1st Episode Of Animatrix Released

Devistater writes "The official Matrix page has word of the first officially released widescreen Anime episode of the Animatrix for download (in quicktime format). This is the first of 4 free episodes that will be released on the web. A total of 9 episodes will be availible for purchase on DVD within the next few months. The feature-quality anime shorts range in length from 6 minutes to 16 minutes. There's a trailer availible if you want to get a taste for what they will be like."

Comments

Way to download those ?

[dnaumov]

My MPlayer Mozilla plugin refuses to work with this. Can anyone provide any alternative download URLs for the videos ?

Thanks

Re:Well, I just watched the trailer

[Duds]

Well, there's no reason you want to watch it if you think animation is just for kids.

Presumably you think books are only for spotty people with glasses too.

Finally...

[FungiSpunk]

..an article of interest to exactly 4 people on the planet!!!

Adapting anime for a new feminist millennium

[Fantastic Lad]

Pardon me while I re-post the parent message in this thread back above the -1 threshold. Apparently some jack-ass with a penchant for knee-jerk reactionism and a cranium filled with gummy worms got mod-points today. . .

-Fantastic Lad

I have mixed feelings about anime. On the one hand, it's nice to see the influence of east-Asian art in American popular culture for a change (perhaps as retribution for what we did to Japanese folk music with disco). On the other hand, anime (especially manga) has historically been no better than pornography: it systematically dissects women into their component anatomical parts, except they're just fictionaly women. Now, this may be changing with the times, and there is a new crop of feminist apologists who'll tell you there's nothing wrong, that it is no more degrading to women than to men and that people of all genders are avid consumers. But again, to draw an analogy to pornography, it may just be that women are starting to internalize oppression.

There's nothing inherently wrong with the medium; just in how it's been realized and implemented. If only people were more aware of the intrinsic relationship between art and effects on society as a whole, then we might be a little slower to choose to make that buck at the expense of our common weal.

-An Anonymous Coward

Re:Pretty impressive

[Mysticalfruit]

Agent Smith: Mr. Anderson, posting the IP for the matrix on slashdot was very foolish.
Neo: What's the matter Mr. Anderson, afraid of a little server load?
Agent Smith: Haha, you c-a-n-'t p-o-s-s-i-b-l-y think, what the hell is going on...
Other Agent whispers into Agent Smith's ear..
Agent Smith: You niced my process you fucker, you'll die for that.
Neo: You've gotta catch me first.
(at this point, neo just disappears)
Agent Smith: (turning to other agent) What the Hell is going on here... suddenly agent isn't there anymore
Agent Smith: God Damned Out of memory killer...