thehowe_v7.1

Well, I just got back from seeing Matrix: Reloaded for the first time a few hours ago. Overall, I'd say it was good. My friend Tom likened it to The Empire Strikes Back, and I'd say that's a good analogy. A decent movie by itself, but not great by any stretch of the word until it's combined with the rest of the trilogy. Anyways, I've got some theories on something which happens at the end of the movie.

About the part at the end where Neo knocks out the sentinels. I've spent the last few hours reading some discussions on the topic over at the OverClocked Remix forums, and I've noticed a definite polarization into two camps. Camp #1 says that this is evidence that the "real" world is in fact merely another part or layer of the matrix, and that Neo realizes this when he stops the sentinels at the end. Camp #2 says that Neo's powers as the one somehow extend into the real world as well, possibly one of the ways in which he is different from the ones of the past. Personally, I'm hoping for some derivation of Camp #2's explanation, because #1 is just too cliched for me. It's been done too many times in too many books and movies.

I'm really hoping that the third matrix movie takes us somewhere we've never been before, and blows my mind like the first one did.