LuminousSpecter
Junior Member
Hey everyone,
Just thought I'd put in my two cents here. I'm kind of an expert on the Matrix films. I've run the world's foremost Matrix fan site for the better part of 13 years (with a few hickups including a total loss of forum data a year and a half ago). It's called MatrixFans.net
But that's neither here nor there.
When I saw the sequels for the first time, it was a week before they hit theaters, and therefore no press was out and everyone was still excited for the movies. The day that The Matrix Reloaded came out, my website was ranked around #5000 on Alexa.
My thoughts on the sequels have changed in the last few years. I used to think the sequels were perfect as they are, save for the stupid, pointless rave scene in The Matrix Reloaded. That was awful and can be skipped without missing anything.
Personally, I've come up with my own plot idea for the Matrix sequels that I feel would have done two things: 1) taken the Matrix to the next level. 2) satisfied most of the fans of the first one.
When the first one ends, Neo says he's going to show everyone a world without the artificial intelligence. That's precisely what I would have him do. I'd start out by having Neo fly around the Matrix, working with teams, freeing as many people as he can, with wild abandon. The Agents now fear Neo, so the Machines now try to upgrade the Agents. Sure, have Smith return and start replicating himself. That turns Smith into a virus, that is a threat to both the Machines and the Real World. As Smith takes over minds, the Machines should start unplugging people and losing power, causing whole sections of the Matrix to shut down.
I'd also have Neo go into the Matrix at some point with a need to sneak around, to rescue some members of one of the hovercrafts, after Smith has essentially found and copied himself onto every other potential mind they could have freed, and the Machines are still working to unplug all of the people. If Neo is seen, the Smiths would attack like bugs, so he's gotta be very careful. There would be scenes where he's sneaking around and just as a Smith is about to turn and see him, that one is unplugged, and vanishes.
At this point, there are three sides: The Machines, the Program Smith, and the Free Minds of Zion.
I'd also have the cliffhanger be that Neo did, in fact, have powers in the real world, like an EMP. He goes to Zero One, takes out their wall of defense, and fifty hovercrafts converge from below and above, all batteries firing on the machine city.
I'd also have Zion capable of hosting the thousands of folks that they were able to free from the Matrix before it collapsed under the weight of Agent Smith.
Personally, I think a victory for our heroes is far better than a truce between humans and machines. That was much more of a cop-out, like Abraham Lincoln saying: Let's have peace, if you want to have slaves, that's fine as long as you free a slave if they discover that they are enslaved.
Just thought I'd put in my two cents here. I'm kind of an expert on the Matrix films. I've run the world's foremost Matrix fan site for the better part of 13 years (with a few hickups including a total loss of forum data a year and a half ago). It's called MatrixFans.net
But that's neither here nor there.
When I saw the sequels for the first time, it was a week before they hit theaters, and therefore no press was out and everyone was still excited for the movies. The day that The Matrix Reloaded came out, my website was ranked around #5000 on Alexa.
My thoughts on the sequels have changed in the last few years. I used to think the sequels were perfect as they are, save for the stupid, pointless rave scene in The Matrix Reloaded. That was awful and can be skipped without missing anything.
Personally, I've come up with my own plot idea for the Matrix sequels that I feel would have done two things: 1) taken the Matrix to the next level. 2) satisfied most of the fans of the first one.
When the first one ends, Neo says he's going to show everyone a world without the artificial intelligence. That's precisely what I would have him do. I'd start out by having Neo fly around the Matrix, working with teams, freeing as many people as he can, with wild abandon. The Agents now fear Neo, so the Machines now try to upgrade the Agents. Sure, have Smith return and start replicating himself. That turns Smith into a virus, that is a threat to both the Machines and the Real World. As Smith takes over minds, the Machines should start unplugging people and losing power, causing whole sections of the Matrix to shut down.
I'd also have Neo go into the Matrix at some point with a need to sneak around, to rescue some members of one of the hovercrafts, after Smith has essentially found and copied himself onto every other potential mind they could have freed, and the Machines are still working to unplug all of the people. If Neo is seen, the Smiths would attack like bugs, so he's gotta be very careful. There would be scenes where he's sneaking around and just as a Smith is about to turn and see him, that one is unplugged, and vanishes.
At this point, there are three sides: The Machines, the Program Smith, and the Free Minds of Zion.
I'd also have the cliffhanger be that Neo did, in fact, have powers in the real world, like an EMP. He goes to Zero One, takes out their wall of defense, and fifty hovercrafts converge from below and above, all batteries firing on the machine city.
I'd also have Zion capable of hosting the thousands of folks that they were able to free from the Matrix before it collapsed under the weight of Agent Smith.
Personally, I think a victory for our heroes is far better than a truce between humans and machines. That was much more of a cop-out, like Abraham Lincoln saying: Let's have peace, if you want to have slaves, that's fine as long as you free a slave if they discover that they are enslaved.
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