I never understood the plot of the matrix. Why the fuck would you want to live outside of the virtual reality world? Just let the machines make the vr world awesome if you promise not to break out. The whole “the world was too good and the humans noticed so we had to make it shitty” plot point was stupid as fuck. If the world was too awesome you think I’d ever want to leave that world?
“let the machines” is the problem. They decide how it all works, and what it’s for. If there was an opt-in virtual world, with an independently certified logging out option, maybe manually checking in with everyone at regular intervals, then probably a whole lot of people would choose to be there.
Isn’t that how the matrix 3 ends?
I was super drunk when I watched it but I feel like that’s the compromise they reached
From what I remember it ends with Doogie Houser saying “lol jk go do whatever you want” and then fly away.
That’s Matrix 4. Just forget about that whole trainwreck ;)
Haha you’re right. Both of those movies are just so good I mixed them together
Isnt that’s the major question of the movie. Is it better to live a lie as a battery slave or free but miserable
That’s explored in the movie, no? That’s why Cypher betrays them to go back into the Matrix. Some people are fine and even prefer the Matrix, others can’t live that way knowing it’s all fake.
My biggest problem with The Matrix is where the machines are getting the food from to feed the humans. You need a continuous supply of food to support continuous energy conversion; that energy isn’t being created from nothing. Normally that comes from the sun photosynthesizing plants (which then works its way up the food chain), but with no sunlight then plants can’t grow. They say they feed the liquified remains of dead humans to the living ones, but even if digestion were 100% efficient (which it definitely isn’t), the amount of usable “food” would constantly decrease until there’s nothing left.
It originally used humans’ brains as “wetware,” or extra processing space. Imagine everyone’s playing an MMO, but the computers are all rendering their own copy of stuff so the server doesn’t have to do anything but handshakes and data transfer. The matrix is handled, in part, in our heads.
The test audiences got confused so the whole "lol, people are just batteries ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ " plot was put in place instead.
Oh my god this makes so much more sense
That movie had so many plot holes that it’s actually kind of difficult to watch as an adult.
I still enjoyed the first movie.
In 1999, it was suspicious how good things were.
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They probably had a lovely restaurant program too, like the Kung Fu ones.
Infinite steak
They already had advanced bionic plugs, why not put in a feeding tube and chow on goo while you chow on steaks?
Am I the only one that doesn’t need concrete logic to enjoy something?
iT hAs PlOtHoLeS
And?
Fucking and!?!?
Only when the plotholes make shit just not work, lile teleporting characters, or plot twists that involve the ol’ “you thought I died onscreen, but it was just a flesh wound that looked like impalement” do the plotholes really fuck things up.
This was addressed in the movie. Prominently. It was the whole 2nd half or final 3rd of the movie.
Also, they gave him the option to back out & just go back home to his Matrix-life. Also a pretty notable part of the movie. It’s even a meme!
