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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."
They're called Matrix reloaded and Matrix revolutions.
bwhahahahahaha!
Oh wait. You weren't kidding.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
The blue pill trailer has less action, just to warn you all.
www.themeatrix.com
The Meattrix
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While it's cool to see what amatures can do on a low budget I haven't seen any fan spoofs of the matrix that are actually funny. Matrix ping pong got a laugh out of me though.
"Unfortunately, no one can be shown what the helix is.... Because the site has been slashdotted!"
Slightly offtopic, but funny and certainly applicable to this message board...
Last night when I went to see Matrix Revolutions, they aired the typical "please don't pirate movies" ad, but it was upside down and played in reverse (including the sound). All the rest of the ads were normal, so it's obvious that someone that worked at the theater was making a point.
The audience was about 1/2 full and just about everyone was high school senior (or maybe college) crowd excepting a few of us 30-somethings. But everyone was laughing and found it highly amusing (perhaps more so than the movie itself).
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.
"Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul & set you free from all your sins" - Bad Examples
Who will buy me a new cdrom-drive when these "oval, pill shaped CD-ROMS" destroy my current one?
Pick the blue CD-ROM. When you insert it into your PC, your system will reboot into Microsoft Windows and you won't remember ever changing your system configuration.
If you pick the red one, your chair will pull itself out from under your butt and you'll find yourself in the storm sewer. But at least you won't be running Windows.
[ObReality: If these shaped CDs haven't torn up anyone's reader, you should be safe with a simple oval.]
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
http://www.ifilm.com/filmdetail?ifilmid=115368
the main site: http://www.geocities.com/cobweb_films/
It's a bit lengthy but the humor is precious.
"Do you know who this is, Neo?"
"Mom?"
"Guess again Neo."
"... Mom?"
"Can you drive that thing?"
"Not yet... Operator! I need a program for an '82 Subaru Swift!"
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.
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
Red Pill Torrent link: http://www.filerush.com/torrents/red_pill_web_fina l.mov.torrent
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
...wait through the entire heartfelt add..then...when the theatre is in shock and silenced from the horrible truths that are exposed a message will fill the screen:
"Stop Pirates"
At that point, in your best pirate voice say, "Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
Good times.
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