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The Matrix: Revolutions Theatrical Trailer
Escape Tangent writes "The full theatrical trailer for The Matrix: Revolutions was posted just moments ago at thematrix.com. Choose your poison, then oogle at the eyecandy. Here are links to the high, medium, and low resolutions. Sorry folks, Quicktime 6 only." This trailer is much longer than the earlier TV spots, but they're still available.
Why quicktime 6 only? Why Why Why?
Shit I am even running Windows NT4 (work's SOE) and I still can't run it (and yes it is after hours)
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mplayer plays this just fine! make sure you have faad faac.sf.netand the cvs of libavcodec (ffmpeg.org seems to be down) and it plays! no need for binary codecs either!
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HQ torrent
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Mirror is here. This is medium res one, let me know if you want high res.
Torrent is up Matrix Revolutions Trailer (XviD/Mp3)
Here's the ed2k link:
rev_theatre_0x3839_640_dl.mov
the hash is: 43581a3059cad96a33bde304f5622523
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Quicktime isn't a codec, it's an API which encompasses a number of codecs. It can't be 'released for DirectX' because it's a coding framework, not a video file format.
Because Quicktime is an API, not a file format, it is easy to write a movie player. There are plenty of people who dislike Apple's player and have written their own - a Google search on "alternative quitime player windows" reveals a few.
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From what i saw of the trailer i might assume:
.. and makes neo more grandious). It's know confirmed that it can really destroy sentinels with it's own thought.
.. forget about dual layer matrices and stuff, why complicate the simple, it's just and action flick, i will certainly enjoy it, and after watching it i'll get on with my life as usual, and wait for another original SciFi story (or kinda original... )
1 - Both humans and machines realize that they cannot be exclusive, they must coexist. (at least some part of the machines)
2 - That giant pinhead in the beguining is the arquitect(?) in it's machine form.
3 - Smith becomes a virus (already seen in Reloaded), with unger for power, it's machine/AI liders are unable to control it anymore. They need neo's help, and he will give it. Smith also instanciates himself as a human, into banes body. It tries to kill neo in the real world. I assume he fails.
4 - Neo is able to tune it's powers in both worlds , but for that it needs to cover up it's eyes to concentrate (i know that this might sound a little stupid, but it's just a movie
5 - I can assume that those sentinels are controlled by Smith (or by a renegade machine faccion). Otherwise it would seem stupid that the machines asked neo's help to stop smith and then tried to destroy mankind.
6 - From the end of the trailer we see that the world is changing again, we can see some sky uncovered, and a moon?
7 - The end of the movie probably will end with smith's destruction and human and machines coexisting happily forever. As the world changes machines will have solar power again, and start gradually releasing the humans inside the pods.
That's simple as that
I fuse with Mercer every single day...
There is one truth in the universe. That is, a consistent thread throughout the real world and in the matrix. That is
Neo is the one in a sense larger than just the matrix, but throughout the entire universe. That his powers were discovered within the matrix doesn't mean they are confined to the matrix. This truth is inevitable to all in the universe, even computers and computer programs.
Note the converse is not true. Otherwise I would a hot girl, rather than some ugly guy.
MPlayer isn't too tough to install, and it plays QT6 files very nicely (including the trailer). The documentation is unfortunately very intimidating, so it makes it look like more of a hassle than it really is. Here are some tips for some of you that have difficulties with running MPlayer. These may help you get better output as well.
c s/
/usr/win32
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gui
.mplayer/config file and you won't have to enter the ao or vo stuff. For example...
A) Download these codec packs from the MPlayer codec site at
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/code
"Latest Win32 codecpack"
"QuickTime6 DLLs"
"RealPlayer9 codecs (including RV40)"
B) Put Windows codecs in
C) Build and install the player (after downloading the source, of course).
make
make install (as root)
D) Run with one of the following:
mplayer -vo xv -ao sdl filename
mplayer -vo xv -ao oss filename
mplayer -vo xv -ao alsa9 filename
Or as a last ditch effort...
mplayer -vo x11 -ao esd
mplayer -vo x11 -ao artsd
XV output is the best way to play back video. It's fast and it's pretty, but your card has to support it. Most chips that work under XF86 (outside of generic framebuffer mode) will work with this. X11 mode is a much slower fallback. There's an OpenGL option as well, which may work for some users.
Optionally, put the mplayer options in your
vo=xv
ao=sdl
You can enable the GUI with:
gui=yes
I prefer not using it though, as CPU load is increased quite a bit in many cases when using the GUI.
There are lots of extra options for stuff like 5.1 sound and other things, but these are the basics to get it working well.
D) Take the moon for ransom by means of Linux/MPlayer powered androids.
My theory is that the matrix is a life support system for the humans. The war between the machines and the humans ended long ago and the earth was scorched. It was realized that without the sun, humans would have source of food, the world would become cold so the matrix was designed to keep humans alive until the world was habitable.
A system as complex as the Matrix would require maintenance and programmers so a system is set up to select new leaders and programmers. Did anyone else find it odd that the only people who leave the matrix are computer geeks? Are they so special?
I think the reason that Neo had to choose between the human race and Trinity is to show his dedication to the human race. If he could not put aside his feelings for Trinity, how could he be trusted to run the Matrix for the good of humanity.
I also think that some of the real programmers/maintainers have been seen in the matrix (the Architect, the Oracle, the councillor who took Neo to the basement).
My last guess is that the real world is already habitable. If this is the 6th matrix then probably 600 years have gone by...
