Unlocking The Matrix [SPOILERS]

Time Magazine ^ | May 12,2003 Issue | RICHARD CORLISS

[Captain Peter Blood]

Flanked by Trinity and Morpheus, Neo meets the Merovingian and his luscious wife Persephone (Monica Bellucci). The Merovingian is a Frenchman out of the Bush Administration bestiary: cruel, supercilious, with a love of cursing in French—which he describes as like "wiping your ass with silk." He refuses to release the Key Maker.

[Captain Peter Blood]

This is an excerpt from Time Magazine on the new "Matrix" Movies coming out. AS I was reading this review I came upon this paragraph and I about flipped out. Although these kind of camparisons are nothing new it just goes to illustrate the kind of Liberal-Left Wing Hate of the President and his Administration with this kind of childish diatribe, You can hit the URL for the complete Review of the Movie.

[Brian Mosely]

You think that's bad...check out all the reviews of the new X-men movie that compares the Mutant Registration Act to the Patriot Act....

[pierrem15]

Mutant Registration Act

So to the liberals, if you have super human powers, you're not as much of a public menace as a gun owner, eh?

[William McKinley]

ARGH

I shouldn't have read this. I really shouldn't have.

No, it's not the spoilers that are the reason I should not have.

Some of their actors are also reluctant to break the code. Fishburne: "I can't talk to you about them." (The brothers not only created a cult, they practically are one.) Others are less guarded. "They're not comic-book nerds," Pinkett Smith avers. "They're intellectuals. These cats study. Larry reads everything! When you think you've got him figured out, he pops something else out on you, like ... Cornel West!?"

Larry was such a fan of West's books Prophesy Deliverance and Race Matters that he wrote a role for West in Reloaded. So last April, the Princeton professor flew to Sydney to play Councillor West in an action blockbuster. For the teacher, it was quite an education.

I will never respect The Matrix again.

[El Sordo]

Remember the first X-Men movie? The political villan was a Republican Senator from Kansas named Bob.

[William McKinley]

See #4. Tell me it ain't so!

[Brian Mosely]

Line from 1st X-men movie (from memory)

Senaotr Kelly: (on phone) But Senator, you favor gun registration don't you? Well, some of these kids posesses 10 times the power of any handgun.....no, I don't see a difference, all I see are weapons in our schools...

[rdb3]

If Cornel West has a part, I will not view the movie.

And today was a good day...

[ewing]

Man the twist at the end is going to set off a lot of people..

[GunRunner]

Why is it any worse than "Luke, I am your Father."

I can't believe I read those dang spoilers. I just can't control myself.

[ewing]

Me too, I now wish I didnt know..

[Petronski]

The Matrix also caught the wrathful attention of moral watchdogs when the fatal shootings at Columbine High School occurred a few weeks after the movie's opening, and it appeared that the two perpetrating teens had seen the film—as had 15 million people who didn't kill anyone.

Paging Michael Moore.

[GunRunner]

What I'm wondering is how they are going to get around the fact that the lady who played the Oracle died recently. If she is the so called "Mother of the Matrix" and has deceived everyone, then she must have to play a large part in the next film. I wonder if they'll cast someone new or attempt to use FX to recreate her character.

[ewing]

I think she died after filming one of the sequels..

[vikingchick]

I was just watching "Charlie Rose" with the Matrix cast. You'd think these people had just invented the Greatest Religion in the Universe the way they went on about themselves.

Hey, Keanu, Carrie and Laurence....get over yourselves. It's just a movie. You are not our saviors. Big LOL!

[Skywalk]

Well, if the story is that the rebellion ITSELF is part of the Matrix, then they REALLY aren't our saviors.

That's kind of a hopeless conclusion and quite dismal.

It fits in much more with Eastern religions than the West, well except gnosticism. If the entire world is a big deception, from the POV of the movie, then the entire trilogy is a big waste.

Darth was Luke's dad, but at least all the characters' actions MEANT something. If everyone in the rebellion are fools, it renders all their actions and all their sacrifices meaningless.

Kind of like a bad series finale, where someone wakes up and discovers it was really just a dream.

[Skywalk]

Oh and the problem some people had with the Matrix wasn't the overall level of violence, but the scene where Neo and Trinity cooly slaughter unwitting security guards. Not a touch of remorse, not a hint that their lives were valuable, no ATTEMPT to find a way to avoid taking the lives of people who did not know the role they were playing.

Nope, just slaughter them with cool looks and black sunglasses. For all the myth those involved with the Matrix invoke, I don't see where THAT type of action fits in with any myth I respect.

[tictoc]

Will you two get over yourselves!

It's a Hollywood movie, with hundreds of people collaborating. Who cares if one of them is an overrated academic that Harvard had the good sense to kiss goodbye?

Me, I'm enjoying the web site Warner Bros. put together for the Matrix.

In addition to being handsomely designed with lots of eye candy (including animated mini-films), it has some thought-provoking essays that touch on philosophical questions here.

I especially enjoyed the one called What's so bad about living inside the Matrix? by James Pryor.

[rdb3]

Will you two get over yourselves!

It's a Hollywood movie, with hundreds of people collaborating. Who cares if one of them is an overrated academic that Harvard had the good sense to kiss goodbye?

Again, if Cornel West has a part in this movie, I refuse to see it.