The Matrix: De-booted

Is it just me or do movies today feel contrived and I'm not just talking about lame acting or graphical shortcomings? I'm talking about the entire experience, from start to finish, on the surface, today's Hollywood blockbusters still look and sound like they used to and if you're watching them half asleep or drunk you may not be able to tell that something has changed at all, but I don't know, there's something about movies today that just feels like they're missing something and while I don't know exactly when it started. I do know when I started to feel it.

Let me tell you a personal story growing up in the 2000s. It seemed like every kid had their favorite franchise, whether it was Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Yu-Gi-Oh, Bionicle, but for me, the fantasy world that called home was in a galaxy far, far away, it may not be possible to describe how important Star Wars was when I was younger, the brand was in the midst of a cultural renaissance. for a new generation My Generation the Fanfare was practically inescapable and boy did I get caught up in it. My first experience was with the Lego Star Wars video game and the rest was history.

Star Wars became the first fictional Universe that I was truly engrossed in studying. The characters in the story became a personal obsession, it got to the point where just seeing a guy with a glow stick was enough to get me excited and I was far from the only one who felt this way, it's impossible to really describe how much The Star Wars was a cultural phenomenon at this time and, unlike many similar events today, it never felt forced or contrived. The intense passion around the series came from a place of genuine reverence, one that transcended space and time these days.

Boomers and Zoomers aren't exactly known to get along, but for a brief period Star Wars managed to bring us together. I still love the good memories of watching the original trilogy with my dad and recognizing that it was a meaningful experience for both of us. I thought one day I might Unfortunately, like most things in the modern age, it came with a problem: it turned out that the new batch of Star Wars movies didn't live up to the originals and George Lucas could have gone too. far in some places may have gone too far in some places as time went on I began to realize how flawed the prequels were despite my overwhelming love for the franchise I couldn't ignore the sinking feeling that I had been let down I mean, after all, as ubiquitous as the Star Wars brand was, at the end of the day, it all depended on the success of the movies, so with that being said, is it too much to ask for the movies to be good?

Passion and enthusiasm can only take you so far, at some point the underlying product has to be something worth celebrating. It's hard to justify being a fan of a franchise when half the movies are downright mediocre, but don't worry, Disney is here to save the day from that. George Lucas, a failed gimmick, just look at how they turned Marvel around, this is going to be a hit, they're going to kick ass and do their own trilogy the right way and we can go ahead and fake that whole prequel thing. of the fiasco never happened finally Star Wars is going to produce something I can actually be proud to call myself a fan of oh boy if only I knew how bad things were for the next five years I slowly faced the absolute horror that I was witnessing what was unfolding in front of me, not only were my greatest fears coming true, but it was worse than I could have ever imagined.

Somehow, despite its unfathomable wealth and resources, Disney managed to botch the most beloved IP of its entire portfolio of companies early on. I didn't want to believe it was happening after the second movie in the trilogy, things were looking bleak, but Star Wars teaches us to hold on to hope in these same situations, so I did it for as long as possible, one sad day of December 2019. I walked into a godforsaken movie theater in Jacksonville to witness the franchise that defined my childhood meet its bitter, unforgivable end. Some people like this movie which is good for them.

In fact, I can't say for sure any other movie for them. As long as I live I will likely feel the level of shame, betrayal and hostility that I felt at that moment. I think it was during the scene where the heroes fight the heavily armed space fleet on horseback that I really started to rethink my life choices. Star Wars, as I knew it, was dead, it was something I had suspected all along and now there was no more childish naivety to cushion the blow. I realized that all those years I had spent as a die-hard fan had meant absolutely nothing.

I felt like a fool for convincing myself that there would be some kind of reward for the emotional investment I put into this franchise. I no longer cared about the story, the characters, anything, suddenly I didn't want to have anything to do with the series I loved. for my entire life this movie made me hate Star Wars, it made me question why I watched movies in the first place after that dark day, my first love in cinema had been completely and unequivocally ruined, but luckily for me there was another one, oh my god , over there. Hey man, what's going on?

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Titanic, unconditional. Jurassic Park. Those movies haven't been popular for over 20 years. That? you're just saying yeah those movies haven't been popular for over 20 years you can't be serious Rusty what year is it? Star Wars' downward spiral dates back to May 1999 and the release of The Phantom Menace, which many fans attribute as the kiss of death for the brand, just weeks before a different sci-fi franchise would have cashed in. life. It is the world that has been placed over your eyes to blind you from the truth. Matrix was revealed as the surprise. of the year, came flying out, setting Box off its record for an April release for a film that was only sparingly marketed. his meteoric success had seemingly come out of nowhere.

