"The Matrix" Website Updated 163
feelafel writes: "Corona's Upcoming Films movie news site reports that the official Matrix website, www.whatisthematrix.com, has been "reloaded" today. Click on the keyboard twice, and enter the password "reload" to get to the new material. There's QuickTime VRs, on the set shots and most likely a slew of new hidden stuff. Happy searching."
what about the bugs ? (Score:1)
Even though they may teleport anywhere ?
Many illogical features, IMHO.
Re:what about the bugs ? (Score:1)
Why... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Why... (Score:1)
Re:Why... (Score:1)
Tight Site (Score:1)
Re:Tight Site (Score:1)
What is the Matrix (Score:2, Informative)
Re:What is the Matrix (Score:2)
chrysalis,
page78,
page98,
page168,
pag
sixtypages.
This is on top of the reload code. You enter these by selecting the upper right screen after you get through the reload screen.
Navigation? (Score:3, Insightful)
Has anybody else noticed the lack of easily-navigated sites out there today? People seem to have forgotten the old "just because we can doesn't mean we should" motto..
Re:Navigation? (Score:5, Interesting)
For example, in one lab we had to use CSS stuff. Which is all good [of course I've completely forgotten how todo them now since I never use em]... anyways. I did a rather plain webpage that did use CSS styles and anyways the teacher said I didn't work "hard enough" on it.
Most people in my class think that "flash animations" are stndard HTML elements and no site is complete without them.
Oh more on point, WTF, what's up with the stupid movie? When is it comming out?
Tom
Re:Navigation? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Navigation? (Score:2, Funny)
but... but... no!!! She's been with us since the beggining!
Re:Navigation? (Score:2)
This is what to do:
$ sqlplus
SQL> connect / as SYSDBA;
SQL> startup;
Re: Navigation? (Score:2, Informative)
According to the IMDB [imdb.com], both The Matrix Reloaded [imdb.com] (the second one) and The Matrix Revolutions [imdb.com] (the third one) are coming out in 2003.
I originally thought they were coming out this year, but I suppose not.
Re:Navigation? (Score:2)
I would have flipped out and killed everyone in the room, starting with the instructor. I work plenty hard on "plain" pages that have good cross-platform code.
When I read the Matrix site news here my first thought was, "you couldn't PAY me to visit that site, it'll be pure aggravation."
Heck, I haven't even visited fox.com/24 and I love the show. They drill the URL into my brain every chance they get but I know it'll be a load of Flash crap.
Re:Navigation? (Score:2)
Re:Navigation? (Score:3)
I dropped the class I was in after they refused to not make me use either dreamweaver/frontpage and I insited on not only coding it by hand but *shock* validating my HTML with the W3C's validator. The teacher was none too happy when I pointed out that most of hte crap he was teaching wasn' valid HTML standards and shouldn't be used. Oh well. Hooray for college education.
Re:Navigation? (Score:1)
Second mistake: believing large companies like AOL-Time Warner know anything about the Web (I've done outsourced work for them and other giants... they don't have a clue)
Anyway, if you don't feel like playing their stupid "find the right page and type our secret password" game, just go here [warnerbros.com].
Re:Navigation? (Score:1)
Re:Navigation? (Score:1)
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small fonts (Score:1)
Why would a designer use extra small fonts on such a larger monitor? Those fonts would appear EVEN SMALLER on their monitor than on your 12" VGA monitor.
Re:Navigation? (Score:1)
Re:Navigation? (Score:1)
Specially in the programming languages classes.
My C teacher is fond of "gets" and when I told him its a risk to use [e.g. buffer problems] he told me nobody would overflow a buffer on purpose and its not a problem he wants to address.
Thats when I snicker and "go with the flow".
Tom
Re:Navigation? (Score:1)
Re:Navigation? (Score:1)
Re:Navigation? (Score:1)
Wierd...
Tom
Re:Navigation? (Score:1)
System of a down (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:System of a down (Score:1)
Hrm. (Score:2)
Re:Navigation? (Score:1)
Re:Navigation? (Score:2, Funny)
My old Slashdot sig had a simpler idea. Deprive every web designer of oxygen until his or her main page loads. If they die, they deserve it.
