i think that the reason people were drawn to the matrix was because of the effects. but since then there have been plenty of movies with better effects, so when the second and third matrix came out, there was nothing special about it. get what i mean?
i remember the other big movie that came out the year of the matrix. the mummy.

"strange things happen all the time, and so it goes and so it goes. and the book says, 'we may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us'" - MAGNOLIA