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In-Depth Look At Matrix Previews 277

Posted by Hemos from the can't-wait-to-salivate dept.
QuietKarma writes "Consider this the first of next year's ads for Matrixx Reloaded and Matrixx Revolutions releases. Here's some semi-official poop from MSNBC with some spoilers. Or you can do what I did and read about halfway through without learning how Reloaded will end. Either that or wait until Harry at Ain't It Cool News comes out with his list of spoilers."
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  • Amazing! (Score:5, Funny)

    by BigumD ( 219816 ) on Monday December 23, 2002 @11:08AM (#4944680) Homepage
    The movie is so hotly anticipated that they've added another 'x' to each title...

    Either that or both feature a lot of pole dancing in Zion...

  • Animatrix in Matrix Boxed Set (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Vegan Pagan ( 251984 ) <deanas&earthlink,net> on Monday December 23, 2002 @11:11AM (#4944694)
    I hope that in a few years when WB sells a boxed set of all the Matrix movies, they include The Animatrix along with it. Animatrix looks to be the most unique title in the series, and probably the most eclectic mix of cartoons ever made.

  • Matrixx? (Score:4, Funny)

    by Otter ( 3800 ) on Monday December 23, 2002 @11:11AM (#4944695) Journal
    Am I missing something or did the submitter of a story about the Matrix sequels really misspell "Matrix" twice?

  • The Age of Sequels (Score:5, Interesting)

    by _Sambo ( 153114 ) on Monday December 23, 2002 @11:13AM (#4944709)
    So the Matrix will be Reloaded, then overthrown in a Revolution.

    Meanwhile, LOTR will continue to the overthrow of Mordor and the restoration of Gondor.

    The war between Mutants and non-Mutants will begin in X-Men 2.

    Anakin must become Darth Vader in Episode 3.

    Harry Potter will get another installment in there somewhere.

    Mad Max will ride again.

    James Bond...

    And Oh, yeah, did you hear that Dumb and Dumber is getting a prequel?

    I myself LOVE sequels, if they don't suck. I just hope that they put all of the Matrix Movies and all of the LOTR movies in the IMAX theater after it's all said and done so that the die-hards can see the films the way they were meant to be seen.

    • Re:The Age of Sequels (Score:4, Funny)

      by RebelTycoon ( 584591 ) on Monday December 23, 2002 @11:23AM (#4944738) Homepage
      LOTR does not have sequels...

      its just one long movie divided into 3 parts!
      • "LOTR does not have sequels...

        its just one long movie divided into 3 parts!"

        Thank you. It's just like the book. It is not a trilogy. It's only mistake was being printed in 3 parts for time/money/proofreading sake. For nay-sayers, go buy a copy. It actually says this in the foreword.

    • Re:The Age of Sequels (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Lumpy ( 12016 )
      LOTR movies in the IMAX theater after it's all said and done so that the die-hards can see the films the way they were meant to be seen.

      they never shot any of them in IMAX format. so seeing them in IMAX is not seeing them the way they were meant to be seen.

      I do wish that Lotr series was shot on IMAX format.. although it would have made the movies cost 10X as much as they do now to make and we would have to have 2 intermissions during a viewing as they change reels (you dont get 3 hours of film on an IMAX reel) and probably have to pay $30.00 per ticket to see it.

      I would have paid $30.00 a set to see it in true IMAX style (although I enjoyed my $5.50 matinee price at 11:30 in the morning) but there are so few IMAX theaters that it's not worth it for them to make a long epic like LoTR in that format.

    • Re:The Age of Sequels (Score:5, Funny)

      by Aggrazel ( 13616 ) <aggrazel@gmail.com> on Monday December 23, 2002 @11:28AM (#4944771) Journal
      And, if you believe Back to the Future 2, we need an AWFUL lot of Jaws sequels between now and 2015.

