shock sat watching it at the cinema for the first time, didn't have a clue before we went what it was going to be about Grin

I thought the nebuchadnezzar (had to google how to spell that Grin) was a submarine and underwater for the first few times I watched it.

AgentZigzag · 04/04/2012 00:18

No imagination Sparks Grin

SparkyMcSparrowLaidMiniEggs · 04/04/2012 00:21

I have a bloody brilliant imagination Zigzag Wink just don't get the matrix.

Tried watching it again 5th time the other night and I just don't get it Grin

Mrsjay · 04/04/2012 00:23

I dont get it i have tried a few times to watch but just dont get it at all ,

SparkyMcSparrowLaidMiniEggs · 04/04/2012 00:24

Mrsjay You can join me on the 'don't get it' bench!

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realhousewifeofdevoncounty · 04/04/2012 00:29

I'm not saying I "get" it! Just proud that on my lifetime a film has given birth to so many cliches! I didm't get it then and I don't get it now!

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Mrsjay · 04/04/2012 00:30

I dont know what its about dh tried to explain it i just glazed over Hmm I do like science fiction but,,, i must admit it looks amazing the effects,

Tiddlyompompom · 04/04/2012 00:33

I 'get it', but I'm still mainly watching it for the lovely Keanu........ Shallow, but hey, he is pretty.... Grin

2kidsintow · 04/04/2012 00:33

I love it too......but only the first one!

Mrsjay · 04/04/2012 00:33

He is pretty i cant deny that

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realhousewifeofdevoncounty · 04/04/2012 00:36

Jeez, he is lush! And this is possibly the only film his wooden acting lends itself to in a positive fashion! Grin

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garlicbutter · 04/04/2012 00:39

I love it too Blush Must have seen it a dozen times or more? Agree the first one is the best ... and about KR, though I'd be torn between him and Morpheus.

No, Morpheus wins Grin You can have Neo

AgentZigzag · 04/04/2012 00:40

Agree that only the first one is good.

Matrix can be summed up by the immortal lines

'Which door?'

Door on your left

Neo goes right

NO, your other left!

That's all you need to know Wink

AgentZigzag · 04/04/2012 00:43

That's right realhouse, there's a place in the world for wooden acting, lots of wooden roles with more than enough actors to fill them Arnie, keira knightley, mumbling girl from twilight, vin diesel, I could go on indefinately

Tiddlyompompom · 04/04/2012 00:49

I like Keanu's acting, it's not wooden, it's subtle! Ok, it's wooden, but he was very well cast on this occasion

SeaHouses · 04/04/2012 00:52

Is it not a submarine then?

I can never remember the plot of part three, and I can't be bothered to watch them all over again because I find all the fighting boring.

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realhousewifeofdevoncounty · 04/04/2012 00:55

Meh, I never bothered with the other two!

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AgentZigzag · 04/04/2012 00:58

It looks and moves like a sub, but they're in the real world in the sewers so not underwater.

SeaHouses · 04/04/2012 01:11

So they are in air in the sewers?

I think it was perhaps the fact that Neo lands in water when he falls out of that pod thing. It made me think the whole thing was going on in some kind of watery environment. But thinking back, were they floating in the air and plucked him out of the water?

AgentZigzag · 04/04/2012 01:15

I can't remember which film it's in, but the evil tenticle things open it up like a tin can and no water gets in (just when she saves him with a kiss ), and they get out at some point with the squiddy things coming after them, no suits or anything.

MrsPlesWearsAFez · 04/04/2012 01:27

YANBU

I love how the flip phones and other stuff that looked sooooo cool when it first came out just look really shit and dated now Grin

SeaHouses · 04/04/2012 01:32

I've just read the plot of the Matrix 3 on wikipedia, and it turns out I had invented a totally different ending in my head. I though Neo overpowered all the machines in the real world and everybody was free from that point with no more matrix. But apparently not.

SeaHouses · 04/04/2012 01:33

I still see teenage boys wandering around in those long black leather coats every now and then. I blame that on the Matrix.

garlicbutter · 04/04/2012 02:01

Sea, young men have always thought long black leather coats make them look moody & sexy!

I agree with them.