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!

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow downloading a commercial for a second rate sci fi sequel! Membership has its advantages! Where do I sign?

Re:Wow!

[5i]

Damn bittorrent.

I mean, I'm sure there's some point here.. but:

download rate: 0 k/s
upload rate: 22 k/s

and this from a country where you pay for every byte transmitted. I'm sure there's a "tragedy of the commons" lesson in here somewhere..

kill -9 bittorrent.

Re:Wow!

[wo1verin3]

>>Please press ALT-4 to locate the most
>>appropriate site for your interests

Done, I pressed ALT-4 and I'm being prompted for my username and password, and my Lynx session disappeared, how did you hax0r my system?

Re:Wow!

[corgicorgi]

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.

Re:Wow!

[ndogg]

You guys really ought to look at the documentation for BitTorrent sometimes. If used correctly, BitTorrent is pretty nice, actually, but I digress.

--max_uploads num
Only allow num uploads at once (default 4)

--max_upload_rate kbytes
maximum rate to upload at in kilobytes, 0 means no limit (default 0)

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

Re:Wow!

[kill-1]

You can do that with Linux, too. Preferrably with the HTB packet scheduler (Hierarchical Token Buckets or so). Just enable it in your kernel under "Qos and/or fair scheduling". Then you might want to read some HOWTOs, because it's not really intuitive.

Works like a charm here with our ADSL connection. SSH is perfectly useable even while you're downloading at full speed.

Re:Wow!

[Elwood P Dowd]

Man, Agent Smith looks absolutely crazy in this trailer. I still think he looks better with long hair.

No, he looks better with high heels and a bra.

Woa

[numbski]

I think I hear a straw gurgling someplace...

"Mr. Anderson, you're the one!
You make bullet time oh so fun!
Mr. Neo I'm ever so fond of you..."

*ducks*

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.

Re:And direct link to a Zip of it

[Creepy Crawler]

Perhaps you are SLASHDOTTING a pipe.

You can clog a mid-connection router that's failovered by too much traffic. That way, it looks to everybody coming from that router that the links slashdotted, when in reality, and request originating from that segment is "slashdotted".

Spoilers

[Ignorant Aardvark]

Am I the only one who absolutely refuses to watch these trailers? I mistakenly saw the trailer for Reloaded, and the whole Burly Brawl was completely spoiled when they showed a cloud of Agent Smiths getting tossed off in a "mushroom cloud." If you hadn't seen that, you'd really be worried when the Smiths completely enveloped Neo, because you wouldn't know how he was going to get out of it. But the preview spoiled it, and so that fight (possibly the best in the movie) was entirely spoiled for me because I knew the outcome - if hundreds of Agent Smiths couldn't even hold Neo down, how could he possibly lose?!

I hate how movie companies are putting more and more give-aways in their trailers just to get more people to come see it. It speaks volumes about how they only care about the bottom line, and how little they care about the integrity of the movie as art. I've heard from my friends about American Wedding (which I didn't want to see) - it was a waste of money because they already saw all the best parts on the ads!

And that is why I refuse to watch Revolutions trailers. As the movie's release date draws nearly it's going to get harder for me, as I'll have to turn away from the TV and cover my ears whenever the ads come up. But it'll be worth it, because I absolutely hate spoilers.

Re:Spoilers

[joenobody]

Trinity dies at the end, it was in the trailer.

Re:Spoilers

[mec]

I agree that the graphics looked bad in the burly brawl.

My explanation: the Matrix itself is getting overloaded when 100 Smith's show up and need to be rendered. When the Matrix renders 100 people in a normal crowd, those 100 people have 100 brains that can be tapped for distributed rendering. But when it renders 100 clones of Smith, there's a bottleneck.

I enjoy the bits where the Matrix simulation gets overstressed, like the Deja Vu scene in the first movie. I'm hoping to see more and more of that as this cycle of the Matrix goes through, well, Ragnarok.

Re:Spoilers

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, Trinity was Morpheus, and Neo was Agent Smith. They were all going to a party in Mulholland Drive and then everything got messed up. Whoa!

Re:Spoilers

[Robmonster]

I am constantly surprised by how seriously some people take the Matrix movies.

You can always tell a true fan when they make up their own excuses for a films short-comings.

Re:Spoilers

[xThinkx]

Man, you're so right. They RUINED the LOTR trilogy for me by releasing these stupid books when I was younger and I read them. I mean, the books had almost everything that was in the movies, why would I want to go see the movies now? That made the movies absolutely suck because they were "spoiled".

Re:Spoilers

[Chris Burke]

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?