Re:Navigation? (Score:1)
I wish I had time to click every single little screen to try to find some of the good stuff...
It's a game, not a website, and I've given up on finding every little screen in games since Zelda.
Matrix III (Score:5, Funny)
It sure is pretty but... (Score:3, Funny)
Be forewarned, this page is plugin hell. In two minutes of browsing I've run into Flash, Quicktime VR, RealPlayer. The Matrix is a highly complicated thing I guess...
Doesn't matter, I'll still pay through the nose to go to any sneak peak and I'll probably see it in theaters at least 3 times as well.
Wow! That was... (Score:1)
How to Hack the Matrix (Score:5, Informative)
I didn't try them all, so play w/ em! It's sorta cool, I guess.
Re:How to Hack the Matrix (Score:1)
List incomplete (Score:4, Informative)
if (a.indexOf('@') != -1 && a.indexOf('.') != -1) (Test for E-mail address!)
if (a == 'geof'...
if (a == 'skroce'...
if (a == 'darrow'...
if (a == 'wrong number' || a == 'Wrong Number' || a == 'WRONG HUMBER' (TYPO!) || a == 'Wrongnumber' || a == 'WRONGHUMBER' (TYPO!) || a == 'wrongnumber' || a == 'WRONG #' || a == 'wrong #' || a == 'wrong#' || a == 'WRONG #')...
if (a == 'guns'...
if (a == 'morpheus'...
if (a == 'trinity'...
if (a == 'deja vu'...
if (a == 'Steak'...
if (a == 'agentbullettime'...
if (a == 'crash'...
if (a == 'keanu'...
if (a == 'carrie'...
if (a == 'laurence'...
if (a == 'tokyo'...
if (a == 'lobby'...
if (a == 'jaw'...
if (a == 'mirror mirror'...
if (a == 'neo bullet time'...
if (a == 'SENTINAL'...
if (a == 'NEBUCHADNEZZAR'...
if (a == 'SENTINELLARGE800x600'...
if (a == 'site credits'...
if (a == 'owen' || a == 'owen' || a == 'owen')... (Repetitive *AND* redundant!)
if (a == 'chrysalis'...
if (a == 'page168'...
if (a == 'page212'...
if (a == 'page98'...
if (a == 'page78'...
if (a == 'bill'...
if (a == 'RED'...
if (a == 'REDPILL'...
if (a == 'classic'...
if (a == 'reload'...
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Re:List incomplete (Score:1)
Imagine that - server side matrix... you can only access some interfaces at certain times of the day. They need a better geek on their webdesign team.
More Hacking (Score:4, Informative)
And yes, I did try all 256 codes
Codes for "Input Codes" (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Codes for "Input Codes" (Score:2)
JS security does not work.
Re:Codes for "Input Codes" (Score:1)
JS security does not work.
I know, it will bankrupt them and it totally goes against the hackerish nature of the movie to allow that.
Matrix book preview (Score:3, Informative)
If you picked up the Matrix redux DVD, it contains a TON of material on the movie and previews of the upcoming ones.
On the site play the shockwave game and once you get through the various stages you're given a password to access the Matrix book preview (which they discuss on the DVD). The book contains tons of pics and stuff from the movies, the anime shorts, storyboards and other great stuff.
You can access the book preview URL directly here:v iew.html [warnerbros.com]
http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/cmp/bookpre
Enjoy!
liB
Re:Matrix book preview (Score:2)
Out of all of my DVD's, the Matrix is still one of
the best!
Re:Matrix book preview (Score:2)
Re:Matrix book preview (Score:4, Informative)
Believe it or not, that movie has a real cult following.
Oh, and I had been using the name "Simulacra" long before Matrix came out...
Realistically, you would have to be quite a fan to appreciate "Revisited."
