The Matrix (1999)

I can't believe anyone is trying to make sense of the plot of the matrix. Trying to follow the plot of the matrix trilogy is as pointless as trying to follow the plot of a porno; except a porno is better written.

etchazz_sl said:

I can't believe anyone is trying to make sense of the plot of the matrix. Trying to follow the plot of the matrix trilogy is as pointless as trying to follow the plot of a porno; except a porno is better written.

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Also iirc the game explains very well how the Merovingian was the Controller of a previous iteration of the Matrix. He was an idealist like Neo back then. Werewolves, vampires, wraiths etc...were his Agents. When his Matrix failed he established a foothold of viruses (neo notices the building is packed with explosives) to keep from being wiped when the Oracle discovered the key was The One. Hence his hatred of her. You could visit old Matrix iterations in the online game. Was kind of cool.

It's pretty simple. Jesus becomes self aware and saves us from our sins. Then ice cream.

No Sprinkles though. Sprinkles are for winners.

Sterling_sl said:

No Sprinkles though. Sprinkles are for winners.

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i know people who actually get mad over that commercial.

Maester Chuk_sl said:

i know people who actually get mad over that commercial.

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that was a funny commercial, only way I tolerate a commercial is if it can make me laugh, double edged sword though. If it tries to make me laugh and fails I'll probably revile it.

That commercial is awesome. Most of the Progressive commercials suck, but I really liked that one.

Voyce_sl said:

that was a funny commercial, only way I tolerate a commercial is if it can make me laugh, double edged sword though. If it tries to make me laugh and fails I'll probably revile it.

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TWO FOR ME. NONE FOR YOU.

Barraco Bisi_sl said:

So in a drunken conversation the other night, I wondered aloud if there was an animal that would've made better batteries for the machines in the real world than humans.

Don't chickens produce more heat than a human? Would a Matrix of chickens be easier to create and maintain than a human Matrix?

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Pretty sure there was a long discussion at one point on how cows would be way better. Augments could be made that most other animals went extinct during the war with the machines.

I'm a little behind on Matrix info. They used the heat we create to make electricity, or something else? Because if they can straight up convert heat into electric, they could be much more efficient using any of our current electric generation methods and just trapping the waste "heat" and convert that instead. Get rid of humans all together. Let's have electric make electric. win/win!

The original script had the old "Humans only use 10% of their brain" myth as the basis of the whole "we need to keep humans alive because X" - the AIs were using the other 90% as networked, organic CPUs. The movie execs thought that was too complicated and made the Wachowskis change it to the power generation thing.

I love the human battery jokes they had in the Futurama episode where Fry meets the Professor's parents.

Such educational documentaries as Limitless and Lucy would love the robots using the other 90% of the human brain.

I always thought it was because, despite their uprising, the machines could not continue to exist in a world without humans. They HAD to find a way to preserve us while maintaining their supremacy or they had no purpose. It was a base part of their program that they couldn't alter, they need us whether they like it or not. I figured that was why the Deus Ex Machina was so childish toward Neo in Revelations, it hates that it cannot just wipe us out and had to keep us around. Only way the whole thing made some se to me.

After watching the Animatrix my assumption was that the machines warred with us for self-preservation and found a mutually beneficial way to pacify us because AI was built in our image and for all our failings they did not really want to genocide their creators.

You know, the machines were pretty nice. They didn't even shove electric dildos up our sleeping potatoed asses.

Xeldar_sl said:

You know, the machines were pretty nice. They didn't even shove electric dildos up our sleeping potatoed asses.

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They didn't want to force some poor robot to filter all the nocturnal emissions out of the fluid pools they kept the humans in.

I like the idea of using the human batteries as also a networking tool and processor. It's kind of Avatar with everything linked. There is enough concept there to make another movie or 3.