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."

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Amazing!

[BigumD]

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 Age of Sequels

[_Sambo]

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.

Re:The Age of Sequels

[Aggrazel]

And, if you believe Back to the Future 2, we need an AWFUL lot of Jaws sequels between now and 2015.

Re:The Age of Sequels

[Twirlip of the Mists]

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.

Uh... you know IMAX uses a different aspect ratio from other cinematic presentations, right? IMAX is a 15-perf 70mm format with a 1.33:1 aspect ratio, same as an old-fashioned TV. All the movies you mentioned were meant to be shown in 2.35:1. To reformat those movies for IMAX will mean having to remove about 40% of the picture. They had to do this with Apollo 13, and later with Attack of the Clones.

These movies were not meant to be seen in IMAX. They were meant to be seen in a regular theater with a screen 2.35 times as wide as it is tall.

Thanks a lot, Morpheus.

[Lachrymite]

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."

Re:Thanks a lot, Morpheus.

[anonymous loser]

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.

Re:Thanks a lot, Morpheus.

[handorf]

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.

i can see it now

[2MuchC0ffeeMan]

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 :)

But can Keanu Reeve's be more than dumbfounded?

[MyNameIsFred]

I always thought that the Matrix was perfect for Keanu Reeve's. For 90 percent of the movie, he had to stand around and act dumbfounded. Something he does quite well. In my opinion, the last ten minutes of the movie, where he "understands" his place in the Matrix, was where he did his worst acting.

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.

Spoiler

[PD]

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!"

Re:I wonder...

[Abcd1234]

Actually, I've had this discussion with some friends of mine. The fact is, the first Matrix movie was, for all intents and purposes, incredibly hokey (I know it, you know it... but we loved it anyway :). The acting was... well... horrible, and the plot, while interesting, was not *that* innovative (although, I rather enjoyed it). BUT, the movie had two things: incredble action, and style. There was something interesting and unique about the feel of The Matrix. But now, with Hollywood copying many of the styalistic elements (eg. the fight scene choreography), The Matrix sequels may not provide the same bang that the original did.

So, we have a problem: the sequels will be just as hokey as the original. This is undeniable (after all, Keanu is still in them ;). So, if they simply match the original Matrix in style and form, they will be relatively unoriginal and people will accuse them of simplying "copying" the first movie. Hence, the question $65,000 becomes: how will the Wachowski brothers one-up themselves for the sequels. I have no idea, but I'm sure looking forward to finding out. :)

Re:Matrixx?

[Dannon]

"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."