Re:Matrix book preview (Score:1)
It's ingenious... (Score:3, Funny)
Someone visits the site, realizes how pretty/cool/etc. it is, can't find their way around, ands leaves. So they get all the praise, without all the bandwidth!
what a dreadful site (Score:1, Insightful)
How to rate a lame web site. (Score:3, Interesting)
Marketting seems to have devolved to pretty pictures, and has nothing to do with useful information.
Well, get a clue - the reason I buy something is because I have some information that makes me believe that my life will be improved in some fashion as a result of the purchase. This site does nothing to give me the information I need to make a purchase decision. And NO, I am NOT going to download 5 plug-ins either!
Re:How to rate a lame web site. (Score:1, Flamebait)
Style over substance, that's the American way
Re:How to rate a lame web site. (Score:1)
Re:How to rate a lame web site. (Score:2)
I looked around, but I didn't get much past the home page because of the crummy navigation and heavy use of plugins. If this is better than most movie sites, than the genre as a whole is very lacking.
Pretty pictures does not equal usability.
Re:How to rate a lame web site. (Score:1)
It's not their fault that you're lazy and stupid. (Score:1, Flamebait)
Re:How to rate a lame web site. (Score:2)
How will buying a ticket to a movie improve your life? Maybe because you'll get some enjoyment from the pretty pictures on the screen.
I think movies are going to have to start making two websites. Requiem for a Dream [requiemforadream.com]'s web site got me thinking about this. It's a beautiful site that adapts the movie to the web medium well, but it's got no information. You'd think the makers of an independent film who have to struggle to pay the bills would want people to know where to see or buy the damn thing. Even the distributor, Artisan Entertainment, only linked to the above site.
I'm all for Flash as a medium for creative expression, but sometimes I just want some info on a white background.
dude, take a valium! (Score:1)
this site is for ENTERTAINMENT
the movies was full of ENTERTAINMENT
the movie may also have been a statement on how "society" is stuck in a rut on "how things should be"
if you are going to slam it, give some reasonable information to back up your opinsions. The site doesn't need to fit your luddite view of how things should be.
Free your mind - Morpheus
It's art. (Score:3, Insightful)
When you go to the website you see "cool" art (or so they hope) and it makes you think that the art they are selling as their main product (the film) is of the same quality.
And the navigation on the site is not anywhere near as bad as some people make it out to be. It only requires a little creativity and intelegence to figure out.
Pyrotechnician (Score:2, Funny)
LMAO
-Cyc
Re:Pyrotechnician - with pic (Score:2, Informative)
-Cyc
Re:Pyrotechnician - with pic (Score:1)
Miami-Dade Bomb Squad (Score:4, Funny)
If you see us running...
... Catch up!
Not Fast Enough (Score:5, Funny)
Morpheus: "No, webmaster, what I'm saying is that when you're ready...well, who are we kidding? You're doomed."
Slashdot:1, Matrix:0
Another Code (Score:4, Informative)
I have no link since it's all Flash, but here's how to get to it:
- Once you type in 'Reload' to get to the Reloaded area, you must choose Enhanced Version
- On the top right, there's a little vertical bar with a yellow light. This is the Option bar, click it once to expand.
- Once expanded, click once on the grey square just to the right of the 'HTML Version' button.
- Click the green square you just opened up, and the binary entry terminal drops down.
Enjoy!
Re:Another Code (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Another Code (Score:1)
Re:Another Code (Score:1)
Re:Another Code (Score:1)
Access Panel 3 (Score:1)
Re:Access Panel 3 (Score:2)
How to use a mouse (Score:1, Offtopic)
Umm, on the Web, you activate a link by clicking the primary mouse button once ("single-click"). Clicking twice in rapid succession ("double-click") may result in errors, double billing or crashes.
Now it is your turn! Learn how to use the net [learnthenet.com] and learn how to use a mouse [lawrencegoetz.com]! It's easy!! You'll see!!!
Re:How to use a mouse (Score:1)
Re:How to use a mouse (Score:2)
When you single-click, you get a pop-up with a prompt to enter the "password."
Yes, the instructions were confusing. Here is how to get to the keyboard:
This movie (Score:2)
Unlike Star Wars, which could go either way... I'm quite confident in this one, and have been from the start.
