Goddamn the Holiday season. I always watch too many movies, and it ruins my hard-won diet. Come January, I'm going to be buying one of those media exercise machines, like a TiVo or something. There's just so much stuff out there that I have to see, and for me personally, the Matrix series finale was one of these mandatory viewings. And now, after seeing it, all I can say is that if my bathroom wasn't being remodeled, I'd head in there and poo-poo this movie right out. A great big filmic Whatever.
Even more annoying, this movie didn't bother explaining away the big metaphysical can of worms the Brothers W had opened during the last film, i.e. Keanu's ability to blow up the robots with his mind. Of the two possibilities (1. Keanu is sound asleep in a meta-matrix, or 2. Keanu is somewhat robotic himself, a la the recent scientific telekinetic monkey robots discovery) the writers chose the non-existent third way, saying "Keanu can just explode robots with his mind, OK? Leave us alone."
But hey, water under the bridge. Want to hear something creepy? We both know that The Matrix series is premised on the idea that we all live in a virtually constructed world, right? Well, when I went to see Matrix: Reloaded for the first time opening weekend, I walked out of the theater and looked up at the night sky and was greeted with a lunar eclipse. For those of you that don't know that that means, it's when the Earth moves between the Sun and the Moon, and our Earthy shadow casts itself on the moon. Its cool.
Here's a picture, dumbass
In the middle ages no doubt the peasantry saw a lunar eclipse as a Holy-Shit! miracle, some sort of message from God himself, you know like in Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court? And, frankly we haven't changed that much. I still believe in all sorts of mumbo jumbo. Like, for example, when I'm walking out of the theater having just seen a movie about constructed reality, and I look up and see an eclipse, I start acting like Nostradamus. Post-movie I'm very suceptible.
But then, I went to see the last (thank God) Matrix movie, and I walked out of the theater and started driving home, and I looked up and Lo and Behold there was another lunar eclipse. What are the odds of that? How many lunar eclipses can there be? Likewise, how many Matrix movies? I think this definitely means something. For example, either 1) we all actually live in a CGI matrix-world, and this is a message from its creator tipping his hand, or 2) this is a message from God himself telling me to stop wasting my life watching asinine films.
