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Matrix Revolutions Trailer Released 569

Posted by simoniker from the whoa-the-third dept.
aerojad writes "The new Matrix Revolutions trailer is now available for download (direct link) on the official site. If you have plugin/bandwidth issues, there are also BitTorrent links available. For those wondering, there is more to it than you saw at the end of Reloaded." In related news, an anonymous reader points to the BBC News report that: "The makers of the Matrix films are considering only promoting the third film, Matrix Revolutions, for next year's Oscars. Warners, which produced the films, had considered pushing for both of them to be nominated as a single entry because they were shot on the same 240-day shoot, but the academy refused."
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  • Wow! (Score:5, Informative)

    by inertia187 ( 156602 ) * on Wednesday August 20, 2003 @11:31PM (#6751586) Homepage Journal
    Man, Agent Smith looks absolutely crazy in this trailer. I still think he looks better with long hair. In case the BBC site is slow, here's [martin-studio.com] a mirror to the 3rd link. I'm keeping my BitTorrent window open for as long as possible. It only took me two minutes to download, but that's because I beat the rush because I'm a Slashdot Subscriber [slashdot.org]. ;-) Please keep your BitTorrent windows open for as long as possible.

    • Re:Wow! (Score:3, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Wow downloading a commercial for a second rate sci fi sequel! Membership has its advantages! Where do I sign?

    • Potential spoiler? (Score:5, Interesting)

      by Overly Critical Guy ( 663429 ) on Wednesday August 20, 2003 @11:48PM (#6751709)
      Look whose kitchen he's laughing in.
      • Well, there were only two kitchens that I remember from the other two films. The Oracle's and that lady with the carving knife who got overridden - the one Neo ran through. Yeah, that's a real spoiler.

    • Re:Wow! (Score:5, Funny)

      by 5i ( 112354 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @12:05AM (#6751848)
      Damn bittorrent.

      I mean, I'm sure there's some point here.. but:

      download rate: 0 k/s
      upload rate: 22 k/s

      and this from a country where you pay for every byte transmitted. I'm sure there's a "tragedy of the commons" lesson in here somewhere..

      kill -9 bittorrent.

    • Re:Wow! (Score:3, Funny)

      by Elwood P Dowd ( 16933 )
      Man, Agent Smith looks absolutely crazy in this trailer. I still think he looks better with long hair.

      No, he looks better with high heels and a bra [imdb.com].

  • Woa (Score:3, Funny)

    by numbski ( 515011 ) * <numbskiNO@SPAMhksilver.net> on Wednesday August 20, 2003 @11:33PM (#6751596) Homepage Journal
    I think I hear a straw gurgling someplace...

    "Mr. Anderson, you're the one!
    You make bullet time oh so fun!
    Mr. Neo I'm ever so fond of you..."

    *ducks*

  • Direct Link To The Torrent (Score:5, Informative)

    by aerojad ( 594561 ) on Wednesday August 20, 2003 @11:35PM (#6751610) Homepage Journal
    Just incase the page won't resolve: here [gametab.com].

  • Direct link to movie (Score:5, Informative)

    by ASayre8 ( 612723 ) on Wednesday August 20, 2003 @11:35PM (#6751611) Homepage
    http://progressive.warnerbros.com/thematrix/us/med /revolutions_640_dl.mov Direct link to the High Quality version of the trailer.

  • Spoilers (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Ignorant Aardvark ( 632408 ) * <[moc.liamg] [ta] [syewedyc]> on Wednesday August 20, 2003 @11:37PM (#6751627) Homepage Journal
    Am I the only one who absolutely refuses to watch these trailers? I mistakenly saw the trailer for Reloaded, and the whole Burly Brawl was completely spoiled when they showed a cloud of Agent Smiths getting tossed off in a "mushroom cloud." If you hadn't seen that, you'd really be worried when the Smiths completely enveloped Neo, because you wouldn't know how he was going to get out of it. But the preview spoiled it, and so that fight (possibly the best in the movie) was entirely spoiled for me because I knew the outcome - if hundreds of Agent Smiths couldn't even hold Neo down, how could he possibly lose?!

