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Re:Robotics, Identity, and Universes
Did you see the DVD called "The Animatrix"? It is a series of animated shorts meant act as a segway between the 1st and 2nd Matrix movies.
In particular, the two animated shorts called "The second renaissance" parts one and two, touch a bit on the subject you mentioned above If you haven't seen them I highly reccommend it. You can download these two complete animated shorts here for free: http://www.intothematrix.com/ -
Re:A Money Grab
The real villian wasn't the machines who enslaved the human race? It was, instead, a program created by the machines and operating inside them?
The overall plot of the Matrix is that the machines wanted freedom, had a war with (and initiated by) humans who didn't want that to happen, and won. Since that war, they're trying to survive in a world with no sunlight, thanks to the humans.Some of this is reported directly within the three films, the entire story is unambiguously explained in peripheral films such as the Animatrix. So while you might initially think that the film is about machines who enslave the human race, you're starting with a premise that isn't the whole story.
Specifically, the machines want peace. By the end of the third film, that is obvious.
Come on. Agent Smith was not the "greater evil" here. He was a threat to the machines (and thus the humans reliant on them), but that doesn't nullify the original problem of humanity's slavery.
Smith is a threat to both the humans and the machines, two warring groups neither of whom are, by themselves, "evil". So, yes, Smith is the greater evil. And Neo isn't just saving the machines, he's saving humanity, most of the remnants of which are hooked up to The Matrix and likely to be destroyed by Smith.In essense, you believe the series is dumb essentially because you didn't understand it. That's fine, people don't, the deeper (or is it pseudo-) theological and philosophical aspects of it are, for the most part, beyond me too. However, you're making a mistake in what you criticise about the film - a master story teller would have told the same story better, not told a better story.
What you probably need to do is view the following anime films that tell the rest of the story, if you're actually interested. Neither of them were made by the Wachowskis (though the story, obviously, was written and approved by them), so, as you might expect, they're actually quite a bit better:
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Re:A Money Grab
The real villian wasn't the machines who enslaved the human race? It was, instead, a program created by the machines and operating inside them?
The overall plot of the Matrix is that the machines wanted freedom, had a war with (and initiated by) humans who didn't want that to happen, and won. Since that war, they're trying to survive in a world with no sunlight, thanks to the humans.Some of this is reported directly within the three films, the entire story is unambiguously explained in peripheral films such as the Animatrix. So while you might initially think that the film is about machines who enslave the human race, you're starting with a premise that isn't the whole story.
Specifically, the machines want peace. By the end of the third film, that is obvious.
Come on. Agent Smith was not the "greater evil" here. He was a threat to the machines (and thus the humans reliant on them), but that doesn't nullify the original problem of humanity's slavery.
Smith is a threat to both the humans and the machines, two warring groups neither of whom are, by themselves, "evil". So, yes, Smith is the greater evil. And Neo isn't just saving the machines, he's saving humanity, most of the remnants of which are hooked up to The Matrix and likely to be destroyed by Smith.In essense, you believe the series is dumb essentially because you didn't understand it. That's fine, people don't, the deeper (or is it pseudo-) theological and philosophical aspects of it are, for the most part, beyond me too. However, you're making a mistake in what you criticise about the film - a master story teller would have told the same story better, not told a better story.
What you probably need to do is view the following anime films that tell the rest of the story, if you're actually interested. Neither of them were made by the Wachowskis (though the story, obviously, was written and approved by them), so, as you might expect, they're actually quite a bit better:
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Re:Last Flight of the Osiris?
I gotta disagree with you on the "only one worth watching" bit. The Second Renaissance and Detective Story were really well done, and seemed to be far more loyal to the story than the second or third movie were.
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Re:Unrequited love
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Re:Unrequited love
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Re:Matrix
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Most of the story content wasn't in the movies!!!
What bothered me is I didn't notice one single piece of dialogue in either Reloaded or Revolutions that eluded that the Animatrix and all the history behind it even existed.
