Blather, rinse, repeat

I think they did the best they could within the story to explain that (the change in the Oracle).
I didn't know that she'd passed away, and thought that was actually scripted, to say, what was it? Everything changes, and nothing is ever truly lost. One of the most memorable Sandman quotes.

Wise choice also having the last battle between Neo and Smith be one on one..
And oh did our Smith give the COOLEST reason for it, EVER.

The entire battle between Neo and Smith reminded me of Dragonball. Fly into the sky a good distance apart, panoramic zoom-out, intense close-up on each fighter, gathering of strength / chi / fireball fuel etc, then fly at each other and pummel pummel pummel!! It happened a lot faster than Dragonball usually does, though.

And when Smith took Neo down for the first time in that wet, plummeting embrace, that was pleasing on so many levels.
I have so been waiting for someone else to say that! XD

And the ending for Neo?
Neo's end was very, very satisfying. I saw it coming the minute he was blinded. I wonder if that was Bane's sole purpose in the movie, he didn't do anything else but that was pretty good.. it reinforced the idea of 'from here on there is no turning back even if we achieve what we set out to achieve'. I think he kind of knew there was no happy ending for him, even as he set out to make a happy ending for other people. They did a damn good job with it (I'm not clear how letting Smith assimilate him allowed Smith to die - did it allow the Machines to delete Smith, or was it being in Neo's body that destroyed Smith? but anyway..), and I REALLY like how he didn't use any special I-Am-The-One(TM) powers to defeat his enemy. He seemed to realise that he had to lose, just once and in his biggest battle ever and with the greatest personal cost to himself, in order to win the war.

Sillily, I loved the 'driving' comments made by the captain of the ship Naobi was piloting back to Zion: 'Shit, that woman can drive!' (which had me and flatmate #2 giggling and saying 'yeah, she got SPATIAL ABILITY*!) and by Naobi herself about the ship: 'Damn she's got a fat ass!' [*we have this argument that I can't parallel park because women have less spatial ability. it is true though that I can't parallel park.]

On a silly note, half the cinema giggled when Neo was blubbing, "No, Trinity, you can't die!" and she replied, "Yes, I can." I know she was dying and all, but the way she said it, it had this whole 'nyah!' vibe going.