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Matrix Reloaded Trailer Released
phreak404 writes "The full theatrical trailer for The Matrix Reloaded was released today. Its in Quicktime, 1000px by 540px, and weighs in at about 100MB. Looks awesome and unlike the previous teasers, actually has some of the plot." As soon as someone puts up a bitorrent we'll post it here.
Update: 04/11 00:40 GMT by J : And here it is,
http://f.scarywater.net/
(includes links to client download, stats, old torrents, fun stuff like that).
I have nothing else to say, really.
Yeah, screw bit-torrent... until about halfway through your download about 250,000 other geeks finally notice the new story on /. and start downloading. That's when bit-torrent rocks.k
IANAL, but I play one on
Common already, it's getting old, hasn't anyone realized yet that these damn time-warner servers can take a beating and keep dishing it out fast? BitTorrent links are a great idea for helping people get big files from slashdotted sites, but common, no one on a decent connection is gonna get half the speed off bittorrent that they could right off the aol servers
I'm dowloading the trailer... but my only problem with Matrix is that it borrows heavily from other sources of pop culture- I'm sure if you were into the whole main stream hollywood stuff- this movie was fantastic... but if you read Akira way back when it came out or ghost in the shell, saw the subsequent movies- and well generally stayed in the realm of sci-fi- you surley noticed this movie was not shy borrowing from anime and sci fi. :-)
I personally think the Matrix is cheese, it doesn't have a strong message, and is a little too melodramatic... in music, in story, in the overal mood of the movie. CHEESE..and not even real cheese, like cheeze in a can.
Its all about kick punch kick, run away, kick punch kick, 3d animation...
I'm sure I'm going to watch it- but seriously is this cheese really worth all the hype- there are so many other things (movies/comics/anime) that are just so much more deserving.
Sci-Fi movies have gone to shit- they are nothing more than overhyped action crapola- Star Trek Nemesis blew the big one, not to mention that flick with the electrocution/blow stuff up/jounrey to the center of the earth crap.
Minority Report on the other hand was great, and well if it counts Monsters Inc. was too- the only two sci-fi movies in recent memory I can stand...
I'm sure given that this is slashdot I stand alone in this opinion... but that's what forums are for tight?... so enjoy the download
I have it playing in 1600x width on a 450MHz G4 mac. No problems here. Maybe you should upgrade your CPU? :)
Those who laugh at you for you having a Mac.. are the people who constantly call you to fix their PC.
Actually if you run the numbers even get marginal compression of 3-7% (which is what trailers tend to get) the bandwith saving is huge.
Think of it this way, 7% of 100 meg times 250,000 downloads. It makes sense to do the compression this way thereby speeding up the slowest part of the whole trailer experience, the download.
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and the point of that would be?
Apple is in the business of selling computers incompatible to PC's. Naturally, they would produce software that works better on Mac's than on PC's, especially if it is free.
"Light is faster than sound." - "Is that why people tend to look bright until you hear them speak?"
Well my theory (oh no, wait, this is actually my direct experience) is that Quicktime for Windows has always been a giant dump. To even imply that it's optimized, or a reasonably cross-platform streaming solution is a joke
I love people trying to find alternatives to Microsquat, but I hate people trying to foist lazy crap down our throats in the name of Freedom. That baby should either be fixed, or thrown out with its bathwater.
Sorry moderators, I hate it when my actual opinion sounds like a troll or flamebait, but them's the facts as I see them.
The only acceptable defense of scientific results is to say that they were the product of the Scientific Method.
Remember, financial troubles for AOL mean financial troubles for Netscape, which means 95% of the major Mozilla coders have to find new jobs. AOL isn't completely evil.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
The matrix is about taking the exciting geeky worlds already shown, adding effects and realism to play with the mind, and give something to thrill not only the geeks by the "normal" masses. A lot of people who have watched the Matrix would (unfortunately for them) snub something like "Ghost in the shell."
And of course, for others, they simply find the most entertainment in this set of matrix clips...
