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Matrix Reloaded Trailer Online
cheinonen writes "Trying to steal away the thunder from the opening of Star Wars, the trailer for The Matrix Reloaded is online now in Quicktime format. Must say I'm looking forward to this far more than I'm looking forward to Episode 3."
A site with streaming geek-type video getting Slashdotted and still being able to hold its own, as far as bandwidth is concerned, is rather impressive. In about ten minutes, I'm sure it won't be doing as well, though. :)
:P
Anyway, trailer is pretty neat. I don't particularly like the fact that it features a song from the previous The Matrix soundtrack, but the rest is good stuff.
Comparing it to the old The Matrix trailers, I'd have to say I'm not so thrilled with The Matrix: Reloaded. I may be jumping the gun when assuming things about it, but it looks like it's less "matrix theory" and more cultish action. I hope the movie doesn't turn out like that.
At any rate, I'll probably get suckered into standing in line for an hour, opening night, and loving the entire movie, so you'd probably be better off just ignoring me.
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I can't wait for Matrix III: The Matrix Diagonalized. ;)
No one can tell you what the matrix is, but a TI-86 can solve for it in seconds.
yeah right click on THIS and do a save as. thats the largest version they got, 24 megs. its kinda slow, says I have 1:20 left
check out the trailer in svcd formata r
http://www.jimmyhack.net/MATRIX_SVCD_JH.r
note: it's not linked on purpose... if anyone wants to mirror it, please do, i give the website 5 minutes before it's dead, and it's routers are dead, and everything else on that side of the planet is dead.
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Here is the way I usually use. In the quicktime settings, there is an option to cache all video files. When this is selected, open the movie and let it full load. Then, open your temporary internet folder and sort by date. Your file should be right on top.
I've mirrored it at http://helium.denterprises.org/~saveth/MATRIX_SVCD _JH.rar. I will take it down before I go to work in seven hours, so abuse it while you can. :)
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wbonline/reload
It's about 24 MB
480x224e d_teaser_1_480.mov
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wbonline/reload
and 320x144e d_teaser_1_320.mov
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wbonline/reload
-gandalf23
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Isn't that what all movies are about? I mean, suspension of disbelief?
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Sorry for being so completely out of it, but are "Reloaded" and "Revolution" two separate sequels?
Somehow, a space ended up in that URL. It's as follows.
V CD _JH.rar
/%7Esaveth/MATRIX_SVCD HTTP/1.0" 404 321 "-" "Wget/1.7"
:)
http://helium.denterprises.org/~saveth/MATRIX_S
The space works, too, actually, but I'm seeing things like the following in my logs.
xx.xx.xxx.xxx - - [16/May/2002:05:36:01 +0000] "GET
So, yeah. To everyone eating my bandwidth, you're welcome!
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A trailer that gives away neither plot nor ending, but still makes you want to see the movie.
Shouldn't this be how all trailers are made?
Sigh. Instead, I'm sure it's only the first one of many. By the time we're a week away from release we'll be able to reconstruct the entire movie by splicing and re-editing the trailers.
Considering Aaliyah died in a plane crash last year, it's unlikely she's going to appear in a movie that was shooting at the time.
And the brethren went away edified.
I have to say, I've enjoyed them all, but I think they're all overhyped.
Someone made the smart decision to show Keanu but not play his voice. One can only hope the movie follows a similar path.
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Don't forget. You should be able to see this teaser trailer when you see Star Wars: Attack of the Clones movie.
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Ah, so that's what's going on. Thanks. I was just following the dogma of the original poster of this thread, by not linking the link. :)
For those of you with low bandwidth connections, here is the trailer, in ASCII:
$ { } & 0
$ @ . . 0
% 1 / ; 1
^ ~ # " 0
@ @ ! . 1
! ( ] @ 0
"THE MATRIX RELOADED"
2003
(and actually, that's pretty much all there is to the trailer)
Neo didn't say a word.
In any case they seem to have fixed the graphic glitch that causes everything to be slightly green tinted from the last release of The Matrix OS.
