Dumbest movie of all time

Rating: 1/10 (26 September 2006)

For all the people who gives this movie a 10, I notice they are usually *young* and living the poor attention span world of the video game. They have no clue about substance, and thus they worship "The Matrix." Unfortunately, substance is what the Matrix lacks. It is no secret why the box office has steadily began to fail since the invention of CGI. It has become too easy to do anything you want in Special Effects, thus *substance* is no longer as attractive. In movies such as Jaws, you could not do anything you wanted. The shark didn't work. They had to use orange barrels to show where the shark could be on the ocean. Thus *substance,* that is, the plot, had to take over where special effects could not take us.
Unfortunately, the reverse is true of the Matrix. Special effects can take us anywhere now, and unless there is a really good plot, like in the Lord of the Rings (because the plot had been written in a time when splashy special effects were nonexistent) special effects are not enough to hold a story together. Thus, this is why Peter Jackson's "King Kong" didn't hold together as well. Find another novel by another good author Peter. Novels have to have substance, and that is what any movie needs, regardless of the quality of special effects.
Another thing that bothered me about the Matrix was the contrived way in which it attempted to immerse us into a paranoid world. In just practical terms, it would take far more energy to run a complete virtual reality world, than *any engergy* that could be derived from a human body. Psst! Next time machines, just get a good waterfall and a hydrolic generator, or even just some wind turbines. Much more efficient, and the wind turbines won't revolt against you.
Seriously. How much "electricity" aka energy can you derive from a human body? I doubt very seriously the energy output vs. the energy needed to submerge all of your "prisoners" in a virtual reality world, would work. Let's face it, the "machines" would be left with a huge energy deficit.
So, I'm sorry, I could not get past that little nugget of factual error. The entire premise left me unable to suspend disbelief.
So sorry all those video game lovers who worship this movie. It isn't "War and Peace," it isn't "Lord of the Rings" and it isn't even "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (aka Blade Runner). It's just an excuse for guys dressed in black to do cool, splashy, special effects, based on a so ridiculously contrived plot, that obviously the plot wasn't what really mattered.
Tell me the movie is cool, fine. Tell me it's the basis for a philosophy course and I'll tell you, you need to find another college.