    • Re:The Age of Sequels (Score:5, Informative)

      by Twirlip of the Mists ( 615030 ) <twirlipofthemists@yahoo.com> on Monday December 23, 2002 @11:30AM (#4944785)
      I just hope that they put all of the Matrix Movies and all of the LOTR movies in the IMAX theater after it's all said and done so that the die-hards can see the films the way they were meant to be seen.

      Uh... you know IMAX uses a different aspect ratio from other cinematic presentations, right? IMAX is a 15-perf 70mm format with a 1.33:1 aspect ratio, same as an old-fashioned TV. All the movies you mentioned were meant to be shown in 2.35:1. To reformat those movies for IMAX will mean having to remove about 40% of the picture. They had to do this with Apollo 13, and later with Attack of the Clones.

      These movies were not meant to be seen in IMAX. They were meant to be seen in a regular theater with a screen 2.35 times as wide as it is tall.

    • Re:The Age of Sequels (Score:3, Insightful)

      by (startx) ( 37027 )
      Your forgetting the Terminator 3 and Bad Boys 2, both due out this summer! I don't think there was a single preview before LoTR that WASN'T for a sequal (or prequil in dumb and dumbers case)!
    • You are oversimplifying things a little. First of all, LOTR was technically one really large book divided into three sections. So, think of the movie the same way. It's really a continuation of the story, not a sequel per se. Also, Star Wars was originally a sequel, since they started at Episode 4.

      What is interesting though, is the fact that after what, 10 years, they've made a Terminator 3. Maybe some producer saw a rise in the box office success of sequels and jumped at the Terminator franchise?

  • Thanks a lot, Morpheus. (Score:5, Funny)

    by Lachrymite ( 115440 ) on Monday December 23, 2002 @11:16AM (#4944722)
    From the column [comicbookresources.com] of Mark Millar [millarworld.biz], comic book writer:

    "A baby-sitter two nights in a row is close to impossible in our family so I stuck on my old copy of The Matrix as a poor sub for a night out. It was the first time Gill had ever seen it and she actually managed to ruin it for me completely by pointing out a major plot hurdle the next two films really better explain. We're all living in The Matrix, right? We're all slaves to the robotic parasites who use our bodies as batteries while they distract us with our nice, glamorous lives in what we perceive to be the real world, right? Neo is The One who's going to free us from these evil robot masters and help us all wake up and reclaim our planet, right? So far, so good, but the world we reclaim is a post-nuclear nightmare, brother! No sun, no fun, no food, no nice clothes, no new comics every Wednesday or Thursday. Imagine everything and everyone you know suddenly switching off as you open your eyes in your little special effects pod and Lawrence bloody Fishburne is standing there with a nuclear winter blowing behind him, telling us he's saved humanity.

    Thanks a lot, Morpheus, you big, fucking twat."

    • Actually that does bring up an interesting point. Say they somehow manage to 'defeat' the matrix. Now the diplomatic thing to do would be to give each individual a choice (just as was done with Neo and the rest). People would be "brought out" to see the real world first hand, and then we would be allowed to choose. This of course assumes that by 'defeating' the matrix, it is not destroyed, but rather its programming is now controlled by humans.

      After that, Morpheus and company can start a company called "Recall Enterprises" and offer people vacations to the most exotic places (i.e. no non hell on earth location) without leaving the comfy confines of ........
      • "Now the diplomatic thing to do would be to give each individual a choice (just as was done with Neo and the rest). "

        Hay, caramba! The moral questions this one raises... I, for one, think that if you find an entire race of people hooked up to a machine for the entirety of their lives, thinking that is living, and a good way to spend their existence, then that entire race of people needs a boot up its ass. Just like slavery. (I wasnt around so stop asking me to pay for it, etc.) BUT I'm sure there were the slaves that said, "Excuse me, good sir, we don't have it too badly here. Please don't 'rock the boat' as it were, because we may lose our accomodations and life would become more difficult for us, as individuals, and as a whole. Thank you for your understanding." But the right thing to do was to give those people their freedom back. A birthright is a responsibility. Freedom is a birthright. As my dad used to say, "Unplug your head from that goddamned machine and face your responsibilities."

