Marik_SteeleTo rule in hell...Join Date: 2002-11-20Member: 9466Members
/me starts downloading all 3, wondering why I missed them earlier Figures that I watch so little TV, I probably wouldn't be seeing these "TV Spots" any other way
Marik_SteeleTo rule in hell...Join Date: 2002-11-20Member: 9466Members
I noticed something. The aging actress who played The Oracle in the 1st Matrix movie shows up in the trailer.
Problem: to my understanding, she's deceased by now in real life.
This means either they took the footage of her long enough ago that these sequels have been in planning for a <i>long</i> time, or they have even more amazing computer-generated special effects than I thought was available.
5/15/2003 seems very very very far away now....... <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
KenichiThis is not a pie.Join Date: 2002-11-01Member: 2941Members, NS1 Playtester
<!--QuoteBegin--Marik_Steele+Apr 10 2003, 10:50 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Marik_Steele @ Apr 10 2003, 10:50 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I noticed something. The aging actress who played The Oracle in the 1st Matrix movie shows up in the trailer.
Problem: to my understanding, she's deceased by now in real life.
This means either they took the footage of her long enough ago that these sequels have been in planning for a <i>long</i> time, or they have even more amazing computer-generated special effects than I thought was available.
Anyone else know anything more about this? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> They have been in filming for a while, so with that in mind i would assume her part was filmed before her untimely death.
coilAmateur pirate. Professional monkey. All pance.Join Date: 2002-04-12Member: 424Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
For the record:
There is a FOURTH quality-level download, "Ultra" - it's 1000 pixels wide. I assume they haven't linked it to keep their bandwidth from going down the toilet, but <a href='http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/progressive/thematrix/us/med/trailer_final_1000_dl.zip' target='_blank'>here</a> is the ZIP. I recommend GetRight; it's 94MB.
Note: it's also a system hog. My P3 800/384MB RAM running Win2k maxes out the CPU and goes all skippy when I try to play it. ): Guess I'm stuck with the 640.
you know those white ghostly figure guys in the trailer, well, are they like sentinel officers or something? cuz agents seem useless against neo, but these white d0ods seems more formidable.
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->you know those white ghostly figure guys in the trailer, well, are they like sentinel officers or something? cuz agents seem useless against neo, but these white d0ods seems more formidable.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
They are the guardians of the Keymaker. Thats all I can pretty much explain.
--- Some things I noticed:
-They smoothed out the "Burly Brawl" (What they call the Agent Smith vs Neo fight) ALOT, you now see Neo look around and its less blury. Looks much much much more realistic, no gumby feel at all.
-The Agent jumping on the car still needs some smoothing out, his moves are way to exagerated.
-We may see Trinity nekkid? Eh? Maybe? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
Favorite Line of the Trailer:
"Hes found a way to copy himself" - Neo "So now theres more than one of them?" - Morpheous "Alot More" - Neo
----
Overall, the CG is better blended in then any film I've ever seen. It looked like it was actually Neo, the human Neo, that was fighting the Agent Smiths, not some high poly model. Also, on the freeway scene, some of the trucks are CG, except I had to watch it several times to notice and Im still not sure if its real or CG.
Hm, methinks Lucas Arts needs to hire out ESC to do their effects, then I might actually believe some of the battle scenes.
<!--QuoteBegin--TenSix+Apr 11 2003, 05:44 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TenSix @ Apr 11 2003, 05:44 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->They are the guardians of the Keymaker. Thats all I can pretty much explain.
-We may see Trinity nekkid? Eh? Maybe? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
Overall, the CG is better blended in then any film I've ever seen. It looked like it was actually Neo, the human Neo, that was fighting the Agent Smiths, not some high poly model. Also, on the freeway scene, some of the trucks are CG, except I had to watch it several times to notice and Im still not sure if its real or CG.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> They are the Guardians of the Keymaster who is the small chinese guy you see on the back of Trinity's bike and in several other scenes. Trinity and Neo do get up to a bit of humpy pumpy in an alcove in the 'real world' so yes you might just see her nekkid!! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
And its always been my belief that the defining moment for CG effects in Cinema would be the moment you cant tell CG from the real thing... Could these films be the one that acomplishes that?
<!--QuoteBegin--Silver Fox+Apr 11 2003, 06:20 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Silver Fox @ Apr 11 2003, 06:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I cant help but feel they got a bit of influence from that Xiao thingy one ...
the 3rd, when he gets the stick and whoops some **** ... ^_^<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Yea I know what u mean... When he kicks the staff at the chest of Agent Smith number 42 for it to rebound back for him to catch my immediate thought was.... 'omg Xiao Xiao'! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I think the pinnacle of CG in movies is when the entire movie is done in CG and looks like it was done using live actors in the real world.
