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Final Matrix Set for Synchronous Release
sdirector writes "'Warner Bros. has announced that in a whoa-worthy bit of synchronicity The Matrix Revolutions, the concluding chapter in the Wachowski brothers' hit sci-fi trilogy, will be released simultaneously in nearly 70 countries.'"
"The Matrix 3 will be released simultaneously in 70 sectors of the matri.. I mean... the world. CRAP!"
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Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?
christ, the final Matrix? I'll bet all my Star Wars action figures that its gonna seriously suck...wait, except Boba Fett, no matter how sure I am, I never bet the Fett Man
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...except for Internet-land, where it'll be "released" several weeks early.
Since where I live movies are much cheaper than in the US, now I can not see it for $2.50 instead of not seeing it for $8.50. Woo hoo!
Does that mean that the DVD will not be region coded?
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
Cool! On November 5, people around the world will simultaneously get to watch Revolutions again on the big screen.
...97% of the world's sysadmins will be gone for a couple of hours, starting at the exact same time. Sounds like time for "Black Hat Fun Fest 2003"...
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only on slashdot would an orgy scene be described as a waste.
After I watched the matrix and found out they were making reloaded, I had something to look forward to in life. Even now, I have something to look forward to in form of "Revolutions". But, what next? There will be nothing to look forward to after that and our lives will be filled with void. Maybe I should not watch revolutions till for many years just so that there will be something worth doing left in life.
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"Whoa"
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"It was a thought that came up a long time ago about almost a year ago, and it did not come from the Wachowskis, it actually came from inside the studio," says Veronica Kwan-Rubinek, president of international distribution at the studio.
People working for a major studio actually generated a creative thought.
Whoa.
I predict the strongest opening weekend ever and the biggest drop for the second weekend
Well, Gigli has a hammerlock on the biggest second week drop, 'going down' 81.9%. If Revolutions does worse than that, I'll eat my own socks without ketchup.
Or, for some evil villain's timer on his computer, because the said villain will be sitting two rows behind the techies in the theater watching Revolutions. ;)
I misread the post and thought it said that The Matrix Revolutions is going to be simultaneously released in the 70s. THAT WOULD be an accomplishment. I wonder what that would do to Star Wars and the LOTR trilogy in retrospect? ;P
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"The Matrix Reloaded" can be jumbled to spell "Hexameter Dildo Art".
This was a public service announcement. If it had contained any real content, you would know by now.
If it does that bad, I'll buy you a bottle of ketchup. And some "previously enjoyed" underwear for desert.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
I bet there's a cute message if you convert the binary to ascii.
Yep, it reads: "Don't forget to drink your Ovaltine!" =)
(nobody is gonna get that...)
I hear a lot of people called in sick AFTER seeing Episodes I and II because they felt sick!
"2 doesn't make an orgy"
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Well, Gigli has a hammerlock on the biggest second week drop, 'going down' 81.9%. If Revolutions does worse than that, I'll eat my own socks without ketchup.
...and in other news, Warner Bros. has announced that they are re-casting the final movie in the Matrix Triology. "We want actors with more screen presence", said one spokesman "and stars like Ben Affleck or J. Lo should fit right in with the gritty, dark feel of the series. We also felt that Ice Cube will be more 'gangsta-like' as Morpheus than that Laurence guy. I mean, who gives a leading part to a guy named Fishburn?" Unconfirmed reports suggest the crew is experiencing technical difficulties fitting J. Lo into a leather bodysuit, and may end up cutting all scenes with that outfit.
So do you want to eat your socks now, or wait 'till the release?
Trinity having sex...
or Trinity using nmap?
Oh man. I have to go to the bathroom now. (For an unrelated reason)
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He just doesn't know any better. When you grow up in New Jersey/New York, you think that that is all of the world that there is. They haven't figured out that big hair died 15 years ago, and that culture is a word.
Heck, the Matrix is just a simulation of earth being run as a replacement since the Vogons destroyed the original one.
I always thought it would be more realistic if the Matrix were attaching the humans to long poles and using them to beat their cake batter. Then Morpheus could say "to turn a human being into THIS" and hold up a big birthday cake that says "Earth to Neo: Welcome Home!"
Remember they have to sell this shit to Ma and Pa Kettle too; Joe Sixpack is going to understand "they use us for power" much more easily than "the Matrix is combining us to play the world's longest game of Tetris."
I'd probably get up and go at 4am
That makes no sense. If you really wanted to go to that first show, you'd have to dress up like a poor version of Neo out of the salvation army. You'd also have to get a light saber and some hairy hobbit feet and show up at the theater 2 weeks in advance. Then, to show your dedication to the hollywood machine, you'd camp out there on the cold hard concrete in a pile of vomit and urine alongside all the homeless people. Entertainment would be staged Trinity vs. Obi wan kenobi duels refereed by Bilbo and heartfelt performances of fan fiction by overweight people wearing leather and have for some reason never discovered a razor. After leaving society for a fortnight and subsisting solely on the leftover popcorn that people have handed you in your sorry state, you'd get word through someone that you've been fired because you havent been to work for a while. What do you care, you're going to be the first to see "The One Star Matrix - Extra Super (tm)." Finally, the day has arrived and as you run into the theater cheering you feel complete. 3 hours later, you're on slashdot saying "The movie sucked" picking with biblical detail on all the minutae that really didnt matter at all to the gist of the movie.
Meanwhile, I've recently gotten promoted since for some reason I was the only one showing up to work. Then on release day I head to the theater about 15 hours after you leave it walk up, buy a ticket to watch an entertaining movie in the comfort that I am not lame.
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Humans can barely keep to boss-appointed tasks.
Here's what they'd be able to squeeze out of the average human:
If the name of this company doesn't sound entirely familiar, maybe you will remember the name of one of their former employees, Thomas Anderson.
You mean the old bald guy that Beavis & Butt-head used to antagonize?
It's clearly a PR stunt, but let's face it: it's a massive one. Coordinating ANYTHING in 70 countries is damn hard, and doing so in such a way that, regardless of time zone, 70 countries are all doing it on the same hour is quite stunning.
Hell, just getting 70 theaters in the US to do anything on the same hour is like hearding cats!
While all the geeks of the world are watching the movie (with their cell phones and pagers politely turned off, of course), Warner and the Wachowski brothers will launch a multifaceted attack on the Internet and all things connected to it!
Don't fall for it! Don't let them root the net and build the real Matrix!