Hollywood needs some new ideas

Originally posted by BackFire
Matrix sucks, it's a combination of 1984, terminator, romeo and juliet and the bible. The only unique thing it did was that bullet time, which the series is now relying on to keep the action sequences fresh.

Matrix was not unique people, just steals ideas from the bible

Actually, the idea of the 'dream world' and the 'real world,' and all that stuff that the title of the movie derives from is fairly innovative

Unless I'm wrong, in which case, go easy on me when you bash the previous post, I'm high on caffiene and not thinking straight

It also has a bit of 'alice in wonderland' type stuff.

Actually, the inspiration for the Matrix was an episode of a British TV series called Dr. Who. The episode title is "The Deadly Assassin" Check it out. It mentions The Matrix by name in addition to many other similarities including the Key Master.

I think the Biblical themes came later.

in the Matrix Neo is represented as the "savior" and in the bible Jesus is known as the savior. very similiar thats not the only similarity there are many other similarities

Matrix basically took a bunch of ideas from other movies and stories, and combined them.

matrix diddnt steal anything from anything. It was inspired by japanese comics. The relations the movie has to the Bible is simply to incoorperate style. NOTHING is original ANY and every movie can be related to some other story or some other movie. this is because Nothing is original. The 12 different ways of story telling have all been done and mixed and disected. Inspiration is quite different from stealing. Alot of what was put into the matrix was from story idea's that were secured in larry wachowski's high school notebook. Matrix is an authentic idea from inspiration. Most of what people claim the matrix to be related to is just sheer coincidence. The brothers said that the "what if the world wasnt as it seemed idea always captivated them. Andy was always big into japanese anime comics. They mixed the two. To give us the matrix. This is where they said the matrix came from. Alot of the characters were straight from larry's high school notebook aswell. Especially the idea for NEO. He shows his old sketches in cinescape and talks about it

Well then the movies shouldn't be hailed as original, since as you pointed out, nothing is original these days.

anyways, if this dicussion continues any longer, I might as well move it to the matrix forum 😛 I know I contributed to it going off topic, I aplogize, back to topic.

agreed.