No one has mentioned that apparently, in the "real" world, Neo gets his eyes cut up! If you watch, the scene where Neo and Trinity are flying a hovercraft into the sea of sentinals [and he blows them up], the bandana isn't across his eyes for concentration: its there because his whole eye region is bloody (blood/cuts extend in every direction from beneath the bandana). My theory, the Smith that got into the human body manages to blind him before they kill the Smith.
"Stumble before you crawl"
Here is the full description of the trailer
It starts off with a long tracking shot, the camera flying along 3 huge powerlines in the desert of the real which seem to go on forever, before finally going over a rise as we see that they extend for many more miles beyond. Cut to the shot of Neo looking at that huge machine overlord orb-thing that we see in the "Control" spot, only we get more of the start of it, which actually shows that Neo is standing on the edge of some huge ledge or something, looking out over one of the "growing field" as the orb rises up infront of him and says "SPEAK!"
Fade to black, voiceover by Neo "The program Smith has grown beyond your control. You cannot stop him, but I can" various shots of Smith are played over the end of this, including the one of Smith stepping into the middle of the long raining street we've seen in the teasers, plus one of him that I'm 99% sure is him sitting at a table with the Oracle (although we don't actually see her), as well as a couple more shots of Smith and Neo standing in the rain that we've seen before.
"And if you fail?" the booming voice asks, which now appears to have a "face" of sorts. Cut to the shot of Smith flying through the wall and Neo jumping over him that we've all seen before, then back to Neo, his eyes covered in bandages, the same angle as he says the "Smith" bit before in the "Control" spot. "I won't" he replies, after which we see a "jack spike" enter his head, indicating that he jacks into the Matrix immediately after making this 'deal' with the machines.
The green WB/Village Roadshow logos appear, then we get the shot of Trinity from "Help" saying "Do you know what happened to Neo?", then we get a shot of Neo against the white wall of the train station, followed by the one of that huge war machine from the teasers.
Oracle voiceover: "He is trapped in a place between this world and the machine world." As she says this we get a shot of Neo sitting up on the train station with the white wall behind him, the little girl (Rama's daughter from the newly released pictures) standing by his side, followed by the first ever shot of 01, standing like a giant castle in the desert of the real, surrounded by growing fields. It looks as though it's made up of huge cylinders, all blueish-red in tone, and appears to be absolutely massive.
Fade to white: the shot of Trinity, Morpheus and Seraph descending the stairs into Club Hel that's been shown in many of the teasers plays next and a voiceover by the Merovingian begins. He says "Bring me the eyes of the Oracle and I will give you back your....'saviour'." As he says this we see a new shot of the exiles surrounding Trinity, guns drawn. Then we see Neo standing by a train with Rama and his wife and daughter next to him, the long-haired "Train Man" infront. The Train Man punches Neo in the chest as the family look on, and he goes flying backwards, smashing into the white wall, which breaks on impact (the voiceover is still going on).
Cut to the Merovingian sitting on a sofa/seat talking (so the voiceover technically ends here as we see him speaking the res of it), holding a glass of wine very casually, then to Neo on his hands looking to his side (still in the train station, so obviously looking at the Train Man after having been laid into).
Lots of Matrix code then flies out from the screen, before cutting to, basically, the exact same opening as the "Enemy" TV spot, with Neo having a jack plug pulled from his head, Smith saying "Mr Anderson" (voiceover the shot of Bane waking up that we've seen before instead of the WB/VR logos though like in the TV spot), then Neo saying "Who are you?!" and which a bloodied Bane/Smith replies "Look past the flesh...(cut to 'burning Smith face')...and see your enemy."
Neo - "It's impossible!" then the shot of the dozens of Smith's walking through (we assume) the Oracle's door, before cutting back to Bane with the voice over from him saying "Not impossible - INEVITABLE!" before we once again see the shot o
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Well then, people are wrong. QuickTime has never, ever been codec-specific.
Also, Sorenson are a company, and they've made more than one codec. There is no single "Sorenson codec".
AVI is yet another container. 'AVI' does not mean 'DivX', just as '.mov' does not mean 'Sorenson Video', no matter what these people you refer to may think.
This is where you don't know what you're talking about.
This is where you're a pot accusing a kettle of being black, although the kettle is actually quite clean.
Gametab just put up a torrent here.
Another fact to boolster your theory: Merovingian is a genealogical line of Frankish Kings in the Middle ages. They are a real and documented historical fact and played a great influence in the early Middle ages in Western Europe (such as one of them beating back the Moors at the South of France). There's even a musical based on one of them, Peppin (I belive - I don't listen to musicals).
This isn't as important as the occult significance they have. Some claim that the Merovingian line is descended from Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. Jesus, after 'dying', merely had someone else crucified and then eloped and went into Europe.
Now, that Neo can be seen as a Jesus figure (whether normal Christianity or Gnosticism) is a pretty often argued argument. So the interpretation that the Merovingian is a Neo that decided to enjoy the pleasures of the Matrix instead of saving/unsaving humanity? Mary Magdalene (if I remember my sunday school) was a reformed prostitute who fell under the spell of Jesus.
So the names (and even the French accent! Franks == Medieval French, more or less) certainly lend credence to that view.
A good book (by which I mean thorough - not necessarily accurate or sensible) is Holy Blood, Holy Grail. An interesting tidbit, the title refers to the fact that the Latin sangreal can be broken into either sang real (Royal Blood) or san greal (Holy Grail). Hence the title.
As for anyone attacking this argument, remember: I don't care if the authors of that book (and many others) wrote them tripping on Opium. The fact is that they named a French speaking rogue matrix program with a beautiful wife (and mistresses) who controls power 'the Merovingian". Do you think they just pulled early middle age dynasties out of a hat?
The best is QuickTime Alternative, made by the Kazaa Lite guys. Get it here.
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