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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. :)
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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
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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Sorry for being so completely out of it, but are "Reloaded" and "Revolution" two separate sequels?
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.
I have to say, I've enjoyed them all, but I think they're all overhyped.
For those of you with low bandwidth connections, here is the trailer, in ASCII:
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"THE MATRIX RELOADED"
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(and actually, that's pretty much all there is to the trailer)
Gnu/Matrix ... finally, a platform powerful enough for emacs!
I don't know about that, but "Larry" Fishburne was in one of the best B-movies to ever come out of the 1980s. "Band of the Hand," brought to you by the people who made Miami vice, features a group of juvenille delinquents who are put through an experimental youth survival program in the Florida Everglades by a tough but caring ex-marine. When they move to a halfway house in Miami, "Larry" plays a pimp/dealer who resents them cleaning up the neighborhood. So the ex-marine trains the ex-delinquents in automatic weapons and paramilitary tactics and they clean up the streets. Fantastic stuff.
It's weird, you watch it, and you keep thinking "I should be unhappier with this film, but it's strangely satisfying!"
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All of the featured cars are GM. But there are also a lot of background cars that are pretty much whatever the people who worked as extras felt like bringing. (Me, I brought a silver civic, and I think you can actually see a tiny bit of my car at a long distance during one scene of the trailer.)
The boneyard was something to see -- they destroyed at least 40 cars making the film. They had two or three copies of every "significant" car so that if one got messed up they could just tow it away and do another take with the next one. They had about seven of the silver CTS, all with the same carefully duplicated bullet holes in each.
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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!
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.
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.
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'.
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Oh, that's it? I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
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