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In-Depth Look At Matrix Previews
QuietKarma writes "Consider this the first of next year's ads for Matrixx Reloaded and Matrixx Revolutions releases. Here's some semi-official poop from MSNBC with some spoilers. Or you can do what I did and read about halfway through without learning how Reloaded will end. Either that or wait until Harry at Ain't It Cool News comes out with his list of spoilers."
Can the makers of these new Matrices make the next movies any better than the current Matrix (which I found great).
Or will it be new soup from old cabbage?
The movie is so hotly anticipated that they've added another 'x' to each title...
Either that or both feature a lot of pole dancing in Zion...
--The space between my ears was intentionally left blank--
unless the extra x is for extra Matrix.
Previews 6 months before the movie, geez.
Overhype maybe?
I think what is the worst is that they are releasing two sequels the same year. Whatever happened to waiting, speculation, and hype?
How interested in the movie can you really be if you can't spell its name?
I hope that in a few years when WB sells a boxed set of all the Matrix movies, they include The Animatrix along with it. Animatrix looks to be the most unique title in the series, and probably the most eclectic mix of cartoons ever made.
Am I missing something or did the submitter of a story about the Matrix sequels really misspell "Matrix" twice?
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
He must be confusing it with the porn movie with a similar name..."Matrixxx"...
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true." - Homer Simpson
Me? I'm waiting for the official poop, none of this half-rate feces will do.
"I only speak the truth"
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So the Matrix will be Reloaded, then overthrown in a Revolution.
Meanwhile, LOTR will continue to the overthrow of Mordor and the restoration of Gondor.
The war between Mutants and non-Mutants will begin in X-Men 2.
Anakin must become Darth Vader in Episode 3.
Harry Potter will get another installment in there somewhere.
Mad Max will ride again.
James Bond...
And Oh, yeah, did you hear that Dumb and Dumber is getting a prequel?
I myself LOVE sequels, if they don't suck. I just hope that they put all of the Matrix Movies and all of the LOTR movies in the IMAX theater after it's all said and done so that the die-hards can see the films the way they were meant to be seen.
I just don't understand how there will be more of a story out of "matrix". Neo is a god of his world.. he is the "one" how can there be anything else to extrapolate from this story. Unless maybe the movie didn't tell us everything the first time, or things were left out intentionally to make profit on these additional matrices. Movie producers wouldn't do that... would they?
- what is the definition of simultanagnosia?! I've been meaning to look it up!
From the column of Mark Millar, comic book writer:
"A baby-sitter two nights in a row is close to impossible in our family so I stuck on my old copy of The Matrix as a poor sub for a night out. It was the first time Gill had ever seen it and she actually managed to ruin it for me completely by pointing out a major plot hurdle the next two films really better explain. We're all living in The Matrix, right? We're all slaves to the robotic parasites who use our bodies as batteries while they distract us with our nice, glamorous lives in what we perceive to be the real world, right? Neo is The One who's going to free us from these evil robot masters and help us all wake up and reclaim our planet, right? So far, so good, but the world we reclaim is a post-nuclear nightmare, brother! No sun, no fun, no food, no nice clothes, no new comics every Wednesday or Thursday. Imagine everything and everyone you know suddenly switching off as you open your eyes in your little special effects pod and Lawrence bloody Fishburne is standing there with a nuclear winter blowing behind him, telling us he's saved humanity.
Thanks a lot, Morpheus, you big, fucking twat."
dispite the recent 'jackass' stunts done on tv, a teenager will try to jump into another person, or jump off a cliff, or get into a telephone booth while getting a dump truck to smash into them... and then joe lieberman will want these movies controlled :)
Runnin' On Empty
Sheesh, i only read the first paragraph or so in fear of ruining the entire movie for me! Of course i'll probably end up getting it in DivX format a few weeks before it comes out, especially when they have previews this far before the release date (I did with the matrix 1 anyway). Anyhow, i'm sure it will be a great movie.... but like all great movies, there are always someone who's going to say it sucked for some reason or another.
I'm not drunk, I'm just in touch with pi.
