The Matrix: Revolutions Theatrical Trailer 671
Escape Tangent writes "The full theatrical trailer for The Matrix: Revolutions was posted just moments ago at thematrix.com. Choose your poison, then oogle at the eyecandy. Here are links to the high, medium, and low resolutions. Sorry folks, Quicktime 6 only." This trailer is much longer than the earlier TV spots, but they're still available.
in case of slashdotting (Score:3, Interesting)
props to gnaa
A possible spoiler... (Score:5, Interesting)
In the final few frames before the closing titles, a hovership, possibly the Nebuchadnezzar, is shown flying (or crashing) against a clear blue sky with a visible moon. Remember, the skies were burned during the war. Will the skies be cleared in the third movie?? Or is it just incomplete sfx?
Re:A possible spoiler... (Score:2, Interesting)
*evil grin* (Score:4, Interesting)
No seriously, it seems like WB and Apple seem to be buddy-buddy. Apple mirrors lots of WB Trailers, WB Sends their Musical Artists to the Apple iTunes store . . who knows.
Whoa (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:A possible spoiler... (Score:3, Interesting)
But then again I may be wrong.
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Re:A possible spoiler... (Score:2, Interesting)
Perhaps the inhabitants in the matrices are either real humans used to provide virtual selves for Neo to interact with, or the inhabitants are merely programs themselves meant to push Neo into achieving true AI.
I don't know what the truth is either, but it's fun to guess.
MPlayer rules (Score:1, Interesting)
A theory.. (Score:5, Interesting)
he is able to stop the sentinels in Zion near the end of the film? The
spoon given to him earlier. It had obviously been bent loads, but how
outside the Matrix? This gave Neo the inspiration and the understanding
that Zion is still a matrix.
The One explained:
"The One" is a program, but has to be "attached" to someone in the Matrix.
So Mr. Anderson got it in the 6th version of the Matrix. Then "The One"
program's purpose is to allow Zion to be destroyed then to rebuild it. The
reason for this is because of anomalies - the 1% of humans that don't
accept the Matrix. These are all brought out of the Matrix program and into
the Zion program by the "Morpheus" program and other similar "ship captain"
programs. Then once all the anomalies are out of the Matrix (and in Zion),
that is the time for Zion to be destroyed, thus killing all the anomalies
off. The Matrix is then upgraded, thus creating the next version of the
Matrix, but Zion must be rebuilt so that the next lot of anomalies can be
brought out again so that they can be destroyed. This is the feedback-loop,
and is the reason to retain a handful of people so that Zion can be rebuilt.
So this is why Neo said the prophecy was a lie - the One's purpose was not
to end the war as the prophecy stated.
Unfortunately, "The One" program must be re-used each time, or copied, so it
can be "attached" to a new anomaly inside the Matrix. So what happens to
the old "The One" program? It faces deletion, and as the Oracle explained,
it goes into exile instead, just like the French bloke (the Merovingian)
did. He was the first One (probably from the second version of the Matrix),
and once he fulfilled his duty, he became an exile program and "abdicated"
his "Oneness" by choosing Persephone and power. This is evident in the bogs
when Persephone asks Neo to kiss her. She says she wants him to kiss her so
she can feel what it is like again to be kissed by something close to
human, just like the Merovingian used to be. Then she says to Trinity that
she envies her, but that these things are not meant to last. So the
Merovingian used to be just like Neo - a One - thus proving further the
feedback-loop explained earlier.
