More's the pity.

People that treat films like The Matrix as a sort of populist religion - 'Hey man, you reckon the world's really been taken over by robots? Whoa!' - tend to piss me off. Similarly, I noted a short-lived spate of occurrences stemming from the release of Fight Club a few years ago, before everyone came slinking back to their khakis and lattes.

I can't think of anything more stupid than a bunch of blokes sitting round and debating whether a representation of a spoon (itself created by the filmmakers) exists or not.

Still, I hope the Wachowskis find the right balance for the sequels. The franchise has a definite potential to reinvent certain conventions for the 'thoughtful' action movie in a way that the recent influx of comic book adaptations does not.

Cheers.