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Fanimatrix - The Matrix Re-done By Fans
wishes writes "It appears Matrix fans have banded together to create the fanimatrix. From the Trailer it's not just an amateur event either.
Release date is 27th September. " From the trailer, the movie actually looks good!
The Fanimatrix? Almost sounds like Fannymatrix.. or the next porno spoof of a big motion picture :)
I expect lawsuites, lots of lawsuites.
How can someone not include a QT format? They got every other flavor.
Also, aren't they infringing on WB's copyright?
You think those are kilobytes you're downloading?
if you're only looking for the torrent link to the trailer: here goes
Here is the torrent for the mpeg. Fanimatrix 14MB mpeg trailer
How long before there's a Matrix Convention, with lots of nerds dressing up in black trenchcoats, acting out scenes and theorizing about the symbolism of The Oracle, then having a disco at the end of the evening. Lots of geek girls dressing up as Niobe.
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Actually, you know
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shows some people have some sence :)
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You usually have to live several years in the SciFi sewers of Hollywood to reach such a stage of chaotic transcendence that you are able to write such scripts without your brain exploding.
What I find a little problematic with Matrix is it's open propagation of Satanism. Take e.g. the names of the characters:
- Neo is an anagram of "one", the "one". This doctrine usually refers to the avatar of Satan
because Satan is - unlike God who exists in TRINITY - only ONE being. Furthermore Neo takes clearly the defilers role as he fights against order and propagates anti-autoritarian behavior
and the relativity of moralic values.
- Morpheus doesn't refers to Greek mythology but to the KABBALISTIC figure of M'orphir'ne'us,
servant of the evil one and traditionally the preparator of his plans.
- Nebukadnezar was a heathen king and is mentioned in the Holy Book for serving Baal and being killed by the warth of the LORD. See the book Daniel.
Additionally the crew of the Nebukadnezar has a traditional satanistic agenda: to bring people from the rightful path of order and obedience of the laws of the lord into the labyrinth (!) of chaos and ignorance to natural authorities.Note that both the Church of Set and the OTO declared the Matrix as a recommended film for obvious reasons.
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
Had mozilla crash twice on me surfing over there, ten times tonight, something is definitely wrong with my system. I wonder if Norton AV would pick up the Smith virus...
Sweet... bittorrent links for us who don't like to bring small sites to its knees (we'e a 1% european minority of slashdot, who read the f*cking articles, and not just reload the browser on a page).
Also, the total cost of the film seems to have been somewhere along the lines of $1000 (NZ, $500 US). Maybe they didn't include the cost for Adobe Premiere (which they state they used). Maybe they'd bought it before hooting the film. Or something.
I also note that some people already noticed the bt link, as my connection is now brought to its knees (at 1337 peers, and all seeds fleeing things like that happen).
Trailer looked really nice, despite the accent which you Americans associate with beer.
I like the work they put in their project and it looks really nice. Must have been great fun to shoot the movie, too.
I once did a statist-job for a small film, and it is fun. The same fun people write software for.
There is a similar, albeit not so complicated and shaped project at Matrix-XP.
It won't be long before someone makes it available on CD/VCD/DVD at costs, for those like me who simply don't have a fast enough connection.
There are other sites out there that have every thing from gatherings to RL RPG but one I'm on, that has been around since the beginning, with some of it's members even making it on Matrix Revisited, is Matrixcommunuity
I am impressed with things fans have done, including writing full scripts of their own.
And as the matrix is, there is plenty of room, for everyones story.
Why do all "Matrix" spin-offs have something with "trix" appended to the end? Two examples are "The Animatrix" and now "The Fanimatrix". Why don't they do it the other way round? What's wrong with "The Matran" or "The Matrimation"???
