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Originally posted by Quadraton
I'm going to have to go with simple plot on this one. Just because they had scenes where people babbled endlessly about philosophy, doesn't mean it's a suave and sophisticated plot line.
The Oracle: You have no choice. You must go to the Central Core (or whatever it was called) to destroy the machines.
The Merovingian: You're here to get the Keymaker, and I'm not going to give him to you.
The Architect: Your design, Neo, is to reboot the Matrix, and start a new Zion. Choose you destiny.
The only reason it percievably is a complicated plot line is because they say 10 words when they could have only said one.
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That's what I'm talking about right there. See, they knew the plot was so damn simplistic that they had to make the movie complicated and much longer than it needed to be through boring conversations that really didn't add anything extra to the movie. We've all seen movies where we were like, "Yup, that scene was a space filler right there." The entire scene with The Merovingian where he's telling about a program he put in a piece of cake, then we finally see it was designed to give that woman a really patheic orgasm (I'm assuming that's what that was, since the women I've been with reacted much differently when I gave them orgasms) was nothing but a time waster. The dude could have dropped his horrible accent and just said, "Fuck you, you can't have the Keymaker." Instead, they had him ramble on for 5 minutes or longer, all the while showing glimpses of his wife's cleavage (to keep the mens' dwindling attention in the audience) to make the same point.
The whole movie was just under 2 hours long, but if you tossed out all the scenes that added nothing to the movie, including the one I just mentioned, as well as the fuck/rave scene and many others, the movie would have only been about an hour long. Cut the lame fight scenes down to half their time and the movie goes to 45 minutes.
Speaking of the fight scenes, after the movie, my girlie looks at me and says, "You notice how like before a fight starts, you actually see it coming on about 2 minutes before it even happens?" I responded something like, "Yeah, and each fight scene looks exactly like the one that came before it!"
As far as the 'plot' of this movie being so transparent and artificial, if you're looking for anything with more of a plot, simply go rent any movie out there with Jim Carrey in it--that's just how bad it was....