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Influences and interpretations of The Matrix was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 10 October 2009 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into The Matrix (franchise). The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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"Beautiful Woman at Le Vrai" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Average rating

First the bigger point: in this encyclopedia article about a film franchise, what does the table in the Reception section tells us? It gives readers an overview of how critics judged the films, and a basic way to compare the films in the series in relation to each other.

An editor recently added the Rotten Tomatoes average rating to the table in the Reception section. This article has gone years without that information and it seems entirely unnecessary. I've seen a few other franchise article that do include the Rotten Tomatoes rating but it seems redundant and repetitive to me. It does not significantly enhance readers understanding, it adds nothing as it differs only slightly from the main percentage score. It seems like editors are adding the average rating not because it offers any insight or useful information to readers but merely because the extra detail is available and some other articles have done it before. -- 109.76.199.85 (talk) 14:58, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

We do include tables but this encyclopedia is supposed to be about meaningful WP:PROSE, adding even more numbers to the table does not seem helpful or informative and a move in the wrong direction. -- 109.76.199.85 (talk) 15:00, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Plot or not?

Is the "Setting" section of this article equivalent to a plot section or not? If it is (and IMNSHO it absolutely is) then the {{unreferenced}} tag should be removed, and maybe also it should be renamed "Plot" to make it obvious. -- 109.78.206.181 (talk) 06:30, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relations to "World on a Wire" and "Simulacron-3"

I was surprised not to find any references to the 1973 film "World on a Wire" in Wikipedia's article on the Matrix franchise.

Among other things, "World on a Wire" also contains a simulated reality of virtual humans. It also allows real humans to immerse themselves into that reality by wearing a special helmet etc. And: in order to get out of the simulated world, one has to reach a phone!

Am I the only one who finds strong similarities between these movies? If not, I feel these should be pointed out in Wikipedia's article on the Matrix franchise.

For reference, here is Wikipedia's article on "World on a Wire": [[1]]

"World on a Wire" itself is based on a novel: [[2]] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Petroskritikos (talk • contribs) 23:20, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

To compare the two without citing sources that have done so would be original research. I don't see any reference to the Matrix at the article you linked to (and I'm a bit confused as to why you didn't use a WP:BLUELINK. If you have sources that have made the comparison, then you're welcome to add the comparison yourself. DonIago (talk) 01:40, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]