It's also the same with unix. Why don't programs do something other than end in "x" (eg Linux, lynx, lyx, knoppix...)? They should start with "un" (or if you like linux, "lin"). For example, "open-office" could be called "un-office", and "link" could be called "linlink".
apt-get install deathstar && deathstar alderaan && echo "You're far too trusting"
Saw Trinity alike, Neo alike & Agent Smith... What's the freaking point anyway. I mean I respect their creativity/artistry n stuff but come on... use them on something else other than matrix copycat. (or try to make a story like one of those animatrix stories)
Rated R?
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
Don't bother downloading it, its totally arse.
From the trailer it looks like they're competent film makers. I can't comment on the storyline, cos really, the trailer doesn't actually say much about it, its just showing "Look we can copy the stuff the Matrix did".
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I was going to complain about "Why don't these people write their own stories, based on their own created characters, etc etc, then we might have some new worthwhile cinema and new ideas coming though", but I guess there are people who do that, they just don't get on the front page of
I dunno, I guess I have the same feeling about professional cover bands too.
The trailer in cinemas now will be released for download on monday. Of course, there is a leaked version which is pretty low quality, but still it is STUNNING.
Return of the King is going to ROCK!
Their disclaimer says "Although copyrighted materials (e.g. music and sound fx) do appear in this film, we hope that the spirit of goodwill will prevail in allowing us to feature their work on our movie in the hopes that it will promote their own talents."
I like the idea, but it seems far fetched that the copyright holders will actually go for this...
Did you title the story "Re-done" because it sounds more sensationalistic? From their "What is the Fanimatrix" section:
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"The Fanimatrix - Run Program" is a collaboration between over a dozen professional actors, stuntpeople, special effects artists as well as an amateur filmmaking crew (all based in New Zealand) who set out to accomplish four primary goals:
1. Do something constructive with our spare time (boredom is a killer y'know...)
2. Create a short film that the general audience would actually WANT to see
3. Celebrate our mutual love for one of the finest film sagas put on our screens for over a decade - "The Matrix".
4. Provide an opportunity for everyone involved to practice and hone their filmmaking skills and respective talents.
"The Fanimatrix" is a fan-made, zero-budget short film set within the Matrix universe, specifically shortly before the discovery of "The One" (i.e. the first "Matrix" feature film). It tells the story of two rebels - Dante and Medusa - and of their fateful mission onto the virtual reality prison world that is The Matrix.
The film was shot on the Sony Mini-Digital Video format and edited on a PC editing suite utilizing Adobe Premiere, After FX and AlamDV Special FX. The entire production was completed over nine nights, ranging from six to over fifteen hour shoots, not including rehearsal and blocking-tape-shooting sessions. Most of the props, sets and lighting equipment was borrowed and locations were either hired or shot guerilla style. Although the film was a "zero budget" production, the final cost of the movie (combining personal expenses of cast and crew such as investment into costumes, transport costs, food etc) has reached upto approximately $1000 NZ (or $400-$600 US). The movie was shot entirely within Auckland City, New Zealand (our home).
So did the Matrix II....
Think about that!
FANNI-matrix. I thought it was just a new, high-tech way to fax your butt.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
either that or they have no sense of humour.
Hey, it's people just going out and doing something, like this, that get the jobs. Look at 405 The Movie for a good example.
"There is no trailer."
nice troll
this is the first funny soviet russia-joke I've ever seen.
more distributed load bearing
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(not converted to a link as this paranoid site breaks links)
Here is the FAQ. There isn't much other info on the site...
;) That and the amount of petrol we spent zooming around town.
F A Q
F.A.Q.
Q. What the heck does "Fanimatrix" mean?
A. It's the "Fan"-imatrix. As in it's a "fan" film.
Q. Will there by any sequels?
A. Depends. If the movie is popular enough across the Net and if nobody objects to the material, then we may yet see more "Fanimatrix" movies before long. We sure had a lot of fun putting the film together and would relish a second chance, possibly with better equipment and more money as well.
Q. What the heck IS Medusa doing in that office building?
A. Both her and Dante's stories provide lead-in material for a larger body of work should more "Fanimatrix" movies be made. You'll have to wait and see.