Re:This movie (Score:2)
I (and some of my friends) have a really bad feeling about this movie. The basic idea works like this: "A prequel would be cool/decent/ok/whatever the opion of the first movie was, but a sequel will suck rancid goat nuts."
Why? Well, let's put it this way, take away the special effects from the first movie, and you're left with a plot with huge holes in it and a bunch of heavy handed Biblical metaphors.
Now, put the special effects back in, and you have an above-average action movie (Ok, it was WAY above average at the time, but not any more.) Which brings us to the next problem: The special effects aren't so 'special' anymore. Everyone's done it, everybody's seen it. There's no 'woah, that was cool' when we get a slow-bullet time effect or the sudden freeze, rotate camera, & continue effect. We've seen it beaten to death, propped up to seem like it's still alive, and beaten some more.
To sum up: Matrix sequel doesn't look too good IMHO.
(Especially since I've heard that Keanu will fly in this movie. If there's any part of the movie that made me want to groan, it was that flying sequence at the end. Both unneccesary & horrible!)
Pyrotechnician Shirt (Score:1, Redundant)
PYROTECHNICIAN
[explosives sign with bulletholes in it]
IF YOU SEE ME RUN TRY TO KEEP UP
DMCA violation? (Score:5, Funny)
Click on the keyboard twice, and enter the password "reload" to get to the new material.
You just offered to the public a technology that is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work.
Matrix as a DMCA Metaphor (Score:1, Funny)
Now I'm just waiting for Jack Valenti to show up and say, "Anonymous Coward, you will be assimilated." Oh, wait, wrong mythology. Instead, he'll say, "choose the red pill, or not. See if I care. Either way, you'll pay licensing fees until the end of time, or the airing Matrix XXV: The War Over Yet Another Copyright Extension, whichever comes first. Muahahahahah!"
Animatrix (Score:3)
Oh wow!
http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_img/matrRe:Animatrix (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2, Informative)
MOD PARENT UP (Score:2)
I had to scan comments at threshold=1 to see his tip. [shudder]
An Average Slashdot User In The Matrix... (Score:5, Funny)
Tank: OK, I'm loading you up with our latest hand-to-hand combat module
Slashdot User: Fuck no I'm not going to download a plug-in! This is stupid! Why can't it just be in HTML 3.2??
Zion Mainframe (Score:1)
Happy Cracking
~Shane
Re:Zion Mainframe (Score:1)
1011011
~Shane
Matrix Codes (Score:2)
Heres a list:
GEOF
SKROCE
DARROW
WRONG NUMBER
GUNS
MORPHEUS
TRINITY
DEJA VU
STEAK
AGENTBULLETTIME
CRASH
KEANU
CARRIE
TOKYO
LOBBY
MIRROR MIRROR
SENTINAL
NEBUCHADNEZZAR
SENTINELLARGE80
SITE CREDITS
OWEN
CHRYSALIS
PAGE168
PAGE212
PAGE9
PAGE78
BILL
RED
REDPILL
What you really want... (Score:1)
http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/index_main_
To Get the Codes to the Site... (Score:1)
Re:And..now...the most massive troll of all time.. (Score:1)
Sorry. It was one of the most adolescent, superficial, testosterone-laden movies I have ever seen.
WAS NOT, WAS NOT, WAS NOT!
Sorry, just couldn't help myself. But who cares, it still rocks. Don't bother moderating this one:)
Precisely why I like it (Score:1, Insightful)
And I love every minute of it!
But...I guess you're right. It's wrong to like anything fun and cool.
I bought the Die Hard DVD the other day, but now that you've shown me the light, I'm going to toss it since I think there are some explosions in it, and the main character has funny one-liners. How dare I. The movie as a whole isn't pretentious enough, either. It just tries to be an action movie, nothing more.
I'm also going through my movie collection and removing anything that has sunglasses or fast cars in it.
Thanks again!
Re:Precisely why I like it (Score:1)
Re:A "viral site" gone berserk...what a piece of c (Score:1)