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Ten-disc 'Matrix' DVD Box Set Planned
squishey writes "The Matrix trilogy is to be released as part of a special ten-disc DVD boxset in time for Christmas, according to the DVD Times.
Out on December 12 and with an RRP of 44.99." Includes a lot of stuff you probably already own, and a few things you might want... like a version of Reloaded with the Enter the Matrix footage included.
A box set hasnt been annouced for region 1 yet (US & Canada).
As far as I'm concerned, there is only The Matrix. I refuse to acknowledge the existence of any followup films.
...the successors to the Matrix were not some of the most disappointing films I've ever seen, I'd run out and buy tomorrow.
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...contains IMO Seraph's coolest moment - "first I must apologise" to one of the Captains with a gun, then backwards somersaults and knocks the gun out of his hand. Then quite a good fight to "get to know him" like he does to Neo.
The first Matrix was great and I own it on DVD. The second was so bad that I never got the DVD and never even bother to see the 3rd installment in the theater.
"Matrix Reloaded Extended Version (190 minutes)
New cut incorporating 55 minutes of footage shot for the 'Enter The Matrix' game"
But is it enough to make it a good film?
I like this product, it shows they really want to suck as much money from the fans as possible while the second and third film still have some residual hype going. Having the mass of extra material will set a level that many other production companies will try to match in the future, just for bulk. It's just a shame it isn't for a better set of films.
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Let's call it "George Lucas Syndrome".
The Wachowskis/Peter Jackson will release the version "they really wanted to make", after the royalties start drying up(though Jackson will be able to beat this horse for a while with the release of The Hobbit). I could see a redo of the battle of Pelennor Fields, or maybe the attack of the Ents at Isengard(that sequence bothered me).
Unlike Lucas and the original triogy, the Wachowskis can't make the new versions any worse than the original release.
go Read Neuromancer by Gibson
It's much better value and probably will last you a lifetime copared to this inept excuse for a movie.
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That said, my opinion of Matrix 3 has lowered since I watched it originally. I don't think it was the piece of crap most people claimed it was, but it certainly wasn't a worthy sequel to the original.
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Automatically installs crummy DVD player software that totally takes control away from the good one you alread had. That's just my guess though :)
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All movies go through a process called "editing" where the film is cut to fit the director's vision and the studio's time constraints. There have always been "extra" or "deleted scenes." With DVD, we get to see them. Before, we did not.
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You've got it all wrong.
The movies theaters are for showing the "film as it was meant to be shown to the masses" not the "film as intended by the director".
Movie theaters exist because home theaters are very expensive and it's more cost effective to see the movie in the theater than to invest in a good home setup.
Just as the movie industry had to change with the introduction of videotapes, they will again have to change when home theaters are less costly and more common.
But the upshot is that a movie theater is set up to have a fixed ticket price per movie. Some movies will never go longer than 1.5 hours, and others will require 3 hours or more. Theaters are not set up for graduated pricing, and they make significantly less money showing a longer film than showing a shorter one unless it also runs for several weeks longer and attracts a steady audience.
Theaters will not show long films that are not guranteed to draw huge audiences. Producers know this and force directors to cut films to a reasonable length. Directors, knowing that they will "always have the DVD", do so reluctantly and then polish the film for the extended DVD release. Did you notice how LoTR 1 played in theaters for weeks longer than LoTR 3? There's a cost/benefit ratio here. If you want to see the movie as the director intended (given the budget they had) then you buy the extended edition. Consumers are happy, fans are happy, studios make millions, and the smurfs escape from gargomel once again.
So don't feel cheated. You're paying $9 for a $9 experience. This is the edition the director expected you to spend $9 for. Remember that the directors and the theaters are at the mercy of the movie studios/producers. If you don't like it, then spend time writing letters and faxes to the studios - both when they do good and when they do bad. But don't blame the theater owners when they start raising prices across the board to accomodate the one or two movies a year that are 4 hours long.
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I remember that after the deception of seeing "Star Wars Episode one" I was thinking well at least there is the two next matrix that will kick ass... I was so wrong. Like you I love the first one but the two other have nothing to do with the original.
Now I have switched my trust to Star Wars again and I am crossing my fingers and hoping that the name won't be something like: "Star Wars III - Jar Jar Binks Chronicles."
George, you are our only hope... (so basically where toast)
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I agree ... I like them all very much. Any Slashdot reader who likes Anime should have liked the 3rd one since it had all the taste of Anime during the final fight. Too many people, IMO, just didn't get it all in the end. Oh well...
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Something I once used as a nickname, the phrase "Each line of the program creating a new effect, much like poetry", which compares poetry to the art of coding and programming, made a friend of mine particularly happy, he liked the phrase a lot, being a programmer himself. Of course then I told him it's not my phrase, it's from the Bros.
The Merovingian, the French guy, says it while he's analyzing what is cause and effect in the restaurant. My friend did see the movie, it's just that at that time everyone was checking out Monica's big and large "assets", and failed to listen to this, may I say, quite interesting and beautiful comparison.
Now when one says "the philosophy" of the movies, I guess most people just hear that, "the philosophy", which they'll probably think it's the whole "humans vs machines", and should we create or not create machines, because one day they may turn against us.