Why else would they kill off everyone except for the primary characters? (Morpheus, Neo, Trinity, and Tank iirc)
"It's a very tangled subsystem." --Windows kernel guru
"I've heard the 'Star Wars' people boast about shooting frames that are 97 percent digital, and lo and behold, the movies are soulless"
BLASPHEMY!
You're not kidding about the spoilers, it almost gives away the entire end climax for "The Matrix Reloaded". I only skimmed the article but it seems like a quite informative read given that I knew very little about parts 2 and 3 prior. It is also interesting to note the following:-
Silver is promising a climactic battle like we've never seen before: a 17-minute sequence that alone cost about two thirds of the budget of the first "Matrix." (That film, in case you're wondering, cost $65 million.)
Given the recent discussions about the climatic battle in The Towers, and the Clone Wars in Episode which I found impressive, it seems to be the selling point of these movies and is making bigger and badder battles.
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i was hoping LOTR: Two Towers would be awesome, but i was very disappointed with it. first off, it seems jackson got carried away with himself and thought he could tell a better story than tolkien. but the story in the movie sucked. and then they went and made half of the lines and events in the movie the usual hollywood cliches. bad form.
anyways, i hope matrix maintains the great story and understates any hollywood influence. but with 300 million on the line, it is hard to maintain much hope....
smd4985
You mean we don't win in the end? Come on, we're going to see the Wizard of Oz at the end right? And realize he's just a man behind a green curtain. Oh, I'm gonna wish for a new brain.... :)
"This isn't a study in computer science, its a study in human behavior"
Since in the sequels he'll be required to act more than dumbfounded, I'm not confident that he will be able to pull it off. Maybe that's why they're releasing bang-bang, one right after the other.
BTW, I have the same thoughts about casting in the Terminator, Arnold didn't have to act either. A perfect role.
I for one am really looking forward to seeing how the series ends. The first was a great movie. Usually sequels are not that great, but then again, this is not a sequel.
Xylaphone.
Xenomorph.
Xantac.
Or not.
Matrixx, with 2 x's, is a comic book, same publisher as Spawn I believe....
Boy did we get set up. I still cant believe NEO turns out to be a matrix AGENT. I guess the original had too much of a fairy tale ending given its otherwise hardcore attitude. But it sure fooled me. Now I'll have to wait for the third one when I'm betting it turns out its his woman who is really the ONE.
Reloaded and Revolutions are sequels to Matrix 1.
The next 2 that come out will be the prequels.
So, the lineup looks like:
Prequel 1
Prequel 2
The Matrix
Matrix Reloaded
Matris Revolutions
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Morpheus did not die, and Neo did not defeat the Matrix, just Agent Smith, who by the way will be back as Agent Smith 2.0
Umm.. no one has ever mentioned anything about matrix prequels. The matrix has only been talked about a trilogy.
So, the article says that they capture the keymaker who has all the keys to the doors in the matrix.
I hope that this movie is a little more than Neo and Trinity slapping the keymaker around in a room on the Nebuchadnezzar, yelling "sign my certificate! SIGN MY CERTIFICATE! SIGN IT NOW!"
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
dxm...dxxm
1. Morpheus didn't die.
2. Neo didn't "beat" the Matrix.
I'm really not looking forward to a sequel. The original was well done and a good movie. The sequels will be nothing but overtold action flicks. However, the justification can be made, without plot holes, for sequels, I just don't feel that they SHOULD be made.
I'm the big fish in the big pond bitch.
"The Matrix" borrowed heavily from several sources, mostly comic books, Japanese anime and Asian kung fu movies (graphic). "But I think people misunderstand art when they say things like that," says Pope. "Once you filter an influence through yourself, it's not the same thing anymore--if you really filter it. There's a film vocabulary out there, and it's for everybody to use."
This is exactly why copyright should fall in the public domain after a short time.
Burn Hollywood Burn
Actually morpheus did not die. He almost did. At the end Neo became the one or whatever. I believe he killed one of the Agents? Or did something to make the others run after jumping in side of him. Also acording to what I heard in the past I believe the agents will be able to spawn multiple processes of themselves. So I guess the they are Agent 2.0.
Plus the machines still rule the real world. So even if the Matrix were destroyed there's still more movie to go around.
Understanding is a three-edged sword. -- Kosh Naranek
That requires following the actual plot.
