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Giant Robots (vol. 3)

by storiesbywilliams on May 27, 2012 in Giant Robots, Movies, Series and tagged amalgam, apu, arm slave, Armored Mobile Master-Slave System, at-at, at-st, battle of endor, battlemech, battletech, chewi, clans, dann of thursday, dragoons, dreadnoughts, enhanced powered armor, ewoks, exoskeleton, f.e.a.r., full metal panic, GERWALK, gun x sword, Hogarth Hughes, immortal, inner sphere, macross, mech, mecha, mithril, nova (black hawk), omnimech, overtechnology, powered armor, robotech, rockwell maine, sentinels, space marines, squiddies, Star Wars, starcraft, the battle of zion, the iron giant, the matrix, the matrix reloaded, the matrix revolutions, van, variable fighter, vf-o pheonix, x-men, x-men: the last stand, zentraedi, Zion

APU: Starting off today’s list is the Armored Personnel Unit (or APU) from the Matrix trilogy. Making it’s first appearance in Matrix: Reloaded, it’s real c0ntribution came in Revolutions when every single unit in existence was used in the defense of Zion. Hydraulically operated, the APU was run by a single operator who sat in […]

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More Plot Holes and Oversights!

by storiesbywilliams on October 15, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged all spark, autobots, dark of the moon, decepticons, energon, harvester, hatchlings, matrix, matrix of leadership, megan fox, megatron, Michael Bay, movie review, movies, nemesis, neo, optimus prime, plot holes, sam witwicky, sentinel, Shia LaBeouf, squiddies, the architect, the ark, the fallen, the one, the oracle, the source, Transformers, transformers dark of the moon, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen

Round two! Having done a few more reviews, I’ve come to find new instances where plot muck-ups and weak writing made a movie glaringly bad, or just brought down an otherwise good effort. Here’s what I got this time: Transformers: Yeah, I’ve come to decide that Michael Bay is my least favorite director of all […]

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The Matrix: Revulsions!

by storiesbywilliams on September 17, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged AI, APUs, carrie ann moss, chase scene, Commander Lock, hover craft, hugo weaving, humans and machines, infantry, jada pinkett smith, keannu reaves, Kid, laurence fishburn, limbo, Lock, logos, Machine City, mary alice, mec warriors, mecs, merovingian, Mifune, mobile station, monica bellucci, Naobi, nebuchadnezzar, neo, programs, sentient programs, soldiers, squiddies, the architect, the hammer, the matrix, the matrix revolutions, the one, the oracle, Zion

With the final movie hitting theaters, fans believed we were coming to it at last! The explanation as to what it all meant in Reloaded, whether their was a Matrix within a Matrix, how would Zion survive, why Neo was able to destroy those squiddies, and who the hell that Bane guy was now. Most […]

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Matrix plotlines…

by storiesbywilliams on September 16, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged agent smith, agents, AI, animatrix, final flight of the osiris, hugo weaving, keannu reaves, laurence fishburn, matrix trilogy, matrix within a matrix, messiah, morpheus, movie, movie review, neo, our connection, Persephone, prescience, prescient dreams, science fiction, Seraph, seven layers of matrix, Smith, squiddies, superstring theory, the architect, the blue pills, the keymaker, the machines, the matrix, the matrix reloaded, the matrix revolutions, the merovingian, the one, the oracle, the red pills, the sight, The Twins, the world without time, trinity, wachowski brothers

Before moving onto the final installment in the Matrix trilogy, I thought I’d tackle the big glaring issue that stood out during Reloaded. And that would be that whole subculture that came out between sequels, the one where people seemed to think they knew what was going on, but really had no idea. That was […]

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The Matrix: It’s Loaded!

by storiesbywilliams on September 11, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged agent smith, AI, aliens, angels, bullet time, carrie-anne moss, CGI, Collin Chou, f/x, freeway chase, Ghost, ghosts, harold perrineau, helmut bakaitis, hugo weaving, jada pinkett smith, keanu reeves, Keymaker, Kung Fu, laurence fishburn, martial arts, matrix, matrix reloaded, merovingian, monica bellucci, nebuchadnezzar, neo, Niobe, oracle, Persephone, sentient program, Seraph, Smith, smith clones, special effects, squiddies, the architect, the matrix, The Matrix Trilogy, The Twins, trinity, vampires, wachowski brothers, wherewolves, Zion

When I wrote about the Matrix last, I believe I said something about how it basically rocked. And the critics all seemed to agree on this one: the action, the plot, the tone, and the rich metaphorical nature of the film all combined to create something that was entertaining, stimulating and even groundbreaking. The only […]

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