[Gorons]

To seriously 'critique' the Matrix series of movies, one should rent the Animatrix DVD or purchase it. It's a collection of anime type productions, from various producers that expand upon the Matrix storyline and dive into it and give it that human touch. He's right, M2 and I have yet to see M3, but in M2 the acting was off and was eye candy for the most part and plot development, I am sure, for M3.

Being a SCIFI buff and fan and also a full time computer geek, I think I understand the Matrix series of movies more so than the average person who is not fully computer literate.

It's hard to verbalize this into words here, but I am attempting to explain that there are certain underlying principles with computing and artificial intelligence that one day could mimic what occurred in the Matrix.

What excites me about the series is that for the first time on film based media for a large audience, the Wachowski (spelling) brothers (producers/writers) have attempted to throw the "what-if" scenario with regard to future technologies run amuck. It is simply their interpretation of what could happen.

Another movie series is somewhat similar, but is more violent and has definite, concise modes of action .. Definitive beginning and ends - That is the Terminator series of movies.

What is unique about the Matrix, to me, and to many others, is that every individual that watches the triology gets out of it exactly what their preconceived notions were with it.

Instead of a movie series based on certain cause and effect relationships, the Matrix challenges one to think in a philosophical sense and to ponder, in humanistic ways, what if? ....

[Conservative til I die]

What excites me about the series is that for the first time on film based media for a large audience, the Wachowski (spelling) brothers (producers/writers) have attempted to throw the "what-if" scenario with regard to future technologies run amuck. It is simply their interpretation of what could happen.

Another movie series is somewhat similar, but is more violent and has definite, concise modes of action .. Definitive beginning and ends - That is the Terminator series of movies.

Is it me or did your second paragraph completely contradict the first?

"The Matrix is the first series of movies to deal with this concept....except it wasn't, Terminator did first."

(Although it didn't deal with that topic itself, Tron is another film the Matrix is derivative of, IMO).