Q. What was the most expensive part of the whole project?
A. Possibly Dante's outfit. The actor - Steven A. Davis - got a little carried away we think
Q. What city is the story set in?
A. "Run Program" is not set in the same city that Neo lives in - for one thing all the cars drive on the left side of the road. Although the film is shot in Auckland, we always intended that the setting be something of a bohemian location - possibly Europe. To answer your question succinctly, we didn't really think about it.
Q. What was the most difficult part of the whole project?
A. Possibly the three consecutive nights of shooting in the machine-shop location and the Goth bar - over 48 hours of constant filming and practically all of it involving martial arts, wire-fx and handling large amounts of crew and cast. Combined with incredible lack of sleep, sore muscles and the freezing cold, it was the hardest shoot we'd ever done (professionally or otherwise) and many of us went home that night with our bodies riddled with physical pain and exhaustion.
Q. Is that copy of NMap on Medusa's machine trying to port-scan itself?
A. Shutupshutupshutupshutup....
Q. What are your backgrounds in filmmaking?
A. See our cast and crew page (coming soon).
Q. What sort of martial arts are featured in the "Fanimatrix"?
A. The same type you see in the feature films: Wushu (a.k.a. Chinese Martial Arts or Kung Fu).
Q. Is the story of "Run Program" canon?
A. No, the "Fanimatrix" films are not to be considered canon at all. We are in no way affiliated or involved with the Warschowski Brothers, Warner Brothers Pictures, Silver Pictures or Village Roadshow.
This will probably get modded down to -1, Troll, but...
From the sounds of it, they are more fans of themselves and less fans of the Matrix. People who like the Matrix don't try to overthrow it themselves.
Just a thought.
Well, I can't believe I'm going to bite, but I'll do it anyway. ;)
;)
See, Tolkien's wizards were probably loosely based upon the mythical wizards from his time: Merlin and others of his ilk.
Back in the myths, wizards were defined more by their long age, wisdom, and foresight.
Modern fantasy literature defines wizards as those who wield flashy special effects and blow shit up. Not that I mind flashy methods of blowing up stuff.
Basically, modern fantasy has done to wizards what Star Wars has done to space movies: more flashiness, less subtlety.
Again, I'm not ripping on the wizards of Raistlin's ilk, just pointing out how Lord of the Rings is more of a classical fantasy (if such a thing exists). I love it and am absolutely pleased with how the books have translated to film.
That said, I'd love to see a well-done film adaptation of the Dragonlance stories as well!
Mmmmm.... Pigeons. Sometimes, they come with notes attached...it's like...a fortune cookie with wings.
Some people send me this link:
http://geekadv.finacstudio.com/html/2minutes.html
Although this one didn't mention they "copy" Matrix, or they like Matrix, and the Director deny it has something to related to Matrix, but the fact is that it feel like Matrix.
so where is the full film ?
The Matrix Re* (visited, loaded, volutions, -done)
After watching the matrix many times I've come to the conclusion that there is no meaning that was supposed to be put into the movie. There are many little details thrown in to make people think about possible meanings, but there is no intentional meaning in the movie. Read some good literature and you'll find that there is an exact message the writer wants to convey. It seems to me that the matrix just uses some neato big words and a bit of confusion as a ploy. People want to find some meaning (and are too lazy to read a good book) so they obsess over the details of the movie and proclaim that the movie was intellectually deep and had lots of action.
:P
Someone's DEFINATELY gonna flame me.... not to mention a lil off topic
/. effect :)
I'll check it later. Much more important things to watch like the 1860 Munich v Suttgard game
There are more references in the movie to Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation." In fact, the entire movie is based on his world of signs without a reference ("the simulacra is the truth that hides the fact that there is none").
All through the movie signs are placed and later shown to be fake.
Furthermore Baudrillard advocates all out terrorism and violence to destroy the system (he does that in the last essay in the book), but admits that even terrorism will be assimilated into the system of simulacra by the simulators.
