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Matrix Geeks: Pseudo-Deep (Entertainment)

Whoa. People on Gothamist are wasting way too much brain power analyzing The Matrix Reloaded (131 comments). Enough already. It's a badly written movie, ok? Why try to explain every little incoherent detail like it were scripture?

Not that it's not worth seeing. It is. But all that quasi-religious, philosophical bullshit? Excuse me while I read Plato and go eat an ice cream cone instead. With a real Spoon.

There's No Exit from the Matrix (NY Times): "The genius of the P.R. strategy was its exploitation of the original film's geeky cult status as a thinking kid's kung fu extravaganza. The Matrix Reloaded would not be just another bloated Hollywood sequel but instead would have the philosophical heft to fuel a new generation of metaphysical Web sites. And so every puff piece about the film has emphasized that its creators, the siblings Andy and Larry Wachowski, do not give interviews — as if behaving like Thomas Pynchon would give their movie the gravitas of Gravity's Rainbow."

The first Matrix would be great as a short story. The second as a comic book. But to treat its intellectual depth with the reverence you'd treat something as meaty as The Lord of the Rings novels---that's hogwash.

By the way, The Matrix Reloaded is being pirated online (BBC), using the file-sharing program BitTorrent, which has a faster download algorithm.