So you're thinking about seeing Matrix 3 are ya?

[infinite_chaos]

Don't worry I won't be so mean as to put spoilers here. Today.

Saw M3 tonight at the eversopricy AMC 16 (which is at least a better theater than the UA chain is around here). To be sure not all the plot holes are closed (something Jake mentioned in his blog) and there's some things left deliberately open. There's some hokum here (Possibly

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Whoa.

[gund_kata]

Trinity. I left having no concept of who she was or what her life was like pre-Neo. There's minor characters we learn more about than her. What's irksome is that she's the major female character and other than her attachment to Neo we have no clue about what makes her tick.
Trinity = Mary Magdalene : Neo = Christ ? On the other hand, any sort of theological navelgazing with regards to this film seems frivolous at best. It's too bad they couldn't have made Tales of Narnia into a movie with lots of explosions and two-fisted gunplay. Oh yeah, lions don't have opposable thumbs....

Hugo Weaving is great, again.
I only recently made the connection that Weaving played both Agent Smith and King Elrond (and was also in Adventures of Prescilla). As unlikely as it may be, I can't help but imagine a scene in Return of the King when the Elf king greets the Hobbit hero: "Mr. Frodo, you seem suprised to see me. [crick]"

I actually found the directors' commentaries of the Animatrix more interesting than the actual features. That said, the

Re: Whoa. - contains spoilers -

[infinite_chaos]

I've heard the christ connection a bunch of times both on blogs (like the aforementioned Jake) and in the meat world. There's certainly a messiah element to it. Resurrection is left to interpretation. The most interesting bit being that the "corpse" in the pit was obviously the Oracle's and not Neo. Given that his reason to live (Trinity and ending the war) was gone (and gimme a break is everyone that co-dependant?) I kinda doubt it. Watching a Narnia series like that would be hilarious - and seeing as no other film or television version has done the series justice it can't really be *worse*. Yeah lions and heavy machine guns. Sweet. Not to mention the joy of it being at least _five_ films. I think it's a sure pitch to studio execs - maybe you can gloss over the opposable thumbs thing

[ylys]

i didn't know the animatrix was a movie - thought it was just a video game. i'm skipping the review since i haven't seen revolutions yet and prolly won't get round to it til next weekend. will prolly post here then.