    I hate how movie companies are putting more and more give-aways in their trailers just to get more people to come see it. It speaks volumes about how they only care about the bottom line, and how little they care about the integrity of the movie as art. I've heard from my friends about American Wedding (which I didn't want to see) - it was a waste of money because they already saw all the best parts on the ads!

    And that is why I refuse to watch Revolutions trailers. As the movie's release date draws nearly it's going to get harder for me, as I'll have to turn away from the TV and cover my ears whenever the ads come up. But it'll be worth it, because I absolutely hate spoilers.

    • Re:Spoilers (Score:3, Funny)

      by joenobody ( 72202 )
      Trinity dies at the end, it was in the trailer.
    • This was actually discussed at TLFC [thelastfreecity.com]. This trailer reveals very little. It's a lot of quick-cutting that gives very little away, as opposed to the really long Matrix Reloaded trailer that let you pretty much play connect the dots between scenes as you watched the final film. People complained that the Reloaded trailer contained almost all of the "money shots."

      In this one, all you can definitely tell is that there's a final rainy battle with Smith. Otherwise, it's explosions, giant flying machines, and q
    • Then again, this is the nature of the business.

      They tried several times to do just that, by showing obscure previews that didn't give away anything, and so far most of them resulted in failures. Overwhelming majority of movie-going consumers suffer from ADD [everything2.com]. Without giving them something big during the preview, you're running the risk of dooming the box office returns.

      In 1995, I remember they started running the ads for Strange Days [rottentomatoes.com], which involved few people giving interviews about something no one had a

    • LOTR2 trailer had a terrible spoiler too (Score:5, Insightful)

      by caitsith01 ( 606117 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @03:05AM (#6752550) Journal
      I couldn't agree more, they put waaay too much into trailers sometimes. In the Two Towers trailer, they actually went so far as to show that Gandalf was alive even though as far as the plot and the characters were concerned he was dead as of the end of the first movie. To me this is the equivalent of making a trailer for the Empire Strikes back and putting in a clip of Darth Vader saying "I am your father!" and Luke screaming "No!!!"

      Yeah, yeah, I know we all know that Gandalf was going to live because we're cool and we read the books, but perhaps there were people out there who didn't know, and after all it's the principle of the thing. The worst part is that you can't escape the trailers when you go to see a movie.

    • Re:Spoilers (Score:5, Funny)

      by xThinkx ( 680615 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @07:58AM (#6753594) Homepage
      Man, you're so right. They RUINED the LOTR trilogy for me by releasing these stupid books when I was younger and I read them. I mean, the books had almost everything that was in the movies, why would I want to go see the movies now? That made the movies absolutely suck because they were "spoiled".
  • The second one sucked really bad. I mean if it did not have the "matrix" label on it, it probably would of bombed on the box office. The first one rocked so I am not anti-matrix by any means. I was more plot and less action. It seems like the second one was about how to make a movie with more actions seens then any other with little plot.

    • Re:Hope its better then the 2nd one (Score:5, Insightful)

      by phantumstranger ( 310589 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @12:06AM (#6751857) Homepage
      I've heard a lot of people say things along the same lines as you and, while I don't entirely disagree with the fact that there was tons more action than plot movement in this one, I must point something out.

      Reloaded is the part of The Matrix story where they (we) believe they (again, we) are at the eleventh hour. At the eleventh hour and a make-or-break mission at hand to save the world from the machines there really isn't that much that needs to be said.

      In watching the film the plot movement is the fight scenes. There are bits of clues left in most of the fights that pertain not only to the "present day" Matrix but also the prior Matrices (?) and the bugs that were in them.

