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The Matrix Trailers, Reloaded and Re-Encoded
dark_lotus writes "The fine folks at The Matrix website, have re-encoded all 9 trailers from the original Matrix, bumped up the resolution and uploaded them for us to enjoy, including a never before released trailer. Also included, all the missing Reloaded and Revolutions Trailers and TV Spots - all now available to download."
Wow, that never released trailer is quite stylish. Wonder why it wasn't released? Well, I guess it does seem to give away a lot of the action. The final trailers for Revolutions pretty much gave away everything, though. So, meh.
http://progressive.warnerbros.com/thematrix/us/med /matrix_tr_theatrical_640_dl.zip
http://www.filerush.com/torrents/9_matrix_trailers .zip.torrent
RTFM... Quicktime is a container format, NOT a codec. If you have a gripe, send it to these guys...
Besides, can you think of *any* film franchise that has gone beyond 3 without sucking a very large one? Please, no-one say Police Academy.
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
maybe i get you wrong, but if you knew the books you would know that one book=one year, so one movie a year (more or less) would exactly display the right ageing with the actors.
fx! kicking and screaming
Major Matrix 3 Spoiler alert: you have been warned.
what did we learn in the train station scene?
1. there is an outer computer world that is much like the matrix, where the machine programs live.
2. they combine to produce new mental "offspring," the mother and dad figures. they do NOT reproduce via cloning, like agent smith does. Societies of perfect (agent smith-like) clones can fail to a single infection/problem (see Ghost in the Shell for more on this, pretty sure the comics-crazy watchowski brothers did). that's why agent smith is a fundamental threat against the machines. Smith gains the ability to break the rules and ignore "kill" and "do not clone" signals, which is exactly what Neo learned in #1 in order to become The One.
3. there is a link between the outer world and the Matrix human playpen/pigsty that is tightly controlled but also subject to a black market (the frenchman likes his kicks, and sells them to others)
4. program offspring in the outer matrix must already have a reason to exist, otherwise they are terminated. the matrix is a bit of a legal backwater where unneeded programs can live and perhaps FIND a purpose ("what good is a newborn babe?")
5. misc. other: the "eyes of the oracle", why are the so important? the oracle is one of the two designers of the matrix. she knows the state of everything in it (omniscient in a way that is not possible in the real world due to heisenberg). She also has a deep understanding of humans, and can usually predict what they will do. this is the nature of her "fortune telling." it is not perfect, human choices sometimes are unpredictable (this is the fundamental flaw in the matrix according to the Architect). She also "cannot see past the choices we don't understand." If she doesn't understand a decision fully, she cannot predict it's outcome.
This plays back to the Frenchman's longwinded speech in 2: action-reaction. He believes that if you poke a human a certain way, you can predict the response. we have no free will, we are just deterministic biological computers (he demonstrates this with the chocolate cake.) so he seeks knowlege, and ultimately control via gaining the "eyes of the oracle," which must allow the owner to see all of the matrix from a "programmer with debugger tool" perspective.
however, the oracle knows that perfect knowlege of the world and it's history DOES NOT give one perfect prescience. whatever drives human free will (choice) is sometimes unpredictable. we are NOT deterministic creatures.
And for the final mega spoiler theory: smith and neo cannot kill each other at the end of #3. they both know it, they can both ignore kill signals. smith infects neo, then Neo *chooses to die*!!! smith cannot avoid this internal kill signal. all his clones fall prey to the same signal. they *all* die. smith even with the oracle's powers can not have known that trinity had died in the real world and that neo would choose follow her in death. so he could not forsee beyond that choice he did not understand. (if trinity were alive, neo probably would not have made that choice).
End of Class.
I'll agree that it's gone beyond 3 without sucking, but the last few really leave a lot to be desired.
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