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Someway, somehow, I will see this movie in the theater, but I can say for sure when that will be.

but I can say for sure when that will be.

..and that would be when? 

Go get an avatar or something. 

but I can say for sure when that will be.

..and that would be when? 

Go get an avatar or something. 

Since when?

Since a long time.  They haven't really advertised it.  I only learned that it was coming out in 2 days when a friend told me about it earlier.

I'll probably see it when it's out on DVD. I was disappointed by Matrix Reloaded.

I'll see it, only because I've seen the first two movies.

But I'm not holding my breath. I was pretty disappointed with Reloaded.

I'll agree.

You guys really didn't know it was coming out this week?  I knew like, six months ago.  Seriously.

i saw reloaded 10pm the night before (like many people).  but, no theater in st louis is having a midnite showing of revolutions, bastards.  now, i'm gonna have to wait till the weekend 

I've had my tickets for over a month now.  I'm so beond stoked, and yes, I loved Reloaded.  I thought it was even better than the first, and MUCH more intelligent as well.  My glee at hearing the word "merovingian" as part of the mythos cannot be expressed

Well, there was only one problem with the movie:

THEY smurfing TOOK STAR WARS EP. 1, AND REPLACED LIGHTSABERS WITH BULLET TIME. That was the one problem with it.

Oh yeah, and it had 1.5 billion fight scenes in it. I'm serious. I'm not even over exagerating... or anything...

I was laughing quite hard at the the 'Architect' scene. Absolute smurf. I'd rather watch James Lipton slobber over Tom Hanks for an hour than watch that scene again.

Haha, I agree. I rather enjoyed the architect scene, though it was way over the top. "How many forced intellectual phrases can we squeeze into this?"

The MTV Movie awards spoof of it was spot on.

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I actually am big into philsophy and existentialism and whatnot, and have read transcripts of the architect speech a few times. I give it credit for being expertly written and thought through, but it does seem a bit pretentious and forced upon the audience. Also, to put such a thing into the type of movie that The Matrix Reloaded puported to be seemed kind of silly. I could understand if it was an art film of some sort, but to place it in a mainstream "action movie," which is marketed as such, and then expect the "action movie" demographic to appreciate it is just asking for trouble.

I think the claims that it was too much action and nothing else, and the claims that it was too much philosophy and nothing else, are nonsense. I think its too much of both. It was still a very enjoyable movie for me, but the story line beats you with philosophy, and not just that, but its not much "think about it, and decide for yourself" philosophy like in the first movie. It's "here's an explanation of things, like who the Oracle is and what Neo is, in philosophical terms." The action was excellent, but the only thing that paused it was the speeches of philosophical plot development. There is a guiding principle is most forms of entertainment: you give the audience something full of intensity or information, and you provide a psychological break. It's a game of tension and release. If you have half solid action and half solid philosophy, it doesn't work. You can't claim the philosophy to be a break from the action, because you're still not breaking the fundamental psychological tension. In games, you have an intense battle and then a period where the user can just relax. In music you don't have a wall of sound through the whole album. After you have a particularly loud and abrasive section, you taper it off and let the listener have a (perhaps very momentary) break. In art, tons of detail is often offset by a very simplistic area of the artwork. It allows these things to flow and be enjoyable, instead of being deemed "too hard," "just noise," or "visually chaotic," respectively.

I'll see it, only because I've seen the first two movies.

But I'm not holding my breath. I was pretty disappointed with Reloaded.

Ditto.
i really liked the first, didn't like the second.
I suspect the failure of the second is why they aren't heavily advertising this one.

I don't know how much money it made - but I'm sure it was well below expectations. People like me who were planning to see it several times almost decided to leave during the second, and then wished they had followed through when they didn't.

Hopefully revolutions will be better.