This has NOTHING to do with hollywood trying to squeeze more money. The Wachowski brothers originally conceived the matrix as a trilogy! If you had a read the article you would see where it was even stipulated before the first movie was made. There were manuscripts for 2 and 3 and talk of making them before the Matrix even went big. This is not a secret. Some people just run out of things to say I guess..
Morpheus never died in the first one and the Matrix was never "beaten" in the first one. Neo just became self aware and was able to break the rules of the Matrix. The matrix itself was alive and kicking though for 4 billion or so people still plugged in.
Of course, I'm only going off of what was in the original release, maybe they left some scenes off and included them in the $79.99 limited special collectors edition that I didn't see.
You are a moron. Go watch the first movie again. Morpheus did not die. Neo didn't beat the matrix. The only hole you have to look past is the one your brain fell through.
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Whaaa?
Near the end of the MSNBC article :"Once we have the master performance captured," Gaeta explains, "we can actually use it to create an event, like a martial-arts fight. But it could be anything."
Wow, I hope that Reeves, Moss, Fishburn, Weaving and the others read their contracts VERY carefully. If they didn't, their next movies will be shot without them. A weird idea : movie stars replaced by their own virtual persona...
It would be nice to be sure of anything the way some people are of everything.
for me to poop on.
*Bows*---"Thanks Ill be Here All Week, Try the Chicken its superb"
You will find that most people agree the second LoTR was better than the first. And the first was outstanding. IMDB agrees. Currently LoTR 2 is rated at 9.2, the highest ever on IMDB. Next time the update their top 250 list it should be at the top. (The one currently listed at #1 only has a 9.0 rating.)
Season Greetings to all,
I think that the writers, director and all should have been a little more sensitive to the 1+ billion people who refer to God as "Allah". Stewart Well's character in the movie is called "Allah" and one has to ask, out of the millions of names, why was this name selected? I await to see which side this character will be on. Regardless of Stewart Well's playing a good guy or bad guy, being a muslim, the use of "Allah" in any situation/context other than to refer to God bothers me a bit.
Conspiracy theories aside, I am eagerly awaiting the release of Matrix Reloaded. However, seeing some actor being called "Allah" will leave a bad taste in the mouth.
I've been attacked by a grammer troll. Maybe that's a syntax troll? Ah who cares, I've been trolled!
"Whoa. Deja vu."
"What?"
"I saw a mispelling go by, then I saw another one, just like it."
"How much like it? Was it the same mispelling?"
"I dunno, might've been."
Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment.
...and why would I want to spoil the movies? I like to be surprised in the theater, something that's increasingly difficult to do the way trailers give away the entire plot of most movies.
"There is no story."
This is left as an exercise for the reader.
They're everywhere, the more popular and big something is the more of them seem to pop up. They gain a feeling of superiority from poo-poo-ing whatever comes out and they get even worse if something they like becomes popular - they must maintain their pet likes to maintain their feeling of being better than others, but they must keep some other pet interest as a backdoor in case too many people starting liking their primary. They only like stuff 'before it was popular'. They listen to bands like 'U2' or read books like LOTR and like to think they understand it on a deeper level then the unwashed masses, or the pedestrian scum.
The Matrix was a lot of fun, a great movie to watch. It was always meant to be part of a trilogy. The same directors are putting even more work into the next one with all of the passion and enthusiasm they can muster. They are developing cutting edge effects once again. But no, they're sure that the Matrix:Reloaded will suck - they haven't seen more than a whiff of a trailer, but they are all-knowing and all-seeing, the judges of all that is.
Holy crap people, just enjoy the freaking movies already...
Redd Foxx will rise from the dead via CGI. Maybe you'll see his clunker on the freeway scene...
Somebody please tell me why every action movie after the matrix had to incorporate "bullet-time" into every fight scene?
you monkeyfuckers!
...that a supposedly "futuristic" movie has to devolve into car chases?
Hollywood...we blow things up.
I assume that since Centropolis closed it's doors and since they were doing the majority of the CGI work for these films, that the release is going to be seriously behind schedule. The rumors of all the f***-ups on these movies boggles the mind....
Ok, im sorry but that only works with some words. You can spell color or honor with or without a 'u', but you can't just add an 'x' to matrix because it looks cool.
