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Matrix Reloaded Filming Wants to Shut Sydney Down

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-for-a-couple-days-anyway dept.

ro_len writes "News.com.au is reporting the producers of the Matrix Realoaded are looking to shut down Sydney for the filming of the final scene which involves flying a helicopter across the city at less than 600 feet above ground. It is supposed to be the most complicated sequence ever filmed." Just plain nuts. Here is a previous story about the trailer, and another one announcing the film.

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  1. Film Industry is Nuts!!! by Coplan · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Abeit, I like a good action flick as good as the next guy. But shutting down a whole city? A pretty major one at that! If it were for scientific experimentation, then I could maybe be persuaded to support the concept. But for the sake of entertainment?

    How much money in the form of opportunity cost do you think the city might lose?

  2. Seems a bit OTT by sheriff_p · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Surely computer graphics these days are advanced enough to eradicate the need for real filming? Maybe this is all just a giant publicity stunt?

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    1. Re:Seems a bit OTT by dswensen · · Score: 3, Insightful

      If they use computer graphics instead of actually filming it, not only will people be completely unimpressed, but they will bitch about how fake the CGI looks, regardless of how fake it actually looks, and talk about how much better it would have been if it had been made with stop-motion by Ray Harryhausen himself.

      I think they're going for "actually filming it" as a more impressive effect than using CG.

  3. Shutdown for 2 days? by iceT · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They must just be talking about the flight path and some margin around it.....

    gee, I hope they talk to God and get a good weather day...

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  4. Re:Stupid if you ask me. by Hollinger · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Part of what makes CG look so, well, CG, is those unrealistic camera angles. There are some things that just don't work when you're point of view isn't governed by the laws of physics.

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  5. Re:This vsCGI by paradesign · · Score: 4, Insightful

    this is the stuff that cgi cannot replace, the realism just wouldnt be there, now the fight scene at the subwaystation, thats what cgi is for.

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  6. Re:Matrix Reloaded by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "I'd rather be Tom Cruise - he gets all the chicks."

    Be careful what you wish for. Tom Cruise is stupid enough to fall for Scientology.

  7. Re:This vsCGI by st0rmshad0w · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No this is the kind of stuff that MODEL MAKERS were supposed to replace. But then again they're a nearly extict breed these days due to over reliance on CG.

    I remember alot of great scenes that were done with model work. Including cockpit perspective fly-thrus.

  8. Don�t you think they know this? by Conrad_Bombora · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is the matrix remember?
    You know the movie that knocked Hollywood on it's ass with bitching CGI, not lame CGI like phantom menace.
    Why where the FX better in the Matrix then in Phantom Menace?
    Answerer, the filmmakers of the matrix realize that not every thing can be done with computers. Some shoots just look better when filmed with real sets not CGI blue/green screen sets.

  9. Furthermore... by Dephex+Twin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Isn't that what computers are for?

    Did the Star Wars crew not create entire cities?

    mark

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  10. Re:What I did for summer vacation by GlenRaphael · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Isn't that what movie sets are for? Can't they rebuild a replica of the city they want on some backlot?

    That's certainly what they did when they needed a freeeway. Whole cities are probably harder to build cheaply.

    (By the way, who the heck is this? She's cute.)

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