It would be really spiffy if bittorrent were expanded to handle mirroring of entire webpages, with a sort of plugin allowing something like this in your web browser:
r re nt
/. could set up bittorrent files for their stories without actually mirroring, and distribute the story across their users pages.
bittorrent://mirrorable.site.com/filename.bitto
That way
I don't know what version you downloaded, but the main (100MB) file I got is significantly higher-res than DVD. DVD is typically 720x480 (NTSC) or in square pixels 640x480, this was 1000x540. That's 540000 pixels versus an effective 307200 pixels, or about 75% more area. It was also encoded at a whopping 5266kilobit/second bitrate, which i more than necessary and explains why some people are having trouble playing it even on decent machines (5Mbit averages in Sorenson 3 is pretty extreme!). This is definitely the highest bitrate Sorenson 3 encoded movie I've ever seen publicly distributed.
.dll powers Linux/x86 players well
Btw, QT playback on Windows has a lot to do with the video acceleration mode setting. Obviously Sorenson 3 is pretty well optimized for Intel (contrary to other posts) as the same
Your kids can't see people kissing but they can see people shooting each other? Seeing violence can have a severe impact on the impulses felt when people are angry. Violence can cause a lot of harm to "childhood innocence". But I don't think seeing sexual acts is really a bad thing. Our whole society is really screwed up in that everyone thinks that interpersonal relationships are something to be afraid of and something to be hidden. You're the reason kids are growing up with so many fears and inhibitions. Besides, the matrix is NOT a kids film, there is no way that it should ever be considered so.
I think this points out an interesting variation between US culture and that of most of the rest of the world.
Most of the rest of the world views sex as part of life, not something implicitly dirty (yes, there are many exceptions and I am mainly speaking of europe and canada, for I know little of the rest of the world) while violence is looked upon as a more unnatural non-vital force that can and should be censored. In canada it is fine to have nudity on public channels, more curse words than the US and less stylised news. In the US little kids are taken to extremely graphic R rated movies, but they are closed off from seeing breasts, even in a non-sexual context.
I guess that in my mind, justified violence and the comodification of sexuality are far destructive than sex. Teaching kids that it is alright to kill people if you think it is ok is worse than teaching kids that sex is okay.
You didn't say how old your children are, but you implied that they are between 15-17 years old. If you think that 17 year olds aren't well informed about sex (by their peers and by experience), you don't get out much. Expecting a movie to teach or reinforce values is a joke. That's what parents are for.
Besides, with logic like this:
And, finally, if you really believe (especially American) society is growing up with any discernable fears and inhibitions, I guess you don't get out much. From what I see, it's a bit too unafraid and uninhibited.
It's not hard to see why kids have trouble in this world. You'd rather have kids grow up paranoid and afraid? I'd rather my kids grow up educated, confident, and grounded in morals that I've encouraged by thoughtful debate, not by sheltering them from the reality of the world.
15-17 year olds can't handle "some sexuality"? You're kidding, right? Minus the violence, my guess is that the sexuality in this movie is going to be so stylized that it would only warrant a PG-13 on its own.
And no, I'm not going to do some research, because it's just patently absurd to "protect" your 15-17 year olds from "some sexuality". I was a 15-17 year old not too long ago, and my guess is that they currently could teach you some things about sexuality you didn't know -- and that's not a shot at you, that's just the facts of what 15-17 year olds think and talk about. The 17 year old's going to college soon, right? At what point is it going to be alright for him/her to see a freakin' boob?
Anway, you shouldn't worry so much, because they're probably well on their way (or well past) "some sexuality" of their own. (nudge nudge wink wink ifyouknowwhatImean)
In your own words...
Despite the fact that one can probably find a "study" to support any opinion, real "experts" that care more about human lives than they do about getting grants, book contracts or furthering an "agenda" will back me up.
If you think most religious groups aren't following an agenda with their "research" then you need to take another look.