Hope its better then the 2nd one

[Billly Gates]

The second one sucked really bad. I mean if it did not have the "matrix" label on it, it probably would of bombed on the box office. The first one rocked so I am not anti-matrix by any means. I was more plot and less action. It seems like the second one was about how to make a movie with more actions seens then any other with little plot.

Re:Hope its better then the 2nd one

[phantumstranger]

I've heard a lot of people say things along the same lines as you and, while I don't entirely disagree with the fact that there was tons more action than plot movement in this one, I must point something out.

Reloaded is the part of The Matrix story where they (we) believe they (again, we) are at the eleventh hour. At the eleventh hour and a make-or-break mission at hand to save the world from the machines there really isn't that much that needs to be said.

In watching the film the plot movement is the fight scenes. There are bits of clues left in most of the fights that pertain not only to the "present day" Matrix but also the prior Matrices (?) and the bugs that were in them.

I would think there will be plenty more narrative story in Revolutions given the three endings Reloaded had. (Spoiler warning) One - The Matrix loop, Two - Neo's power in The Real World, Three - the Judas character / agent.

I was very happy with Reloaded not just with the fight scenes but with the way they moved the story along. I would ask you to wait for the DVD and rent it to notice the little things - the subtle things - that the Wachowskis did with it.

Re:Hope its better then the 2nd one

[sTalking_Goat]

Reloaded had to be the most disappointing movie of 2003. The problem was that they basically had nowhere to go after the first one. Wire-Fu has been done to death by everyone after Matrix came out now what? More wire-fu? I ope the W bros learned their lesson but I doubt it. I'll see it a few weeks after release anyway.

Re:Hope its better then the 2nd one

[gosand]

The second one sucked really bad. I mean if it did not have the "matrix" label on it, it probably would of bombed on the box office. The first one rocked so I am not anti-matrix by any means. I was more plot and less action. It seems like the second one was about how to make a movie with more actions seens then any other with little plot.

Allow me to offer another opinion. The second movie was really good, it was just laid out poorly. Everything you were looking for was there, it was just all crammed into one part of the movie. You didn't have time to digest what was happening in the plot before the next big action sequence. In the first one, you got to figure out what was going on as you went. In the second one, it was action action action PLOT action action action. Yes, the love scene was bad, the "Soddom and Gomorrah" part could have been done a little better. Morpheus did pontificate a little too much, and some of the dialog was corny. But I think when you can finally put all the movies together the second one will fit. At least I hope it will. I was disappointed right after I saw it, but the more I talked about it with my wife, I saw some of the more symbolic references. Now with most movies, I would think that it could just be coincidental, but I think the Warchowski brothers know what they are doing, and put them in there on purpose.

I am glad that they had some swordplay in the second one, I thought that was pretty cool. But I think that the real gist of the second movie was to introduce The Architect and to let agent Smith go off the deep end.

The first movie was better, because it introduced The Matrix to us. There is nothing they could do in the second one to compete with that, just like T2 couldn't come up with the same magic of the Terminator. (although they did a nice twist with the second one where Arnold was the good guy). But with the Terminator, they had nowhere to go with the 3rd one. I didn't see it, and probably won't. The interest wasn't there for me. With The Matrix, I really want to see what happens in the third one. Hopefully they'll wrap it up nicely and make it a great trilogy.

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...

Cookies....me want cook....oooh, blue pill!

[numbski]

Me want blue pill!

Sorry. Been hanging around my nephew waaay too much.

btw people, drop to terminal and....

wget http://progressive.warnerbros.com/thematrix/us/med /revolutions_640_dl.mov

Have a nice evening. ;)

Re:Cookies....me want cook....oooh, blue pill!

[(startx)]

change the .mov to .zip and you should still be able to grab it. I am right now at least. If the connect dies, remember to use -c with wget to resume.

Re:Interesting...

[LordoftheFrings]

What I really like is that you took this opportunity to flaunt your 21" display. I now have a severe case of Display Envy.

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. :(

Whoa.

[Mr. Flibble]

Neo: I know how to disable the matrix.

Morpheus: How Neo?

Neo: Post an article about the trailers on slashdot, and slashdot it!

(Neo posts to slashdot...)

Morpheus: It's working, the matrix is breaking down!

(Now, could someone actually tell me what is in the trailer? I am on cable and I can't get it.)

Re:Whoa.

[Overly Critical Guy]

Slashdot is to the internet as Agent Smith clones are to the Matrix!

Re:Whoa.

[lastninja]

"Unfortunately no one can be told what`s in the trailer ... ..They must experience it for themselves"

Potential spoiler?

[Overly Critical Guy]

Look whose kitchen he's laughing in.

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.

