the internet. a computer generated fake reality where even faker people live the fakest lives. inhabitants rarely exercise and although are extroverts 'online' are usually antisocial and have few friends in the real world. they live in blogs instead of blocks, watch youtube instead of real television, have twitter followers instead of friends, hang out on facebook instead of sports bars, make phone calls with skype instead of vodafone and em, change how they look with photoshop instead of plastic surgery and steal music and movies instead of money...smh

The Matrix, Reloaded, and Revolutions are fantastic movies, but not for everyone. If you hate them, then you don't understand them.
You idiot.

A computer program that makes you believe that your in your own world, in reality the real world is controlled by AI Agents, and they use human beings as an energy source, because our bodies produce shitloads of energy

a movie about a nerdy guy who takes a shit load of acid. think about it, a black man he has never met gives him a pill (granted acid is given in tabs, but ladies and gentlemen, you must understand, the nerdy man took a ridiculous amount of acid, ergo the large pill) which he says will open his mind, then we see that subsequently to taking this pill, the aforementioned nerdy man gains powers such as flying and stopping bullets. oh, and also he doesn't know what year it is and is fighting robots. well isn't that just a dandy acid trip.

A really awesome movie

The Matrix was the brilliant construction and engineering feat of the unified race of machines that solved man's infinite hunger for the Earth's finite resources. Rather than occupying real space on the Earth's surface; burning real fossil fuels exumed from within the Earth's crust; decimating real rain forests that once populated nearly all of the land mass of the planet, man has been reborn in a simulation. On a side note: the human body is not really the most efficient / abundant dynamo available to the machine race for transforming biochemical energy into heat and electricity, but this is what the machines would like us to believe, in order to maintain man's perception of the machine race as one of "pure horrifying precision," against which (and this is the key) a war is completely futile. The sooner you accept your new reality, the happier you will become.

For about 90% of internet-users the matrix is defined in Winuser.h

For about 9% of the very same population, the matrix is reality.

For the rest of that population, the matrix is a two-dimensional array.

Outside that population it's a Scifi/fantasy movie.