Lead actor Keanu Reeves was virtually unknown at the time, even less well known. The film's enigmatic directors, the Wachowskis, whoever they were, had captured lightning in a bottle, audiences were drawn in by nothing more than sheer intrigue. The Matrix filled theaters for one simple reason: no one had ever seen anything like it: it was ambitious, innovative, and Featured pioneered filmmaking techniques so revolutionary that its influences are still felt today, but what really set The Matrix apart from the competition was its philosophical depth. For many it represented the definitive exploration of one of modern man's deepest fears.

The year 1999 seems to have reached a In many of my videos I have come to see it as this turning point in the trajectory of modern society after which everything seems to have taken a sinister turn for the worse, it turns out that the future is not exactly what which it seems to be and although it is dystopian. Visions of tomorrow were nothing new, the one presented by The Matrix is ​​exceptionally bleak. Human beings have always been defined by technology. Our ability to transform natural elements into complex tools is what separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom, but somewhere along the way tools became. a little too complex and we started calling them machines, although it is difficult to determine exactly when the change occurred.

It seemed to coincide with the time when technology started to feel intimidating. This sentiment became evident at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, when machines began to replace us. Perhaps the first conflict between man and machine dates back to an 18th century weaver named Ned Ludd who, according to legend, broke a pair of knitting racks in a fit of rage; 19th century technology had begun to transform the entire textile industry. Artisans were now being undercut by automated factories that could produce similar products at a much lower cost. In 1811, the disenfranchised began lashing out against their mechanical oppressors, following the story of Ned Lud, this anti-technology faction would soon become known as the Luddites, the movement.

It wouldn't last long as the military soon cracked down on insubordination, in time the cultural consensus would continue to look back on the Luddites derisively seeing them as an irrational obstacle to the natural pursuit of progress after all the automation ends up benefiting everyone. Otherwise if someone ends up losing their job because of it, they are simply taking one for the team. It was easy for all types of people to think this way until suddenly they were the ones being replaced as technology continued to advance rapidly. Concerns about automation. began to appear in fiction the American folk tale of John Henry was notably one of the first of its kind to feature a machine as an antagonist the legend tells the story of a railroad worker who falls dead after running with a steam drill later depictions of our machine-driven future would only become bleaker the 1927 film Metropolis featured the first depiction of a post-industrial dystopia set the stage for what would eventually become known as the cyberpunk genre a new wave in science fiction that expressed hesitancy in the face of rapid expansion of technology, he imagined a future in which the omnipresence of machines would oppress and suffocate humanity, while technology's concerns focused primarily on its omnipresent presence, others foresaw an additional threat in its intelligence amidst its bionic world metropolis, one of the first concepts. of a bionic man we now refer to as robots, represent a recognition that somewhere further down the horizon machines could eventually match and even surpass thecapabilities of human beings in the 20th century, much of the pioneering literature on robots would be explored by science. -fi author Isaac Asimov is perhaps best known for coining the three laws of robotics that sought to address the most immediate threat that life-sized automata can evoke.

The prospect of them turning against their teachers. Asimov's work was compelling, especially during a period of time when he gave rise to the first computers. Suddenly the idea of ​​intelligent machines was becoming a reality, although at this point it barely resembled anything human. The original computers were almost Lovecraftian an incomprehensible wall of electronic components that by some terrifying Miracle were capable of imitating the fundamental elements of thought, contrary to their initial humanoid representations, computers were practically shapeless, in theory they could take on the appearance of anything we could imagine. The 2001 film A Space Odyssey would introduce the first historical appearance of artificial intelligence in cinema.

The cold, calculating HAL 9000. Director Stanley Kubrick reimagined The Machine's antagonist as more than just a single menacing entity, rather than one that served as a hostile extension of the setting itself. This idea would be further expanded upon by artist H.R Geiger, who produced nightmarish illustrations of living beings suffocated by an all-encompassing mechanical environment. In 1973 he would create one of his most notable works while collaborating with the progressive rock band Emerson Lake in Palmer. The group was finishing their new album with Salad Surgery, depicting an epic war between humans and computers while listening through Geiger composed what would eventually become the album's artwork: an outer cover featuring a sterile metal sarcophagus. which opens to reveal a lobotomized woman as Geiger imagined a physical convergence between man and machine.

