MrPerfekt's Journal: What is The Matrix? There is no story!

*SPOILERS BELOW YOU WHINY SUCKER*

I have quite a few gripes with the movie itself but when people start harping on those gripes as if I missed something it kinda annoys me.

One of my gripes is obviously the pretty crap ending that graced Revolutions. Why was it crap? It answered nothing. How did Neo destroy Smith? Will the machines be destroyed? How did Neo stop the machines in the "Real World"? Will all of humanity know the truth? Why did it take Trinity so long to die? Why was Morpheus even there?

For everyone out there that says Revolutions didn't have the "usual Hollywood mindless happy ending" I say bullshit! It simply just didn't have the happy per se (unless you actually cared about that dirty hole-in-the-ground Zion). It was typical in the point that it was completely mindless. Use special effects in a huge battle sequence and destroy your enemy without any real sense that anything meaningful has happened. Mission accomplished!

The lack of an interesting, thought-provoking ending to bookend an idea that started so fresh and full of vigor is extremely disappointing.

Another major gripe of mine is, didn't we care about some of these characters at one point? What happened? Morpheus was reduced to a button-punching co-pilot. Neo just wanted to keep asking questions he should've figured out a long time ago. Trinity just wanted to fuck. And the rest of Zion... we never really cared about Zion in the first place. That orgy-loving, woodstockesque burrow.

Numerous characters were introduced in the sequels, none of them did very much. Most of them had one big scene that featured a whole paragraph of dialog and then *poof* they vanished. Only to be shot in cameos for the remainder of the trilogy. This is poor character development if you ask me.

On another note, people are whining about a "spoiler" on the front page, to that I say bullshit! The whole of the so-called spoiler was:

"I still haven't seen this film, so I'll refrain from passing judgment, but I'm ever so happy the matrix-within-a-matrix theories were unfounded."

How is that considered a spoiler? It tells you what the ending wasn't, not what it was. So stop crying at your earliest convience. Another point to that is, it's Saturday night. The movie came out on Wednesday. If you cared so much about it and were dying to know, you would've seen it by now. This is obviously just typical nitpicking as demonstrated so beautifully by the /. community.

Just had to get that off my chest. Much love.