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"Technology.....the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it." Max Firsch
I'm pretty sure I was the first to preview this movie, I collected scraps from the Warner Bros cutting room floor and was able to piece together an in-depth review:
http://www.stephenvandyke.com/?p=article&id=21 06
Hammer of Truth
I know what they are doing.
They're sending out video clips to MSNBC and watching us... testing us.
They've secretly switched on our webcams and microphones to watch and listen to us twist first in glee, then agony as we weigh the moral decision that falls before us on May 15th.
"Ahhh... sweet, stylized violence..."
"But they want DRM on my cat's thoughts!"
Bastards.
Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid. --John Wayne
Must be a glitchhh!
That was about all I knew about The Matrix when I went into the theater (I had seen the trailer) and I was blown away. Completely surprised by the plot and the details. Because of this I am avoiding any spoilers for the next two. I wouldn't want to know what to expect. Though it is tempting to know what happens I will resist!
Lasers Controlled Games!
Sorry if someone already pointed this out, but doesn't it bother anyone that the reason the machines are keeping people around is to use them as batteries. That is so stupid. There is no way people would make an efficent battery for machines. You have to put a lot of energy in, and it would not be easy to extract. Then you have the energy it takes to setup the ability to feed all those people, it just doesn't make sense. Even if you can make some convincing arguement for why the machines should use people as batteries. Why not just lobotomize them, then you don't even need a matrix. Its not like they have to physically procreate, they could just do everything the same but have breain-dead people instead. So I am not just seen as a complainer, I will offer up another rationale for why the machines might create a matrix. Maybe they need us for our brains, not our "battery-like bodies". Maybe it turns out that the matrix is just a beowulf cluster of people that use our massively parallel brains to process stuff. Then at least it would make sense to have eveyone jacked in. Because when you are busy doing whatever "work" you are doing in the matrix, in reality you are calculating PI to a gazillion decimal places for the machines, or some other explanation like that.
What's up with the extra x in "Matrix"?
Why in they world was this modded down as Redundant when another message, posted 1 minute later, was modded up as "Funny"? How could it be considered "Redundant" when it was posted FIRST! The other post should be considered "Redundant" then. The question was a Valid Question, what is the Deal with the Extra x in "Matrix"? Is it a Typo, or something else.
You, my friend, have just explained away all religion. I hope you're proud of yourself!
Seriously, consider what you've said in the context of the casting out from the Garden of Eden of Adam and Eve. They tasted of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, they desired to be like God in the one manner which God had forbidden them. They learned the truth and fell from grace. Ignorance was bliss, as living in ignorance is as living in Paradise. As we grow in knowledge, we desire to return to the innocence of our ignorant youth. Hence, by tempting Eve with the fruit of the tree, Satan became both Man's damnation and teacher. And, in consideration of what you say about choosing truth, Lucifer is The Messiah, who freed us from ignorance.
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What you do today will cost you a day of your life
The article mentions how the Matrix used ideas from other stories, and I see a Key Maker is an integral part of the plot. Could this be none other than Vince Clortho, the Keymaster of Gozer?
Out of work these many years and demoted to Key Maker, he has aligned himself with the uber-machines in an attempt to regain control of the mortal realm. Can Neo defeat the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Battle Droid? Will Morpheus and Trinity have to cross their streams? Only time will tell!
(Before anyone tries to debunk this by pointing out that the Key Maker is played by "a tiny Asian man", have you seen any pictures of Rick Moranis lately?)
Was your misspelling of "mispelling" intentional? Funny either way.
Beating the Matrix isn't that hard. Up down Up Down Left Right Left Right B A B A Start (the sequence he used to be Morpheus) gave him Thirty Lives. They just edited out the other 28 attempts to improve to flow of the film.
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
What about thiz one? Yeah, pretty old indeed. Was it posted in ./ ? Er... I dunno
http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=85 56
"...Free your mind..."
- This can't be... - Be what? Be real?
Nice try at BS'ing... and it would make a cool plot twist. The only problem is that agents are electronic and computerized entities. The don't have human bodies. Unless Neo were an android, which I'm sure they would have realized as they were rebuilding his body etc etc, that plot twist is a no-fly.
Still thing it would be cool though.