The gnostic and biblical references are just sugar coating.
considering he said KB I would say yes you little jew.
What you find problematic with the Matrix is a good example of what makes the story so great.
You can apply so many interpretations to the meanings of the story and its characters. And each interpretation can have an almost complete comparison to a philosophical analogy or school of thought.
Many people apply the hero journey as the correct interpretation. I find them all intriguing.
Some french company already released the Pornimatrix. It was actually kinda funny. Er, not that I saw it or anything. Oh drat. ;-)
What is that song in the trailer anyone know?
when will you geeks realize that the Matrix is just a so-so science-fiction movie, whose sole 'meaning' is to sell popcorn.
Go watch a real movie. Like 'Scarface'.
Say hello to my little friend.
It's great to see Ben Stiller working, again.
Yes! This shows that, as time progresses, we will need less and less of organizations like MPAA and hollywood; people will be turning out local, low-budget films, that will probably be much more interesting than huge-budget films, with extreme overkill on the special effects, and extremely horrible acting(*cough* Star wars ep I & II come to mind *cough*). I welcome this new occurance!
Being consistent is a sure sign of sanity. Never go that path, my son.
And anyone who disagrees with me can watch a double feature of VIRUS and SUPERNOVA and learn the true definition of "that which sucks."
LInux LOader.
Well, I can't take of any others. Point taken.
Fuck Beta. Fuck Dice
This should be legal for two reasons:
1) none of the copyright holders for any of the material used in this film or that this film is based on are losing ANYTHING because of it
2) they aren't making money. In fact, they are losing money on it.
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Wouldn't be hard. I can't remember the last time I was actually bored throughout so much of a movie. Fight, long speech, long fight, long speech, long fight, long speech, finale fight, end. Ugh. I actually felt embarrased during a few parts of the movie (e.g. Morpheus' endless caveman rant).
It'd be funny wouldn't it, if this fan-flick turned out to be like "The Phantom Edit"--a movie that was actually interesting. God bless you Lucas and the W-bros for what you created, but you should have stopped while you were ahead.
You know what these indie fan-flick creators should really do... open source the material. I wonder what kind of movie we'd end up with after a few dozen people had tweaked it. Would it evolve like code, constantantly getting new features, fixed plot holes, better CGI, forks when two groups had different ideas about how the picture should evolve?
Somehow, people have this notion that stories should be set in stone, forever remembered exactly as they were created. But this is only a recent development. For the vast majority of human history, when stories were passed down verbally, they evolved from generation to generation, teller to teller. Some stories were preserved for ages because it was possible to allow them to stay relevant and interesting with subtle changes when necessary. 50 years from now will anyone still care about Reloaded? Probably not. But might it be different if people could "fix" it when necessary (like right now). Who knows?
Just because someone posts a viewpoint far from the ordinary doesn't mean he's trolling or flaming.
I loved the part about the batteries -- "chaotic transcendence" and "brain exploding" -- that was pretty funny, and well put.
the rest of the post is pretty funny as well.
I would mod it up as funny, but those without a sense of humor would probably get scared by it and mod it back down. This has generated over 20 replies so far -- trolls just don't get that kind of play. If he is trolling, he did a darn good job. Mod posts down for being stupid or offensive, not for just thinking differently.
This post is interesting because it generates thought, and interest. There is no -1 (fundamentalist) option.
I'm not knocking the movie itself - it's far better than anything I could do in less than 2 weeks. But to me it seemed a showcase for a bunch of don't-know-if-i'm-bi-straight-or-gay Goths that found a way to get themselves the attention they so desparately crave. Trent Reznor, Marilyn Manson or Twiggy Ramirez could've been cast and nobody would've noticed.
-- Two in the pink, one in the sink.
My poor little 350MHz Sawtooth G4 plays it just fine using MPlayer OSX -- either the DiVX Windoze player sucks or peecees really are that slow.
