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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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  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: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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  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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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