Matrix Revolutions Trailer Released

aerojad writes "The new Matrix Revolutions trailer is now available for download (direct link) on the official site. If you have plugin/bandwidth issues, there are also BitTorrent links available. For those wondering, there is more to it than you saw at the end of Reloaded." In related news, an anonymous reader points to the BBC News report that: "The makers of the Matrix films are considering only promoting the third film, Matrix Revolutions, for next year's Oscars. Warners, which produced the films, had considered pushing for both of them to be nominated as a single entry because they were shot on the same 240-day shoot, but the academy refused."

Comments

Wow!

[inertia187]

Man, Agent Smith looks absolutely crazy in this trailer. I still think he looks better with long hair. In case the BBC site is slow, here's a mirror to the 3rd link. I'm keeping my BitTorrent window open for as long as possible. It only took me two minutes to download, but that's because I beat the rush because I'm a Slashdot Subscriber. ;-) Please keep your BitTorrent windows open for as long as possible.

Re:Wow!

[topologist]

This could be because the TCP stack on your OS doesn't implement ACK prioritization, which can be pretty useful on links with asymmetric bandwidth limits, like DSL. Essentially, when you max out your upload bandwidth, you also increase the amount of contention/latency experienced when sending the TCP ACKs which need to be sent in response to the TCP packets you download (to let the sender know you've received them, since otherwise the server has no means of knowing if they actually got through to you, rather than having been dropped along the way). This in turn could lead to retransmits/rate throttling by the server sending you the matrix (or whatever), thus causing slower downloads. Of course, part of this may also be due to some other factors, such as a broken algorithm in bittorrens. Here's a good link to learn more about this: ALTQ

Direct Link To The Torrent

[aerojad]

Just incase the page won't resolve: here.

Direct link to movie

[ASayre8]

http://progressive.warnerbros.com/thematrix/us/med /revolutions_640_dl.mov Direct link to the High Quality version of the trailer.

And direct link to a Zip of it

[ASayre8]

http://progressive.warnerbros.com/thematrix/us/med /revolutions_640_dl.zip Zipped version so we dont' have to slashdot their site AS much.

IMAX MATRIX!

[LoRdTAW]

I saw Reloaded in the Lowes Imax here in NYC and it was incredible! If you have one near you I suggest you go and see it there. A few tips for getting tix and seats:
-Order tickets on line or at the box office 1 or 2 days before showing to ensure you get them.
-Get to the theater at least 1 hour before the movie starts to enshure you gett he good seats.
-Best seats are the upper middle. I try to find the seats where the screen is visible clearly but not to far up that I have to move my head to see whats going on. The right distance and you will really feel like you are in the movie.

Hope this helps...

warner bros servers choaking

[LWolenczak]

I'm sitting on an OC-48 and Gig-E and i'm only getting 100K in spuradic bursts of packets.. I'm also loosing the connection before the file is finished... I have yet to get even half the file of the mid sized trailer. :(

Re:watching the slashdot effect take place

[jonabbey]

Xine v0.9.22 worked great for me.

Surprisingly, mplayer did not. I always thought mplayer was ahead of xine in the codec race, but apparently not.

I'm still very impressed with BitTorrent. Very ice design, kids.

Re:There is no athlete's foot

[strider3700]

"No - keep the mold away! Save us, Gold Bond!"

You seriously need to get some help.

I've played soccer in the rain for years and never had problems with athletes foot. I doubt that the actors had any issues with the water since they could just go and dry off in a nice hotel room. It looks like the entire shot could be done in a sound stage pretty easily. I have heard them complain that they took a beating doing all the fights and wire work however.

The guys on the helms deep battle for TTT complained that they started getting sick after doing a couple months of night shoots in the simulated rain. That shot was too large to fit into a stage to make it pleasant to work on.

Re:[OT] Trolling

[MarcoAtWork]

wget has a nice switch '-c' which is supported by the time-warner server, my download got reset probably 20 times, but nice little wget always restarted it right from where it got reset and I d/loaded the trailer at an average of about 120KB/sec (it was doing 270KB/sec often before timing out)

Another Mirror

[MajorBlunder]

I snooped around and found another mirror site as all my downloads from the main site were canceling out and bit torrent is taking for bloody ever!
Try this:
http://www.whatisthescape.de/files/revoluti ons_640 _dl.mov

I managed to get it off there pretty quick. I pray that they have the bandwidth to stand up to a slashdotting.

trailer in mpg format

[vivek7006]

is available here. It is about 11MB in size.
mpeg trailer

Re:Same Trailer?