Good! That just means there'll be one extra seat in the theatre for me. I loved the first one, and I'm sure I'll love the 2nd and 3rd.
Would be the perfect name for the Matrix Gamecube series of games.
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Every time I see Laurence Fishburn, I keep waiting for somebody to say "Candyman!"
Yes, I've seen the trilogy way too many times.
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I just got back from seeing Episode 2, and they didn't show the Matrix trailer here. It was at the Raleigh Grand Theater.
:)
Episode 2 was good.
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I said I could see how it wouldn't be appealing to some people, but that I personally am curious as to how it will work out.
And you had to pack it in rar?!
From all the formats, you had to choose the one that doesn't come with my RedHat distro...
GM must have struck a deal with the producers. The majority of the cars shown are GM, including the new CTS (silver one, gets blown up unfortunately... I coulda gone for one of those) and the cops are Chevrolet Impalas. I think the car flipping over onto the CTS is an Olds, not 100% sure though and I'm not sure about the overturned SVU (don't much care for SUVs...).
;) </mindless babble>
Sorry, this is what happens when you are a car guy.
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Gnu/Matrix ... finally, a platform powerful enough for emacs!
Is it at all possible to simply enjoy a movie without over analyzing it like you're some sort of Harvard educated sociologist?
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I just rebooted into Windows to watch the trailer and then just at the end when it was putting up 2003 it made a long beeeeep then crashed with a Program Exception. These trailers become more inventive all the time!
IMHO, some interesting info from netcraft.com:
/. frontpage, and it is still going after ~3hrs. Now that is reliability!
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The site progressive.stream.aol.com is running Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) mod_perl/ 1.21 ApacheJServ/1.1 on Solaris 8.
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It is streaming a 24MB videos while being linked on
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Must say I'm looking forward to this far more than I'm looking forward to Episode 3.
Obviously cheinonen hasn't seen Episode II yet. Go see it just for the Matrix trailer; you'll gladly stay for the movie.
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The shots are:
There's some large soundstages there, built from old airplane hangars, all owned by EON Productions, the Wachowski's company. During the Matrix 2 shoot they had the logo for Burlyman, the Matrix films' working title, emblazoned on them, and signs sprang up around town that simply said "BURLY" on them, followed by an arrow.
Near the hangar soundstages, a set was built on a vacant paved area next to the coast of the island. A mock freeway, sturdy enough to drive many cars on, pointed towards downtown San Francisco but ended hanging in space at an incline. (you can see the Bay Bridge in the background of some of the aforementioned shots) When standing on the freeway set, it would appear to lead straight into downtown San Francisco. To add the appearance of "realism," there was a highway sign proclaiming, "Palo Alto 7 miles." Palo Alto's about 30 miles from San Francisco. Whatever.
Anyway, the set was really amazing to see, and since it was right next to public property (the local skate park) you could walk out and take pictures of the set, and the various prop cars (including most of the ones in the trailer) parked in the lot around it. There were always a few guys out firing off cameras when I went by. The set was taken down very quickly, shortly after filming completed and all the "Burly" signs came down.
Also interesting to note is that some of the car chases were filmed in downtown Oakland and in the tunnel between Alameda & Oakland (causing a nasty traffic snarl one Saturday morning). The tunnel is notorious for being covered in grime, and is in fact so filthy that grafitti artists will come in with squeegies and start cleaning their tags into the walls. Even after the truck comes through and washes the walls off once every quarter, the tags are always just a little cleaner than the rest of the walls.
The most prolific of these taggers is apparently known as "wetso," and on Friday night before filming he had his name writ large toward one end of the (fairly recently cleaned) tunnel. I'm very curious to see if it survives into any of the final shots in the finished film. Go Wetso.
Even Jesus hates listening to Creed.
Looks to be watchable and entertaining.