      I would think there will be plenty more narrative story in Revolutions given the three endings Reloaded had. (Spoiler warning) One - The Matrix loop, Two - Neo's power in The Real World, Three - the Judas character / agent.

      I was very happy with Reloaded not just with the fight scenes but with the way they moved the story along. I would ask you to wait for the DVD and rent it to notice the little things - the subtle things - that the Wachowskis did with it.

    • Reloaded had to be the most disappointing movie of 2003. The problem was that they basically had nowhere to go after the first one. Wire-Fu has been done to death by everyone after Matrix came out now what? More wire-fu? I ope the W bros learned their lesson but I doubt it. I'll see it a few weeks after release anyway.

    • Re:Hope its better then the 2nd one (Score:4, Insightful)

      by gosand ( 234100 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @08:51AM (#6754028)
      The second one sucked really bad. I mean if it did not have the "matrix" label on it, it probably would of bombed on the box office. The first one rocked so I am not anti-matrix by any means. I was more plot and less action. It seems like the second one was about how to make a movie with more actions seens then any other with little plot.


      Allow me to offer another opinion. The second movie was really good, it was just laid out poorly. Everything you were looking for was there, it was just all crammed into one part of the movie. You didn't have time to digest what was happening in the plot before the next big action sequence. In the first one, you got to figure out what was going on as you went. In the second one, it was action action action PLOT action action action. Yes, the love scene was bad, the "Soddom and Gomorrah" part could have been done a little better. Morpheus did pontificate a little too much, and some of the dialog was corny. But I think when you can finally put all the movies together the second one will fit. At least I hope it will. I was disappointed right after I saw it, but the more I talked about it with my wife, I saw some of the more symbolic references. Now with most movies, I would think that it could just be coincidental, but I think the Warchowski brothers know what they are doing, and put them in there on purpose.


      I am glad that they had some swordplay in the second one, I thought that was pretty cool. But I think that the real gist of the second movie was to introduce The Architect and to let agent Smith go off the deep end.


      The first movie was better, because it introduced The Matrix to us. There is nothing they could do in the second one to compete with that, just like T2 couldn't come up with the same magic of the Terminator. (although they did a nice twist with the second one where Arnold was the good guy). But with the Terminator, they had nowhere to go with the 3rd one. I didn't see it, and probably won't. The interest wasn't there for me. With The Matrix, I really want to see what happens in the third one. Hopefully they'll wrap it up nicely and make it a great trilogy.

  • IMAX MATRIX! (Score:3, Informative)

    by LoRdTAW ( 99712 ) on Wednesday August 20, 2003 @11:40PM (#6751647)
    I saw Reloaded in the Lowes Imax here in NYC and it was incredible! If you have one near you I suggest you go and see it there. A few tips for getting tix and seats:
    -Order tickets on line or at the box office 1 or 2 days before showing to ensure you get them.
    -Get to the theater at least 1 hour before the movie starts to enshure you gett he good seats.
    -Best seats are the upper middle. I try to find the seats where the screen is visible clearly but not to far up that I have to move my head to see whats going on. The right distance and you will really feel like you are in the movie.

    Hope this helps...

    • IMAX seating (Score:2, Informative)

      by Azethoth666 ( 658652 )
      I think what he is trying to say is get seats around the projector - can't beat a projector's eye view.

    • Omaha sucks! (Score:3, Funny)

      by KlomDark ( 6370 )
      The IMAX here at the Zoo is so lame that they won't play it (Because it's not 'educational'), but then again, they bitch about not making enough money... Stupid stupid people.