The correct door in the Architect's room
Now there are two possibilities here:
1. All the previous One's chose the right door allowing a "temporary
dissemination" of their code into the Matrix (i.e., the code they "carry"
thus indicating Neo is indeed human), then he must select (unplug) 23
people from the Matrix to rebuild Zion. This takes away the possibility
that stories from previous rebuilds of Zion will be carried through. But
Morpheus indicated in the first Matrix that this is the case anyway. He
said, "there was a man born inside, able to change things, it was he who
freed the first of us," - basically the One previous to Neo. And this
proves that the previous One chose the right door also. Neo's purpose is
also to choose the right door, but he does not because he faces deletion
afterwards and has the choice of going into exile - programs choosing to go
into exile is the one thing that can't be accounted for in program
parameters. Thus, he chooses the left door instead this time. How was Neo
able to choose the other door? Because of his extreme willpower? - Even the
Architect indicated that he'd noticed this - "Interesting. That was quicker
than the others." Or more likely, because the Oracle upgraded his coding
with the candy on the park bench. The candy/cookie was a method to change
the One's program. She said he has made a believer out of her - this is
quite human-like and perhaps the previous One's didn't accept the upgrade
candy, now she has hope... hope that Neo will finally choose the other
door.
2. All the previous One's chose the left door, saving Trinity and letting
Zion fall. So this time is
MOBIL AVE? (Score:2, Interesting)
Seen at 39 and 45 seconds into the trailer - Neo in an austere white subway station with MOBIL AVE [warnerbros.com] on the tiled wall. Looks like he meets a child dressed in yellow who then leaves with another party (when Neo is punched).
Simple anagram - LIMBO AVE?
There's a later subway station shot (subway train labelled "LOOP" hurtling towards the screen) at 1m42s but that doesn't look to be the same location.
Re:Why quicktime 6 only? (Score:2, Interesting)
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Re:Do you guys notice... (Score:3, Interesting)
In that case you missed much of what was great about the first movie. Sure, it had a decent story (not nearly as great as people try to pretend it was, however), but what made it so different was the mood, the atmosphere, and the sheer beauty of it. It was more like a well choreographed ballet than a movie, and the costumes, the settings, and - above all - the revolutionary fight scenes were very much a part of that.
It was cool enough seeing some "hacking stuff" going on!
A lot of movies have "hacking stuff" going on without even being watchable. I'm not sure what the hell your talking about.
Now it's all about fighting (which is abissmal compared to some Jet Li classics) and looking chic.
Don't be ridiculous - the fight scenes in the Matrix movies are arguably the most beautiful ever shot. The ones in the first movie changed our perceptions of what such scenes could be like. They have changed the course of modern cinema, and even Jet Li would tell you that. To say that they're "abissmal" [sic.] is not even funny, it's just dumb.
All this said, however, I do agree that Reloaded is of a lesser quality than the first Matrix. Besides not having a good story, it took itself way too seriously. There's no distance. When Morpheus starts going on about how Neo is the one and all that, I turn away to avoid being embarrassed. Unfortunately, it looks like Revolutions is going to be just as preachy, if not more.
Ps. Please don't write "sumthin." It's ugly and makes you look moronic.
Re:in case of slashdotting (Score:2, Interesting)
Quicktime Alternative. (Score:4, Interesting)
PS There's also a "Real Alternative" codec, lets you get rid of Realplayer too.
Re:A possible spoiler... (Score:2, Interesting)
Another possibility is that Neo is learning to interface with the matrix while still ouside it. How? Perhaps there is more to the connection than simply the plugs. If there was some sort of mechanism that the plugs interfaced with, perhaps Neo is able to exploit this, without the plug in place.
Another thing that I've been wondering about is why Smith tried to contaminate Neo with his blood - remember how in Reloaded the man "possessed" by Smith was cutting his hand when he was about to shake Neo's hand - only to be stopped at the last minute. My guess is that in Revolutions he will get his chance.
What will this achieve? Taking a wild guess, I'm wondering if all the humans have some sort of nano-machines/mini computers in their blood, or something like the critters in Greg Bear's Blood Music, and that it is these that interface with the plugs and make the matrix conections possible. In that case, Smith is trying to get the nano computers in his blood into Neo, so as to take him over from the inside.
In that case, it may well be that the "showdown in the rain" we've seen in the trailers is taking place inside Neo's head.
Re:A theory.. (Score:3, Interesting)
Guns. (Score:3, Interesting)
I thought the EMP was 'our only weapon against the machines'.