        • It's morally ambiguous. Their better off hooked into that machine that scavenging for scraps at some fucked up(more-so) version of Barter Town. What's better: A false heaven or a very believable hell?

          • Re:Thanks a lot, Morpheus. (Score:4, Insightful)

            by AyeRoxor! ( 471669 ) on Monday December 23, 2002 @12:05PM (#4945073) Journal
            "It's morally ambiguous. Their better off hooked into that machine that scavenging for scraps at some fucked up(more-so) version of Barter Town. What's better: A false heaven or a very believable hell?"

            As a matter of principle and desire for truth, I have no trouble saying hell. At least then I am in charge of my own destiny. Hooked up to a machine, it could malfunction, they could forget to feed me, and oh yeah, choosing that existence would make me really extremely the posterboy for pathetic. But of course, opinions are like...

            • You, my friend, have just explained away all religion. I hope you're proud of yourself!

              Seriously, consider what you've said in the context of the casting out from the Garden of Eden of Adam and Eve. They tasted of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, they desired to be like God in the one manner which God had forbidden them. They learned the truth and fell from grace. Ignorance was bliss, as living in ignorance is as living in Paradise. As we grow in knowledge, we desire to return to the innocence of our ignorant youth. Hence, by tempting Eve with the fruit of the tree, Satan became both Man's damnation and teacher. And, in consideration of what you say about choosing truth, Lucifer is The Messiah, who freed us from ignorance.
              • Um, God made Adam and Eve in His image, so they were already "like" Him, weren't they?
            • As a matter of principle and desire for truth, I have no trouble saying hell.

              Right, but that is missing the point. The bigger issue that one is faced with is that if your life in the matrix were not that bad, then could you truely face the "real world".

              And of course, the bigger overarching question is, when you are in the "real world", how do you know that you are in the "real world"? How do you know it's not the matrix being smart and saying, "hey, if these fools want to live in a post apocalyptic hell, I'll give'em one to live in, making them happy". So the ultimate irony would be that you would be giving up a relatively "nice" existence, for one that pretty much sucks, but in "reality" is no better than what you originally had?!?
        • A birthright is a responsibility

          Remember that at least a good portion of those people were genetically created by the machines.

          • "Remember that at least a good portion of those people were genetically created by the machines."

            True enough. But the machines didn't create the species. They just put different parts together.
            Depending on what you believe, we were endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, or, we're a mistake, have no rights, and it's each for himself.

            I don't see how either of those lead to the machines being lord over us. Genetic designers or not, I don't see how HRS would have trouble deciding that the machines are not exactly ideal parents.
        • I, for one, think that if you find an entire race of people hooked up to a machine for the entirety of their lives, thinking that is living, and a good way to spend their existence, then that entire race of people needs a boot up its ass.
          I think you're trying to sell this idea to the wrong crowd, dude...
    • Exactly the problem I had with the first movie. What the hell do the battery-people have to look forward to? If the Matrix was as smart as it should be, why not make the lives of all of the people in the Matrix even more glamorous than they already are? Let them all fly, leap buildings, etc. Then when Neo and the gang decide throw red pills down their throats, and they wake up nearly drowning in their own goopy food and feces, they'll beg to be strapped back in.
      • Exactly the problem I had with the first movie. What the hell do the battery-people have to look forward to? If the Matrix was as smart as it should be, why not make the lives of all of the people in the Matrix even more glamorous than they already are? Let them all fly, leap buildings, etc. Then when Neo and the gang decide throw red pills down their throats, and they wake up nearly drowning in their own goopy food and feces, they'll beg to be strapped back in.

        Which is exactly why microsoft is the leading software company and the US political system is run by two nearly identicaly clone parties.

        The point of the movie is the value of freedom people.