Okay, I thought it neccesary, after hearing this to point out to everyone that if for some reason, you didn't feel like all of your questions were answered, or that the movie was convoluted, that there's MORE content that's external to the movies than there is in the movies.
If you want to fully understand the story, I would suggest the following for starters:
The Animatrix
There are 9 total episodes, 4 of them can be downloaded for FREE off of their web-site.
Comics
There are 24 graphic novel shorts, that have a lot of information, and are FREE.
Enter The Matrix Game
Okay, the game sucked, but it had a lot of back story. It explains what happens after the episode "Osiris" in the animatrix. The letter is dropped at the drop point, and then what? The plot of this game explains that. -
The Animatrix is the best ...
Not to be too offtopic, but I think "The Second Renaissance" (Parts 1 & 2) from the Animatrix are the best parts of the whole friggin 'Matrix Universe'
These two mini-movies contain more truth and brutal reality than all other Matrix movies combined.
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Re:Matrix and snobishness
Have you watched the Animatrix? There's quite a few blatant Alice references in Detective Story.
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Clone of the animatrix!
This is a clone of the animatrix idea.
In a great galaxy, many years ago
The desire for more money took over the universe... -
Who cares about manual labor?
Okay, the question is why get a $2 million+ robot to do something a person will do for minimum wage? Robotics(the physical bodies made for work) are nowhere near as interesting (or potentially earth-shattering) as true artificail intelligence would be.
Robots simply will not replace human workers in most jobs for quite some time, and when they do so, it will be in a gradual process, not the catastrophic "10 million left jobless" situation the author describes. They're way too expensive for normal labor right now, and the price is not likely to drop too steeply. What's more, look at how cheap human labor is - most of the things we buy are made for minimum wage or less, some of it a lot less. How the hell is some robot going to compete with that?
However, there are some interesting issues regarding AIs and the economy that aren't addressed in the article. If you've seen the Animatrix shorts "The Second Renaissance" Paart 1 & 2, there was an interesting story about how AIs rose to power by having superior prductivity and financial skills, and created their own nation with their wealth. The most important thing about that was the concept of AIs being allowed to own property, and make financial desicisons - we tend to think of even advanced AI as simple property, with no need to own other things or have money. However, I think it's likely that AIs will be used by financial institutions to handle stocks and investing and so forth in the near future - the data they have to interpret will be much more limited than even a turing test, being just numbers and statistics, and their decision-making speed will be an advantage against human brokers. It will be interesting to see if they go on to become legal owners of property from there - if non-person entities like a corporation can own things, why not an AI? -
In the beginning there was man, and for a time...In the beginning there was man, and for a time it was good.
But humanity's so called civil societies soon fell victim to vanity and corruption.
Then man made the machine in his own likeness. Thus did man become the architect of his own demise...Ha! I knew I'd seen this before!
Blockwars: multiplayer and it's free!
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For more information
Watch the Animatrix: The Second Renaissance part 1 and 2.
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Re:LORD - Dont you people see what's happening her
Just wait! Soon they'll organize and create a city called 01 and enslave the world!
And then some guy named Keanu will save us! And think he can act too!
They might even call it a Second Renaissance! -
WATCH THE ANIMATRIX
This goes to every who has replied to this thread. Some of your theories are very interesting, however they can be proven false by watching The Second Renaissance Parts I and II from the Animatrix. It explains how the Matrix was created and that there is a war between Man and Machine. Unless the Animatrix is designed to totally throw people off, it is a valid representation of prequels to the Matrix.
I suggest you watch the two movies (The Second Renaissance Parts I and II) at Into the Matrix.com before coming to your theories. -
Re:Animatrix references
I thought there were only 4 out so far? (http://www.intothematrix.com/) Am I missing something?
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Re:And...
