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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."
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.
they never shot any of them in IMAX format. so seeing them in IMAX is not seeing them the way they were meant to be seen.
I do wish that Lotr series was shot on IMAX format.. although it would have made the movies cost 10X as much as they do now to make and we would have to have 2 intermissions during a viewing as they change reels (you dont get 3 hours of film on an IMAX reel) and probably have to pay $30.00 per ticket to see it.
I would have paid $30.00 a set to see it in true IMAX style (although I enjoyed my $5.50 matinee price at 11:30 in the morning) but there are so few IMAX theaters that it's not worth it for them to make a long epic like LoTR in that format.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
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.
Your forgetting the Terminator 3 and Bad Boys 2, both due out this summer! I don't think there was a single preview before LoTR that WASN'T for a sequal (or prequil in dumb and dumbers case)!
"It's morally ambiguous. Their better off hooked into that machine that scavenging for scraps at some fucked up(more-so) version of Barter Town. What's better: A false heaven or a very believable hell?"
As a matter of principle and desire for truth, I have no trouble saying hell. At least then I am in charge of my own destiny. Hooked up to a machine, it could malfunction, they could forget to feed me, and oh yeah, choosing that existence would make me really extremely the posterboy for pathetic. But of course, opinions are like...
Actually the thing that struck me was the whole conservation of energy thing. A human isn't a battery, it's a GENERATOR. You have to feed and water all those humans who then convert that energy into electricity, and that food doesn't come for free either. Somewhere, somehow, the machines are getting energy from an external source (e.g. the sun, geothermal heating) to supplement the energy they already have. They are then using that energy to generate food (even if that food is other humans), which they give to the humans who generate the electricity.
What's the point? Why not make a more efficient mechanical generator to convert directly to electricity instead? By spreading the whole process out over several steps they are just wasting more energy than they really need to.
But of course, all of this is the exact reason why The Matrix is so popular,
I have to disagree with this. The only question I had coming out of the first movie was "Why in the HELL wouldn't they use compost? Humans are about the most inefficient bloody electical generators you could POSSIBLY imagine." Heck, even just grow a human WITHOUT a brain (then elect him... DOH!)... our brains use up something like 60% of our total body nutrients (when at rest).
I think that the popularity of the movie had 2 primary reasons:
1) Leather Catsuit
2) Guns.
-- IANAEG - I am not an elder god.
It's called suspension of disbelief.
The first time I saw this movie, I about jumped out of my seat in the theater, trying to suppress my urge to yell and scream about the plot holes.
However, even though there are some logical consequences that we see as obvious, it doesn't actually detract from the movie itself.
We just have to turn off that logical part of our brains that makes us twitch, and instead just say "there is no spoon" and enjoy the movie!
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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.
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. ; -)
Stupid explanations aren't entertaining -- they're distracting. If the screenwriters didn't have a good reason for why humans were being kept alive, they should have just said, "No one knows why they keep humans alive." It would have left a mystery much more interesting than the implausible and unnecessary explanation given.