There is no athlete's foot

[Dark Paladin]

I'm trying to imagine how miserable shooting that scene in the rain was, especially when you realize it probably wasn't done on the first take.

Wearing all those clothes, which are sopping wet, and that water ruining the shoes, getting into the socks, and you've got to run in it -

Granted, I'm sure the actors got a great paycheck out of it. But every time I watch them running in the rain, I can't help but feel for those poor, wrinkled little toes encased in shoes that are screaming "No - keep the mold away! Save us, Gold Bond!"

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:slashdot their servers?

[MarcoAtWork]

wget -c is your friend

IMAX seating

[Azethoth666]

I think what he is trying to say is get seats around the projector - can't beat a projector's eye view.

Re:[OT] Trolling

[JayBlalock]

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.

Omaha sucks!

[KlomDark]

The IMAX here at the Zoo is so lame that they won't play it (Because it's not 'educational'), but then again, they bitch about not making enough money... Stupid stupid people.

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)

Re:[OT] Trolling

[kgarcia]

Hrm... I dunno where you are located... here in the east coast, the "more bandwidth than God" server can serve me at the most 10k/s, but BT just dled nicely at 66-150k (and i'm leaving the torrent window up for others when it's done)... make of that what you will...

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.

Re:Have we Slashdotted Time-Warner?

[leppi]

use wget:

[....]

00:12:21 (202.46 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 3633960. Retrying.
00:12:45 (129.40 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 5860693. Retrying.
00:13:09 (191.46 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 9888738. Retrying.
00:13:36 (85.02 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 11602879. Retrying.
00:13:51 (157.34 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 13091131. Retrying.
00:14:36 (191.56 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 19682135. Retrying.
00:15:00 (142.33 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 21819091. Retrying.
00:15:18 (162.42 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 23366711. Retrying.
00:15:57 (202.18 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 29524763. Retrying.
00:16:21 (156.53 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 31670408. Retrying.

00:16:43 (209.72 KB/s) - `revolutions_640_dl.mov' saved [34239231/34239231]

Good job, wget!

Re:[OT] Trolling

[styxlord]

There are a lot of peers sitting at 100% and occasionally some peers are getting as much as 700k/sec download speeds, but it looks like everyone is setup to not allow inbound connections (and with the current set of worms on the lose who could blame them). Time for some temporary firewall adjustments.

IPv6 mirror

[jroysdon]

IPv6 Mirror

LOL

[2nd Post!]

You're mixing an emotional judgement with a functional and political one.

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.

How to avoid the rst

[Silicon Snake]

Just use a download manager like Reget (www.reget.com), or any manager that automatically opens new/multiple sessions. If warner resets your connection, the manager will just open another one (or multiple sessions) to compensate. I just downloaded the trailer in 2 min., after failing several times with Opera.

the music

[Hes Nikke]

anyone know what the name/artist for the music tracks in that trailer are?

i like and i want :D

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:the music

[Anonymous Coward]

Fluke - Absurd (Whitewash Edit)

trailer in mpg format

[vivek7006]

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

Re:trailer in mpg format

[Adam9]

It's a glitch in the matrix. Run. Now. Take the door to your right, go down the hallway, go down the stairs, make a left, open the front door, and make a left on Pinecross St. then a right on St. Bernard's, after that, there will be two pills on the counter in the pastry shop on the left. Choose one.

Re:trailer in mpg format

[sehryan]

This isn't the new trailer. This is the EOM Trailer that has been out for quite a while.

The new trailer starts by focusing in on Neo when he looks to be laying on the ground.

Warner Bros - We meet again.

[The Revolutionary]

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.

Re:Warner Bros - We meet again.

[thebatlab]

But it's the trilogy finale! We can't boycott yet!! I need to know what happens! Is he a machine? Is the matrix inside another matrix? Is it all "just a movie".

Can we get all pissy about the stuff you mentioned after this movie comes out? Ok, awesome. Thanks :)

Re:Warner Bros - We meet again.

[Kallahar]

Did it ever occur to you that maybe some people are anti movie-industry but that some people are pro movie-industry? Did it occur to you that slashdot is run by an entire community?

There isn't one voice, there isn't one agenda, and lumping everyone into a "slashdot crowd" is an overgeneralization. Slashdot presents stories that it's readers have found to be interesting. It's not some plutocracy deciding what we should be reading and thinking.

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.

fanboys, untie!

[randyest]

OK, you know what? I read all the comments, and it seems everyone was afraid to say this (perhaps to avoid being labeled a fanboy?), but that trailer rocked my world , and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

I can't effin wait to see the end to this.

