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I don't think it's technically a plot hole but the line in the Matrix that people are an energy source always bothered me. It could have been fixed in later movies but they doubled down on the absurdity in The Animatrix.
I didn't look at it as so much of a plot hole, but the first clue that when you're in the "real world" you're not actually in reality but really still in the matrix (or perhaps another matrix that doesn't work quite the same). Same thing with the whole scorch the sky bit - doesn't make sense in reality but in a simulated reality you can change up the rules a bit. The second movie, to me, played into this further with a bunch more clues dropped about that what the characters considered reality wasn't actually real. The third movie, obviously, would deal with that.... but instead.... well I'm still not sure what the hell that movie was about.
Yeah that would have been a great way to fix their problems.
It was originally going to be that people were used for processing power, but a producer or exec didn't think people would understand so they asked for it to be changed.
Which is why it could have been fixed in the Animatrix or later movies after the Wakoski's no longer had to listen to execs.
"Humans are batteries."
Neo, "That's what they told you but this is the real truth."
Revealing layers of truth was a recurring motif in the movies so it would have fit perfectly. Instead of ignoring it or fixing it, The Animatrix expanded on the absurdity.
They certainly could have. They apparently said that they didn't really care about that plot point. If I remember correctly, it didn't matter to them why the machines did what they did. It was just there to get the story they wanted to tell started.
I agree it would have been better the other way. People as batteries is really dumb.
Aw, this would've set up our gen-AI present much more accurately.
Human bodies as datacenters? How long til Bezos, Gates, and Zuckerberg figure that one out?
21st century slavery in the making. Promises of fat contracts, lots of money to send back home to family, careers in the tech sector. All the while it's the dead being fed to the living to process data need for the rich to live in an immersive fantasy land.
not a movie, but "CAPRICA" uses a dead girls brain patterns as the basis for AI for the cylon race(outside of the final 5 and the humanoid cylons)
Also the product placement money.
You might be aware but apparently the original script was humans brains as processing power and like a neural network or something. If true would've been much better. They dumbed it down for being too complex, is the rumor. Sorry no source.
Spare human brain power is much better but still bad. The "we only use 10% of our brain" is a myth.
The human brain still has a lot of processing power and is remarkably efficient. No need for them to throw around the 10% BS.
The entire reasoning behind this change was that it would look cool to hold the battery in the explanation scene.
Look cool or did Duracell pay them big bucks?
I still don’t understand how new humans are born, if that was ever explained? Like we have sex in the matrix and that somehow makes them in the real world and then the machines take them out and place them in their own pods? And the pods grow with the human as they age?
Tubes. Lots of tubes. Plenty of kept animals are bred by artificial insemination.