      • Exactly the problem I had with the first movie. What the hell do the battery-people have to look forward to? If the Matrix was as smart as it should be, why not make the lives of all of the people in the Matrix even more glamorous than they already are? Let them all fly, leap buildings, etc.

        Morpheus explains that the Matrix took decades to figure out that this very idea wouldn't work; that in an Edenic Matrix, the "batteries" kept wigging out because there was no conflict in their lives.

      • Because the machines ALREADY tried that. The humans couldn't stand it, because they thrived on suffering. Entire crops were lost - etc.

        I just loved that statement, because it's so true.
        Not that humans need to suffer. They need to have OTHERS suffer.
    • Not only that, but there's the question of what to do with all the people currently in the Matrix. Remember that removing Neo from the Matrix at his age was a big sticking point; "Normally they do not remove a mind after a certain age" or something like that. Presumably this means that the vast majority of adults in the Matrix would not want to be "freed".

      So do you leave them all in the Matrix to live out their lives? What happens if your freedom fight takes down the Matrix (the physical contructs of it I mean, all the tubes and pods and stuff); is your freedom worth the genocide of much of the human race? If you defeat the machines but are able to preserve the Matrix (and the adults inside), how do you care for them afterwards? Presumably you are not going to be adding new children to the Matrix after you win, so I would imagine at some point the Matrix reaches a point where the people inside are no longer sufficient battery power to operate the Matrix itself, because of people dying, etc.

      But of course, all of this is the exact reason why The Matrix is so popular, and why these two movies are going to be the event of 2003. Questions. The Matrix captured our imaginations, and we all can't wait to see what happens next. Been a long time since a movie can truly say that.

      • Re:Thanks a lot, Morpheus. (Score:5, Insightful)

        by handorf ( 29768 ) on Monday December 23, 2002 @12:38PM (#4945360)
        But of course, all of this is the exact reason why The Matrix is so popular,

        I have to disagree with this. The only question I had coming out of the first movie was "Why in the HELL wouldn't they use compost? Humans are about the most inefficient bloody electical generators you could POSSIBLY imagine." Heck, even just grow a human WITHOUT a brain (then elect him... DOH!)... our brains use up something like 60% of our total body nutrients (when at rest).

        I think that the popularity of the movie had 2 primary reasons:
        1) Leather Catsuit
        2) Guns.
        • "Humans are about the most inefficient bloody electical generators you could POSSIBLY imagine." Heck, even just grow a human WITHOUT a brain (then elect him... DOH!)... our brains use up something like 60% of our total body nutrients (when at rest)."

          Um, that's what they TAUGHT you to believe (along with the 2nd law of thermodynamics) - that's only true in the Matrix. Outside of the matrix, the 2nd law of thermodynamics does not apply. Now, why they chose Humans as their perpetual motion machine rather than some complicated treadmill of sponges going through a bucket of water, I have no idea.
        • I have to disagree with this. The only question I had coming out of the first movie was "Why in the HELL wouldn't they use compost? Humans are about the most inefficient bloody electical generators you could POSSIBLY imagine." Heck, even just grow a human WITHOUT a brain (then elect him... DOH!)... our brains use up something like 60% of our total body nutrients (when at rest).

          Definitely. They should have said that the machines needed exotic chemicals that could only be produced by an active brain. I don't know if there even are such chemicals, but it would have been a lot better than the ridiculous humans-as-batteries idea.

    • Re:Thanks a lot, Morpheus. (Score:5, Insightful)

      by anonymous loser ( 58627 ) on Monday December 23, 2002 @12:37PM (#4945345)
      Actually the thing that struck me was the whole conservation of energy thing. A human isn't a battery, it's a GENERATOR. You have to feed and water all those humans who then convert that energy into electricity, and that food doesn't come for free either. Somewhere, somehow, the machines are getting energy from an external source (e.g. the sun, geothermal heating) to supplement the energy they already have. They are then using that energy to generate food (even if that food is other humans), which they give to the humans who generate the electricity.