Edonkey

[cca93014]

I dont have any luck with bittorrent. For those that run an edonkey client, the hash is here:

ed2k://|file|revolutions_640_dl.mov|34239231|25F 18 0DC6AA5324F2B04BBBC7C6C9C82|/

AAC audio, libfaad

[aSiTiC]

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?

Re:AAC audio, libfaad

[superjaded]

"Nicely?" How is it "not nice" for you?

I'm running mplayer 0.91 and it sounds fine right out of the box. Using libfaad2 1.1.

Of course, I'm using OSS with a stereo speaker system with sound that only comes out of the right channel, so I may not be able to accurately judge whether or not something sounds nice. :P But no real problems on my end.

I'm having more problems on the video end myself.. first time in a LONG time that I've gotten one of those "Your system is too SLOW to play this!!" messages.

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.

perfect

[tonyt]

wow, the matrix is awesome when there's no plot or dialogue.

LOTR2 trailer had a terrible spoiler too

[caitsith01]

I couldn't agree more, they put waaay too much into trailers sometimes. In the Two Towers trailer, they actually went so far as to show that Gandalf was alive even though as far as the plot and the characters were concerned he was dead as of the end of the first movie. To me this is the equivalent of making a trailer for the Empire Strikes back and putting in a clip of Darth Vader saying "I am your father!" and Luke screaming "No!!!"

Yeah, yeah, I know we all know that Gandalf was going to live because we're cool and we read the books, but perhaps there were people out there who didn't know, and after all it's the principle of the thing. The worst part is that you can't escape the trailers when you go to see a movie.

Re:LOTR2 trailer had a terrible spoiler too

[BoneFlower]

I thought he had been dead too... hold the line so the rest could escape.

And, they weren't entirely clear in the movies, but in the books it is made clear that his mortal shell was in fact killed. Gandalf is basically an angel, who came to Middle Earth along with the rest of the Wizards to help organize resistance against Sauron, a fallen angel. He was the only one to remain on the path, and one of only two(out of five) to stay on the side of good.

Re:Go read the LOTR books

[Billly Gates]

The books are different and alot better. I just finished the first movie after I finished the book. What a difference. The movie was mediocre.

In the book there are whole different adventures on the way to Modor that have been deleted out for the sake of lousy action scenes. For example did you know that Gandalf actually sent Strider to meet up with Frodo? Or that the riders did not know where Frodo was and were confused for the first third of the book? Or the whole crew got eaten up by a tree way before they entered the bar "prancy poney"?

Also their are many stories about middle earth that are not in the movie that will make you appreciate the movies more.

It was a climax because you wondered how they would throw off the riders next. They went through whole shortcuts in swamps and forests to throw them off. It was way after the prancing poney did the riders know for sure where Frodo was going. Infact the riders can only see him with the ring and not automatically know where he is the second he puts the ring on. THey still can sniff it if Frodo is close however.

I will not spoil it for you but the subplots were deffinetly different. Go read the first 2 books and then watch the movie last. This way you will not be spoiled and know more about middle earth that was deleted from the movies. Then you can finish return of the king on your own.

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.

Matrix 3 vs. LOTR 3

[danila]

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?

Another link. Absolutely hilarious

[vivek7006]

Checkout this . It's a video of two guys playing table tennis, "Matrix Style". They have performed matrix style effects live on the stage. Really funny stuff !!

Because...

[Channard]

..he really likes her cookies, and is inspired by their crunchy goodness to stop trying to take over the world and open a chain of bakeries. 'So, Mr Anderson.. chocolate chip or cherry?'

Re:Sigh

[Robmonster]

Didnt the article say that films 2 and 3 were shot on the same 240 day shoot?

Re:No spoilers

[tiled_rainbows]

People complained that the Reloaded trailer contained almost all of the "money shots."

Man, you guys in the US must have seen a totally different edit. I didn't even know there was a hardcore version.

600km/s ???

[kinnell]

It's kinda sobbering watching that bit torrent link go through the roof. 30 peers at 600km/s

You mean your PC was so overloaded that it got blown through the roof at mach 2? Totally heinous, dude.

Origin of the classical music in the teaser

[theefer]

I guess Sangloth was right with his Juno Reactor guess about the electronic part of the teaser soundtrack, but Juno obviously didn't write the classical music part of it.

James Newton Howard (The Fugitive, The 6th Sense, ...) is the author of the classical bit, this is the track 20 ("Tarawa") of his soundtrack for the movie Snow Falling on Cedars. You can find this information on Soundtrack.Net as well as a french fan forum (thanks to ZeDuckMaster for this url). The song sounds just great, I have to get this album now ;-)

Matrix XP - The Sequel

[hanwen]

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.

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.