Greetings,
I'll go watch Matrix Reloaded, but I don't have very high expectations. It's good as an action move, but action isn't my favorite genre. It's main theme (humans living in computer simulations) attract me, but it's poorly treated in the movie. The authors don't anything about physics or thermodynamics, for their explanation about using humans as living batteries in outright silly (you would spend more energy doing the simulation and life-support on the humans then you would get out of them).
Besides, the first movie is about what I call "techno-misticism". It has all elements of medieval supernatural stories (a choosen one, an oracle, fate, an awakening ritual and many more) transposed to a pseudo-futuristic setting". It's almost as if they have changed the old medieval dragon into a sentient computer.
It's for these reasons that I don't think "Matrix" is such a great sci-fi movie (it has too many fiction and too much silly science [or nonsense science as Michael Shermer would put it]). But I'll see the second movie anyway, as I don't think it will be a total waste of time and money (it has it's good points).
BTW, is it true that they'll release the third movie in november? It's rather unusual, don't you think??
Live long and prosper.
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'You're spying and betraying Switzerland to try and keep alive somebody with a hook and spinal fluid and no skull in an irreversible coma? And
I thought I was disturbed. You're making me totally reorient my idea of
disturbed, mister.'
- David Foster Wallace, "
Infinite Jest"