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Originally Posted by AcGold

the game was actually really fun, the animatrix had a lot of high points with much better writing. Don't know how you could like the 2 sequels though, just could not handle the story purely because they had such an interesting world to work with and turned it into seeing how convoluted they could make the characters.

That being said, can you tell us something interesting about the sequels? Why was Neo able to stop the machines?

I don't know if there is really one true answer to this question, and it's a part of the movies a lot of people took issue with. It's clear that Neo is an anomaly, a glitch of sorts in his own right...a glitch that the machines could not fully account for or correct. I was always satisfied in thinking he was a product of two worlds, granting him the ability to see code in and out of the Matrix and control something along the lines of an EMP pulse.

People always want an explanation, but remember how outraged fans were when the "Force" was essentially explained as an odd bacteria?

Was their world real?

I've never heard any theories on the real world being an illusion so I have no basis to answer this question.

What was with the sun at the end looking weird?

Can't say I ever noticed this or read anything on it, so again I have nothing to offer.

Was there any underlying ideas?

Apart from a plethora of religious and literary allusions, nope.

I didn't get how Neo was like Jesus but there were many predecessors, is there a point to that or were they just high when they wrote it?

That's an equation we filled in from cultural familiarity. The filmmakers helped it along, especially with the imagery of his death. Assuming Neo is a glitch, it is safe to assume that they reoccur. Knowing this the machines constructed a contingency plan (destroying Zion and presenting "the glitch/the one" with a choice), but had underestimated free will and emotion just enough that finally an incarnation defied logic.

Sticking with the Jesus analogy, how many saviors in how many different mystery religions existed before and after Christ? Without knowing for sure, I'm going to say a lot...although it only took one to change the world.

Also, the Zion battle is irreconcilably bad.

Not how I saw it, but I respect your taste/opinion.