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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.
Basically, they say Neo is trapped in a world between the real world and the Matrix. And the whole damn skidoo comes down to him and Agent Smith.
props to gnaa
In the final few frames before the closing titles, a hovership, possibly the Nebuchadnezzar, is shown flying (or crashing) against a clear blue sky with a visible moon. Remember, the skies were burned during the war. Will the skies be cleared in the third movie?? Or is it just incomplete sfx?
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. - Cmdr. Susan Ivanova
Mewhahahaha (-- supposed to be evil laugh), More bandwidth for me, that's why :D
No seriously, it seems like WB and Apple seem to be buddy-buddy. Apple mirrors lots of WB Trailers, WB Sends their Musical Artists to the Apple iTunes store . . who knows.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. -- Linus Torvalds
MPlayer worked nicely for me, even on my old crappy laptop.
Zion is a program, just like the Matrix. How is Neo able to figure out that
he is able to stop the sentinels in Zion near the end of the film? The
spoon given to him earlier. It had obviously been bent loads, but how
outside the Matrix? This gave Neo the inspiration and the understanding
that Zion is still a matrix.
The One explained:
"The One" is a program, but has to be "attached" to someone in the Matrix.
So Mr. Anderson got it in the 6th version of the Matrix. Then "The One"
program's purpose is to allow Zion to be destroyed then to rebuild it. The
reason for this is because of anomalies - the 1% of humans that don't
accept the Matrix. These are all brought out of the Matrix program and into
the Zion program by the "Morpheus" program and other similar "ship captain"
programs. Then once all the anomalies are out of the Matrix (and in Zion),
that is the time for Zion to be destroyed, thus killing all the anomalies
off. The Matrix is then upgraded, thus creating the next version of the
Matrix, but Zion must be rebuilt so that the next lot of anomalies can be
brought out again so that they can be destroyed. This is the feedback-loop,
and is the reason to retain a handful of people so that Zion can be rebuilt.
So this is why Neo said the prophecy was a lie - the One's purpose was not
to end the war as the prophecy stated.
Unfortunately, "The One" program must be re-used each time, or copied, so it
can be "attached" to a new anomaly inside the Matrix. So what happens to
the old "The One" program? It faces deletion, and as the Oracle explained,
it goes into exile instead, just like the French bloke (the Merovingian)
did. He was the first One (probably from the second version of the Matrix),
and once he fulfilled his duty, he became an exile program and "abdicated"
his "Oneness" by choosing Persephone and power. This is evident in the bogs
when Persephone asks Neo to kiss her. She says she wants him to kiss her so
she can feel what it is like again to be kissed by something close to
human, just like the Merovingian used to be. Then she says to Trinity that
she envies her, but that these things are not meant to last. So the
Merovingian used to be just like Neo - a One - thus proving further the
feedback-loop explained earlier.
The correct door in the Architect's room
Now there are two possibilities here:
1. All the previous One's chose the right door allowing a "temporary
dissemination" of their code into the Matrix (i.e., the code they "carry"
thus indicating Neo is indeed human), then he must select (unplug) 23
people from the Matrix to rebuild Zion. This takes away the possibility
that stories from previous rebuilds of Zion will be carried through. But
Morpheus indicated in the first Matrix that this is the case anyway. He
said, "there was a man born inside, able to change things, it was he who
freed the first of us," - basically the One previous to Neo. And this
proves that the previous One chose the right door also. Neo's purpose is
also to choose the right door, but he does not because he faces deletion
afterwards and has the choice of going into exile - programs choosing to go
into exile is the one thing that can't be accounted for in program
parameters. Thus, he chooses the left door instead this time. How was Neo
able to choose the other door? Because of his extreme willpower? - Even the
Architect indicated that he'd noticed this - "Interesting. That was quicker
than the others." Or more likely, because the Oracle upgraded his coding
with the candy on the park bench. The candy/cookie was a method to change
the One's program. She said he has made a believer out of her - this is
quite human-like and perhaps the previous One's didn't accept the upgrade
candy, now she has hope... hope that Neo will finally choose the other
door.
2. All the previous One's chose the left door, saving Trinity and letting
Zion fall. So this time is
Comment: Yes I realise the username 'fuckfuck101' makes me sound intelligent, no you cannot buy it from me.
Seen at 39 and 45 seconds into the trailer - Neo in an austere white subway station with MOBIL AVE on the tiled wall. Looks like he meets a child dressed in yellow who then leaves with another party (when Neo is punched).
Simple anagram - LIMBO AVE?
There's a later subway station shot (subway train labelled "LOOP" hurtling towards the screen) at 1m42s but that doesn't look to be the same location.
Pity the player is such a sorry mess. You could hope that after being extensively featured in UI Hall of Shame the developers would put at least a little effort into improving it.
"Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity." - Marshall McLuhan
that Matrix reloaded was more about looking slick and wearing sunglasses than story? When I first saw matrix 1, they didn't need any of that to wow me.
In that case you missed much of what was great about the first movie. Sure, it had a decent story (not nearly as great as people try to pretend it was, however), but what made it so different was the mood, the atmosphere, and the sheer beauty of it. It was more like a well choreographed ballet than a movie, and the costumes, the settings, and - above all - the revolutionary fight scenes were very much a part of that.
It was cool enough seeing some "hacking stuff" going on!
A lot of movies have "hacking stuff" going on without even being watchable. I'm not sure what the hell your talking about.
Now it's all about fighting (which is abissmal compared to some Jet Li classics) and looking chic.
Don't be ridiculous - the fight scenes in the Matrix movies are arguably the most beautiful ever shot. The ones in the first movie changed our perceptions of what such scenes could be like. They have changed the course of modern cinema, and even Jet Li would tell you that. To say that they're "abissmal" [sic.] is not even funny, it's just dumb.
All this said, however, I do agree that Reloaded is of a lesser quality than the first Matrix. Besides not having a good story, it took itself way too seriously. There's no distance. When Morpheus starts going on about how Neo is the one and all that, I turn away to avoid being embarrassed. Unfortunately, it looks like Revolutions is going to be just as preachy, if not more.
Ps. Please don't write "sumthin." It's ugly and makes you look moronic.
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok
It plays just fine with the "Quicktime Alternative" codec for windows. Google for it.
PS There's also a "Real Alternative" codec, lets you get rid of Realplayer too.
What's up with all the guns?
I thought the EMP was 'our only weapon against the machines'.
Is it just me, or isn't Zion's defenses awefully weak? Sure, people in mech suits with guns on their hips like cowboy's looks pretty cool but shouldn't they have something more advanced? Some automated or remotely controled defenses? We'll have to see the whole sequence to know for sure but I hope there's more to it.
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