      What's the point? Why not make a more efficient mechanical generator to convert directly to electricity instead? By spreading the whole process out over several steps they are just wasting more energy than they really need to.
      • It's called suspension of disbelief.

        The first time I saw this movie, I about jumped out of my seat in the theater, trying to suppress my urge to yell and scream about the plot holes.

        However, even though there are some logical consequences that we see as obvious, it doesn't actually detract from the movie itself.

        We just have to turn off that logical part of our brains that makes us twitch, and instead just say "there is no spoon" and enjoy the movie!

      • Re:Thanks a lot, Morpheus. (Score:4, Informative)

        by Gudlyf ( 544445 ) <.gudlyf. .at. .realistek.com.> on Monday December 23, 2002 @03:32PM (#4946683) Homepage Journal
        The food source was liquified humans, IIRC.
        • "The food source was liquified humans, IIRC."

          Yeah, but the laws of thermodynamics demand that you'll alway lose energy in the transfer... Something like 10% of the energy that goes into a criter ends up as usable tissue energy... So once again, Where are they getting the energy to create the food?

          I try to tell myself that the battery plot line was just the humans' best guess - not necessarily the truth(tm). Just like Agent Smith's theory that humans are actually viruses... born out of hatred for the enemy, not an actual attatchment to the truth.

          But then, knowing a few screen writers, I'm not suprised that the physics of it is screwy. I don't think many writers know the laws of thermodynamics...

          -RB

      • What's the point? Why not make a more efficient mechanical generator to convert directly to electricity instead?

        I dunno--maybe because the movie would be too hard to sell if the geothermal power plants rose up to overthrow their robotic oppressors, on a world where the humans had been killed off centuries previous because they were too inefficient.

      • Ah, but think about the really interesting thing.

        People inside the matrix should be able to determine that they are living inside a machine.

        The pods are spaced some distance apart so there would be delays in communication b/w people.
        If that happens then people who "live" far apart in the machine meet (perhaps they bump into each other
        on holidays) could notice latency in their conversation.

        What about researchers who do experiments on the speed of light! Surely they would notice a discrepancy.

        I suppose in the matrix the whackos are right - all of NASA's moon landings would be faked.
      • The whole Humans as Power Source part of the Matrix really bothered me. The machines would entrap humans only if they needed a resource that only humans could provide. That resource is not energy. I don't care how many BTUs of energy the human body produces, the machines could get more energy by combining "a form of fusion" in rats, cockroaches, or maybe algae. Any of those life forms would be far simpler to care for and less rebellious too.

        So I've concluded that Morpheus is somewhat incorrect (GASP) and that the machines are using humans as hard drives, not batteries. Think about it. This explains the Matrix a lot better. We know that the Agents can "possess" any human by "teleporting" into them. This is essentially copying their entire data into that human's brain at amazing bandwidth. We can assume that with its great interconnectivity and ability to store huge quantities of data such as video and audio, the human mind is one of the only appropriate storage mediums for the machines. This would explain why the machines create a world that attempts to stimulate the human brain as opposed to inducing a comatose state or inflicting the newborne humans with mental retardation: Only a healthy mind makes an acceptable organic host for the machines.

        This line of thinking even hints at a possible resolution for the entire series: The humans could help the Machines invent a replacement storage medium besides human brains. Any information medium with data density equal the human brain should be sufficient. Then the machines could agree to float off into space and inhabit only worlds inhospitable to humans. (There are plenty.) This would leave the humans free to live out their lives on M class planets, although I suspect they would only pollute them to death anyway. (Agent Smith was pretty accurate in his assesment of industrial humans as viral.)

        I've wanted to get this off my chest for a long time, now that I've posted on slashdot I can consider myself heard. ; -)
    • I always secretly thought that in reality, the humans were not slaves, and not being used as batteries. It was all a big lie made up by Morpheus, or some "freedom fighter" many hundreds of years ago to justify the existance of humans outside of the Matrix.