Man, think of the possibilities. You've seen Neo fight 100 Agent Smiths simultaneously now watch him do battle against 50 billion sheep! Burly brawl, make way for Wooly brawl!
I pity the fool who would have to digitially add sunglasses to each one of those little dudes...
GMD
watch this
Also, aren't they infringing on WB's copyright?
I dunno but when I first saw the big Plutoian Shore Productions logo come up I screamed in terror because I thought it said "Pauly Shore Productions"!
Now that would have sucked, my friends.
GMD
watch this
There seem to be more and more of these kinds of ultra-independent movies coming out as the technology gets cheaper and the software more widespread. Is there a central rallying point for these kinds of zero-budget films? Some sort of collective or wiki or forum site or anything? This process of doing these movies really fascinates me, and I'd wonder what all these folks would say if they got themselves and their projects together in the same place. I mean, there's atomfilms, but that's even more more mainstream than this kind of stuff, IMHO. Anyone?
No text. But that matrix clips is funny. Wish I had a MOD point.
I just saw the trailer, and all I can say is that it looked like a bad 1980's Duran Duran video.
Torture us no more.
Do you mean this one?
It depends. If they quoted a fair use sample, there's nothing anyone can do to stop them.
If they outright copied complete music or an extended sound fx sequence, they're in trouble.
My friend suggested mobbing. I think that's the term that recent events used (people shouting at each other for no reason -- planned out) in public places. It would be amusing to see this with Matrix theme. ;)
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something of a bohemian location - possibly Europe.
That would make since, given that Bohemia is in Europe.
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haw-haw-haw! Classic that one! Gee did you think up the sheep jokes all by yourself? Let me guess, you are from Australia right? It's obvious...
I've never stepped foot on the asian continent. I happen to have a good friend who's a kiwi and he never seems to go ape-shit over the sheep jokes. Just relax. So you guys have a lot of sheep. So what? We've got Ashcroft. Every country has got to have something that the rest of the world can laugh at.
GMD
watch this
another unoriginal fanmovie
this looks like ass. dont bother downloading it. wait for the real deal.
Its now downloadable Go to website. Please use the torrent if you can, it helps ease the bandwidth consumption and general costs :D
Thanks!
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I'll put up $10/year. I think that's more than generous.
In case you were wondering, the Full Release just came out.
GL
...and to all those who want to watch the whole thing here's the complete torrent (135 MB)
The-Fanimatrix-(DivX-5.1-HQ).avi.torrent
'No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them' - Dave Sim
Did anyone else notice, in the last clip of video in the new trailer, you can see a blue sky with the moon clearly visible behind the diving ship. It will be interesting to find out if this is at the end of the movie or near the begining. If it's at the begining, it will mean that the "Human farms" are now expendable because the Machines will have access to solar power again! Does anyone else see how much just that one clip adds to the mystery of the coming movie and what may happen?
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I've watched about 5 minutes of it so far, and while their technical expertise is clearly up to snuff, near as I can tell it is a vision of what The Matrix would have been if they'd cast Ben Stiller as Neo and Doogie Howser as Agent Smith.
Being one of the fortunate (!) souls getting their butts kicked within this film, I would like to say that we're all very much ecstatic with the final result. Being a part of the engine, you never get to see the whole thing until it's done and everyone can see it. There were a bunch of questions I saw but I can't remember them all so I won't bother with any just now. I would like to mention that the imitation of the characters Neo and Trinity are purely incidental, err, I think. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have worked without a female in wet-look PVC and a male that can kick butt.
Apparently the site got /.-ed and is still gone...
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The first 45 seconds and last minute and a half is nothing but credits, disclaimers, and other BS. What a waste! This isn't a 2 hour movie guys, you don't need 2+ minutes for a 14:30 clip, especially when we're downloading it, adding an extra ~25 megs on the mpeg version. Besides that some of the fight scenes were a little slow and obviously choreographed, and the whole British theme is overdone since everyone knows every nationality will speak American English in the future...
my karma will be here long after I'm gone