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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."
Um, or not. The third was simply a kick-ass Epic SciFi Action Flick. That's all. Nothing wrong with that at all, I loved it. Yes, I can be disappointed that they didn't answer the "layers" question, that it wasn't an utter mind fsck. But, the third movie was fun. It wrapped things up.
For better or worse, the mind fsck occured in the minds of the viewers, in the months between movies. There was just enough there to make us create our own idea of the third movie. It just didn't happen to be theirs. As for "The One"'s powers? It's part of their mythos - they built it, they set the rules. It doesn't have to sync with ours.
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As with most anime, if you aren't a hardcore fan of the genre you're unlikely to mentally fill in enough the plot gaps to leave satisfied.
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I beg to differ. Badly written anime is just as craptastic as any other badly written medium. I like Japanese animation, but why does Anime have some mystical power here in Slashdot? Why is it regarded as the sacred cow? Why is such trash as Akira and NGE held in such high regard?
(yeah, mod me down for flame bait because I DARED to profane NGE and Akira, instead of answering my legitemate question.)
"Jesus saves, but everyone else in a 10 foot radius takes full damage from the fireball."
"There, had to say it."
No, you didn't. What you had to say was "What's the I in CGI stand for?
The One is powerful enough to connect to the Matrix
That's not an answer. "He's powerful enough to do that" is a response you can give to any question without providing actual information.
Something like "He's got a nano-sized radio transmitter in his brain", "His willpower left a residual image inside the matrix to carry out his desires", or "We're all still inside a meta-matrix, and he's the only one who knows" would qualify as an explanation. "He's powerful enough" doesn't.
She said it right on camera,
A character onscreen may be lying. A movie only tells you something if the movie shows you something. (That is why, for example, the first movie didn't say humans provided electricity for machines. That was a line used by a character with no supporting evidence given. And the speaker had a huge motivation to lie.)
hard sci-fi is not one of them.
The first installment was hard scifi, which makes it all the more disappointing when the rest aren't.
I like Japanese animation, but why does Anime have some mystical power here in Slashdot?
You're right. It isn't like every freaking time anime is mentioned on Slashdot we have highly moderated comments slamming the art form, or occasionally a holier-than-thou "The popular anime ________ is trash!"
(yeah, mod me down for flame bait because I DARED to profane NGE and Akira, instead of answering my legitemate question.)
You should be modded down for flamebait because your comment offered nothing truly incisive, simply spewing a standard popular complaint that pretty much guaranteed you mod points. (The complaint that you will be modded down only boosts that, as we all know - everyone loves a badass rebel!)
Regardless, your comment was strictly designed to encourage flames, because it is otherwise nonsensical. It isn't like Evangelion and Akira are only held in critical regard on Slashdot! Why pretend this fame is some kind of cultish Slashdot quirk?
You also completely misunderstood the parent post's point. The quality of a specific anime has nothing to do with it - any film genre (or artform really) that is 'weird' to a viewer will probably fail to draw them in. Most people are severely close-minded about nearly everything new or unusual. You demonstrate this pretty well.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. -- Francis Bacon
sequel (plural sequels), noun
1. continuation of a story: a movie, novel, or play that continues a story begun in a previous movie, novel, or play
They are sequels. They are not the same movie, just like two towers wasn't the same movie as fellowship. I really liked them both, but I know people who didn't like the second as much. That's a perfectly valid opinion.
You could claim that Matrix/Reloaded/Revolutions were equally good (I haven't found anyone who would), but to claim they HAVE to be because they share a common world is idiotic.
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