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!

[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!

[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.

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

[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

[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".

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.

[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:[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.

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:[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

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: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.

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: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.

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 !!