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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. There already exists a spoof of Matrix by Brahmastra · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're called Matrix reloaded and Matrix revolutions.

  2. This spoof is even funnier by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    This spoof is funny - though I don't think it is supposed to be...

    www.themeatrix.com

  3. Where's the humor? by precogpunk · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Morpheus says... by freeze128 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Unfortunately, no one can be shown what the helix is.... Because the site has been slashdotted!"

  5. The "Don't Pirate" movie ad by cdipierr · · Score: 5, Funny

    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).

  6. 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.

  7. 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