Re:A theory.. (Score:3, Interesting)
Every time thus far, (and I agree that we've been through several versions of the Matrix), he has chosen to rebuild, and left Trinity to die. The Oracle has figured out that her prophecies can change things, and has decided to do it. "What'll really bundt your cake is whether you would've broken if it I hadn't said anything". She knows what their normal pattern will be, because she's seen them do it several times so far.
But, by tossing out comments like "don't worry about it, you'll forget about this once you've left....here, have a cookie", she's ensuring he _won't_ forget, which changes the future somewhat. I really think she's been changing things more and more each time. The first time, maybe she just had him break the vase. The second time, she told Trinity that he was The One. The third time, realizing that Neo needs some more nudging, tells him to "have a cookie".
Either way, looking forward to this.
Re:A possible spoiler... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:A theory.. (Score:3, Interesting)
Neo chooses the left door because he's the first One to have an emotional attachment to a specific human, just as the Architect said (guess you weren't paying attention).
And the Merovingian was not a previous One. I have no idea why so many people incorporate that into their theories (they also love to make Persephone the mother of the Matrix when it is most definitely the Oracle).
Weak defenses? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:A theory.. (Score:5, Interesting)
The "real" world, is in fact just an outer layer of the Matrix. I'm going to describe the Matrix as an operating system. Indeed, its been described as that in the story.
Now in any good operating system you have users. Users can do random things, many of them dumb, so you limit their abilities. They are given a finite amount of space to play in, a finite time to play, and strict rules to play by. In an ideal world they would be so oblivious to the actual rules that they just assume that's how reality works.
We do this now with daemons under Linux. My bind daemon runs as a special user named. Named has its own filesystem within a filesystem through the magic of CHROOT. CHROOT fools a process into thinking the origin of the universe exists at an arbitrary location of a larger filesystem, instead of at the convention I-Node 0.
When named runs, it can't see anything but what is below /var/bind. Indeed, it sees /var/bind as /.
Thus, if a hacker manages to hijack the bind daemon, all he/she will see is the contents of /var/bind. They can't see anything else in the file system.
Now, suppose we found there was a special band of Hackers who found a way out of the chroot environment? It is my theory that the machines devise a honeypot in the form of Zion. Zion looks like a working system, but in fact the /etc /bin /var et all are fabrications designed to fool the cracker into thinking they have 0wned the box.
In fact all the 0wn is a little rubber room, that exists as /zion on my file system. It's a cheapy spare drive that I don't care about.
I monitor the activity on the /zion drive, and it gives me all the info I need to prevent a further breach. When I have learned all that I care to, I reformat the volume with a fresh image.
I'm on rev 6 of this system...
Re:Weak defenses? (Score:2, Interesting)
You are, of course, correct, but given who (or rather, what) their enemy is, I suspect they might be a little skittish about letting computers control their weapons.
Re:A possible spoiler... (Score:4, Interesting)
1. Zion (and the "service and waste tunnels" etc.) exist in an uber/meta-matrix. Ha ha, we fooled you.
This one seems the most popular.
2. There was a "bait and switch" as our heroes thought they were exiting the Matrix after Neo saves Trinty.
This one is supported by a) Neo says "Something's different." before he stops the sentinels. b) All reports are that Zion was destroyed/abandoned at that time, but the battle seems to be going on in Revolutions. c) It makes the whole Bane/Smith thing much easier to accept.
This one seems the most plausible.
3. Neo is a genuine Messiah, sent by God. In this scenario the "real world" is the real world. His miraculous powers are genuine, bestowed upon him by the Grace of God for His own purposes.
This one is my favorite. I'm not sure if this is in spite of, or because of the fact that I am an (little "a") atheist.
4. There is no answer. The whole thing is a pointless mind-fuck. Revolutions will have an utterly dissatisfying ending. Twenty years from now the Wachowski brothers will state in an interview that Neo was a replicant.
This one I fear the most.
-Peter