New Animatrix Trailer Available

hin writes "The new trailer of the Animatrix is available for download from www.whatisthematrix.com. Check out the medium resolution version." Use the broadband if you got it I guess ;)

Re:Let me get this straight

[contagen]

if we focused on everything that was bad in the world, we'd all be sad and pissed off all the time (much like you seem to be atm)...you can still enjoy life with negative things going on around you. If you're like me(and i'd guess most of us), you've been blasted by the media with details of this war for the past 72 hours straight....take a break for a while and watch a good cartoon. -WB

I just don't get it

[stevens]

In the first Matrix movie, Neo is supposed to be the hero. He is supposed to deliver humanity from a scourge of machines that, with AI, decided we were expendable.

But the first Animatrix makes we humans, pretty much en masse, into horrible villains. It's the same tired old Humanity Is Cruel And Stupid line. Yawn. What's worse is that it tries to make you root for the machines!

So which is it, Wachowskis? Machines are evil, or all of humanity?

I don't care for yet more everything-is-grey-there-is-no-morality bullshit, either. Oh well, I guess I'll wait and see.

Re:I just don't get it

[red5]

Well it's done in the form of a historical document. History is written by the winers, remember?

Re:I just don't get it

[Calmiche]

Umm. I hate to throw myself into this feeding frenzy, but the Wachowski brothers never made the point that the machines were evil.

In fact, from several lines in the original Matrix, it is apparent that the machines were simply defending themselves. Humans released the bombs that clouded the skies, hoping to kill the robots.

The Agents tell (Morpheous, I think) that the first matrix they created was a paradise, but that humans rejected it. Without pain and suffering, humans couldn't exist. The Machines were trying to keep humans as happy as they could.

And humans were never expendable. The machines needed the energy produced by humans to exist.

I think it's more a case of "When does self defense and the right to exist clash with the right of others to do the same?" In otherwords, Neither humans nor AI is truly evil. They are both just trying to preserve their own lives. Calmiche

The thing I really like about the animatrix shorts

[SuperKendall]

No so much that they are an interesting way to examine the universe the movies are set in, though that is fun. The thing I like best about the whole thing is that it's a great testbed showing that you can release video for free and still make bundles of money selling people the DVD version!!

Eventually, all of these shorts will be on DVD, but before then almost all will be on the web (not sure if "last Flight of the Osiris" is supposed to go up or not?). But even though we can all get hi-res versions for free, I'm sure a lot of people will still buy the DVD (I know I will).

This is just the sort of thing that helps to show how free versions of movies online can actually help, not hinder, sales.

Re:I just don't get it

[brett42]

It's in the form of a document in a 'Zion archive', which seems to indicate it was created by humans. It could just be a copy of robotic propaganda, but I think the narration was the same as the "welcome to the Zion archive" voice.

Now hold on

[DrMrLordX]

I have to agree with the parent. The Matrix wasn't all that great, and it was hardly worthy of all the hype it generated. The Animatrix shorts currently available have been equally lacking in lustre. Especially the first one. Watching those corny little anthropomorphic robots build some futuristic pyramid by hauling materials up a ramp(using a crude sled pulled by ropes, no less) was ridiculous. Our modern contruction techniques are already far superior to that nonsense. What kind of a moron would use robots in such a horribly inefficient fashion?

Let's face it: The Animatrix has shown us a vision of the future that is both implausible and rather stupid.

Re:Now hold on

[lonesome phreak]

Read VALIS by Philip K Dick. The similarities are amazing. They are both a telling of the same basic story, but VALIS is much more interesting.

Re:Spoilers!

[Spy Hunter]

Jokes about slashdotting the matrix trailers are getting reeeealy old, because it doesn't happen. Every time a new animatrix story is posted someone jokes about slashdotting it, but the trailers are always available at speeds of above 500KB/sec even right after the story is posted, when it is still the first story on Slashdot's front page. Believe it or not, there are sites out there with more bandwidth than Slashdot, and AOL-Time-Warner sites are a prime example.

Re:I just don't get it

[Nihilanth]

It would be foolish not to reserve judgement until seeing AT LEAST part two of The Second Rennaisence.

Not true!

[$$$exy Gwen Araujo]

You'll be paying back the cost of hosting those video files when you go out and buy the DVD or watch Matrix 2 and 3 in the cinema. Do you know how much it costs for a good advert spot on TV, radio or before a movie? Compared to that, bandwidth costs are quite cheap!

What ads?

[gad_zuki!]

>At least visit the damn site -- and maybe *gasp* glance at an advertisement

Huh? Lets see, if I want to watch it tomorrow then I have to RE-DOWNLOAD it within the frame of my browser. If I save it to disk then I can watch it again without re-downloading it. Now who's being frugal? Not to mention having the file itself makes for P2P sharing via your LAN or through some wacky Kazaa-like software. I'd rather have Bob send it to me through our 100mbps LAN than having both of us download it.

Web designers have to realize that embedded content is almost always a bad idea. It contribubtes to browser instability, forces users to redownload, and keeps users from intelligently sharing the data. I'd much rather deal with external viewers, at least when they crash they don't take all my browser windows with them. Hopefully, the design people will get a clue or at least have an obligatory direct download link.

Also, I hate to break it to you but there are no ads on that site.