[TerraFrost]

Is this the same trailer that was after the credits of Reloaded?

no. there is new footage. specifically...

15 and a half seconds into the quick time trailer, we see the guy who protected the oracle in the matrix reloaded fighting someone.

18 seconds in the quick time trailer, we see an extended scene with agent smith looking weird, and having a creepy smile.

immediatly after that scene, we see neo flying up.

55 seconds into it, we see trinity, morpheus, and the oracle's bodyguard shooting, and then we see the people they're shooting at

immediatly after that, we see trinity doing her token kick, and then an exploding ship, a bunch of people pointing guns at the chinese dude, and a bunch of other stuff that i don't want to enumerate. suffice to say, this trailer *is* different. well, i should also add that in the quick time trailer there is one extra agent smith in the long long of agent smiths, hehe :)

if you don't believe me, you can download the original here, open it up in Virtual Dub, and open the quick time trailer up in EO Video, or TMPGEnc, with a quicktime filter. you can additionally see the original trailer when it comes out on the DVD. it'll be at the end of the 10 minute credits, just like it was at the theatre.

and i am aware of one other trailer out... you can download it, here. i believe, although i'm not 100% sure, that this trailer was at the end of the game, enter the matrix.

How to get it.

[Phybersyk0]

I've done some hunting and found another server that file is being served on. click HERE. you'll be glad you did.

I was getting a ton of disconnects with the URL that is on the Matrix website, so I searched for another way.

i just examined the URLs of other trailers and got lucky i guess.

By the way, this is officially the 3th Trailer:

• 1st was at the end of Reloaded,
• 2nd was at the end of the Enter the Matrix (crap) game (only the Hacking-system was moderately cool). (extra footage that isn't shown in the third one, namely "the Trainman" (played by Bruce Spence of "Mad Max" fame -- the pilot with the bad teeth))
• Third: this one.

anyway, there are already numerous attempts to figure out the storyline, most of which is fairly obvious/predictable... but who cares.

agent smith rules.

Re:Did the bittorrent link get /.'d?

[kyletinsley]

No, BitTorrent is working fine. We just don't like you.

Re:the music

[Sangloth]

The techno-ish music at the beginning sounds like Juno Reactor to me, and the drums at the end are certainly Juno Reactor. I'd guess that the chorus in the middle is Don Davis, who did the ochestral music for Reloaded.

I don't have any facts to back up my assertion, but I listen almost exclusively to Juno Reactor, and have a good idea of their sound. Furthermore, Juno Reactor and Don Davis did a good portion of the music to Reloaded, and both are definitely doing music for Revalations.

Although I admitted I'm not a 100% sure, I'm fairly sure, and on definite steady ground.

Being a devote fan of Juno Reactor, I encourage all readers to visit The Reactor Leak. The front page acknowledges they are doing music for Revalations with Don Davis again.

Sangloth
I'd appreciate any comment with a logical basis...it doesn't even have to agree with me.

Re:Sigh

[MacGod]

It suggests Agent Smith takes over the Oracle. That's a potentially big spoiler. Why else would he be in her kitchen laughing maniacally?

This could possible be because the actress who played the Oracle, Gloria Foster passed away before Revolutions was filmed. Agent Smith in the Oracle's kitchen could be a "workaround" for not having the Oracle in the film at all.

Re:Sigh

[Ryan Amos]

No, the oracle was replaced. They used her replacement in Enter the Matrix and wrote off the new actress with some retarded one-line explanation. Hopefully that won't be part of the movie, but the game is supposedly Matrix canon, so that's probably the official story.

Re:Sigh

[Overly Critical Guy]

The Wachowskis had originally planned that sort of "narrative switch" but didn't want to do that to Gloria Foster. However, what happened happened, and while unfortunate, it did allow them to go through with their original plan of having the Merovingian delete the Oracle.