I just wish trailers could have surround ^_^
There is a mirror available of the high-res video located below:
_ 64 0.mov
ftp://files.rand0m.org/videos/reloaded_teaser_1
After seeing Ep2 early this morning in the theatre (and being incredibly impressed for the most part - expectations far exceeded. Lucas may live another season!), I'm looking forward to Ep3 as I did Ep1 before I heard anything about it and saw the sucky trailers, etc. :)
As has already been said, The Matrix: Reloaded looks like it might just be another actionish movie w/o the philosophy that helped make The Matrix cool. In my mind, sure, the philosophy and weird scifi made The Matrix cool, but let's face it. It'd have been a pretty weak ending without the revolutionary action at the end. THAT is what made The Matrix totally haul ass. Now that everyone has seen The Matrix almost 100 times each, and there have been dozens of 'immitation' movies, employing the same stop action photography, the effect is somewhat passe, and not all that nifty. I suspect Reloaded will be nothing more than an additional chapter with more action and little real plot development. Like Star Wars Ep1 - 3, we already know basically what's going to happen. We don't need basic plot - we need indepth plot (which, I feel, Ep2 provided fairly well, overall), otherwise it'll be dull and not all that interesting.
I got enough purely action films from the 80's and early 90's, like Terminator. Give me a good solid plot, please, and make it stimulating.
But I s'pose that's asking too much. Episode 1, for instance, got cheers throughout. Episode 2 (being substantially longer - I clocked somewhere around 2 hours 15 minutes) didn't really get much enthusiasm in the theatre I went to at all. I don't understand people.
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...willing to push some boundaries.
It attacked Sci-Fi when Sci-Fi (with a few notable exceptions in Star Wars and Terminator) was not considered a viable genre.
It brought Hong Kong style action and anime inspired cinematography to the masses, when both were considered to be niche markets at best.
It pushed the limits of technology and special effects going so far as to invent proprietary techniques to better show off the ideas of the filmmakers (yes, Bullet time was invented for the Matrix and is a trademarked and patented technique. It was first seen in a Gap commercial as a sort of technology test to see how audiences would react, but was created entirely for and because of the Matrix).
It was willing to have a complex and highbrow storyline that was dark and brooding while still being fun and exciting.
It was also, and maybe most importantly, a test in trust from the studio to the filmmakers. They were given a lot of leeway in developing and making this movie. They were allowed to market it in the way they saw fit and rack up a huge expense bill to make sure that it was as good at they saw it in their heads. It led to other films being made under trust (decidedly rare in Hollywood), such as the filming of all three Lord of the Rings movies at once and letting Spiderman be directed by Sam Raimi of Evil Dead fame (kind of a contrast there) and played by Tobey McGuire who is more known as an arty actor than an audience drawing teen hunk.
Overall I trust these sequels because of how well The Matrix was done the first time around. I have confidence that it will be as esoteric and interesting as the first, while still kicking ass. I also appreciate them for the changes that the first brought about to the movie industry, and hope that these lead to more in the same direction. As a film major, I can only hope that there are more mass movies made to the same caliber as The Matrix, LOTR, and Spider-Man and hope to see these sequels as another catalyst for change. I also hope to be able to leave the theater with the same sense of awe and adrenaline that the first left me with.
Here's to hoping.
"Larry" Fishburne was Cowboy Curtis on Pee-Wee's Playhouse, the TV show on CBS that ran some 10 years ago. That was where I first saw him, so it always tripped me out to see him in serious roles.
Since this trailer was in front of the Star Wars AOTC movie I saw (in California) I'd guess that the web release merely coincides with the theatrical release of the trailer, which in turn is released to advertise with AOTC rather than steal any thunder.
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Well, I saw Ep2 and this trailer was there. The theatre I was in was DLP so this trailer was as well. The big fat Green preview aproved for all audience screens was flawless - ... however, that was about the only thing I noticed - and after talking to may people, the masses dont notice scratches
also, brand new projector and re-done sound system cut out in this trailer
I got the whole theater to laugh cause when it says 2003 I said "2k3? Thats when the sound will work" -- Yea, Im proud of myself
PS - Where is the official talk about SWEP2 thread? I saw the movie 4 hours ago and can't sleep right now so I wanna talk about this shit!
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I was thinking "The Matrix 3: ALT-SysRQ-b Rebooted" would work too.