Science fiction author Philip K Dick took a more conceptual approach: his 1968 novel, Android Stream of Electric Sheep, features human-like replicants who are virtually indistinguishable from biological men. This premise would later be adapted into the 1982 film Blade Runner, where the corrupting influence of technology has expanded to threaten our perception. of reality itself, at that time computers were being welcomed into people's homes and the arrival of a virtual reality was no longer a question of if, but when, the rapid acceleration of computing power began to emerge some theories about a potential technological singularity on their horizon in which super intelligent machines could achieve god-like abilities, thus rendering all of humanity obsolete, at the same time that fictional works began to push the concept of machine warfare to its absolute limit.

If a confrontation between humans and machines arose, how bad could things get? The Terminator franchise imagined the The fact that the human race is brought to the brink of extinction by nuclear fire is a grim outcome indeed, but one that many would find preferable to the scenario depicted by The Matrix in a world where humanity has long since lost their war against the machines that humans have been forced into. a fading worse than death a state of total submission in which our homeostatic energy is harvested to feed the Machine World the collective human consciousness is imprisoned and pacified by a realistic simulation this premise is very reminiscent of Plato's allegory of the cave of an ancient metaphor about the nature of Truth and objectivity, seeks to highlight philosophical Enlightenment as the path to salvation, but of course that is to assume that everything that awaits us outside the cave is actually worth the trip, coincidentally a year before the debut of The Matrix.

Different films had already explored the premise of escaping a false reality and although we never see what happens to Truman after freeing himself from the simulation, it is implied that he went to a better place in The Matrix, however, the decision does not It is as clear as it is human. nature to seek the truth, but does there come a point where the truth is so ugly that it would be better not to know at all how many of us would choose to remain in the cave if we knew the horrors that lie beyond it, perhaps so ?

It would be better for us to simply sit still and play it safe, but human history would indicate otherwise. It is against human nature to remain imprisoned in either a cave or a simulation for the simple reason that it undermines our autonomy just as technology does. defines humanity, so does self-determination, the idea that we are the owners of our own destiny, that our decisions are the product of free will and not of a pre-programmed directive. In this way, we are different from both animals and machines that human beings we are human. You are not required to behave in ways that are completely instinctive, neurological, while computers may one day reach a level of intellect magnitudes greater than yours, it is not clear if they will ever be able to truly think like us.

Choice is unequivocally human, even if those choices often are. In the most rational case, it is for this reason that Neo is such a compelling protagonist: his journey is based on regaining the right to choose, regardless of the monumentality of the system that stands in his way. The public couldn't help but identify with Neo's story, especially during a time when many of us were losing our autonomy. The 20th century was marked by the rise and fall of totalitarian regimes. The collapse of the Soviet Union was supposed to signal the dawn of a new era in which the people of the world could finally exist as liberated citizens.

The 1990s were generally regarded as a time of idealistic optimism for the future, a sentiment that was, however, undermined by the ominous sense that something was not quite right and that the so-called free society we inhabit was not exactly as advertised. in The Matrix, where Agent Smith explains why the machines chose to simulate the year 1999. He describes it as the peak of civilization, obviously the setting was meant to coincide with the film's contemporary release, but it's disturbing to look back at that line today and realize. How true it still rings, while the machines canonically intended to pass off the year 1999 as a convincing reality.

Ironically, it marked a point where everything started to feel artificial. The late 20th century saw the emergence of a different type of machine: the corporate machine. The financial giants. whose influence grew to rival the most dominant empires in history, these man-made entities have become the monolithic overlords of today and have been actively distorting the reality around us. At first it was difficult to realize that everything seemed so normal, but eventually the anomalies became too much to ignore. Despite all the worries about machines acting like us, no one could anticipate the extent to which we would begin to act like machines.

It's strange to consider how one of the original concerns about automation had to do with it giving us too much leisure, if that was ever the case we surely haven't seen any of it. In fact, it can be argued that the average person today is doing more work than at any time in recent history. Simultaneously, the nature of that work has changed. you only become more robotic and dehumanizing the ruthless efficiency of the labor market has made individuality almost useless you either fit into the predetermined system or you don't either way you are just another cog the fruits of your labor serve no greater philosophical purpose You can't help but become a little existential when you feel like everything you do is meaningless.

