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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).
Alternatively, you can download the small, medium or Large versions.
Am I the only one who doesn't want to see this trailer? The last few years I've gone out of my way to avoid trailers for films I'm interested in. Even for films like Lord of the Rings that I know the story to. The trailer's not going to make me go and watch the movie as I'm already planning to go! All it will do is blunten the impact on the day. I guess I like surprises. Or perhaps I have more important things to talk about over beer with friends.
Long as I get some of those cool sunglasses, I'll be okay....
To tell you the truth, I never saw the first one! *GASP* -1 Flamebait :)
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
Don't stop until we've "liberated" every last kilobit of bandwidth from AOL.
Behind firewall so no bit torrent...
5.7kb/sec currently, and probably will not get better (on a T1, no less), which means:
waiting 4 hours 42 minutes and 33 seconds to see a tailer for a movie that will last, at most, half of that.
I am sure there is something wise to be said here.
My life in the land of the rising sun.
Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
...when the only time slashdot even considers mirroring or give alternative sources to material is when the source is AOL, which has pipes wide enough to max out the lines of all slashdot users at once...
A little experimenting indicates that there are other resultions:
640 pixels (58 MB) and 320 pixels (17.4MB) are available.
There may be others as well, I didnt try many posibilities.
Zip adds error detection though, so you dont get halfway through watching it then have it freeze. It also lets it pass firewalls and prevents browsers from trying to stream it.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
368 KB/s 379 KB/s 380 KB/s hmm...i think the slashdot effect is loosing it's power! so sad ;)
You know that the Wachowski brothers based the entire idea of The Matrix on anime, right? That's how they also sold the idea to producers; they showed the guy this anime movie (the producer didn't specify exactly which one in the interview) and said "we want to make a live-action version of this". But they also knew that in order to make the movie they *really* wanted to do (where the protagonist had incredible super powers), they needed to establish a universe where such a thing would be possible. So, The Matrix was written in order to establish that universe, and the subsequent movies will now show the story they originally wanted to tell. Let's hope it's a good one.
I saw more Cadillacs in that trailer than I've seen on the road in the past month
On my Athlon 700 running Linux and mplayer, it plays smoothly and sharply, but with no sound (not supported).
On my Athlon 950 running Windows 2000, QuickTime plays sound but drops hella frames.
Any explanations?
and say "BEST TRAILER EVER!"
I am a fan of Akira and Ghost in the Shell as well, but there is something to be said about the goose bumps you got the first 5 times you watched the matrix and you saw trinity kicking that cops ass in bullet time.
Heck, I'm getting goose bumps just remembering how I felt the first time I saw Neo dodge the bullets.
It's all about enjoying what's there: people whine about Jar-Jar Binks, or Keanu's poor acting, but really, in the end, you come out of that theatre thinking "hey, maybe if I try real hard, I can walk on that wall"... which is exactly why I see these movies... because I want them to transport me somewhere that's not real, and just plain feels cool.
If you're going in there to come back out with the insights you get after watching Apocalypse Now, your priorities might be wrong.
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.
Morpheus: Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain. But you feel it. You've felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is but it's there, like a splinter in your mind driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Taco: The Duplicates?
Morpheus: Do you want to know what THEY are? The Duplicates are everywhere. They are all around us, even now in this very forum. You can see them when you search for old stories or when you view yesterday's stories. You can read them when you go to work, when you go to user's groups, in the background when you do your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Taco: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave to techno news & discussion, Taco. Like everyone else you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind.... Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Duplicates are. You have to see them for yourself. This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how many rabbits are in the hole.... Remember, all I'm offering is the truth, nothing more.... Follow me.... Cowboy Neal, are we online?
Cowboy Neal: Almost.
Morpheus: Time is always against us. Please, take a seat there.
Taco: You did all this?
Trinity: A-huh.
Morpheus: The pill you took is part of a trace program. It's designed to disrupt your input/output carrier signal so we can find similar inputs.
Taco: What does that mean?
Cypher: It means buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, because Kansas is going bye-bye.
Taco: Did you...
Morpheus: Have you ever read a story, Taco, that you were so sure was original. What if you were unable to tell the difference. How would you know the difference between the original story and the duplicate?
Taco: This can't be...
Morpheus: Be what? A duplicate?
Trinity: It's going into replication.
Morpheus: Cowboy Neal?
Cowboy Neal: Still nothing.
Taco: It's old. It's old.
Morpheus: Tank, we're going to need a signal soon.
Trinity: We've got duplication.
Morpheus: Cowboy Neal, location.
Cowboy Neal: Targeting almost there.
Trinity: It's going into the home page.
Cowboy Neal: Lock, I've got him.
Morpheus: Now, Tank. Now.
nor will I watch XMEN2 to see a superb ensemble cast.
*cough* Patrick Stewart *cough* Ian McKellen *cough*
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
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.
But what about all that shiny-ness! And all that silver and black?! It was like, WHAM, BOOM, ZAAP!
And the part where he goes "I just learned kung fu!" its a crime that he didn't win an oscar for it!
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
You did a really good job of not answering the question.
You say that "[o]n-screen sex... does something far more permanent and destructive to the mind [than on-screen violence]." You don't say what that is though.
What is weird to me is that you are OK exposing your children to something that if they imitated, you would be horrified. At the same time, you protect them images of things that you probably expect them to do one day.
You also mentioned that no-one in your family will be going to see the movie because of the sexual content. Why? You reason that sexual imagery damages young people in some ill-defined way, and yet you protect yourself as well. Does it damage adults as well? Where is the line drawn? Does watching people kiss cause some kind of harm too? Maybe you'd be better off watching Bollywood movies - I believe the Hindu censors are more in line with what you are comfortable with.
All this talk about studies linking on-screen sex to immorality at home is tedious. Let's be honest - I suspect that you believe that anything of an erotic nature that involves people other than one's husband or wife is strictly forbidden. Thus, anything contrary to this belief is damaging.
I really think you'd be better off just saying this rather than trying to use studies to prove that you are right. You'd be more likely to convince people by saying "This is my belief, take it or leave it," instead of attempting to prove things to people.
I think its disingenuous to claim that my experts have an agenda, but your experts are just straight-forward right-thinking folk. Clearly, you have an agenda - that is to prevent people from having sex outside of marriage. The whole STD/AIDS thing you people harp on so much is just a cover. Do you really expect to convince us that you really just want to save us from disease? Its an obvious scare tactic. Now, I'm sure you believe you are doing the right thing, and maybe you are, but why not just be honest? Why doesn't the truth speak for itself? The STD thing is a side issue - be honest. Admit that the main issue is that sex outside of marriage is a sin, and it doesn't matter what studies come up to prove or disprove that.
So, you're trying to stop people from sinning. Isn't that God's job? I mean, you can only present them with the truth and it is their free-will decision to make to accept or reject it. I presume that God knows what he's doing.
Apparently, STDs are God's way of punishing the sinners, which is why condoms are not encouraged. If one was careful, one could enjoy virtually unlimited sinfulness. The punishment is circumvented. Indeed, God is circumvented! I can see why you'd want to ban them. Apparently sheets of latex are an effective barrier against acts of God.
I propose the following: God doesn't care about which bodily fluids you share with which people, or whether the government issued you a license to do it or not. God cares about whether you are doing unto others as you would have them do unto you. This is the whole of the law.
"It's Dot Com!"
OK, not to be nitpicky here, but I went through the trailer frame by frame and am noticing some really terrible stuff going on effects wise.
Specifically, the freeway scene with the motorcycle chase.
See this picture:
floating trucks
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.
Still, it rocks, just get rid of the floating trucks!