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as more and more of us are laid off/out of work due to off shore development efforts, the /. browser numbers will then be a more accurate representation of what people "like to use".
then again, maybe we'll eventually find something else to do. or maybe mozilla/konqueror/opera really aren't our favorite browsers? (at least mozilla is available for those windows desktops)
OK, I understand that the trailers are made with a movie audience and TV commercials in mind, where you have X seconds to fill... BUT: /.er please explain to me why it seems that every 1 minute QT trailer on the net seems to have 10 seconds of title track at the front end and 15 seconds of static title crap at the back end? If you're pumping 24 megs of a 640x480 trailer over the net, wouldn't it be a commercially sound decision to chop 10 of those megs off and reduce the time it takes to d/l said trailer? Won't that mean more of them are distributed/seen? Maybe I just don't 'get it'.
Could some kind
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Hear hear! I've tried to convert, but my software just ain't happy. I'd even host a little. Just get me the MPEG.
funny munging
William Gibson's Neuromancer series (Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive) were AKAIK *the* stories that kicked off what we know as "Cyberpunk" or modern dark, high-tech, low-life science fiction. I personally have reread the books dozens of times andhave dearly wished that someone would make an excellent movie rendition of them, unlike the piss poor "Johnny Mnemonic" movie with a poor storyline and, ironically, Keanu Reeves doing his best to save the story from total loss.
I think that the makers of the matrix would have made an excellent rendition of Neuromancer and still could, and I wish that there would be massive support for this.
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Uhhhh that's in Episode 2 buddy...
Which BTW just happened to kick all breeds of ass...
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Of course the MPAA is good right now. This is Thursday! We'll hate the MPAA tomorrow.
Oh, that's it? I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
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Yes.
Reloaded summer 2003
Revolutions november 2003
And one of these days I'll have to finish reading the series! :)
Run, don't walk, to Amazon.com or meatspace store and get those books immediately. You won't regret it.
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http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue264/news.html
Matrix II Images Posted
Time magazine has posted the first images from The Matrix Reloaded, the much-anticipated sequel to The Matrix. The magazine also offered a few details about the first of two sequels and reported that a teaser trailer for Reloaded should hit the Web soon.
Among the spoilery details the magazine reported from the Sydney, Australia, set of Reloaded and the third film, The Matrix Revolutions: Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) will be able to replicate himself; Reloaded takes place in the world of the Matrix, while Revolutions is set in the real world; and viewers will visit the underground city of Zion. Larry and Andy Wachowski return to direct the two sequels. Reloaded comes out in May 2003; Revolutions in either August or November of next year.
Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do.
No one can be told what the matrix is.
You must download quicktime to see it.
come on, wake up. Science fiction, at least in it's cinematic form, has nothing at all to do with science. Never has, in all likelyhood, never will.
Name ONE sci-fi movie or tv show (other than B5) where space ships actually obeyed the BASIC laws of physics (with regard to acceleration, reaction thrusters, etc).
Even B5 ignores a lot of physics, like - the impossibility of gravity on some of the ships - attributing it to some alien technology, or centrifugal force caused by impossibly slow rotation.
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
Who thought it was original philosophy? Certainly not the producers--it's blatantly based on Eastern mystical themes. I can see Zen Buddhist and Hindu themes all through the movie... The World is Illusion. Far older than Orwell.
Is that a bad thing? No! It's certainly more interesting than the usual simplistic, one-dimensional themes and plots found in American action movies.
---dragoness
The Matrix has changed the way movies are made today.
Care to back that up? Oh that's right, you can't because it's bullshit!
Judging by the dearth of actual intelligent insight, I think most people posting here are actually DeVry-educated.
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Mark Hamill has a really wonderful career as a voice actor, actually.
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It isn't a "disturbing trend", at least not a new one. There's always been a subsection of science fiction that deals more with the fiction than with the science. It's existed at least as long as comic books and the adventures of Flash Gordon and his ilk. And personally, I don't have a problem with it. There's a place for both bullshit science fiction and science fiction, just like there's a place for both bullshit historical fiction (almost any fantasy novel) and historical fiction. Both can have very potent and interesting ideas.