Man, thats 3 days after my b-day too <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--Scythe+Apr 11 2003, 11:27 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Scythe @ Apr 11 2003, 11:27 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I can't play it! I downloaded the mini version (Damn 56k) and I have quicktime player installed.
Is there some kind of leet codec that I need to download in order to play this exceeding scrummy-sounding trailer?
--Scythe-- <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> make sure you have the latest version of quicktime... Sometimes when you play new .mov files on older versions they just wont play.
I downloaded it yesterday and have watched it some 30 times already <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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OMG!!
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Figures that I watch so little TV, I probably wouldn't be seeing these "TV Spots" any other way
That's it, plain and simple - just wow!!! <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->
The aging actress who played The Oracle in the 1st Matrix movie shows up in the trailer.
Problem: to my understanding, she's deceased by now in real life.
This means either they took the footage of her long enough ago that these sequels have been in planning for a <i>long</i> time, or they have even more amazing computer-generated special effects than I thought was available.
Anyone else know anything more about this?
The aging actress who played The Oracle in the 1st Matrix movie shows up in the trailer.
Problem: to my understanding, she's deceased by now in real life.
This means either they took the footage of her long enough ago that these sequels have been in planning for a <i>long</i> time, or they have even more amazing computer-generated special effects than I thought was available.
Anyone else know anything more about this? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
They have been in filming for a while, so with that in mind i would assume her part was filmed before her untimely death.
There is a FOURTH quality-level download, "Ultra" - it's 1000 pixels wide. I assume they haven't linked it to keep their bandwidth from going down the toilet, but <a href='http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/progressive/thematrix/us/med/trailer_final_1000_dl.zip' target='_blank'>here</a> is the ZIP. I recommend GetRight; it's 94MB.
Note: it's also a system hog. My P3 800/384MB RAM running Win2k maxes out the CPU and goes all skippy when I try to play it. ): Guess I'm stuck with the 640.
Note the second: OMG I can't wait for this movie.
Check out the japanese trailer too for some cool stuff. Its all in english except for the "in theatres" dates it flashes at the end.
AOL has some kickass servers, 100+ Kbps average even with BOTH the Matrix community AND a Slashdot posting!
They are the guardians of the Keymaker. Thats all I can pretty much explain.
---
Some things I noticed:
-They smoothed out the "Burly Brawl" (What they call the Agent Smith vs Neo fight) ALOT, you now see Neo look around and its less blury. Looks much much much more realistic, no gumby feel at all.
-The Agent jumping on the car still needs some smoothing out, his moves are way to exagerated.
-We may see Trinity nekkid? Eh? Maybe? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
Favorite Line of the Trailer:
"Hes found a way to copy himself" - Neo
"So now theres more than one of them?" - Morpheous
"Alot More" - Neo
----
Overall, the CG is better blended in then any film I've ever seen. It looked like it was actually Neo, the human Neo, that was fighting the Agent Smiths, not some high poly model. Also, on the freeway scene, some of the trucks are CG, except I had to watch it several times to notice and Im still not sure if its real or CG.
Hm, methinks Lucas Arts needs to hire out ESC to do their effects, then I might actually believe some of the battle scenes.
the 3rd, when he gets the stick and whoops some **** ... ^_^
-We may see Trinity nekkid? Eh? Maybe? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
Overall, the CG is better blended in then any film I've ever seen. It looked like it was actually Neo, the human Neo, that was fighting the Agent Smiths, not some high poly model. Also, on the freeway scene, some of the trucks are CG, except I had to watch it several times to notice and Im still not sure if its real or CG.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
They are the Guardians of the Keymaster who is the small chinese guy you see on the back of Trinity's bike and in several other scenes. Trinity and Neo do get up to a bit of humpy pumpy in an alcove in the 'real world' so yes you might just see her nekkid!! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
And its always been my belief that the defining moment for CG effects in Cinema would be the moment you cant tell CG from the real thing... Could these films be the one that acomplishes that?
<!--QuoteBegin--Silver Fox+Apr 11 2003, 06:20 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Silver Fox @ Apr 11 2003, 06:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I cant help but feel they got a bit of influence from that Xiao thingy one ...
the 3rd, when he gets the stick and whoops some **** ... ^_^<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yea I know what u mean... When he kicks the staff at the chest of Agent Smith number 42 for it to rebound back for him to catch my immediate thought was.... 'omg Xiao Xiao'! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Man, thats 3 days after my b-day too <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Is there some kind of leet codec that I need to download in order to play this exceeding scrummy-sounding trailer?
--Scythe--
Is there some kind of leet codec that I need to download in order to play this exceeding scrummy-sounding trailer?
--Scythe-- <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
make sure you have the latest version of quicktime... Sometimes when you play new .mov files on older versions they just wont play.
If pants = .......
Movie = Good<!--c2--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--ec2-->
P.S - Japenese trailer isnt Japenese.. Watch it.