The Movie "The Matrix" And Your View of it Before and After Eris.

[LMNO]

I hate it for having an antiestablishment theme while only overthrowing it through impossible childish fantasy methods. It tells people who could potentially have had some kind of ideas of
Trying to shape the culture they are in that they are powerless to do so. Revolution becomes an impossible intangible thing, exactly what the con wants you to think.

~Faust
Knows that all it takes to topple governments is numbers and elbo grease.

Wow.  That's one of the cooler interpretations I've heard so far.

[Jasper]

I can get behind that.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Before Discordianism - oh, nice special effects.  Shame about the sophomoric attempts to graft philosophy onto an action flick
After Discordianism - oh, nice special effects.  Shame about the sophomoric attempts to graft philosophy onto an action flick

Incidentally, my opinion of Inception is exactly the same.

Inception had philosophy in it??? Haha, I must be getting better at filtering this shit out 

[Payne]

anybody remember Matrixism? 




btw, the best Matrix movie was Commando, with Schwarzenegger as John Matrix

"SULLY! REMEMBER HW I SAID I'D KILL YOU LAST?!"

"YES JOHN! YOU DID!"

"I LIED"

Fucking poetry man. Sophocles never did any better.

[Cain]

Before Discordianism - oh, nice special effects.  Shame about the sophomoric attempts to graft philosophy onto an action flick
After Discordianism - oh, nice special effects.  Shame about the sophomoric attempts to graft philosophy onto an action flick

Incidentally, my opinion of Inception is exactly the same.

Inception had philosophy in it??? Haha, I must be getting better at filtering this shit out 

Apparently it was this decade's "existentialist benchmark".

Personally, I thought this decade's existentialist benchmark was George W Bush allegedly reading Camus while on holiday...

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

Before Discordianism - oh, nice special effects.  Shame about the sophomoric attempts to graft philosophy onto an action flick
After Discordianism - oh, nice special effects.  Shame about the sophomoric attempts to graft philosophy onto an action flick

Incidentally, my opinion of Inception is exactly the same.

Inception had philosophy in it??? Haha, I must be getting better at filtering this shit out 

I liked the book better.

[Xooxe]

I think I've said this before, but the most interesting thing about The Matrix is that it's one of three films all released within a year, and all about a guy who discovers that his reality is physically an illusion controlled by sinister forces. The other two are The Truman Show and Dark City.

I know of a fourth, but it's a fairly obscure Polish film from the eighties called Sexmission, and this guy has a whole civilisation of women held captive underground who think that the Earth was left uninhabitable after a nuclear war. They have this periscope thing and it just shows a fake devastated landscape.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I think I've said this before, but the most interesting thing about The Matrix is that it's one of three films all released within a year, and all about a guy who discovers that his reality is physically an illusion controlled by sinister forces. The other two are The Truman Show and Dark City.

...Both of which were better movies, and both of which were buried alive by "bullet time".

[Requia ☣]

Didn't 13th floor come out that year too?

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

I think I've said this before, but the most interesting thing about The Matrix is that it's one of three films all released within a year, and all about a guy who discovers that his reality is physically an illusion controlled by sinister forces. The other two are The Truman Show and Dark City.

...Both of which were better movies, and both of which were buried alive by "bullet time".

I think bullet time ranks up there with the T-Pain/Autotune voice effect on the list of things that people got sick of really really fast.
But unlike the T-Pain effect bullet time eventually went away.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I think I've said this before, but the most interesting thing about The Matrix is that it's one of three films all released within a year, and all about a guy who discovers that his reality is physically an illusion controlled by sinister forces. The other two are The Truman Show and Dark City.

...Both of which were better movies, and both of which were buried alive by "bullet time".

I think bullet time ranks up there with the T-Pain/Autotune voice effect on the list of things that people got sick of really really fast.
But unlike the T-Pain effect bullet time eventually went away.

Much like a javelina hearing a dog bark, or a Samoan hearing a car horn, the sound of autotune instantly drives me into a killing frenzy.

[GIGGLES]

I'm not saying it's a good movie. Hell, I'm not saying it's bad either. I happen to like it, but I don't really care if you do. What I'm interested in is,

The symbolism.

I saw the movie when I was a kid, and it was pretty cool with the guns and John Woo magic, and then I went on with my life.

And then I got woken up from The Machine™
And then I watched the movie again.

What came through the second viewing was not an action movie, but a metaphor for the GASM's, and the good fight in general.

Redpill, Machine, all that and more. The movie is now not an action treat for me, but a symbolic piece, a representative of "real" life, more true to it than most viewers could ever dream.

Does anyone else see this?

I could be just insane. Well, I am insane.

But, are you insane with me?

SHUT THE FUCK UP!

[Phox]

I'm not saying it's a good movie. Hell, I'm not saying it's bad either. I happen to like it, but I don't really care if you do. What I'm interested in is,

The symbolism.

I saw the movie when I was a kid, and it was pretty cool with the guns and John Woo magic, and then I went on with my life.

And then I got woken up from The Machine™
And then I watched the movie again.

What came through the second viewing was not an action movie, but a metaphor for the GASM's, and the good fight in general.

Redpill, Machine, all that and more. The movie is now not an action treat for me, but a symbolic piece, a representative of "real" life, more true to it than most viewers could ever dream.

Does anyone else see this?

I could be just insane. Well, I am insane.

But, are you insane with me?

SHUT THE FUCK UP!

[Pæs]

SHUT THE FUCK UP!

Vast improvement over the original.
I hear rumours that the rooster is looking to join BrokeNCYDE. Any truth to those?