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...just left the theatre.  I'd read an article in a recent Time magazine, so 
I wasn't let down at all; the article helped deflate me a bit beforehand, and 
I already knew one point the author presented: having been wowed by the first 
with its new tricks, I wasn't nearly as wowed the second time around.  I do 
appreciate what the second film had to offer to the overall storyline, 
however.  But on the other hand, I'm of the opinion that the first film was 
enough.

Reloaded does raise some interesting questions:
- Is the purpose of The One really what The Architect said it was, or is that 
just another lie?
- Why would an entity (program), albeit a rogue entity, aspire to aid those 
elements (humans) who ultimately will destroy said entity, by destroying the 
environment in which the entity resides, aka The Matrix?
- Can skills in a make-believe realm transfer to the real world? (ala Neo 
destroying the Sentinels at the end of the movie ... or, for example, does 
being a master of an online martial arts game somehow make one a better 
combatant in the real world?)
- And of course there's the old philosophical postulate voiced by the 
character of the Merovingian, that there really is no such thing as free 
will.  It's a dreadfully brain-cramping argument, that everything any given 
person does is the result not of that person's choice but of what of course 
would happen/be chosen given that person's genetics and life history...


But I much prefer the first film and believe it stands on its own.  It just 
tickles me that it and Fight Club came out around the same time...

-Alan

>Did any catch the Matrix Reloaded today:
>
>    http://whatisthematrix.com/
>
>I won't contribute any spoilers, but all of the hype seems to have built up
>my expectations too high. Did anyone else feel let down, or was the film
>what you were expecting?
>
>David
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