  • warner bros servers choaking (Score:4, Informative)

    by LWolenczak ( 10527 ) <julia@evilcow.org> on Wednesday August 20, 2003 @11:43PM (#6751672) Homepage Journal
    I'm sitting on an OC-48 and Gig-E and i'm only getting 100K in spuradic bursts of packets.. I'm also loosing the connection before the file is finished... I have yet to get even half the file of the mid sized trailer. :(
    • Slashdot's 'lameness filter' sucks. I can't even post a snapshot of failed wget session. Anyway:
      wget http://progressive.warnerbros.com/thematrix/us/med /revolutions_640_dl.mov

      And when it fails after 20 times try again using the partial:
      wget -c http://progressive.warnerbros.com/thematrix/us/med /revolutions_640_dl.mov

      Don't have wget on your Windows box? Install Cygwin [cygwin.com]

  • Whoa. (Score:5, Funny)

    by Mr. Flibble ( 12943 ) on Wednesday August 20, 2003 @11:45PM (#6751685) Homepage
    Neo: I know how to disable the matrix.

    Morpheus: How Neo?

    Neo: Post an article about the trailers on slashdot, and slashdot it!

    (Neo posts to slashdot...)

    Morpheus: It's working, the matrix is breaking down!

    (Now, could someone actually tell me what is in the trailer? I am on cable and I can't get it.)

  • There is no athlete's foot (Score:5, Funny)

    by Dark Paladin ( 116525 ) * <jhummel&johnhummel,net> on Wednesday August 20, 2003 @11:51PM (#6751736) Homepage
    I'm trying to imagine how miserable shooting that scene in the rain was, especially when you realize it probably wasn't done on the first take.

    Wearing all those clothes, which are sopping wet, and that water ruining the shoes, getting into the socks, and you've got to run in it -

    Granted, I'm sure the actors got a great paycheck out of it. But every time I watch them running in the rain, I can't help but feel for those poor, wrinkled little toes encased in shoes that are screaming "No - keep the mold away! Save us, Gold Bond!"

    • Re:There is no athlete's foot (Score:5, Informative)

      by strider3700 ( 109874 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @12:03AM (#6751836)
      "No - keep the mold away! Save us, Gold Bond!"

      You seriously need to get some help.

      I've played soccer in the rain for years and never had problems with athletes foot. I doubt that the actors had any issues with the water since they could just go and dry off in a nice hotel room. It looks like the entire shot could be done in a sound stage pretty easily. I have heard them complain that they took a beating doing all the fights and wire work however.

      The guys on the helms deep battle for TTT complained that they started getting sick after doing a couple months of night shoots in the simulated rain. That shot was too large to fit into a stage to make it pleasant to work on.
    • Maybe it's a new CG rain engine, so the pretty actors don't have to actually get wet. Maybe not.
  • I can't get the file to download. It keeps erroring out or resetting. It looks like they can't hold the connection. Wow. Just wow.
    • I get server connection resets after about 10 seconds...sheesh
      • use wget:

        [....]

        00:12:21 (202.46 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 3633960. Retrying.
        00:12:45 (129.40 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 5860693. Retrying.
        00:13:09 (191.46 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 9888738. Retrying.
        00:13:36 (85.02 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 11602879. Retrying.
        00:13:51 (157.34 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 13091131. Retrying.
        00:14:36 (191.56 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 19682135. Retrying.
        00:15:00 (142.33 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 21819091. Retrying.
        00:15:18
  • ...any moment now. Why bother downloading it myself when hundreds of students are already overloading our bandwidth quota in an attempt to download it for me?

  • Another Mirror (Score:5, Informative)

    by MajorBlunder ( 114448 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @12:12AM (#6751904)
    I snooped around and found another mirror site as all my downloads from the main site were canceling out and bit torrent is taking for bloody ever!
    Try this:
    http://www.whatisthescape.de/files/revoluti ons_640 _dl.mov

    I managed to get it off there pretty quick. I pray that they have the bandwidth to stand up to a slashdotting.
  • Can be found here. [locusmag.com] Short answer: Not much.

    Unless the pull another ontological shift that undermines the fundamental stupidity of the "human battery" backstory, the series will end with a whimper rather than a bang.
  • fortunately i just fired up wget -c "link" and every time their server dropped, i just reran it and let wget pick up right where it died.