It's Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A. How could you get the legendary Konami code wrong?
If you haven't seen Equilibrium yet (or have no idea what I'm talking about), do yourself a favor and go take a look.
Reason I mention it in this thread is that some of the influences are the same, most people who liked The Matrix will like this, and it's too good a movie to die this quickly. I saw it last Thursday, and was astounded by it. Sure, there are a lot of cool fight scenes, but it's also a good movie, doing certain things you didn't expect (several bits of foreshadowing are slick), has an actual story, good acting, good dialog, makes you think, and overall is a great movie.
Go see it.
"Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul & set you free from all your sins" - Bad Examples
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A SELECT Start.
Neo got revived too...
"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit." --Oscar Wilde
Consider this the first of next year's ads for Matrixx Reloaded and Matrixx Revolutions releases.
Maybe this is the start of a crossover -- Vin Diesel meets Lawrence Fishburn, Carrie Ann Moss and Keanu Reeves. Scary.... between Vin and Keanu, there's gonna be a lot of "whoa"-type dialogue.
Back when he was getting big bucks to say dirty words (followed by getting little bucks to say dirty words, followed by the current big bucks for fart jokes phase), he did a Playboy interview.
One of the things he said was something like, "If you ever see an ad for 'Beverly Hills Cop III' coming out, you can say to yourself, 'Damn, Eddie must be getting really desperate.'"
Ouch! That's gotta hurt!
Then there's Star Wars, which is pushing 30 years to finish a story which can be summed up as "Faction takes over galaxy, nefarious faction leader subverts powerful good guy, child of subverted good guy reconverts dad, who kills nefarious faction leader, presumably freeing galaxy."
Seriously, I've had friends (well, one, but one's enough) born around or after Episode IV who didn't live long enough to see Episode II. I don't want a movie to cover a major span of my life. It's entertainment. Give it to me over a shorter span, or don't expect me to get too invested in it. These guys get major credit from me for shooting the movies simultaneously and not making me wait 5 years for the conclusion.
If people are that sensitive then they should put a pistol in their mouth and pull the trigger as many times as possible.
Why are muslims so sensitive? Maybe we've been coddling them too long.
Whoa!
I guess this means that the MPAA boycott is off....
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
The story of being cast out of the Garden of Eden, in my opinion, undoes the rest of the Bible, and Religion in general. The Bible is a paradox, and everyone sees in it what they want.
Let's just for a moment assume the existence of God, and the creation of all things, including Man, by this God. If God gave us free will, it would not be to see that gift wasted. So, even according to the Bible itself, blind obedience like the one that Religion demands, is a Sin.
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Isn't it spelled Matrix... unless, of course, Redd Foxx wrote the storyline.
Trolling is a art,
Have you, by chance, been away for a very long time in a place without access to mainstream media?
There are three movies in the series. "The Matrix" was the first one. We've already seen that one, by the way. "The Matrix Reloaded" will be the second. "The Matrix Revolutions" will be the third. And that's pretty much all there is. No prequels. Just the three. Or am I missing something in your post?
-B
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Yay. Matrix time. Whoopee. I'll probably just wait for the DVDs like I did last time. It's a nifty bit of eye candy with a decent story, but it certainly doesn't deserve it's "cult" status. Just another flick for Keanu Reaves to use his trademark "Woah" line in.
I only go to see one movie in theaters each year, and 2003 is reserved for Return of the King. So, "Ted's Excellent Solo CGI Journey" will just have to go on without me...
I stopped reading this article halfway through. I don't want to know ANY of this... and see no benefit to reading the rest of the article, except you will no longer be surprised when some things happen.
Berto
LOL. I guess you have a point :P
Didn't Agent Smith get destroyed in the last movie when Neo jumped inside him and tore him into screaming bits? So what is he doing in the second movie?
And man, the Matrix really doomed him - he will always be Agent Smith in my eyes.
"The ring must be destroyed.... Mister Anderson!"
Wil Wheaton!
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I just followed my friends in to see it one night and was completely blown away. Why, oh why didn't *I* take the blue pill? That was the first movie in many years I went out of my way to see several times in the theater; and have seen several more times since then on video and DVD. I skimmed these articles; and am an avid viewer of whatisthematrix.com, but I am trying to avoid spoilers myself because I hope that the next two are the equals of their predecessor.
