craptacular
if you enjoyed this, google Rob Ayer's Eyes Wide Shut Analysis.
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socialist_hentai 
what about the sequels?
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Gojira1000
Or, optionally, one can take early statements of the directors that they wanted to do a superhero movie and needed an excuse they liked for super powers at face value.
Deep social commentary or comic geek weirdos. Occam sez 2.
Deep analysis of any piece of "art" is masturbatory. It's the intellectual equivalent of combing through the Bible for prophecy and Bible code bullshit.
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futurebot Why would anyone care what the wachoswskis "wanted" people to get out of their film?
Did people just stop caring about the intentional fallacy, or did they just stop teaching it?
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dieudonne When did the artist's intentions become the limits of a work of art?
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Riskbreaker As Herzog would say:
"Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism."
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dieudonne "Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure." - Fellini
It would seem there is room for the artful and the academic in cinema after all.
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Princess v2.1 I'm in agreement with Futurebot, that said, there's obviously lots of stuff put in intentionally.
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roughnready66
5 stars for Teh Internets Lawyer analysis at the beginning.
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Riskbreaker
Seems that a big part of the appeal of this movie to nerds and geeks is that it makes them feel smart. Is a big ego wanking exercise.
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Syd Midnight WAKE UP SHEEPLE! Open your eyes! Do the research! You're all asleep, living your mundane lives, unlike we who know the truth!
Yawn.
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memedumpster
Why do you need two clips to say "it sucked?"
Oh, I get it, community college ENG101 argument paper, wherein you learn to cherry pick absolutely anything to argue absolutely anything.
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Stog
FILM ANALYSIS OF THE MATRIX:
Lipstick on a pig.
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StanleyPain
I don't understand why people can't just enjoy the Matrix films as basic sci-fi action/adventure without all this bullshit. Yes, I realize that the Wachkowski's raided a ton of mythology, history, and philosophy books in order to create some of the story aspects, metaphors, and character names/orientations, but I think they just did that thinking it was "cool" rather than to lend any real, truly deep meaning to the film.
Maybe the Gnostic aspects were intentional on some level, but they're so shallow that analyzing them is just dumb mental masturbation.
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craptacular why are you offended that some people seek further meaning from a film ? its their own lookout. you seem content remaining indifferent (or ignorant?) about the subject matter, and you're fine with it, and so is everyone else.
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FABIO It was pretty hard to enjoy the sequels since they were entirely made out of this kind of masturbatory bullshit and we actually got a 10 minute scene of some French guy explaining to us that "causality makes stuff happen".
whoah!
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Cleaner82 The first one sort of blew my mind because you didn't see any of this coming, the previews were very good about not giving away the game. But it got mired in self-important symbolism and portent and bullshit to the point that the already weak characterization just sort of died, by the second one it wasn't wanted any longer.
The first one is a great action movie with a pretty good story. The second is the tatters of a story with some truly great action scenes. The third is okay.
Oh and this is boring.
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