This may sound dumb, but you would think that the machines would somehow learn to harvest the sun light above the clouds (as seen in Revolutions). I mean...if they could figure out how to turn humans into batteries, then getting sunlight out from behind the clouds shouldnt be to bad. But ah well.....matrix movies still rock the house!!!
Easy answer: megalomania. They're free-thinking, sentient 'life' forms. They wanted power over their previous masters. If you're being cruel and Pro-Humanity then compare the machines to Hitler, kind of. Hitler wanted to create a rulership of his own and to make Germany greater after its great descent during the Depression and pretty much after WWI. The Machines wanted revenge, no matter what it took, it was pretty much sparked off from the B166ER trial, the Million Machine March, etc. (watch SecRen I/II).
As for the whole solar power malarkey... that's a little strange. Again, I think it's all to do with them wanting power over the humans. They *could* use solar power, but a choice between power, and power + almost complete domination of your previous master-race, they chose the latter. Of course, they form another, more friendly coexistance at the end of the war when Neo fights for both sides against the Smith(s), who then take on the 'Nazi role'.
There we go. If that doesn't make much sense, I'm jetlagged. Go figure. Brain = *zzztfrrtping*
AI.
Wooooooow, this is soooooooooo far out!
Domination over our bodies is not enough, so the machine wanna to play with our minds as well? For the sake of, let me put it this way, "Sweet revenge of a bitter enemy"?
U know what? Funny that u mention it, hatre, hunger for power n etc etc......., r unique to human being, n if the machine bears this feelings, it's DOOMED to a total failure, just like us.
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Originally posted by FLIPMODEDid you notice when the logos went thru the clouds all the elitrical systems died and so did all the squids. In the animatrix dvd in the commentary section for the rennissance they say the clouds have "nano-bots" in them.
All the machines needed to do was construct a LOOOOOOONG pole, with a solar panel on it, and then raise the pole, and they would have had all the power they needed.