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« Thread Started on Dec 20, 2005, 5:42pm » | ![[Quote]](http://s1.images.proboards.com/buttons/quote.gif) |
Wait...Eo doesn't want us to post R-Rated material, if I recall. Well, she can't delete this thread!!!
The Matrix Trilogy ROCKS!!! Okay, so maybe it got a touch over-dramatic in the third movie--or maybe very over-dramatic--but that's what made it awesome! In what other movie can you watch Agent Smith get his @$$ kicked again and again by Neo? I hope that most of you have seen this trilogy, because it's one of the best sci-fi trilogies in the world! If you haven't, here's a short summary:
You could say that this movie takes place in the late 1990s or in the late 2060s/early 2070s. It all depends on your mind...okay, well, anyways. Neo is just a guy living a pretty normal life before he meets Morpheus, who opens him to the real world. Apparently, humans made such advanced machines that eventually, the machines revolted. Humans struck back by destroying the sky and blocking the sun, the machines' main power source (and the main source of life for plants, animals, and humans though this is just the type of idiot thing we would do). So machines turned to a much easier power source--humans. All humans were inserted into the Matrix, a computer generated system which feeds off human bodies while the human minds exist in a late 1990s world similar to what you see around you. But people have been rebelling. When Neo is informed by Morpheus that there was a prophesy stating Neo would be the one to save mankind from the machines, Neo has a choice to make. Will he step into the role of savior (actually, CAN he step into the role of savior) or will he choose to lead a normal life plugged into the Matrix?
There is action, adventure, amazing fight scenes (I LOVE that one move of Trinity's which she does in like every movie), an epic romance (ha...our Matrix Reloaded disc is scratched and it keeps going from scene 10 to the sex scene), and the whole idea makes you wonder if maybe your whole life has just been a dream, and in reality you are part of a system to feed machines.
SPOILER (kinda) BUT JUST DON'T READ UNLESS YOU HAVE SEEN ALL THE MOVIES:
For those who have seen all three movies, then did you notice that the whole trilogy is based on the life of Jesus Christ? My mom pointed it out to me (I wish I could take credit for that find, but I can't). You especially notice it in the last movie...very Christ on the cross!
END SPOILER.
Post your comments!!! Nothing negative, because I might have to come after you for saying something mean about my favorite sci-fi movies.
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« Reply #1 on Dec 26, 2005, 3:07pm » | |
Um, anyone here who's seen it? Anyone? Anyone at all?
Well, even though this thread appears abandoned, I will spew random facts about Reloaded:
-Keanu (Neo), Carrie-Anne (Trin), Hugo (Smith), and Laurence (Morpheus) had EIGHT MONTHS of EVERYDAY training between the first and second movie
-By the second week, Carrie-Anne had broken a leg
-When Jada Pinkett-Smith got the call asking her to be Niobe, she was 9 months pregnant
-Jada ended up walking into Keanu in a tub full of ice cubes. When she gave him a "You're crazy" look, he just looked at her like, "You'll understand someday why bathing in ice cubes is fun"
-You know that awesome freeway chase seen where Trinity rides that motorcycle the wrong way? Well Carrie-Anne was scared to death of motorcycles because of some childhood trauma, and even though she knew how to ride them the stunt coordinator R.A. had to re-teach her by making her ride this incredibly tiny bike, then a bigger bike, then an even bigger bike, and so on until the one you see her ride in the movie
-Even still, Carrie-Anne thought she would die
-So did Laurence, who upon learning about the freeway scene went up to R.A. and said, "I can't do this. I'm scared." And R.A. told him, "I will take care of you."
-They (the behind-the-scenes people, the crew) went on a long hunt for a freeway they could use for ten weeks but never found one that worked
-So, they had to BUILD a mile and a half of freeway
-Just imagine the cost of all that lumber!
-For the parts in the freeway scene where Trinity drives a car, R.A. quite literally was a backseat driver--they had a wheel which worked in the backseat. There's this great clip where R.A. is telling Carrie-Anne that "You cannot fight me for the wheel!" I felt bad for the poor guy...Carrie-Anne had just come out of eight months of rigorous training and was no doubt controlling the wheel more than the stunt coordinator liked
-Laurence broke his wrist doing that turn with the Samurai sword before breaking that car with the sword. You know where I'm talking about? Well, anyways...
-After Neo meets the Oracle in Reloaded, you know how all those Smiths come? Right, well Keanu did almost twice as many moves in that one scene than he did in the whole first movie
-You know that big cavernous hall in Zion where Morpheus addresses all those people? Well they had 1,000 eager volunteers lined up outside you wanted to dance in that scene as extras
-Speaking of extras, the extras for the freeway chase scene were given very rudimentary directions on what to do, and afterwards the guy giving directions turned to the camaraman doing a documentary (the one which I was watching) and said with delight, "This is going to be chaotic!"
-And, obviously, it WAS chaotic
-Most people assume that those cars in that freeway chase scene are little models. Well, they're not. All the cars but the one Smith jumps on and smashes in had people in them.
I probably forgot some of the facts I wanted to share, but there are some about Reloaded. Next time I come on, I'll give facts about Revolutions.
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« Reply #2 on Dec 31, 2005, 1:27pm » | |
I've seen the first two, and they Rocked out Loud. But I haven't seen the last one. But I will soon........
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« Reply #3 on Jan 2, 2006, 8:04pm » | |
You have to see the third movie! After all, the second movie ends with Neo in a coma and machines digging down to destroy Zion. You have to find out what happens next...;D
I thought of another fact about Reloaded. You know how Trinity falls while she's shooting at Agent Smith and she gets shot? Right, well when you play that at normal speed, like the speed they filmed it at, that fall takes less one second. In Carrie-Anne's words, "I had to go from Tough Trinity Girl to 'I've been shot!' in less than one second. There were some takes that I had only just assumed Tough Trinity Girl before 'cut!'"
Because .Disguise. hasn't seen Revolutions, I won't reveal all the facts I have about Revolutions yet!
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