Which pill would you have taken?

[Baggy]

..in the Matrix? The one which showed you reality, warts and all, or the one that made the Matrix realer than real?

It feels somehow related to the atheist's situation..

Oh - and why!?

[LARA]

I would've taken both pills, just to see what would happen.

[Tank]

I'd do the reality pill because I'm incorrigibly curious.

[Whitney]

I don't think I'd take a pill offered to me by a stranger.

[Asmodean]

I'm already on meds, so I wouldn't take any pill for fear of CDI  

[McQ]

I don't know. But I do want my money back, along with the seven or so hours of my life I spent watching those movies.
No, I take that back. I enjoyed the Bullet Time effect the first time I saw it.

Edit: Must add that I was talked into watching the second and third by four sons who liked the movies.

[Dretlin]

I would have watched a better film.

[Baggy]

I don't know. But I do want my money back, along with the seven or so hours of my life I spent watching those movies.
No, I take that back. I enjoyed the Bullet Time effect the first time I saw it.

I thought the first film was great. It used up all the ideas though and the rest were pretty weak in my view. As to the OP, to me there is a bit of a metaphor between accepting the cosy but illusory comfort of religion, compared to an open, if at times harsh godless  universe.

[Tank]

I particularly liked the scene when the dock is broken into.

[McQ]

Changed my mind. I'd take the one that showed reality, warts and all. And now that some other folks have pointed out parts of the first movie, I have to say I did enjoy that one.

However, Peter Jackson (I know, nothing to do with The Matrix) MUST be slapped for that friggin' LOTR crap!

[Baggy]

Changed my mind. I'd take the one that showed reality, warts and all. And now that some other folks have pointed out parts of the first movie, I have to say I did enjoy that one.

However, Peter Jackson (I know, nothing to do with The Matrix) MUST be slapped for that friggin' LOTR crap!

The Woo was strong in this one. Oh yes.

[terranus]

Pills are bad for you.

Now, if they would have offered me a blue joint or a red joint to smoke...hmm...i'd probably combine 'em and smoke that Purp  

[Asmodean]

However, Peter Jackson (I know, nothing to do with The Matrix) MUST be slapped for that friggin' LOTR crap!

...And whoever cast that Wood-guy as Frodo must be slapped even harder  

[theclassicist]

Quite right about LOTR.  Whoever thought hobbits being all misty-eyed would make good entertainment anyway?
Oh, and i do think that the motorbike chase scene in Matrix 2 is one of the great underrated scenes in movie history toon BUT what i really want to say is that no-one ever notices that in Matrix 1 Keanu is clearly dealing in vitrual narcotics of some kind and is hanging out with people who do a lot of mascaline...see where im going with this? After going out clubbing with these guys he meets Morpheus (god of sleep) and is offerred more drugs, with a little référence to Louis (Lewis?) Carrol.  Ergo, he should have quit while he was ahead, Neo's experience of 'awakening' never actually happened, and I spend far too much time thinking about this stuff...
For my next trick, i shall explain Inception...

[theclassicist]

Jeez, ive just read my last post and i sound pretentious as feck.  Sorry.   Maybe I would take the pill that let you see reality.  But just a half if ive got work in the morning.