Always find it kind of odd never hear about the matrix anymore as awesome as the first one is. I really think the sequels painted the series in a lot of people's eyes.
I've been meaning to rewatch it I haven't seen it since the early DVD days and I bought the Blu Ray last year
Meh. I don't think the sequels tarnished the original at all.
Just like "To Kill a Mockingbird". You gonna tell me you can't make a damn single decent piece of work since that?
Depends on your definition of decent. Matrix reloaded was good, V for Vendetta was good, and I personally liked Cloud Atlas. But lets go by your logic and apply it to the conspiracy that a woman wrote The Matrix, she hasn't written ANYTHING since
The matrix borrowed ideas from early sci-fi novels such as Simulacron-3 and some Phillip K dikk novels. No conspiracy needed.
Simulacron 3 is the story of a virtual city (total environment simulator) for marketing research, developed by a scientist to reduce the need for opinion polls. The computer-generated city simulation is so well-programmed, that, although the inhabitants have their own consciousness, they are unaware, except for one, that they are only electronic impulses in a computer.
The simulator’s lead scientist, Hannon Fuller, dies mysteriously, and a co-worker, Morton Lynch, vanishes. The protagonist, Douglas Hall, is with Lynch when he vanishes, and Hall subsequently struggles to suppress his inchoate madness. As time and events unwind, he progressively grasps that his own world is probably not “real” and might be only a computer-generated simulation.