the maaaaalox

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No, I haven't seen the Maalox Revolutions, but let me tell you how it all should have gone down. (With comments by Arekkusu.)

YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO HEAR MY IDEA

EVERYBODY is a computer program. Even Neo.
(that would explain his wide emotional range)

Seeing as how the idea of imprisoning humans in a simulation just to siphon their body heat is STUPID,

It is instead revealed to us at the end of Maalox Reloaded that humans were imprisoned in this simulation for study, like a human zoo.

Recognizing that humans must have some value because they, after all, created the machines, the machines are using humans in order to create a true hybrid of man and machine. Yet another step in the evolutionary process.
(before monkeys destroy the earth in a huge cataclysmic crap-throwing-fest)

Busting out and joining Zion is also part of the simulation - a specially designed offshoot developed for this experiment.

And Neo is their latest attempt. BUT HE FAILED their crucial test of alleigence, and now they want him wiped out.
(before he breeds... STINKYNESS)

Unfortunately, Agent Smith has mutated into some matrix-destroying virus, and actually poses a very real threat to the integrity of the machines.
(by corrupting the speech patterns of MIB everywhere with Australian accents)

In the end, Smith and Neo do battle, destroying the entire matrix and the core of the machines in the process. Neo turns out to be the next evolutionary step after all - because he is apparently the only one immune to Smith.
(and he can say "Whoa" the most times in a minute.)

The End.

Comments

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Yeah, my posting date was late -- I actually saw it late last night, after I wrote this entry. It was actiontastic! Light on the philosophy, light on the drama, etc - but still. ACTIONTASTIC EXPLODAGANZA!

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Actually, the original plot wasn't to use the whole "human D-cell" concept. The humans were supposed to basically be getting used as parallel processing nodes. The whole "only using 9% of your brain" thing, I guess. The studio was concerned people wouldn't get it.

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I would have welcomed that idea a lot more readily. Ghost In The Shell beat them to it, though. So the prize goes to them. The prize being my respect for the "science" in their "fiction", I guess.

That little change in explanation would have helped the movie make MUCH more sense, from start to finish.

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My fanboy overhaul, off the top of my head --

In the first movie, Smith says, "I hate it here." This is the central premise behind the matrix's architecture, and reflects the real goal of the machines -- to gradually constrict the diversity within the matrix, so as to maximize energy return while freeing up needed resources and "space". This is a bit of irony -- we humans spent years upgrading computers so they would do more; now they're trying to downgrade us so that we do, and need, less.

Hmm. I didn't know that about the "parallel processing" idea that was rejected by the studio, but I don't mind the human battery concept.

So instead of the real world being an "escape valve" of sorts (I haven't seen the movie yet, so I don't know if this is true, but everyone is conjecturing that the "real world" isn't "real") the fact that some humans awaken is actually considered a grave danger to the machines.

I don't like how Smith is "suddenly" able to clone himself, I would have liked to see a scene where Smith is resurrected (perhaps as a human watches and recoils in horror!!! GAHAGhagha the horror) and it's made clear that his replicative abilities are an emergency program response to the presence of "The One".

Insert a scene where the Smiths corner Neo/Trinity, then the Oracle appears and unleashes lightning ass-whip. Surprise, she has tons of power, "Ah ha, you're a program," "Yes, I am an ancient one," etc blather. She lets some of the Smiths flee (to go report to some unknown "father figure"?? Hmm...) but keeps a few of them. They're going to be repurposed.

Since the Agents aren't able to squealch the threat of The One, the silver guys are "assembled" out of Smith's failures, or something symbolic like that, and are sent to assassinate the threat that is Neo. This takes place at some sort of machine council. They are much tougher than they were in the second movie, and much sneakier and scarier.

All of the other new characters can be scrapped, with the exception of Merovingian and Persephone, who serve as a counterbalance to the duo of Neo and Trinity. M and P were once awakened humans, yet sided with the machines in exchange for immortality (having their brains uploaded to the matrix a la Ghost in the Shell), OR SO IT SEEMS... Later we learn that either M or P (or both) were "the One(s)" and discovered a truth so horrifying that they concluded humanity was better off inside the matrix than outside. The truth, of course, is human nature -- blessed with the power of intellect and choice, we frequently opt to use neither. Now they live in giddy denial.

"Would you do anything for your love?" asks Persephone of Trinity.
"I would die for him."
"Would you abandon him if he chose the madness of this synthetic world over the real one?"
HMMMMM.

The machines don't start digging until the end of the second movie, due to some new threat -- the good guys gain the ability to awaken entire "crops" of sleepers? And we finally see Zion in the third installment.

That's how I think the second movie should have gone. Also it would be nice if the second/third movies followed the awakenings of two new characters, so you'd experience the entire mythology anew each time through their eyes, and meet/interact with all the other principals through these new characters, which could add a lot of mystery, unknowns, and disinformation.

Blorpity blarg ack foo

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NO NO WAIT, perhaps the truth is that the Earth has been defouled so UTTERLY that Merovingian/Persephone are the first attempts at transmutating a human mind into a machine one... which is the ultimate goal of the machines, to convert all humans to synthetic programs, save a small cache who are going to repopulate the earth (on the machine's terms) after the Earth is able to regrow and heal itself. Estimated time of completion: 1,000,000 years. Grab a cyber-steak and chow down, in the meantime.

The first movie opened up SO MUCH potential, and it was awkwardly dashed on the rocks in the second movie, I wonder if I'm better off waiting to see the third at the Laurelhurst for $3 :P

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if you wait long enough you'll know most of how it goes, which is not to say that it shouldn't be caught on the big screen.

of the three, this one MUST be seen in the theatre - more showing, less telling. merovingian (http://www.livejournal.com/users/mirabilevisu/46337.html)'s character was not put to good use and more exploration of his character and role within the matrix would have made for a much better movie.

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Busting out and joining Zion is also part of the simulation - a specially designed offshoot developed for this experiment.

NONONONO

busting out and joining zion is survival of the fittest: how to find the strongest, smartest human to blend with machine à la alien resurrection.

how about that alien v preadator bullshit? man, there must be a glitch.

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