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Feature-Length Matrix Spoof to be Released Soon

Posted by Cliff on from the whatisthehelix dept.

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."

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  1. Re:CGI?! Jesus Christ!!! by Xeger · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. Torrent of one Trailer by ldspartan · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've got a torrent up of one of the trailers (blue pill) in quicktime.

    http://shithole.penix.net/~spartan/blue_pill_web_f inal.mov.torrent

    Have fun.

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    lds

  3. Re:CGI?! Jesus Christ!!! by ultramk · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's Computer Generated Imagery. That what it's always meant. Always. Even back when SGI hardware was doing most of the CGI.

    You might want to look things up before you post... but then, this is /.

    m-

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  4. Here's the red pill torrent too: by AIX-Hood · · Score: 4, Informative

    Red pill torrent: http://www.filerush.com/torrents/red_pill_web_fina l.mov.torrent

  5. Re:This might've been better received after 1 or 2 by mblase · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  6. Red Pill torrent link: by AIX-Hood · · Score: 5, Informative

    Red Pill Torrent link: http://www.filerush.com/torrents/red_pill_web_fina l.mov.torrent

  7. Matrix Bastardization by baudilus · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  8. Nice idea, but ... by mike_lynn · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.