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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."
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.
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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*
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Just incase the page won't resolve: here.
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http://progressive.warnerbros.com/thematrix/us/med /revolutions_640_dl.mov
Direct link to the High Quality version of the trailer.
http://progressive.warnerbros.com/thematrix/us/med /revolutions_640_dl.zip
Zipped version so we dont' have to slashdot their site AS much.
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.
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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...
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. :(
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.)
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
Look whose kitchen he's laughing in.
"Sufferin' succotash."
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.
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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!"
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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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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.
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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)
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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!i ons_640 _dl.mov
Try this:
http://www.whatisthescape.de/files/revolut
I managed to get it off there pretty quick. I pray that they have the bandwidth to stand up to a slashdotting.
"I'm making perfect sense, you're just not keeping up."
IPv6 Mirror
is available here. It is about 11MB in size.
mpeg trailer
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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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.
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:
anyway, there are already numerous attempts to figure out the storyline, most of which is fairly obvious/predictable... but who cares.
agent smith rules.
No, BitTorrent is working fine. We just don't like you.
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.
everything in moderation
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.
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I'd appreciate any comment with a logical basis...it doesn't even have to agree with me.
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.
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wow, the matrix is awesome when there's no plot or dialogue.
-=tonyt=-
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.
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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.
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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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 !!
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.
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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.
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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.
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