      In reality - the AI's had basically SAVED humanity from itself - either an intranicene war, or simple mismanagement of the environment, humanity had destroyed the earth and made it uninhabitable, so the machines were keeping them in the Matrix as a Zoo. If you think about it, absolutely NOTHING said by Agent Smith in the first movie conflicts with this idea. So maybe it's the case.

      Perhaps the machines have been trying to tell the Freedom Fighters this truth for hundreds of years, but the Freedom Fighters do not believe them.
    • much deeper problem. the matrix can be recursive. how do you know you are *out* of the matrix?

  • i can see it now (Score:5, Funny)

    by 2MuchC0ffeeMan ( 201987 ) on Monday December 23, 2002 @11:17AM (#4944728) Homepage
    dispite the recent 'jackass' stunts done on tv, a teenager will try to jump into another person, or jump off a cliff, or get into a telephone booth while getting a dump truck to smash into them... and then joe lieberman will want these movies controlled :)
  • You're not kidding about the spoilers, it almost gives away the entire end climax for "The Matrix Reloaded". I only skimmed the article but it seems like a quite informative read given that I knew very little about parts 2 and 3 prior. It is also interesting to note the following:-

    Silver is promising a climactic battle like we've never seen before: a 17-minute sequence that alone cost about two thirds of the budget of the first "Matrix." (That film, in case you're wondering, cost $65 million.)

    Given the recent discussions about the climatic battle in The Towers, and the Clone Wars in Episode which I found impressive, it seems to be the selling point of these movies and is making bigger and badder battles.
    • "Given the recent discussions about the climatic battle in The Towers, and the Clone Wars in Episode which I found impressive, it seems to be the selling point of these movies and is making bigger and badder battles."

      This makes sense. The battle is the orgasm of a movie :) They even call it the 'climax' of the storyline, and fighting and sex are the two oldest and strongest instincts, probably indistinguishable on some levels in the brain. If you're getting a satisfactory mindfuck from the first matrix, and they want to lure you to the newest mental copulation, they need to promise and deliver a better orgasm :)
  • You mean we don't win in the end? Come on, we're going to see the Wizard of Oz at the end right? And realize he's just a man behind a green curtain. Oh, I'm gonna wish for a new brain.... :)

  • But can Keanu Reeve's be more than dumbfounded? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by MyNameIsFred ( 543994 ) on Monday December 23, 2002 @11:28AM (#4944769)
    I always thought that the Matrix was perfect for Keanu Reeve's. For 90 percent of the movie, he had to stand around and act dumbfounded. Something he does quite well. In my opinion, the last ten minutes of the movie, where he "understands" his place in the Matrix, was where he did his worst acting.

    Since in the sequels he'll be required to act more than dumbfounded, I'm not confident that he will be able to pull it off. Maybe that's why they're releasing bang-bang, one right after the other.

    BTW, I have the same thoughts about casting in the Terminator, Arnold didn't have to act either. A perfect role.

  • I for one am really looking forward to seeing how the series ends. The first was a great movie. Usually sequels are not that great, but then again, this is not a sequel.
    • I liked it too, it was a great action flick with a little bit of mysticism, and massive holes in the plot. Why did the Matrix let these programs in? Is there no MacAffee to stop the "TrinityAndNeoWithLotsOfGuns" program? Besides the whole physics aspect of it, why select humans as your battery? Why select the one animal that could organize enough to rise up? If the agents can make Keanu's mouth disappear (which would be freakish for him, and break out of the "Matrix respects physics" kinda mode) but the agents can't make his gun jam or him run out of bullets? Why would Cypher sell out? He can get all the pseudo-stuff he wants in the computers on the ship, he doens't need the Matrix to give it to him. I could go on with holes for hours, but it was a good action film, with groundbreaking special effects, though I've never been happy that a movie that revolutionized filmmaking has anything to do with Keanu.

