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Feature-Length Matrix Spoof to be Released Soon
CrazyMFW writes "'The Helix Loaded', a feature length spoof of the Matrix, has been unveiled to coincide with the general release of The Matrix Revolutions. At LA screenings of the third matrix installment, customers are being handed CD-ROMS shaped like a Red Pill or a Blue Pill. The CD-ROM includes a teaser trailer as a quicktime movie, and directs users to the web site for The Helix. The teaser trailers can also be downloaded from the site. No release date is mentioned for the film, but it does promise several further teaser installments at 2 week intervals - so we should learn more in the next couple of months. From the brief clips it looks like they've done a good job imitating the Matrix CGI on a low-budget."
Real => Helix
Guess that wasn't too obvious :)
Who do you think you are? David Eggers?
No need for this, when Computer Boy has been out for several years. ("Eat gun!")
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
Once upon a time, in the early 90s, the term *was* CGI: Computer Generated Images, or Computer Generated Imagery. Only circa 1996 did I start hearing people refer to computer graphics for movies as "CG."
I knew of CGI as a movie acronym long before I knew of CGI as a Web programming acronym -- and I was writing CGI guestbook applications in 1995, using C and printf/getenv. So I think the Common Gateway Interface would lose in any sort of chronological pissing contest.
I've got a torrent up of one of the trailers (blue pill) in quicktime.
f inal.mov.torrent
http://shithole.penix.net/~spartan/blue_pill_web_
Have fun.
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It's Computer Generated Imagery. That what it's always meant. Always. Even back when SGI hardware was doing most of the CGI.
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You might want to look things up before you post... but then, this is
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You catch enchiladas by picking them up behind the head and holding them underwater until they don't kick anymore -VeGas
Red pill torrent: http://www.filerush.com/torrents/red_pill_web_fina l.mov.torrent
Yes, I can be disappointed that they didn't answer the "layers" question
Oh, for Pete's sake... for the last time, people, the Oracle told us how Neo stopped the Sentinels. The One is powerful enough to connect to the Matrix, and through it the entire network of machines, without being physically plugged into it. She said it right on camera, with no distractions, so everyone could hear it. It was right in the goddamned movie.
Whether you accept the explanation as sufficient depends on how much disbelief you're willing to suspend, but please keep in mind that while the Matrix movies are many things, hard sci-fi is not one of them.
Red Pill Torrent link: http://www.filerush.com/torrents/red_pill_web_fina l.mov.torrent
Incidentally, the funniest "spoof" I've seen of the Matrix is the bastardization that resides on detonate.net. Very funny but the humour is a bit nerdy so don't go pasting that link to all of your "normal" (read: not computer nerd) friends - they won't laugh. I know, I've tried. I got a lot of "Why is this one funny?" type questions.
New Movie Takes Down Factory Farms
You know the scene: Life seems basically normal until, one day, a mysterious stranger contacts you and tells you your whole existence is a lie. You have two options: red pill or blue pill. Sound familiar? That's right, it's the plot of "The Meatrix" (no, that's not a typo), in which moopheus the cow shows Leo, the pig protagonist (think Keanu Reeves with a curlier tail), that idyllic life on the family farm is a sham. The stark reality involves factory farms, massive pollution, high doses of antibiotics, and a few rebel farm animals in trench coats. Catch the latest short eco-flick by Free Range Graphics, on the Grist Magazine website.
Here's the blue pill torrent link: http://www.filerush.com/torrents/blue_pill_web_fin al.mov.torrent
You mean The Mootrix.
"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
-Marilyn Manson
Having worked at a movie theater before and having spliced film at said theater before, I can tell you that the more likely cause was that they didn't screen/run it through first. There are 4 different ways you can splice the film together, only 1 of them is correct.
Funny that it should happen to that trailer, but by no means consider it intentional.
I can't say I noticed modified graphics from the video game anywhere in the film, and also don't remember being particularly floored by Teh Ugly. It looked a little bit plasticine, but most all CG effects still do to my eyes.
On another note, there wasn't much rushing; Revolutions was filmed simultaneously with Reloaded, so their six month separation was mostly an invention of the studio / publicity machine / primary profit-motivated entity. Note too that it doesn't hurt to keep them out of most of The Return of the King's way.
Ultimately what the Wachowskis (and any cohorts of theirs) do with The Matrix is their business. Given the moderately cerebral nature of the films on some levels and their decision / gumption to not dumb down those aspects to ensure broad market appeal, profit doesn't seem to be at the very forefront of their minds. The Animatrix covered the pre-film age rather thoroughly; consequently, any future cash grabs will very likely be focused on future hijinks.
The point of my rambling is this: if it stops being special to you, then it's perfectly all right to disregard that which would ruin your appreciation of the universe. Enjoy the good, disregard the bad. There's no sense in fetishistically deriding and railing against something that no one forced you to keep on your mind in the first place.
P.S. What's wrong with making a film of The Hobbit?