New Animatrix Trailer Available 214
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 ;)
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Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:1, Interesting)
Go forth and do your part.
Umm... (Score:1, Interesting)
DreamCatcher & the new Animatrix short (Score:5, Interesting)
You should go see Dreamcatcher to see Dreamcatcher - it's worth it. If you're smart, you'll probably enjoy it. If you're not so smart, you likely won't get how cool it is.
As for Final Flight of the Osiris - it's good. The opening flirtatious fight scene (what the prude you replied to called a 'sex scene') was cute and fun. If you're going to an R rated movie, it's way-tame compared to the MPAA rating of the movie it's attached to, an hardly a reason to get embarassed. The rest of it is straight out of the Matrix type stuff, and also quite good. The animation quality of the people is as good or better than the Final Fantasy movie. The animation quality of the environment (especially inside the Matrix itself) is substantially better - many parts of which are almost indistinguishable from 'reality'. ("You think that's air you're breathing, punk? Well, do ya?" - Clint Eastwood in the Matrix
If Kazaa didn't suck ass, I'd have a copy of it on my machine by now, to add to the two segments released online. *sigh*
Re:Dreamcatcher & the new Animatrix short (Score:4, Interesting)
re: my gallery
Thanks! Wish I could afford to live over there on Bainbridge. But Seattle's a nice second place showing.
32-Bit Access Panel (Score:4, Interesting)
Enter 01101111 in the 8-bit access panel to gain access to the 32-bit panel
Only 4,294,957,295 possiblities.
Wonder what goodies I can find... see ya in a few years.
Re:DreamCatcher & the new Animatrix short (Score:2, Interesting)
Come on now, no need to get pretentious. I saw it tonight, and while yes, it's fun and campy, it isn't exactly what I'd call an intellectual film. Everything is pretty much presented at face value.. not much at all to "get". It's clever at best.. on par with Starship Troopers in my books.
Just saw Last Flight of the Osiris (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:I just don't get it (Score:4, Interesting)
1. File traders are thieves who should go to jail indefinity for supporting terrorism.
2. Open source software is created and supported by immature and antisocial guys who still have acne and have no girlfriend to speak of while actively supporting and contributing to the "black hat" hacker community.
3. Computer game developers are people who are trying to make money off of destroying our children's morality by ensuring our children are desensitized to violence and are actively encouraged to kill in real life like they do in all video games, because all video games are extremely violent in nature. Come on, my kid* was running after his neighbor with a hammer because he saw Kirby use a hammer in "Kirby's Dreamland 3." Mind you this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I should not have given my kid* a hammer in the first place.
*Kid does not actually exist. (Thank God!
4. Computer gamers are guys who are completely antisocial, also have an acne problem, and of course no girlfriend. They are the direct cause of all violence in our society and should be psychologically treated and take up more healthy pursuits such as football** or other sports which has absolutely no violent content despite terminology coming from warfare such as "Long Bomb" and "Blitz."
** I have absolutely nothing against football, but this happened to be the perfect example for what I was trying to say above. I am attempting to point out that "acceptable entertainment" can also be inherently violent.
Ok I have shown 4 examples of what happens when you take all the grey areas out of a group of people and lump them all into 1 category. Obviously, this is not how the real world works, nor should it be.
So you are going to ask me, What the hell does this have to do with "The Matrix?" Simple, Neo and his colleagues are born or "grown" into an environment where they are given 3 options: fight, die, or become a battery. Although they may or may not be pissed about the decisions human beings made nearly 200 years earlier, they are still stuck with a war and the fact that they have to fight or die. So yes, Neo is a hero to humans, which is good...for humans. In my humble opinion claiming that humanity in "The Matrix" is evil for destroying robots is just as ludicrous as claiming that the United States is evil since slavery was legal 200 years ago. Both are not good, both are not evil, both are grey.
Why have things this complicated in a movie? Call me a bigot, but having been told several times that I have an IQ greater than 150 tends to make me bored with plots as thin as "Glitter" or "Crossroads." Even though I enjoy Star Trek for example, I consider it weak fodder compared to a lot of the anime I download/buy when I can. I am not even going to compare the best American television has to offer to the likes of say a Kurosawa film. Again this is just my opinion, it is not uniformly right or uniformly wrong. It works for me and is again universally "grey."
Re:I just don't get it (Score:5, Interesting)
Exactly. People think I'm crazy when I mention that.
The core question, the one which tempted Cypher is, "Is reality worth fighting for when a much more benign form of Solipsism exists?"
Its very easy to see the humans as the traditional villians. They're the ones who want to fight. They're the ones who want to break the symbiotic relationship, which can be seen as a type of war sanction. They destroyed their own environment fighting the machines, suggesting that they are extremists who would rather ruin everything than give in to the enemy.
The machines are fairly reasonable throughout the movies (except for the dramatic scene about the "smell of humans" but thats Hollywood). They tried to build a perfect world for humans - which to me brings up a great philosophical question about what the religious really think the afterlife is. What is "heaven" to a complex highly-competitive mammal fighting to mate, reproduce, defend territory, and defeat its ideological enemies. The machines have human nature pegged and its hard to argue that they're hurting anyone. Considering its in their interest to keep people alive, I bet they have a great healthcare system too.
Interesting stuff, I really hope the humans lose or the other movies explore these issues. Perhaps in the end everyone will be a happy transhuman cyborg living on the real Earth.
Re:I just don't get it (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:I just don't get it (Score:2, Interesting)
Here's my gripe with the Matrix, where is this energy coming from? The machines feed the humans, and the humans give off energy. WHAT?! Didn't someone tell them you lose energy every transformation it makes? It would seem they don't get a net gain unless they have no other way of transforming human food into energy.
As some past poster said, the plot originally involved the machines using us in a distributed computer network. The W. Bros thought this wouldn't fly so it was changed into power, something that makes no sense for those of us that would of understood the distributed computer approach.. We must be hard to keep happy..