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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).
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
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.
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
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 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.