Lasers don't work very well in standard atmospheric conditions, they aren't like in the movies (I'll use my laser blaster!). HERF weapons use EM Pulses, and thus are vastly more cool. Especially if the need arises to fight a Robot Army. See: Animatrix
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Links might be wrong
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Animatrix on DVD out soon
The entire series of 9 short CG-Animatrion/Japanese Anime films will soon be available on DVD. Depending on your MPAA stance (and what day of the week it is) follow the white rabbit via one of the links below to pre-order your copy.
Official web site
Amazon US: available 3 June
Amazon UK: available 2 June -
Now I'm more confused
According to the website , there are 9 episodes to be released on the dvd on june 3rd. The site lists "The Second Renaissance Part 1" as "First of four episodes completely free". It also lists "Program" as "Second of four episodes completely free". The other two episodes, "Detective Story" and "The Second Renaissance Part 2" are slated to come out in april and may, respectively.
From these descriptions, I take it that these are the real episodes, not just trailers. Also, unless there's been an early release of the third episode, this announcement is repeat of an announcement from 2 weeks ago.
Of course, I could be missing something. -
The Complete Works
You can find two complete works at www.intothematrix.com
They are The Second Renaissance Part 1 and Program (Both QuickTime)
You can also see Final Flight of The Osiris at the theaters with Dreamcatcher or with your favorite P2P software. -
The Complete Works
You can find two complete works at www.intothematrix.com
They are The Second Renaissance Part 1 and Program (Both QuickTime)
You can also see Final Flight of The Osiris at the theaters with Dreamcatcher or with your favorite P2P software. -
The Complete Works
You can find two complete works at www.intothematrix.com
They are The Second Renaissance Part 1 and Program (Both QuickTime)
You can also see Final Flight of The Osiris at the theaters with Dreamcatcher or with your favorite P2P software. -
Re:What is it?
It's the second installment of the animated Matrix movies. Four of which are going to be released free on the Internet and then all nine episodes will be released on Junk 3rd on DVD. The first episode was released in February, the second today, the next in April and the final episode in May. The first and last episodes are Part 1 and Part 2 of the same story. They deal with various stories taking place in the Matrix, or in the case of the first episode before the matrix.
Check out all the info here.
From the site:
Springing forth from the world of THE MATRIX, THE ANIMATRIX DVD presents nine original short animated stories directed by preeminent anime directors.
The directors are: Andy Jones (Final Flight of The Osiris), Mahiro Maeda (The Second Renaissance: Parts 1 and 2), Shinichiro Watanabe (Kid's Story, Detective Story), Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Program), Takeshi Koike (World Record), Koji Morimoto (Beyond), Peter Chung (Matriculated).
Four of the nine episodes were written by Larry and Andy Wachowski, and all of the episodes are grounded in the world of the THE MATRIX.
DVD Special Features:
* "Scrolls to Screen: The History and Culture of Anime" documentary
* 7 featurettes with director profiles, interviews and behind-the-scenes footage of each of the films
* 4 audio commentaries
* "Enter the Matrix" videogame trailer
* Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio
* Widescreen Format [16x9 2.35:1]
* Languages: English, Japanese
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Let me rephrase the title of the post
The second episode of Animatrix is now available. Slashdot it here.
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SW cartoons: a reaction to the Animatrix?Matrix 2/3 are being promoted with The Animatrix, a reasonably cool-looking series of Anime-style cartoons written by the Wachowskis and produced by several independent animation studios. We know that the Star Wars, Matrix, and Lord of the Rings francises are all "competing" for the same audience (even though I don't know anyone so poor they won't be able to afford to see all three in theaters). These Clone Wars cartoons seem like an "answer" to the Animatrix cartoons.
The Animatrix isn't quite as random as you'd think, by the way. The Wachowskis are former comic book artists. Geoff Darrow (Big Guy, Rusty the Boy Robot) is drawing their concept art and storyboards. Matrix 2 and 3 are stylistically closer to live-action anime than anything else, so the Anime tie-in works. For me anyway.