The ideas

Just haven’t seen the sequel yet. Actually, I was rather put off the Matrix by a philosophy prof who went on and on about it; I didn’t think it particularly profound because it relied so heavily on age-old questions and ideas that we’re so familiar with even if they did place them in a slightly different context, and it was predictable. Personally I felt that the style overwhelmed the substance, and it lacked subtlety. But I still enjoyed it and will rent the sequel — I just wouldn’t consider it to be a philosophical masterpiece of cinema (unlike Zardoz 😉 :P), but as an action flick it was good!

BTW, if you haven’t seen it, you might quote enjoy Cronenberg’s VR flick [b]ExistenZ[/b] (I didn’t think it was very good though). But I do like films that question reality, like Cronenberg’s [b]Videodrome[/b] and lots of others.