Hating Matrix Revolutions
SPOILER ALERT (Deal with it, it’s an old movie now)
Anywho, Matrix Revolutions had a few problems, but I’m going to point out the one that I thought was what both ruins the movie, and holds it in my mind as one of the most interesting endings I’ve ever seen. But, let’s start at why The Matrix was so awesome. People like it because they can make it into whatever they want. Christians, we turned it into the most BA version of Jesus, death and resurrection, to hit the silver screen. Take that Jesus Christ Superstar. Seriously though. Neo was totally the messiah in that movie, and he rocked my world.
The imagery, the plot, the symbolism, the effects, the action. What a good movie. If you’re out there saying, “I didn’t like The Matrix because it doesn’t make sense.” Yes it does. Let’s move on.
Now, then, we move into Matrix Reloaded where we find our messiah in a much cooler spot, killing bad dudes by the truck load. He’s just too cool for school. Now, enter one of the coolest car chases ever, a bunch of babbling dialogue that means absolutely nothing… and wham, we’re struck with a cliff hanger.
In the third installment, Matrix Revolutions, Neo is on his way to finalize this whole machine war business. Because, the machines are completely going to destroy humanity. Apparently, they’d done it before, and another messiah had come and saved them for a time, but Neo was going to change it. He was going straight into machine city (01, if you’re a nerd like me) to face off against the head machine. (Like the Borg, he just didn’t have Q)
Once he get’s there, he’s supposed to fight his archenemy and save everyone. Once this guy is dead, humanity will be safe, for sure.
WRONG.
Neo gives up.
He let’s the bad guy get him. The bad guy then dies too, but Neo is still dead.
He’s carried away into the center of machine city or something. And the machines stop trying to kill humanity.
WHAT? NO! Neo is supposed to be BA! He’s supposed to WIN. Not lose. It pissed me off. I can’t stand that. I want the good guy to win. Because he totally could have won. He could have beat Agent Smith and gone home… but… he didn’t.
He died, and his sacrifice paid for the lives of all of humanity.
He changed the rules.
And it’s met with hatred, criticism, and disbelief.
Who would do such a thing?
Yeah so what you are saying is that he pulled of the messiah card twice and that isn't acceptable?
Seriously I loved the first movie and the second was super promising, but the thing I hated about the 3rd movie was the pacing. The ending made me mad because you expect something more at the end. That is frustrating for sure. I own the movie but usually only watch the first one. It is a complete story and going past it was a bit forced.
Anyways, there was just too much exposition for a good movie. I'm betting it would have made a better book.
I'm not saying he can't pull the messiah card twice. I'm saying that in that scenario… I guess I can kind of relate to the Israelites.
True. Despite the ending I loved every one of them. It did leave me wanting more, but I am over it and can look back on the trilogy as something positive. It definitely could have been way more epic if Neo won in the end, but like most awesome things, if carried on too long, can eventually become less awesome or get screwed up by some jerk who is trying to put his "artistic" spin on it. I say NO! Good guys win, bad guys lose and only the supporting character is allowed to die! That is the way it should be!
I'm with you. I'm kind of tired of the whole bad guys win thing. It's one of my problems with The Dark Knight, although I love the movie… it's hard to watch it happily. There's no light at the end of that tunnel…
Hmmm, I personally think Dark Night was a great movie. It was frustrating how Two Face got such a small role, but still I liked that the ending wasn't perfectly clean. Batman had accepted who he had to be and that was the real struggle of the movie. Gotham needed him to be the dark night, not a white night.
I don't mind that it wasn't clean, it's just that he… and maybe this goes along with the whole messiah thing, but he took the blame for Two Face's killings. That was the part that got me, I think. I mean, I get it. Let the man die with dignity so that the city can revere his memory and hold hope for the future, but it's all based on a lie. It's a ruse to trick people into a sense of optimism that shouldn't actually exist.
Hmm. Maybe I should do a post on The Dark Knight. haha.