It's a feeling that now extends far beyond the office cubicle. The relentless thirst for profit expanded to permeate almost all areas of life, much like the fate of humans in The Matrix, modern consumers are created and harvested to feed an inescapable system that we will never understand and, although we find ourselves With no shortage of things to buy, it's somewhat shocking how limited our options have become almost everywhere else. Have you ever wanted to experience what it feels like to be in The Matrix? Look no further than the industry it emerged from. If you're a millennial, think about something from your childhood.

Is there a movie or show that gets re

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because I'm difficult? hard pressed to find anything that can answer no to the list gets pretty depressing as you get closer to the bottom of the barrel, chips Baywatch Battleship GI Joe Power Rangers and a hexology of Transformers movies with more to come if you go back in time and you tell the world that 50 of our movies would be based on toys, they'd probably just press the button and be done. It seems that everything has to be a franchise these days because, while an independent film is limited to its moment in the sun, a cinematic universe can be used until the sun stops shining, why allow something to die when you can keep it in a perpetual state of suspended animation, siphoning off every last drop of what made him so alive?

First of all, The Matrix, of course, had its share of sequels that never made it to the end. a claim to the original, while they have been criticized for being a cryptic and incoherent tattoo, there was at times never any doubt as to whether they deserved to be done, each of them represented a clear artistic vision and continued the story in a meaningful way. served a purpose Beyond being a Shameless cash grab 2019 marked 20 years since the release of The Matrix and a lot had changed since then Keanu Reeves moved on to a whole new action franchise the Wachowski brothers were now the Wachowski sisters and the film industry had mutated into an almost unrecognizable Wasteland Gone are the days of the ambitious auteurs who define the greatest Hollywood successes.

Modern Blockbusters now see ambition as an unnecessary risk. It turns out that movie studios had gotten 20 years smarter about making profitable movies. The first Matrix movie ended up making Warner Bros. almost half a billion dollars at the box office, which was almost eight times its initial investment, this notable financial success makes it even more baffling to consider that if it had been released today, The Matrix probably never would have been made. done, I mean, if you really think about it. When was the last time a major Hollywood studio took a chance on an unproven concept? Could an R-rated Blockbuster with such esoteric themes exist today?

Movie theaters used to be places where you would go to see something truly spectacular, but lately every aspect of the industry. has been on a steady march toward mediocrity Twitter user Eric Krebs helped visualize the decline of Stark's originality in Hollywood. It's now common for the 10 highest-grossing films of the year to be made up entirely of concepts recycled from pre-existing source material, just the superhero genre. While, ironically, The Matrix helped Inspire has skyrocketed to fill nearly half of all Blockbusters released, the number of R-rated films has shrunk to make way for the much more marketable PG-13, a format that neutralizes the ability of filmmaker to explore sophisticated ideas.

The once promising field of computer graphics is now presented as a crutch for overworked productions that can't be bothered to compose an actual scene. Hollywood simulation now relies almost entirely on machines, and the results are as boring as you might have guessed. It seems like all big-budget movies these days, no matter who directed them or what studio backed them, now seem like the same bland, homogeneous visual sludge; There is a disturbing lack of humanity today. Blockbusters' creative control has been taken away from the filmmakers and placed in the hands of bureaucratic committees that audit every decision in the production process for its financial sensitivity; anything remotely nuanced or daring is generally ill-advised.

Movies are now expected to be international events and should in no way touch on topics that might marginally offend anyone in the world. The opposite side of the world for an industry once renowned for its limitless possibilities, it's disheartening to see so much of filmmaking now defined by what it can't do. The craft of filmmaking has been simplified from an art to a science. Major releases no longer feel like an organic exercise in creativity, they feel like the product of a tightly controlled formula, much like a roller coaster, they are designed to offer the impression of a terrible situation, while all the while never you were in real danger, after all is said and done, it always ends right where you started you haven't really gone anywherepart why allow the heroes to fail why allow a fan-favorite character to actually die why allow the boy to not get the girl in the end, sure doing so could produce a moment that's actually meaningful, but that would mean that Movies can tell a story that is even remotely complex.

