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From: Drinian (sailracer6@yahoo.com)
Subject: Matrix Revolutions and Eva... 

Without putting out any spoilers so soon...

Did anyone else get the vibe that the Wachowski brothers were big 
Evangelion fans out of watching Matrix Revolutions? My friend and I seem 
to think so (not to mention Dragonball Z).

And what was your opinion of Revolutions? I thought it conflated several 
religions into a mess while simultaneously attempting to become a 'Star 
  Wars' - sized Hollywood epic. Not to mention some terrible, terrible 
dialogue from everyone except Smith. At the same time, the ending was 
fairly unexpected and I was somewhat happy with it (if not so much the 
deonument).

Drinian: http://www.duke.edu/~amt13/

From: James M (ozone@snip.net)
Subject: Re: Matrix Revolutions and Eva... 
 

Drinian <sailracer6@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:boffg4$1dhve5$1@ID-210864.news.uni-berlin.de...

> Without putting out any spoilers so soon...
>
> Did anyone else get the vibe that the Wachowski brothers were big
> Evangelion fans out of watching Matrix Revolutions? My friend and I seem
> to think so (not to mention Dragonball Z).

Less Eva than anime in general was the feeling I got. Strong anime
influences on
several scenes.
>
> And what was your opinion of Revolutions? I thought it conflated several
> religions into a mess while simultaneously attempting to become a 'Star
>   Wars' - sized Hollywood epic. Not to mention some terrible, terrible
> dialogue from everyone except Smith. At the same time, the ending was
> fairly unexpected and I was somewhat happy with it (if not so much the
> deonument).
>
I just saw it today, it was Ok. I expected a bit better plot after the 1st
two films.
Once again, strong anime influnce with the semi-spirtual imagery. I don't
think it was that the dialogue was bad as that they insisted on using every
movie cliche
to the hilt making the dialogue predictable.
    Still, very spectacular.
 
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Some other things:

The Matrix is not about the infamous theme "the war against the machines"
at all.
It is about the war against "sleep". It reflects nicely well the standpoints of
P.D. Ouspensky and his master Gurdjieff. It is also(therefore) a direct
criticism to the consumer society world and its inhabitants, the sacred
mass-produced "men"(the major system agent is named _SMITH_ --- and as a
good servant of the capitalistic production modeS, he
does reproduce itself like a virus --- or rather, like a cancer cell).
Sion does not sleep, but the "modern" world does.

The dialogues are not terrible at all, quite on the
contrary. Without them, only the FXs and "action" sequences would be left,
and the movie would not be worth seeing(IMNSHO of course).
HTH.




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