  • IPv6 mirror (Score:4, Interesting)

    by jroysdon ( 201893 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @12:30AM (#6752001)
    IPv6 Mirror [artoo.net]


  • WARNING: This post contains opinions, initial (possibly incorrect) reactions, and spoilers. Skip it if that sort of think makes you irratible.

    Tell me it's a teaser. Please tell me it's a teaser and this is going to be cleaned up.

    I'll be as vague as possible. Watch the "running down the street to punch each other" scene. Notice they're running, running...suddenly they're standing still for the slow motion shot? Messy. Do a frame by frame. Notice they don't even connect, and the flash is used to distract

  • the music (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Hes Nikke ( 237581 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @12:53AM (#6752106) Journal
    anyone know what the name/artist for the music tracks in that trailer are?

    i like and i want :D

    • Re:the music (Score:3, Informative)

      by Sangloth ( 664575 )
      The techno-ish music at the beginning sounds like Juno Reactor to me, and the drums at the end are certainly Juno Reactor. I'd guess that the chorus in the middle is Don Davis, who did the ochestral music for Reloaded.

      I don't have any facts to back up my assertion, but I listen almost exclusively to Juno Reactor, and have a good idea of their sound. Furthermore, Juno Reactor and Don Davis did a good portion of the music to Reloaded, and both are definitely doing music for Revalations.

      Although I admitt
    • I guess Sangloth was right with his Juno Reactor guess about the electronic part of the teaser soundtrack, but Juno obviously didn't write the classical music part of it.

      James Newton Howard [imdb.com] (The Fugitive, The 6th Sense, ...) is the author of the classical bit, this is the track 20 ("Tarawa") of his soundtrack for the movie Snow Falling on Cedars [imdb.com]. You can find this information on Soundtrack.Net [soundtrack.net] as well as a french fan forum [welcometothematrix.com] (thanks to ZeDuckMaster for this url). The song sounds just great, I have to get th

  • trailer in mpg format (Score:5, Informative)

    by vivek7006 ( 585218 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @01:07AM (#6752150) Homepage
    is available here. It is about 11MB in size.
    mpeg trailer [movie-list.net]
    • This isn't the new trailer. This is the EOM Trailer that has been out for quite a while.

      The new trailer starts by focusing in on Neo when he looks to be laying on the ground.

  • Warner Bros - We meet again. (Score:5, Interesting)

    by The Revolutionary ( 694752 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @01:11AM (#6752168) Homepage Journal
    Now, I know that on Slashdot as of late it has been decided that we will no longer be permitted to discuss things as the following when a shiny new movie is released (as I have well found out by previous moderation), but I thought I would nonetheless try once again.

    Why have things changed? Why don't we talk about such things anymore?

    Since this is a story about Warner Bros, and given the many Slashdot stories about this fine corporation and its parent company [slashdot.org], as well as several regarding a prominent trade organization to which it belongs [slashdot.org], I could not help but conclude the following ought to be both relevant and on topic.

    To start, I dropped a little write-up in my journal [slashdot.org] which may or may not have some entertainment value for you.

    That said, I spent a minute or two and started collecting a few rather uninteresting links.

    Perhaps Slashdot readers can contribute to this woefully inadequate list?
    It would be quite nice to have all of the information in one place, so that it can be referenced by a simple link in future stories where it is relevant, as is this one.

    Warner Bros orders 15 year-old Christie Chan to turn over www.harrypotternetwork.net [theregister.co.uk].

    Warner Bros orders www.harrypotterisawizard.co.uk to be handed over [theregister.co.uk].

    Warner Bros orders 15 year-old Claire Field to turn over www.harrypotterguide.co.uk [theregister.co.uk].

    Warner Bros demands 10 year-old daughter hand over www.harry-potter-magic.co.uk [theregister.co.uk].

