What the frick was the point of these dudes? They get promoted heavily in the marketing for M Reloaded but then turn up for five minutes with like three lines of stilted dialogue, contribute nothing to the plot and then get blown up in some lameass explosion.
Is there some EU stuff about the previous Matrix versions? The paradise one and the hellish one... Maybe some comic or animated shit or some book
They're from the spooky matrix unironically
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyMUEy3GMvs
Alpha build of Island Boys
Those two have sex with each other
Yeah but they only penetrate each others shit holes with their dick shaped hair popsicles so it's not gay
both sets are israelite twins with dreadlocks
they are white supremacists, their death symbolizes the collapse of the western civilization
or the Lebowskis or whateverthenameis who directed this
If you want the answer in a lofty essay format: Notes on 'Camp' by Susan Sontag.
I don't know how to tl;dr this one otherwise. It's spectacle, by way of Aristotle's Poetics (still applies to film to this day).
As an analogy, some people have colour-blindness where they have difficulty distinguishing between adjacent colours. If you're not colour-blind, that 'absence' is your answer.
They are a metaphor for Larry Wachowski’s testicles
Everything to do with the Merovingian was horribly underutilized. His henchmen are supposed to be werewolves and vampires except all they have is super strength. Oh but there was that throwaway joke about the bullet being silver, but what's the point when you can just kill them with normal melee weapons?
Never even understood the Merovingian's purpose in that movie either
he machivaliened those quads into existence
Kane and Able were the only two who were werewolves. The twins were ghosts. The others were vampires and henchmen. The Matrix movie was explaining why we have all these myths and stories about them. The Oracle even says something along the lines of "every time you hear of Bigfoot or ufos...those are rogue programs doing what they are not supposed to be." I kind of accept Merv as Count Dracula even though the movie never says this.
But legends of werewolves and ghosts predate the machine war. If these are rogue programs why are they conveniently posing as already existing human myths? Doesn't seem very rebellious
They're not posing. That's what they were made as in the previous matrix. Then when it came time to be deleted, they fled and hid rather than submit. And they were able to find ways to sneak into the following matrix.
99% of people didn't understand this because the fricking actor had the thickest French accent in the world.
They should have just put up subtitles every time he spoke.
>Merv as Count Dracula
Shit, never made that connection
>let's shoehorn le spooky ghosts and vampires into a science fiction movie by making them into glitches
>fricking brilliant!
Ideally you could make the point across that you have these exiled programs with special powers that serve as the basis for mythological stories without going full fantasy in a sci-fi setting. Just the Merovingian's henchmen don't really do this enough and maybe the Twins actually do it too much by being spooky ghosts when they go incorporeal and also make better use of their powers outside of one action scene where it's actually detrimental because they go incorporeal to dodge attacks and fly out of the cars like idiots.
The lore building should have been matrix 2 and 3. Wtf were they thinking not utilizing it. Matrix 2 could have been the start to the machine war seen in Animatrix. Start from real world 1999 instead of Matrix 1 1999. AGI is eventually born. Humanity achieves machine singularity. It ends in all out war that leads into the events of Matrix 1. Matrix 3 could have been a survival story of the rogue programs through iterations of the matrix. Some how tie it into how Smith became a rogue himself.
Trans allegories. Of course they were violent mass shooters to really hammer it home
They were too cool
>We are being underutilized
>Yes we are
just "yes men" ideas agreed with by the morons surrounding two soon to be trannies
Action figures and video games. Same reason Jada Pinkett Smith’s character was so heavily promoted, even through she is a throwaway character
I fell for that fricking game meme. Horrible controls and horseshit "extra" scenes that didn't actually have any effect on my watching of the movies. Only good thing about it was the early realization that either you've got a good movie or you have some homosexualry that you need to sell.
Hey that's Mr. Getting and Mr. Aggravated
I watched them when they came out but I honestly cant remember anything concrete about the sequels. Like i know these guys were in 2 or 3 but i have no idea. I lile the first one and will never watch the sequels again.
they looked cool
Think of kung fu, ninja tales ,or anime shit. The protagonist will encounter enemies that have new, hard to counter techniques / abilities. That's what they were. The Matrix movies are many things, and one of those things is a kung fu / martial arts series.
btw, my friend (bio female) was super turned on by the twins. She went on about how they were so hot. Always thought that was odd.
Everything in the sequels can be explained with "because it's cool"
Who knows
>ywn live in the Monster Mash Matrix
>contribute nothing to the plot
dumb plotbabby. did you not pay attention? they were the primary antagonist in the freeway chase until the Agents showed up. we even get a cool bit of the Twins not exactly being on the same side as the Agents. what's important about that? well this goes on to showcase the very thing the Oracle spoke about like 20 minutes earlier, that the Matrix isn't exactly what we were taught by Morpheus in the first movie. it's a bit more complicated and nuanced than just machines/programs vs humans. there are programs that don't wish to obey (hell, we saw and heard that with Smith's monologue just before fighting Neo) and have some semblance of agency and will. this is heightened even further in Revolutions with Rama Kandra at the start of Matrix Revolutions where he speaks of experiencing 'human concepts and emotions' like love. machines/programs are in some sense becoming more human than machine.
literally watch more movies and think, frick