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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."
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Unfortunately, your troll appears to be proven wrong by reality at this moment. The Time-Warner server with "more bandwidth than God" is buckling and constantly resetting connections. I'm online with a load of people, none of us are getting *anything* off the official site. Right now, BT is the only thing managing to serve up the file. Make of that what you will.
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You're mixing an emotional judgement with a functional and political one.
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Quicktime is crap because Apple upgraded days after you bought it; that's emotional, and has no bearing on technology, functionality, or politics.
Quicktime is available to 99% of the viewing public: Built into the Mac, and often installed on PCs. Why? Because Apple invented (or very nearly did so) the computer video industry *with* Quicktime. Old habits die hard. That's politics/legacy.
As for technology? Apple Quicktime 6 treats mpeg4 *as* a native format. *If* the industry ever supports mpeg4, why do you think it won't be played back on 99% of computers as Quicktime? IE, mpeg4 encoded, quicktime contained.
Then there's functionality. I've already mentioned mpeg4; for all you know, this trailer is *already* encoded in mpeg4. It could be Sorenson3 or any of a number of other officially supported codecs. If you want divx, there's nothing stopping Apple from adopting divx... except of course that you would still be bitching because you don't get what you want... Raw video
If you don't want to transcode it..? I dunno what options you have, except possibly getting an mpeg4 capable DVD player and hoping the industry adopts Apple's Quicktime Mpeg4.
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anyone know what the name/artist for the music tracks in that trailer are?
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Now, I know that on Slashdot as of late it has been decided that we will no longer be permitted to discuss things as the following when a shiny new movie is released (as I have well found out by previous moderation), but I thought I would nonetheless try once again.
Why have things changed? Why don't we talk about such things anymore?
Since this is a story about Warner Bros, and given the many Slashdot stories about this fine corporation and its parent company, as well as several regarding a prominent trade organization to which it belongs, I could not help but conclude the following ought to be both relevant and on topic.
To start, I dropped a little write-up in my journal which may or may not have some entertainment value for you.
That said, I spent a minute or two and started collecting a few rather uninteresting links.
Perhaps Slashdot readers can contribute to this woefully inadequate list?
It would be quite nice to have all of the information in one place, so that it can be referenced by a simple link in future stories where it is relevant, as is this one.
Warner Bros orders 15 year-old Christie Chan to turn over www.harrypotternetwork.net.
Warner Bros orders www.harrypotterisawizard.co.uk to be handed over.
Warner Bros orders 15 year-old Claire Field to turn over www.harrypotterguide.co.uk.
Warner Bros demands 10 year-old daughter hand over www.harry-potter-magic.co.uk.
Because Warner Bros cares so much about you, you can not be allowed access to a signal sent into your house, and not even to exercise widely presumed fair use rights over its content.
And say, has anyone heard about something called DeCSS or the DMCA?
My memory is a bit foggy on this point, but I seem to recall something or another about Warner Bros being involved here? Does it ring a bell for anyone else? Maybe not.
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For those of us trying to watch this trailer with Linux and Mplayer, Xine, et al.... Can anyone provide info on getting the audio track to play nicely?
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I just watched the trailer. I think what will happen in the next movie is Agent Smith finds a way to become human. And once he succeeds, there's no need for the human in the life pods. So Neo is trying to stop him. Just my guess.
Am I the only one who was bored to hell with the recent ROTK trailer? To me there was almost nothing original there, the same old shots of the same old characters. More of the same, especially since Jacko decided to make TTT a movie about Helm's Deep battle and saturated us with the cavalry shots or orc shots or battering ram shots.
Compared to that Matrix 3 looks (at least to me personally and from the trailers that I saw) really fresh and new, which is a surprise, since it should have been just another greenish-hued film about the same old trinity (Neo+Trinity+Morpheus).
I don't know what is that Wachowski brothers have that allows them to make original and innovative sequels (yes, Matrix 2 had it's flows and we haven't seen the third installment yet). Good filmmaking skills may be or is that too banal?
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How about this one? These are a bunch of German students that made a very well-done knockoff of the Matrix, complete with CGI and bullet-time shots. Check it out at Matrix XP.
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Yes, but in a better movie the hero could plausibly fail, even though you know they won't. The entertainment comes from seeing how the hero overcomes the difficulties. When your hero is Superman, though, there isn't much of a struggle. Watching Neo kick ass was like watching a lazy fat man successfully microwave a burrito. It might take a while, but you know he could do it easily whenever he wanted, so until that point he's obviously just fucking around.
I was so happy when Trinity and Morpheus finally stole the screen away from Captain Kung Fu. Even if to get that to happen Morpheus, Trinity, and Neo had to suddenly become complete morons: "Let's split up-- Neo, you engage these guys completely unecessarily, while soft, vulnerable, mortal Trinity and I will flee like mice before the magic floating invisible ghost agents." But I'll forgive that, because we get to finally see some fights with some tension. When Morpheus stands on top of a semi facing an agent and draws his sword, at least you get the impression that he's being brave. You know he isn't going to die, but you don't know that he's going to win, either.
Remember the fight between Neo and the oracle's guardian? How they exchanged blows for a few minutes, and then one of them just decided that the fight was over? Notice how every Neo fight was like that?
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