    Because Warner Bros cares so much about you, you can not be allowed access to a signal sent into your house, and not even to exercise widely presumed fair use rights over its content [house.gov].

    And say, has anyone heard about something called DeCSS or the DMCA?

    My memory is a bit foggy on this point, but I seem to recall something or another about Warner Bros being involved here? Does it ring a bell for anyone else? Maybe not.
    • But it's the trilogy finale! We can't boycott yet!! I need to know what happens! Is he a machine? Is the matrix inside another matrix? Is it all "just a movie".

      Can we get all pissy about the stuff you mentioned after this movie comes out? Ok, awesome. Thanks :)
    • Did it ever occur to you that maybe some people are anti movie-industry but that some people are pro movie-industry? Did it occur to you that slashdot is run by an entire community?

      There isn't one voice, there isn't one agenda, and lumping everyone into a "slashdot crowd" is an overgeneralization. Slashdot presents stories that it's readers have found to be interesting. It's not some plutocracy deciding what we should be reading and thinking.

  • How to get it. (Score:5, Informative)

    by Phybersyk0 ( 513618 ) <phybersyko AT stormdesign DOT org> on Thursday August 21, 2003 @01:16AM (#6752191)
    I've done some hunting and found another server that file is being served on. click HERE [aol.com]. you'll be glad you did.

    I was getting a ton of disconnects with the URL that is on the Matrix website, so I searched for another way.

    i just examined the URLs of other trailers and got lucky i guess.

    By the way, this is officially the 3th Trailer:

    • 1st was at the end of Reloaded,
    • 2nd was at the end of the Enter the Matrix (crap) game (only the Hacking-system was moderately cool). (extra footage that isn't shown in the third one, namely "the Trainman" (played by Bruce Spence of "Mad Max" fame -- the pilot with the bad teeth))
    • Third: this one.

    anyway, there are already numerous attempts to figure out the storyline, most of which is fairly obvious/predictable... but who cares.

    agent smith rules.

  • fanboys, untie! (Score:5, Funny)

    by randyest ( 589159 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @01:27AM (#6752229) Homepage
    OK, you know what? I read all the comments, and it seems everyone was afraid to say this (perhaps to avoid being labeled a fanboy?), but that trailer rocked my world , and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

    I can't effin wait to see the end to this.

  • Edonkey (Score:3, Informative)

    by cca93014 ( 466820 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @01:37AM (#6752271) Homepage
    I dont have any luck with bittorrent. For those that run an edonkey client, the hash is here:

    ed2k://|file|revolutions_640_dl.mov|34239231|25F 18 0DC6AA5324F2B04BBBC7C6C9C82|/

  • AAC audio, libfaad (Score:3, Interesting)

    by aSiTiC ( 519647 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @01:43AM (#6752289) Homepage
    For those of us trying to watch this trailer with Linux and Mplayer, Xine, et al.... Can anyone provide info on getting the audio track to play nicely?

  • perfect (Score:5, Funny)

    by tonyt ( 115436 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @02:04AM (#6752350) Homepage
    wow, the matrix is awesome when there's no plot or dialogue.

  • Matrix 3 vs. LOTR 3 (Score:4, Interesting)

    by danila ( 69889 ) on Thursday August 21, 2003 @03:44AM (#6752658) Homepage
    Am I the only one who was bored to hell with the recent ROTK trailer? To me there was almost nothing original there, the same old shots of the same old characters. More of the same, especially since Jacko decided to make TTT a movie about Helm's Deep battle and saturated us with the cavalry shots or orc shots or battering ram shots.

    Compared to that Matrix 3 looks (at least to me personally and from the trailers that I saw) really fresh and new, which is a surprise, since it should have been just another greenish-hued film about the same old trinity (Neo+Trinity+Morpheus).

    I don't know what is that Wachowski brothers have that allows them to make original and innovative sequels (yes, Matrix 2 had it's flows and we haven't seen the third installment yet). Good filmmaking skills may be or is that too banal?

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