It's as if Hollywood is no longer capable of producing stories that are truly satisfying; instead, they seem like a disparate patchwork of fun with very little substance or cohesion holding everything together. like going to a restaurant expecting a gourmet meal and being served a plate of sweets, sure it activates all the right receptors, but instead of making you feel full, it just makes you sick and the disgusting sweetness of today's movies comes through. of meaningless nostalgia that assaults the audience with a nauseating barrage of familiar faces, places and sounds. Studios now go so far as to resurrect the dead just to keep the same old song and dance going as part of a desperate ploy to remind us of a time when movies actually made us feel something.

Some of us were not fooled, however, we know that we no longer live in 1999 and recognized the product on the screen as a hollow imitation that only superficially resembles the Originals, like a machine, has no soul and replaced everything who was alive a long time ago. like the fate of the modern franchise, it happened to Star Wars and would soon happen to The Matrix as well. These days, it seems no entertainment property is safe from the dreaded reboot, as the pool of original ideas has dried up. Hollywood has determined that it is now much more profitable to simply regurgitate existing brands from a bygone era, while the uninitiated may be excited to reunite with that special friend.

It's important to realize what exactly made it so special in the first place. Surely it wasn't geriatric celebrities trying and failing to revive The Glory Days nor was it a bubble-wrapped, sanitized retelling of a story we've heard before, how about mindless editing of a marketable character whose sole purpose is to drive sales of toys, if you ask me, the vast majority of reboots? Franchises would have been much better off staying dead, they are not interested in selling a quality product, everything they sell is a legacy, a legacy that will be actively tarnished by whatever vapid garbage is being pumped out today, but what can I say?

One of the reasons why the Shameless sequels continue to flood the market, people continue to pay to see them, it's almost as if modern consumers have been conditioned to accept nothing else to settle for a mediocre disappointment, reboots have become inevitable and studios are now hungry to desecrate the graves of long-dead franchises, naturally it was only a matter of time before The Matrix was next on The Chopping Block, it was late 2019, just as Star Wars was sent to the glue factory. When the news came out that The Matrix was next, Warner Bros. wanted a fourth installment of the series and they were going to make it with or without the Wachowskis, the point is that there was already a fourth Matrix movie.

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, an anthology of short stories. Set in the Matrix universe, it was a companion release that really deserved to be curated by the Wachowskis to celebrate the spirit of The Originals by opening it up to interpretations by others. The stories it contained were imaginative. Dynamic and stylistically vibrant. An appropriate shipment. to a project that placed so much emphasis on free expression, if only it were that simple, Warner Bros could sense that the Matrix brand still had plenty of money left, everything else was being re

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, why not Matrix? It did not matter. that the story had already reached its logical conclusion they had tickets to sell as well as a fancy new streaming service the studio basically gave the wachowskis an ultimatum that they could oversee the spiritual death of their creation or hand the work over to someone else Either way, the defining achievement of their lives would become an abject mockery of everything it once stood for upon hearing the news.

Lily Wachowski wanted nothing to do with it, so she let Lana figure out how to defeat the Matrix once and for all, so what? What do you do if they force you to watch a movie that you don't want to believe or not? The wisdom of how to handle the destiny of one of Hollywood's most acclaimed companies can be found at its lowest, and it was all possible thanks to the chance that an unlikely hero named Tom. 1999 would mark the big break for comedian Tom Green. , who landed a new show on MTV and soon established himself as a pioneer of socially awkward, shocking humor, serving as the progenitor of some of today's most popular comedy Tom was way ahead of the curve in more ways than one because in 2001 would produce something so avant-garde that we've only just begun to appreciate what the most disgusting movie of 2001 is.

The champion is Freddy Got. Played with Tom Green making David Spade look like Jim Carrey and Jim Carrey look like Lawrence Olivier. Accounts differ depending on who you ask, but legend has it that Tom had to make a movie against his will due to a contract dispute with studio 20th Century Fox. They would end up getting his movie, but the comedian would be the last one in laugh. The result was Freddie Got Fingered, a film so diabolically horrible that the whole thing seems like one big joke; perhaps no other film expresses such contempt for the Hollywood system that it literally does. the story of an artist who wastes studio money, a million dollars gone, it's not easy, and while he's not exactly Neo, he is portrayed as a self-aware person trapped inside an artificial reality, in At the time of its release, no one really understood what it meant.