Your assertion that love and affection is more damaging to children than scenes of mass killing is mind bogglingly stupid. Ever think that the reason kids today are so screwed up is because they are "protected" from seeing what real love is and instead have to fill in the blanks on their own (based on primal instinct)? The best way to get a kid to do something is to tell them not to do it... or better yet, forbid them from having any knowledge of it, turning it into some exotic taboo that no child can resist investigating.
Did you completely miss the scene in 'The Matrix' set in the BDSM bar?
Trinity and Neo's first meeting. In the back ground, fully visible, is the creme de la creme of the Sydney BDSM community, in full, uh, regalia. Latex. Leather. Restraints, Gags, Whips, the whole kinky deal.
Thematically, of course, it is a perfect fit (For the metaphor impared, Neo is still in the bondage of the matrix at this point in the story).
Shawn Poulsen (Fruan)
"On Slashdot, many obvious things are insightful." - Annonymous Coward, 2000/7/9
Sex = procreation = creating life
Violence = killing = destroying life
How perverse a species we've become, that the former is 'dirty' and 'immoral', whereas the other is 'no great harm'.
Personally, I'd rather my kids watch people making love all day long than to see a single instance where killing, maiming, and hurting is glorified.
I tried... I tried so hard not to comment on this thread, but... arrrrgh!
First up, you haven't demonstrated your research anywhere, even when explicitly asked for it. Which makes me suspect you're bluffing on that front.
Secondly I find it very, very scary that your 15-17 year olds are being shielded from any kind of sexuality (In this case what will most likely be maybe some kissing, and probably just some tight clothing), but you're perfectly happy for them to see violence en mass... oooo kkkk. I really want to see you back up this reasoning with your research, as I sure don't get what you think you're instilling in your children. (Who at their age are very much young adults now).
Also, your last point, of American Society not being afraid or inhibited enough... oh come on... not afraid? Why do you have so many guns? Why, whenever I get in an argument with an American as to why they have a gun do they come out with 'so some sicko doesn't come into my house and rape my 8 year old' line?
People feeling like they have to carry a gun to be safe sure smacks of being afraid to me.
And uninhibited? Oh come on, the only television in the world that I see someone giving the finger being pixelated out is American television... it's a FINGER people! I spent some time living in America, and I got the distinct feeling that you are, by and large, very afraid, and very inhibited. And by the looks of what you're doing to your children, you're continuing this trend.
If missing axles are a mistake, then the black cat scene in the first film ought to be one too. Remember, you're dealing with a construct where Earth-based rules of nature are the exception. Call it what you want -- a production fuckup or intentional ommission, but a movie designed to question itself and normality has the producers covered in a case like this, save of course for spontaneously combuting film reels.
The Warchowski (sp) brothers have demonstrated they're smart folks with a penchant for unheard of nickpickiness. I'm sure they themselves went through the film with fine-toothed comb, noticed the omission and said "hey, what's a truck without axels in a matrix? Normal!"
Free your mind!
- IP
Does anyone else see the problem here? The lighting under the truch is all wrong, and the wheels are floating and not giving any sense of weight. I know its really a little detail, but you can honestly see it on a few of the other cars and trucks in this scene as well.
Correct me if I am wrong, but what I believe you are expecting to see are shadows that come right up to the wheels of the trucks - this is a mistaken expectation for two reasons. Firstly, the scene is lit with daylight coming from above and slightly behind the subjects in order to expose them in silouette, with just enough ambient lighting to make a few details distinguishable in each figure. The daylight illuminates some of the roadway that lies z-axis-wise under the truck because the light is not aiming straight down, but rather slightly towards the viewer. Secondly, the scene appears to have been rendered with some form of radiosity-like renderer. This type of rendering method takes into account light bouning around the atmosphere and off the objects in a much more realistic way than the flat ambient coefficient of more simplistic renderers. The end result is that scattered light encroaches even more upon what you are expecting to be a well-defined shadow under the truck. To summarize: this appears to be a fairly realistic rendering with the truck firmly set upon the road, given daylight that is aiming somewhat at us and light from the environment is bouncing around under the truck.