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."

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Re:This might've been better received after 1 or 2

[mbourgon]

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.

Re:This might've been better received after 1 or 2

[DeadScreenSky]

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.