The film became one of the most criticized films of this century. Tom Green proudly accepted his five Frazzi Awards and reportedly had to be dragged off stage after playing an endless harmonica solo during his acceptance speech. It makes no sense that everyone dreams of being a movie star and being given that opportunity should be considered a great honor. Why would someone just throw everything away like that and turn everything into a laughing stock? How could anyone willingly attach his name to something so disgraceful, well you have to remember Tom Green was ahead of the curve, maybe he knew what the film industry would become and saw the way out.

The best way to defeat the Hollywood Machine was to point the finger at the studio. Hello, this is my The painting I made is called zebra tiger. I worked very, very hard on it. Now I'm going to put it in the National Gallery of Art because that's where all the really good paintings go and I want all the people to see mine. who appreciate really good art like this in December 2021 I returned to another Jacksonville theater fully prepared to be weakened by another horrible sequel, but what I ended up witnessing was unlike anything I had expected in many ways.

What I saw that day was a very terrible ending to a beloved franchise, from a devastatingly immersive, nonsensical plot to dumb and dumb characters, a film filled with baffling moments like Neo watching the first Matrix on a projector pouring himself into a container of pills. blues in the mouth and a strawberry a strawberry at first glance seemed to be another rise of Skywalker, but something felt different this time nothing Comforts anxiety like a little nostalgia The Matrix Resurrections was such an aggressively idiotic movie that it almost seemed to fulfill as if the creators were trying to put together their own stupidity and then I realized that this wasn't just a sequel to The Matrix, it was a sequel to Freddy Got Fingered, it was a movie about not wanting to make a movie, I'm sure you can understand why our beloved parent company, Warner Brothers, decided to make a sequel to the trilogy just this once rather than waste a measly 14 million in studio funds.

Matrix Resurrections managed to waste more than 10 times that, if the creators decided to sabotage the movie that way then it could very well be one of the most expensive jokes ever told a Matrix reboot was always going to be an artistic failure it might as well turn that failure into an inside job my name is bugs as in bunny but you might think I'm giving them too much credit because it's just another mediocre shit like everyone else, maybe Lana Wachowski, like many directors, ran out of talent and the Matrix resurrections were a genuine attempt as far as any of us are concerned, that's the official explanation, but I don't know, I'd like to think that for once a Shameless Hollywood reboot actually meant something, that it was more than just another huge waste of time Make no mistake, what I saw that day was an undeniable train wreck, but somehow it was beautiful, not because of what it was, but because of what it represented to be there at the cinema that December afternoon, I felt strangely vindicated, like if all the pain I suffered from the rise of Skywalker had suddenly dissipated.

At the end of the day, both Star Wars and The Matrix tell a similar story that they offer us. of a great hero who rebels against the oppressive machine and, although Star Wars was ultimately tempted by the dark side, The Matrix remained defiant to the end, it may have met a bitter fate, but it still remained under the artist's control in this sense. was honorable even in defeat when faced with the death of their legacy the creators still had enough dignity to go down with the ship they informed me that they would do it with or without us and made it clear that they would cancel our contract If we don't cooperate I know you said that the story was over for you, but that's the thing about stories, they never really end.

Are we still telling the same stories we've always told only with different names, different faces, the sheep are? They're not going anywhere They like my world They don't want freedom or empowerment They want to be controlled They crave the comfort of certainty and that means you too are back in your pots unconscious and alone like them The Matrix resurrections will go down in history as a commercial failure with losses exceeding $30 million, will always be known as a box office failure; After a few weeks, everything was almost completely forgotten and left virtually no cultural impact. Looking back Now, a little over a year later, it's almost as if it never existed and maybe that's for the best.

I would call it a worthy sacrifice after the discouraging reception. Warner Bros announced that they had no plans to continue the Matrix franchise at the moment. It is at least one set of films that can finally be allowed to rest in peace. Hopefully this whole situation can serve as a valuable lesson for the film industry that some things are better left in the past and who knows, there may come a day when original ideas reign again in Hollywood, but until that happens. It turns out that the entire system will desperately need a foreign debut that goes to companies every day and in my experience, these machines can be a metaphor for whatever people have in their minds because they are afraid of computers.

Yes, this machine scares people, but it is made. Because of people, people are not scary, it's not that it's more of a cosmic disturbance. This machine is intimidating because it contains infinite amounts of information and that is threatening because human existence is finite and strange.