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Digital Dailies and the Matrix Sequels

Posted by michael on from the internet-time-replaces-bullet-time dept.

rkischuk writes: "IGN FilmForce has gathered several tidbits about the Matrix sequels. Among the most interesting of them is that the dailies from the shooting of the film in Australia will be transmitted electronically to the U.S. using TRW's Picture Pipeline."

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  1. Sequels... by Junta · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't see how the Matrix lends itself at all to a sequel. It was a pretty intriguing movie with some interesting questions. Can the sequels hope to acheive anything close to the same level of intrigue and interest with the closure of the first movie in mind, or will it simply be a cheap grab for more boxoffice bucks?

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    1. Re:Sequels... by actiondan · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I don't see how the Matrix lends itself at all to a sequel.

      There are some issues that a good Matrix sequel could explore. For instance, the question of whether freedom is worth the price of the tough life outside of the Matrix. If people knew what they were in for, would they agree to leave the matrix? If they would not agree, is it right to 'free' them by detroying the matrix? Are the freedom fighters actually working against peoples best interests without their consent?

      I think the issue of freedom Vs a (generally) better life inside the the matrix could give Matrix sequels some really interesting angles to look at. Maybe The One isn't the saviour of mankind after all...

    2. Re:Sequels... by JahToasted · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Well think about it for a second... Is the "real" world where humanity has to live in the sewers and the machines rule, or is that just another matrix to escape from. Are the machines using people for power? It seems to me to run a sophisticated AI which would be needed to create a matrix you would need a lot of processing power. People only use a small percentage of their brains... what if the machines weren't using our body heat to power them, but our brain power as CPU's. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of human brains if you will. Seems the fusion power is enough to give them the electricity they need, but the human brain is probably yhe most efficient processor they could find.

      Also the AI said that humans want life to be difficult. If they were smart, they would have a multi-layered matrix. If you find life too easy, you can figure out a way to get to the matrix which exists outside the matrix and be able to live in an even more miserable world. If that is the case maybe it's not even machines which control the matrices, maybe its something else.

      But then again, I'm probably overthinking this. They'll probably just make it like the first one but put in more explosions and more kung fu. Oh well.

      will it simply be a cheap grab for more boxoffice bucks?

      of course it will be... but will it be entertaining?

  2. Re:Impact of WTC attacks? by Crimplene+Prakman · · Score: 2, Interesting

    has anyone accounted for this consideration when discussing the upcoming Matrix sequels?

    The author to this obviously hasn't read the article.

    Yes, they have factored it in. According to the article, the artists and operatives have been in situ since pre-WTC, and due to the wonders of modern technology (using triple DES encryption and PGP, no less, allegedly enought to stump even Neo ;-) they can wire the day's production over at the end of each day, in a similar way to how George Lucas does it.


    Interesting to note that this technology also makes the world of music that much smaller - since the early days of ISDN mass-acceptance, musicians on both sides of the Atlantic/Pacific have worked together on recordings, simultaneously. The bandwidth of a single ISDN bearer channel exceeds the bandwidth necessary for a single CD-Quality channel.


    The matrix guys are likely using many many times that limited pipe, as the article says Hollywood can view their images in real time. Mmmm.


  3. Re:Australia? by JungleBoy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Australia has the largest sound stage in the world. The second largest one is in England, but the Australian one is cheaper to use. Lucas and company made comments about this while making The Phanton Menace. A Huge sound stage is obviously a requirement for doing some of the large scale CG scenes that are found in the matrix and TPM.

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  4. Humans as batteries by invid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I really enjoyed The Matrix but I was bothered by the "humans as batteries" concept. If I was a vast AI mind I would not want humans as batteries. For one thing, it wouldn't work. What I would use them for is as massive parallel processors to augment my own intelligence. After all, I have this seemless interface into their brains already. Imagine the computing power of 6 billion human beings plugged into my AI brain! Hahahahahahah! The POWER! The POWER! Hahahaha.

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  5. Same goes for Star Wars, right? by John+Harrison · · Score: 5, Interesting
    After Star Wars Luke had gained "superpowers" and destroyed the Death Star, freeing the galaxy from evil, right? So why bother with two sequels? (The prequel, btw, struck me as a money-grab.)

    The Matrix left more questions unanwered than Star Wars and really presented a much smaller victory if you think about it. So Neo can fly around in the Matrix now, big deal. Can he free humanity? Can he defeat the machines in the real world?

    I think the movie left plenty of interesting questions unanswered and there is still room for the sequels to ask more. Even if the new movies aren't as interesting as the first they will still have lots of sfx and kung-fu magic which will be more than enough to attract a large percentage of the /. crowd.

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  6. If I made the sequels . . . by TheHaas · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is what I think a logically progression of the Matrix movies would be:

    1. (the one we have all seen). Intro to the characters and a description of the problem.
    2. Most humans are still in the Matrix. Neo and the rest of Zion defeat the machines, not without signifigant losses.
    3. Most of humanity hates the Real World (and why wouldn't they?) and they want to go back into the Matrix. Now it's a war for humans vs humans.

    I always thought that this would make a more interesting story progression than just a continuation of the same thing. We know who Neo is, what he can do, so aren't the machines pretty much finished?

    All that aside, I'm still going to see the next two -- the first one was so highly creative, that, if nothing else, I want to know what the W Bros are going to come up with.