From a philosophical standpoint, The Matrix and its successors are excellent movies. There are few other mainstream films that can provoke quite so much thought out of its viewers. Movies tend to go for blind emotion rather than intelligent thought processes.

I was just using this as an example to point out the technological flaw, that it isn't physically possible to syphon energy out of human bodies. When Morpheus explains this to Neo, he's trying to reach out and grab a little bit of reality for the viewer to tie himself to, but even that is shaky ground.

I, too, enjoy more thought-provoking movies. But then again, I can really get into an occasional stupid comedy. Sometimes we need to laugh for no reason.

I do agree, though, that the dialogue in the movies were wooden. Nah, I'm lying, they are the worst ever commited to film, wooden doesn't cut it.

I'd also like to defend Hollywood; there are movies just as, or even more, thought provoking, way better dialogue and not least also realistic. At this point I should list some movies, so that you all can axe me for my poor taste in movies and daring to call them thought provoking at that:

Oh Brother, Were Art Thou - Ok, perhaps not realistic, but good acting and it made me, and others, think.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Actually, not all adaptions made by Hollywood are that bad. How Hollywood this movie was I don't know; I was hardly out of diapers by it's release year.

Se7en - Surprise selection here, it is a movie which I often return to. Morgan Freeman is one of my Fav actors, btw, together with the late Jessica Tandy (both appeared in Driving Miss Daisy).

Well, there are a lot of just as good, and often better movies, out of France, but that ain't Hollywood, and Japan (ain't Hollywood either).

My main point is that I really, really, despise the Matrix movies, they have the most wooden "acting" seen outside abmysal action flicks by action stars (I'd almost go as far as saying something nice about Jan Claude van Damme, Steven Segal or another hopeless action star (I actually like the guy from Rocky and Schwartznegger in a few Philip K. Dick adaptions) whoops, almost forgot a closing bracket, there it is), the dialogue is non-existant; most of the characters preach, they lack any form of humour or self-irony, there aren't any redeeming features of these movies except their special effects, which were waaay dated by the second movie. Ah, ok, there are a few cool costumes in there; no, not the trench coats, and the opening titles of the first movie (the Matrix trade mark green scrolling glyphs) where cool the first time, since we didn't have a clue of what was going to happen.

And I need to tell everyone who has positive stuff to say about the movies, especially about their philsophical bend, that I don't agree, that I strongly disagree. Just to spite everyone I will say that a movie like...Battlefield Earth is better in all respects (philosophy, acting, plot, music, etc), though I haven't seen it. (And if you haven't seen it, don't go see it, spend your money on something better.)

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