Niall McKay:
“the philosophy and theology in the first movie that prompted books like The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real and Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix are replaced by a series of platitudes such as “believe,” it’s just about “choices” and “that’s karma,” baby.”
From Aristotle to Russell philosophers have always been good at asking questions but bad at explanations or conclusions. No surprise then that the conclusion of the Matrix trilogy wasn’t exactly profound.
The audience for the Matrix at the IMAX theatre in downtown San Francisco was more entertaining than the film. 1:30pm on the opening day and every seat taken by under employed engineers. The guy next to me was wearing a combat kilt and started talking about mac clusters and OS X. Apple seem to have taken their ubiquitous movie product placement to a new level, with avatars that sit next to you and pitch – classic.