I think with the interesting people, their lives can't possibly be wrapped up into a nice little package.
The whole Humans as Power Source part of the Matrix really bothered me. The machines would entrap humans only if they needed a resource that only humans could provide. That resource is not energy. I don't care how many BTUs of energy the human body produces, the machines could get more energy by combining "a form of fusion" in rats, cockroaches, or maybe algae. Any of those life forms would be far simpler to care for and less rebellious too.
So I've concluded that Morpheus is somewhat incorrect (GASP) and that the machines are using humans as hard drives, not batteries. Think about it. This explains the Matrix a lot better. We know that the Agents can "possess" any human by "teleporting" into them. This is essentially copying their entire data into that human's brain at amazing bandwidth. We can assume that with its great interconnectivity and ability to store huge quantities of data such as video and audio, the human mind is one of the only appropriate storage mediums for the machines. This would explain why the machines create a world that attempts to stimulate the human brain as opposed to inducing a comatose state or inflicting the newborne humans with mental retardation: Only a healthy mind makes an acceptable organic host for the machines.
This line of thinking even hints at a possible resolution for the entire series: The humans could help the Machines invent a replacement storage medium besides human brains. Any information medium with data density equal the human brain should be sufficient. Then the machines could agree to float off into space and inhabit only worlds inhospitable to humans. (There are plenty.) This would leave the humans free to live out their lives on M class planets, although I suspect they would only pollute them to death anyway. (Agent Smith was pretty accurate in his assesment of industrial humans as viral.)
I've wanted to get this off my chest for a long time, now that I've posted on slashdot I can consider myself heard. ; -)
I've always wondered what the Matrix was coded in? C? (naw, too structured, it'd be a TON of code, and hard to maintain). C++? (possibly, it's still the speed king, aside from assembly, and templates offer a wonderful way to create metalanguages to describe things in a high level, plus I love love LOVE object oriented programming). Heaven forbid, maybe it's VISUAL BASIC! Since you can SEE everything in the Matrix, it would make sense, right?!? Ok, that's a joke. But seriously though, the question stands. Plus, what kind of hardware does this thing run on? A Beowulf cluster of WHAT??? Oh, and the most important thing...do you think it's Intel inside, or AMD?
Ok, shit...I'm sure Microsoft had a hand in it...the head squiggly is prolly Billy Gates. So, the Matrix is probably in all reality The Matrix.Net!!!
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How long does it take to reload the damn Matrix. I mean what could possibly necessitate a four year lapse in movie to sequel.
You know, I'm having trouble believing that this whole thing is real and now I'm ready to plug my pp back in and go back to sleep. That nyquil capsule wore off bout summer 2001. So get Vicks on the line and finish that shiz before my jelly basin fills back up with jello.
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Seriously like, the Matrix, like, is totally the best movie for us super-elite types. Totally exactly like hacking. No boring research. just massive graphics- like in hollywood when you, like, hack into a system remotely, right before you are able to actually command the remote system to do anyting useful, you gotta succesfully navigate the 3d tunnel things!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Human Beings?
cool.
I want one.
1. Regarding the "why the inefficient battery" thing, not that the article said something about "differences of opinions" between the machines, older, larger, slower machines and newer, more ruthless machines? Some interesting thoughts occur, since the older machines were also made by men (and thus perhaps had hardwired instructions to protect humans which was twisted to the "humangardening" in the Matrix...).
Or maybe they're using unused human processing cycles to calculate pi to 3.8x10^34 digits.
2. I have no problem with catsuits and guns. I just hope they don't have cops thumb-cocking Glocks the second time around.
3. I don't know that fans of HK actions movies saw anything really new - just the most refined version so far. And the best excuse so far for those superhuman action feats. The sense of style was great.
But the really cool thing is I saw hardwired Commies and John Birchers coming out of The Matrix believing that the themes really spoke to them... can you say universal human concerns and stories? I really hope they continue with that kind of theme and don't try to get blatanty political in the next two movies, or they'll likely lose half their audience.
The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind
of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation
of these atoms is talking moonshine.
-- Ernest Rutherford, after he had split the atom for
the first time
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