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."

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Streaming Video + Slashdot

[saveth]

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. :)

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. :P

Re:Streaming Video + Slashdot

[stefanlasiewski]

I don't particularly like the fact that it features a song from the previous

This is very common, unfortunately. They probably because a) the soundtrack isn't done yet, or b) they want to keep the soundtrack a secret (since it's a part of the whole movie experience, and they don't want to take away too much of that experience with one ad).

The Attack of the Clones ad has music from Episode I. The most recent add for the Twin Towers (At the end of FotR) has the soundtrack from FotR.

And still, to this day, many action movie ads use the sound track from Aliens (during the part where the Terraforming Plant is exploding); and that song is nearly 16 years old!

Re:Streaming Video + Slashdot

[foobar104]

And still, to this day, many action movie ads use the sound track from Aliens (during the part where the Terraforming Plant is exploding); and that song is nearly 16 years old!

Ah, yes. The infamous "Bishop's Countdown." Not only has this snippet (about 1:20 into the track, if you care) been used in tons of movie trailers and commercials, but Horner has even plagarized it himself. You'll find it woven through several of his scores.

Of course, that's Horner for you. He writes some great ones-- the Star Trek II and III scores are great, and I've been listening to A Beautiful Mind a lot lately, but the degree to which he "borrows" from himself is pretty startling. Listen to "A Kaleidoscope of Mathematics" from A Beautiful Mind and "The Machine Age" from Bicentennial Man to hear what I'm talking about.

Download Trailer

[sameerd]

here.

Matrix multiplication

[techmuse]

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.

Re:Matrix multiplication

[Monkelectric]

might as well list as many as I can ... academic humor

Computer graphics -- Matrix, The Transformation ... Linear Algebra -- The Nth Matrix, Mechanical Engineering -- rxF - the moment of the matrix. The Matrix for Humanties majors -- what the fuck is a matrix? Physics -- Where the matrix represents a spherical cow of uniform density.

I really wanted to work pivot, eigenvaluse/vectors determinants, projections, method of least squres and vector space in, but its too late for that :D

Re:SVCD quicktime

[saveth]

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. :)

Download the trailer here

[gandalf23]

Here's the link to the trailer in 640x288
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wbonline/reloade d_teaser_1_640.mov

It's about 24 MB

480x224
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wbonline/reloade d_teaser_1_480.mov

and 320x144
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wbonline/reloade d_teaser_1_320.mov

-gandalf23

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Re:Are there two sequels?

[Tazzy531]

yup...but they filmed it at the same time. They are coming out within a couple months of each other...

low bandwidth version

[Pilferer]

For those of you with low bandwidth connections, here is the trailer, in ASCII:

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"THE MATRIX RELOADED"
2003

(and actually, that's pretty much all there is to the trailer)

Re:low bandwidth version

[Ryne]

Anakin guards Queen Amidala. That leads to discovering a covert cloning project. Anakin sees his mother die, blames himself, and goes a little evil because of it. Big jedi fight. Reveal corrupt ex-jedi in league with Sith. Yoda makes fearful prediction. Anakin get's the girl.

This is more story than a lot of movies has. E.g:
Some dudes go to the mountain to throw down the ring into the pit

Disclaimer: This was an attempt to be funny. I love Tolkien.

Gnu/Matrix

[mec]

Gnu/Matrix ... finally, a platform powerful enough for emacs!

Re:Gnu/Matrix

[Ivan Raikov]

Gnu/Matrix ...

Thanks, now I'll have nightmares of RMS dressed in leather and wearing sunglasses...

Re:Star Wars ~ The Matrix

[ender81b]

Very true. The matrix has huge plot holes throughout.. if the goddam AI's have 'some type of fusion' they would have utterly no NEED for the human's as 'batteries.' Fusion, even in the simple form we are devolping today, gives them all the power they could ever need. Since they are obviously a technically advanced race giant solar mirrors in orbit beaming power to the surface would work alss. The power used to keep the humans alive, and maintain the matrix, would exceed what the humans would generate (Young Lady, in this house we OBEY THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS!) It also never quite made sense to me why they even created "the matrix", simply putting russian sleep sets on the people (3 electrodes passing an electric current through your brain - puts you to sleep until it is shut off) would have worked.

The only thing I could think of, and maybe they will address it in these next 2 movies, is that the AI's still have some sort of vestigal programming to the sort of 'never harm humans' or like Asimov's 3 laws of robots and are literally unable to just swear off the human race. Or, they could feel some sort of obligation to their creators, and feel a need to 'take care of them.' Worse crimes in history have been justified by a need to 'protect the race.'

I still love the movie to death though... =)

Re:whatisthematrix?

[NDPTAL85]

Is it at all possible to simply enjoy a movie without over analyzing it like you're some sort of Harvard educated sociologist?

Car / overpass shots

[fahrvergnugen]

Many of the shots in the trailer are clearly identifiable as having been shot at the former airbase in Alameda, CA., an island off the coast of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. The view of San Francisco is breathtaking from the airbase end of the island.

• 
  The shots are:
  
• Trinity stopping the shot up car at the 47-48 second time marker
  
• flipping car at 51 seconds
  
• Morpheus with sword at 52-53 seconds
  
• jump stunt followed by rolling SUV at 55 seconds (quick flashes)
  
• Morpheus with gun and explosion at 56 seconds
  

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.

Re:Star Wars ~ The Matrix

[DarkZero]

The Matrix, much like Star Wars, is really a fantasy movie that's trying to tell a story that's almost wholly removed from science fiction (in the traditional "fiction with loads of science in it" sense). Trying to find scientific holes in the quick and easy explanations they give for complex technology is like complaining that lightsabers are "scientifically unsound" and that The Force "has no basis in reality". Star Wars is a story about Flash Gordon-esque fantastic adventures and The Matrix is a story about enslavement by a race completely removed from humans; neither is really about science, but both use science as a thin background for a story, much like fantasy novels use a twisted version of medieval Europe as their setting. Which, by the way, could also be called a historically ridiculous portrayal of medieval Europe.

The Matrix is one of the few films...

[Spytap]

...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.

Re:trailer question in general

[radish]

Assuming the videos are encoded with something "mpeg-like" then the static screens will use up virtually zero bandwidth. They compress by working out deltas from one frame to the next, static image == no differences == perfect compression.