      Though the special effects set new standards, a lot of this was due to the marrying of Hong Kong style action to a big budget Hollywood film. Check out some of John Woo's work, especially with Tony Leung and Chow Yun Phat and you'll see some good stuff. Teh Matrix stuff wasn't really groundbreaking compared to whats been going on in HK for years, just bigger budget, and more people saw it.

      As far as the sequels stuff goes, my opinion is that there are two types of sequels, those to make money and those to continue the story. Those ther just to make money, generally suck. They forget that one of the reasons we liked the first movie is that they showed us new people, new characters, new actions. Then they find various ways of re-hashing. Another 48 hours, Rocky series, Police Academy series. Nothing new. The better ones have a story to tell, a different one. The Matrix sequels seem to have that a bit, though I have more hope for 3 (when they fight in the real world) then in 2, in which they fight in the Matrix, which they've already done to some extent.

  • Spoiler (Score:5, Funny)

    by PD ( 9577 ) <slashdotlinux@pdrap.org> on Monday December 23, 2002 @11:40AM (#4944855) Homepage Journal
    So, the article says that they capture the keymaker who has all the keys to the doors in the matrix.

    I hope that this movie is a little more than Neo and Trinity slapping the keymaker around in a room on the Nebuchadnezzar, yelling "sign my certificate! SIGN MY CERTIFICATE! SIGN IT NOW!"

  • "The Matrix" borrowed heavily from several sources, mostly comic books, Japanese anime and Asian kung fu movies (graphic). "But I think people misunderstand art when they say things like that," says Pope. "Once you filter an influence through yourself, it's not the same thing anymore--if you really filter it. There's a film vocabulary out there, and it's for everybody to use."

    This is exactly why copyright should fall in the public domain after a short time.

    • Re:Yup (Score:2)

      by bje2 ( 533276 )
      how about "Alice in Wonderland"...the article forgot to mention that, but there were some good AIW themes/similarities in the Matrix...
  • ...that a supposedly "futuristic" movie has to devolve into car chases?

    Hollywood...we blow things up.
  • I'm pretty sure I was the first to preview this movie, I collected scraps from the Warner Bros cutting room floor and was able to piece together an in-depth review:

    http://www.stephenvandyke.com/?p=article&id=21 06 [stephenvandyke.com]
  • That was about all I knew about The Matrix when I went into the theater (I had seen the trailer) and I was blown away. Completely surprised by the plot and the details. Because of this I am avoiding any spoilers for the next two. I wouldn't want to know what to expect. Though it is tempting to know what happens I will resist!
  • The article mentions how the Matrix used ideas from other stories, and I see a Key Maker is an integral part of the plot. Could this be none other than Vince Clortho, the Keymaster of Gozer?

    Out of work these many years and demoted to Key Maker, he has aligned himself with the uber-machines in an attempt to regain control of the mortal realm. Can Neo defeat the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Battle Droid? Will Morpheus and Trinity have to cross their streams? Only time will tell!

    (Before anyone tries to debunk this by pointing out that the Key Maker is played by "a tiny Asian man", have you seen any pictures of Rick Moranis lately?)
  • If you haven't seen Equilibrium yet (or have no idea [slashdot.org] what I'm talking about), do yourself a favor and go take a look [hollywood.com].

    Reason I mention it in this thread is that some of the influences are the same, most people who liked The Matrix will like this, and it's too good a movie to die this quickly. I saw it last Thursday, and was astounded by it. Sure, there are a lot of cool fight scenes, but it's also a good movie, doing certain things you didn't expect (several bits of foreshadowing are slick), has an actual story, good acting, good dialog, makes you think, and overall is a great movie.

    Go see it.

  • I guess this means that the MPAA boycott is off....

  • Isn't it spelled Matrix... unless, of course, Redd Foxx [cmgww.com] wrote the storyline.
  • I stopped reading this article halfway through. I don't want to know ANY of this... and see no benefit to reading the rest of the article, except you will no longer be surprised when some things happen.

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