Gill: saw Matrix Revolutions last night

Tony: Me too. What did you think?

Gill: Horrible.

Tony: Haha. I enjoyed it enough, for what it was. Mindless.

Gill: Yeah, and i even fell asleep at one point.

Tony: Heh. I just thought it was an average sci-fi movie. Couldn’t give a toss about any sort of overarching story or themes… they blew all that off with the second one. There were some nice Boschian images of hell during the dock battle.

Gill: That’s when i fell asleep.

Tony: And I almost pissed myself laughing when the ‘cross of light’ emanated from Neo’s chest at the end.

Gill: Yeah. And the fact that all the world needed to get rid of Smith was a big anti virus program made me laugh out loud and then say “PISH” quite loudly.

Tony: Oh, piffle and tosh. You were actually expecting a plot without holes?

Gill: Nope.

Tony: After they spuriously incorporated vampries, werewolves, and beasties of a general nature into the films as ‘glitches in the programming’ for the second one, I realised the Wachowskis were just pissing around with Hollywood’s money to please themselves. ‘Always meant to be a trilogy’ my arse.

Gill: I’m also confused about what “peace” between man and machine means at the end. I suppose it also means that the existing humans have to stop unplugging people.

Tony: Wierd one that. They ended up with a paradise for emotionally capable programs, but didn’t solve the problems of the machines or of the humans. Unless you decide that the machine consciouness *is* programs, and it was just their next evolutionary leap.

Gill: …and never properly explained that the oracle created Smith to bring about the chain of events in the first place which makes her directly responsible for the death of every character throughout the 3 films.

Tony: Aye. And that.

Gill: Made me laugh.

Tony: To be fair – the films don’t stand up to reasoning, much as hardly any film ever does. The problem is the hype around them which inflates the premise to such a degree that you’re told it will make sense, and will be thorough. Bollocks, I say. It’s entertainment, not a theology.

Gill: True, unfortunately they have tried to make the Matrix series both with the last 2 films and it fails miserably. At least George Lucas stole the right things from fairytales and religions to make Star Wars rely on neither too heavily. Matrix is like Zen Buddhism for spastics.

Tony: Nail. Head. Hit the. On. “Zen buddhism for spastics”. I’ll quote you on that.

Gill: Cool, sometimes I actually get things almost right. If not entirely PC. Alternatively, watch Blade Runner and see how its really meant to be.

Tony: Indeedy. High quality art/entertainment should be available on the NHS as a mental health programme. Watch Blade Runner, read Snow Crash, come back and see me in a week. That’d be the prescription for anyone rambling about the Matrix being a post-Jungian fable.

Gill: If they called it that then they obviously had the right knowledge in the wrong order.

Tony: Hehe. My fault, I was plucking crap cultural criticism phrases at random. I do recall seeing some tit on TV banging on about the Matrix being basically an update of the shadows on the cave wall fable though.

Gill: Been watching late night BBC2 again?