EXO

I think it was Mobil Ave. or Street. Mobil is an anagram for Limbo. Neo was stuck between worlds.

Sorry Rob.. no advise... Looking at your avatar... just make sure you send us a pic of the next family portrait...

Finally I can put all my VHS tapes away! Original, SE, THX remastered... whew!!!

HA! Brian, you're actually rendering the cockpits??? And you told me that you were too lazy! Looks great! Now get working on the pilots!

As a left hander, I can tell you that I can adjust to anything that's meant for a rightie. After getting tired of replacing the mouse on the left side on my PC after my bros and sister borrow it, I'm now right handed with the PC. So on paper I draw with my left and on screen I draw with my right hand, unless I'm using a drawing pad, which I almost never do. Most scissors are made for right handed use, unless you go to Ned's store like Tom suggested. That's where I got my left handed pencil, my left handed baseball bat, a set of left handed keys for my car...

I believe the architect was trying to tll the truth as far as he knew. There was a skew in the scheme of things when Neo first killed Agent Smith. I believe his predecessors made it to the phone that day. But When Neo died and was reborn into the One, it was too much too soon. If he would have made that phone call, the struggle between Agent Smith would have been toned down to a lesser level. But as Neo got more powerful, so did Agent Smith, as it was his place to balance Neo out. As I said before, even the Meronvingian was surprised in how powerful Neo was. He thought those guys could stop him in that stairwell battle. The Oracle saw as far as she could, but I don't think she understood any of it. Like she said, she couldn't see passed the choice. YLM, I think the line was Everything that has a beginning, has an end...

In the previous instances of the Matrix, there were no multiple Agent Smiths. That was the thing that was different from before. In this instance Neo, as the anomaly was far more powerful. This was made evident when the Merovingian noticed that Neo coud stop bullets. "You have skills." The showdown between Agent Smith has also never happened before. The predecessors never got passed the Architect. When given the choice (curious that the Architect gave him a choice, seemed like that was the Oracle's job) predecessors always chose to go with the 7 men and 16 women route and rebuilt Zion. (I don't really understand that number, 23 is a prime number but if you ad Neo that's 24... but I like the odds, 2 girls for every boy... )

All the luck Sean... gonna buy you a beer next time you come down to L.A.!!!

That needs to be there. Those threads are repetitive. What happened. Why? HG's fault. No it wasn't. not enough money etc... Maybe the explanation can be integrated with the project's web pages, but for now let's just keep it up there... IMHO.

Wow... you were there? That's around the corner from me. I saw that MPC too. Shocking - too say the least. I guess Lil' Rob gave you the whole spiel about how Big Rob owns the place,,,

That's the Vermillion Squadron. Great Job!

I guess the fact that I didn't like the first Matrix, or thought it was the most original movie that everyone heralded it to be, allowed me to enjoy the pure fun aspect of last two installments as much as I did. I mean that both as far as story and effects wise. Bullet time was used in the GAP jump and Jive commercials long before it was coined "bullet time". The only difference was that they allowed a micro second of a delay between the shot of each camera. The story as we all know parallels many "virtual world" type movies/anime before it. The central hero vs. the machine that runs it all. As keith said Megazone. Tron. Maybe even that old CG show reboot. Despite looking cool, I was not all that impressed. The second installment was a lot better for me. If they were going to run me thru a typical story they better blow me away with some good visuals. Once I got beyond that fact I thoroughly enjoyed the characters and the events they were put thru. The same goes for Revolutions. If I took it seriously, these would be the questions I would be asking: All those trials and tribulations and they were back to square one? Morpheus's goal was to set the people free from the Matrix. All of them. I assume that the destruction of the Matrix was part of that goal. Did we get there? Nope. I can't believe his reaction at the end was that he was satisfied with what resulted. In the end all he got was Neo and Trinity, and everyone else he knew from the first film, killed. (Yes I believe he was dead as far as his body and mind was concerned.) Agent Smith was turned into the main bad guy? Yeah he was bad. He was deliciously bad... but they turned him into the common enemy? Cop out! That's were the W. Bros. comic book roots seep thru in the most obvious way. All crossovers begin with two forces fighting, then they find a more imminent danger to them both and resolve their differences in able to over come the "new" bad guy... lame. So they're going to release everyone that wants to leave the Matrix. So what? Are they going to handing out blue pills? (or was it red?) People don't want to leave the Matrix. I'm sure Zion isn't a 24 hour party place. You think that blonde in the restaurant would want to leave her virtual posh life to be relocated in the gutters? Yeah... all these humongous plot holes are apparent. If you stand in line with your money in hand and you still don't know what to expect then you deserve to be let down. There was already 2 movies before it, that was just like it! Don't bother. Other than that it was great "pass the popcorn" fun. As far as the "top machine" i don't think there was any. The face symbolized that the collective was part of the greater whole. There was a lot of that in the movie. Just like how the sentinels attacked in streams, almost never individually. You'd have to destroy the a great part of it to get a crippling effect.

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Steve... c'mon... you and I both know that there is an inherent need to make money in Hollywood.

ok... monica Bellucci was yummy...

I thought the coat room scene was cool because I suddenly got that "Hey... this is just like that last level I just went thru" feeling. Very video gamish... There were a lot of "in the computer" feeling in the movie. It seemed like if you were living in the Matrix and you paid attn. you would figure out that something was not right. Especially that scene where Neo was trying to run out of the subway tunnel... that was hilarious. Trust me this post was spoiler free, you have to see it to know what I'm talking about...

Don't worry... Frazetta's old. When he or Bashki kicks the bucket, there'll be plenty of people to exploit it. Maybe it'll be in a commemorative set with Fritz the Cat and Cool World.

Hehe... I'm with your aunt there...

NO it doesn't. It's all about personal tastes... I was going to do mine with the skeletal hands, but when I saw the new hands I figured I'd just wait for them. Why 4?

"What planet are you from where grown men play with children's toys?" WHY I OUGHTA!!!

Cool, can't wait to see it... what scale are you doing it in???

The movie rocked... can't believe people expect so much from a comic book movie. I feel bad for them. It was a lot of fun... And no, there wasn't any TO BE CONTINUED anywhere...

You're right it is nitpicking... um... this is MW right? But then again it's still nitpicking whether the heatshield is blue or white... all it comes down to is question asked, question answered...

Nice one Mechmaster.. now how about giving us one in 3D??? LOL...