But that's not all "the philosophy", specially since the sequels introduced many more themes, themes which for the majority of the viewers seem to be pretty much inexistent, themes like cause and effect, what makes us tick, why we do the things we do, also choice, explored in the first movie, is grandly expanded in the sequels.
There's also exploration on the themes of ressurection, the whole science aspect of the Matrix, how it works, the reaching of the Nirvana state, the choice to sacrifice oneself as so many did in the movies, like Trinity, the Oracle, Neo, the parents of the girl Sati, Captain Mifune (the captain of the mechs).
Now most of these themes make sense to think about in the world today, we see in the movies people who are capable of giving themselves up for others, something badly needed in our world, a sense of sacrifice for another. I can't see how that is meaningless.
I mean, the whole point of view on love by the program Rama Kandra, father of the little girl, isnt that just great, how these AI's that have been living amongst a human community seem to better understand concepts that we thought belong only to us!
Also I fail to grasp how the majority of the geek community doesn't appreciate the many nods to programming and to guys like us, for instance with the introduction of the grand white hallway in the matrix, like a backdoor way, a programmer's maintenance corridor, or the Architect, who sees himself as the master programmer, or the usage of an appropriate hacking tool when Trinity hacks the powerplant power rerouting, or even the whole deification of Neo, who started out this journey as a simple cubicle worker, maybe even checking out slashdot.org now and then!
Then there's the whole symbolism bit, which I do believe many of you wouldn't like exploring, because it's based on free association, there aren't rules, basically you just see something in the movie that could be similar to something else, and you make a connection, it becomes a symbolism, it means something, there's a point to be made there.
The symbolism may mean zip to you, but for me and my essay on the movies, it was a very important way of making and stating my points, basing myself on metaphors introduced in the movies.
And also another thing, the music, these movies have some of the best musical scores ever, specially Revolutions, with Neodammerung topping everything, I mean it's like a Wagnerian Opera with hindu lyrical chorus, that were taken straight from the Upanishads, sort of the Bible for Hinduism, and each and every line makes a point, it means something, like the first three who speak about each of the movies, and then the lyrics evolve into describing the One, the unification of all, and this exploration, this dissertation in hindu helps the viewer who is interested make sense on the choices and the why of Neo letting himself go in the final battle, accepting his destiny like a regular program would.
Basically, while Thomas Anderson took the red pill, to get out, Neo took the blue pill in the end, he sees the good in the virtual world, sees how they can change it and change the
Agreed. Here is a tip - don't stand in line for these things at the theater. I saw the first one and frickin loved it. Saw the second one, and left kind of scratching my head. I had to hope that the third one would tie it all up. But I waited, and didn't go see it in the theater. I read all the bad reviews. Then I rented it - and thought it was better than the 2nd one. It wasn't THAT bad. Not great, but better than a lot of the reviews I read.
Everyone talks about the "movie theater experience", but I just don't get it. Other than bigger and louder, the theater experience just is not as good to me. No, I am not one of those people with the 5.1 surround and a 60" TV. I have basic surround and a 27" TV, and I still enjoy movies more at home than at the theater. Cheaper food, more comfortable, I can go pee without missing any of the movie, etc. I don't need to share the experience with a hundred other people.
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I mean, come on...one disk for each movie (don't give me extended versions unless you actually filmed extra footage to include later on special DVDs ala "Lord of the Rings"...seeing footage that was cut because it SHOULD have been cut is not my cup-of-tea. See the extended version of "Dune" and "Superman: The Movie" for stuff that should have stayed out...."Otis, feed the babies"...nuff said....
Ok, we have 3 disks there with plenty of room for commentary tracks. Then we can have an extra disk for the Animatrix shorts AND all the "Making Of" docs you want. There...saved ya 6 other disks. Something tells me that they're not filling up to full capacity the DVD's.
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While I definitely agree with your explanation, I still feel like there's an underlying "falseness" to the whole process.
Take, for example, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" which I saw the week it was released back in the late 70's. As many know, the "theater edition" was very different from the "special edition" now available on DVD. OK, I'll concede that my liking the theater edition MAY be due to seeing it first, but the tone and mood of the "theater edition" is very different from the "special edition"--I personally prefer the "theater edition".
Additionally, the "theater edition" is/was the edition that the critics and viewers reviewed and talked about. It was the edition that made the press. It was the edition that won the awards. It was the edition that made the studio its money. Do we now have to have Oscars for after-market releases? (Maybe they do--I rarely watch awards shows anyway.)
And the kicker is that the theater edition (and not just of "Close Encounters") of movies is often not available on DVD, only the "director's cut". These "special" or "director's" editions continue to be available, but the editions that launched it all disappears. While I certainly embrace the ability to see what the director "really wanted" and the extra content is typically worth the price of the DVD, I feel like it's a form of re-writing history.
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"The Matrix Trilogy Re-Marketed?"
Seems more like a ploy to recoup costs on the third movie. Anybody else notice when the third movie came out on DVD they weren't pushing the movie for movie sake, but trying to capitalize on the "own the trilogy" angle?
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