Quote (Bazi @ Dec 29 2021 03:49am)
Can someone explain to a dummy like me how and why smith is alive in this movie
-what purpose did he have to be kept alive given the virus almost single handedly destroyed the previous matrix
-HOW was he alive, I thought neo canceled him out at the end of revolutions, and the machines went out of their way to bring neo back so…
Sure man, I would be happy to!
The studio REALLY wanted to do a new Matrix movie for reasons *cough* $$$$$ *cough*, but since the main protagonist and antagonist were dead, the story was finished and NO ONE was asking for this, their only hope was to cater to people's sense of nostalgia. While they could have tried to do something original, like the aforementioned machine war in the video I posted, they decided to repackage the 1st Matrix film in a much uglier box. A big part of the first film (all the films) was Smith, so they knew he HAD to come back. Did that matter if it detracted from the terrible story they were trying to tell? Nope, not one bit, because NOSTAGLIA BABY!!!!
So, there you go. He was brought back because it's a shameless cash grab playing on people's nostalgia, which is why half the fucking movie was literally clips of the other fucking movies.