Flutterby wrote:
The Matrix.
Some people will claim that's really a trilogy, but I like to pretend parts 2 and 3 don't exist.
YES and YES!!! I feel the same way, although I will admit the second one wasn't terrible, per-se, it just marked a deviation from what could have been a whole and complete storyline in and of itself.
The storyline really paralleled The Chronicles of Thomas Covenent the Unbeliber, in that he spends 3/4 of the time doubting and believing that it isn't real, and then in the last 1/4 he is ready to give his life to protect what he felt wasn't real but now loves.... And that is when the ass-kicking begins!
They really could have drug the whole ploy from the first movie across the trilogy in the same fashion that the abovementioned books did. Or left well enough alone and kept the Matrix a standalone piece. The Animatrix was a good compliment as well.
Some people believe that the Matrix is real and we're in it, and the Waichovski Bros are trying to tell everybody that. I think the whole Ilsa Strixx and sex change operation blew a hole in THAT conspiracy theory, eh? It was almost plausible at that point. Plausible to the level that we could have enlisted the help of the Myth Busters for that one!