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Matrix Reloaded Trailer Released 687

Posted by chrisd from the drool-drool-drool dept.
phreak404 writes "The full theatrical trailer for The Matrix Reloaded was released today. Its in Quicktime, 1000px by 540px, and weighs in at about 100MB. Looks awesome and unlike the previous teasers, actually has some of the plot." As soon as someone puts up a bitorrent we'll post it here. Update: 04/11 00:40 GMT by J : And here it is, http://f.scarywater.net/ (includes links to client download, stats, old torrents, fun stuff like that).
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  • hmmm.. Woah.... (Score:2, Informative)

    by NullStream ( 121401 )
    Interesting to say the least but a few of the effects looked a little plastic. It should be a good 2 hour ride though. I'm still wondering which shot "will be so expensive that no one will every copy it."

    • Re:hmmm.. Woah.... (Score:2, Interesting)

      by Kpt Kill ( 649374 )
      if you feel like spoiling the movie for yourself, go read the issue of newsweek with the matrix on the cover. be warned: it has many spoilers in it and i was angry with who wrote it for not warning the reader before hand.

  • Warning.. ultra high res needs a fast machine (Score:5, Informative)

    by James_G ( 71902 ) <james.globalmegacorp@org> on Thursday April 10, 2003 @06:43PM (#5706465)
    The 1000 pixel one needs a fast machine to play it. My P3-800 at work couldn't manage it. They recommend at least a 1GHz machine for it.

    Alternatively, you can download the small [aol.com], medium [aol.com] or Large [aol.com] versions.

  • Patience is a virtue! (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Malc ( 1751 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @06:43PM (#5706470)
    Am I the only one who doesn't want to see this trailer? The last few years I've gone out of my way to avoid trailers for films I'm interested in. Even for films like Lord of the Rings that I know the story to. The trailer's not going to make me go and watch the movie as I'm already planning to go! All it will do is blunten the impact on the day. I guess I like surprises. Or perhaps I have more important things to talk about over beer with friends.

  • I'm ready.... (Score:5, Funny)

    by jonny-mt ( 631306 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @06:44PM (#5706472) Homepage
    Personally, between The Animatrix [theanimatrix.com], Enter the Matrix [enterthematrixgame.com], and the Matrix Reloaded, I'm about ready to take the red pill.

    Long as I get some of those cool sunglasses, I'll be okay....

  • The Matrix (Score:5, Funny)

    by osPDAproject ( 645816 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @06:44PM (#5706475)
    To tell you the truth, I never saw the first one! *GASP* -1 Flamebait :)

  • Screw BitTorrent (Score:3, Insightful)

    by KilerCris ( 637493 ) <KilerCris@nosPAM.Mail.com> on Thursday April 10, 2003 @06:45PM (#5706488)
    Common already, it's getting old, hasn't anyone realized yet that these damn time-warner servers can take a beating and keep dishing it out fast? BitTorrent links are a great idea for helping people get big files from slashdotted sites, but common, no one on a decent connection is gonna get half the speed off bittorrent that they could right off the aol servers

  • All right soldiers.... (Score:5, Funny)

    by soulsteal ( 104635 ) <soulstealNO@SPAM3l337.org> on Thursday April 10, 2003 @06:46PM (#5706496) Homepage
    Time to begin Operation: AOL Bandwidth Freedom.

    Don't stop until we've "liberated" every last kilobit of bandwidth from AOL.

  • WARNING! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Photon01 ( 662761 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @06:47PM (#5706503)
    !!!warning!!! .... you may be infected with a virus if you click the posted link in the next 15 mins (untill my download has finished) .... well, it was worth a try :P

  • BitTorrent Link (Score:5, Informative)

    by mxs ( 42717 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @06:48PM (#5706510)
    ... is here [scarywater.net] ;-)

  • ironic (Score:5, Funny)

    by lingqi ( 577227 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @06:51PM (#5706533) Journal
    Behind firewall so no bit torrent...

    5.7kb/sec currently, and probably will not get better (on a T1, no less), which means:

    waiting 4 hours 42 minutes and 33 seconds to see a tailer for a movie that will last, at most, half of that.

    I am sure there is something wise to be said here.
    • you will just be relying on non-firewalled BT clients... unless you mean you're also filtered

      I'm firewalled and getting 35-70kbps
  • 154 kbps......
    113 kbps
    99 kbps
    96 kbps
    92 kbps

    DARN DARN DARN

  • Summary For Those Without Broadband (Score:5, Funny)

    by Galahad2 ( 517736 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @06:52PM (#5706542) Homepage
    Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.

  • It's an upside world... (Score:5, Funny)

    by ymgve ( 457563 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @06:53PM (#5706548) Homepage
    ...when the only time slashdot even considers mirroring or give alternative sources to material is when the source is AOL, which has pipes wide enough to max out the lines of all slashdot users at once...
    • It's not an official thing /. does, it's something the BitTorrent community does.

      Because of this, posters kinda have to come to us, or we have to catch the post in time to make a bittorrent of it, and relay it to a /. editor to have them modify the comment to include a bittorrent, just coincedence the last two bittorrents have been of stuff hosted at AOL.

    • Re:It's an upside world... (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Sancho ( 17056 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @09:11PM (#5707289) Homepage
      It would be really spiffy if bittorrent were expanded to handle mirroring of entire webpages, with a sort of plugin allowing something like this in your web browser:

      bittorrent://mirrorable.site.com/filename.bittor re nt

      That way /. could set up bittorrent files for their stories without actually mirroring, and distribute the story across their users pages.

  • QuickTime is Evil (Score:3, Interesting)

    by mE123 ( 140419 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @06:57PM (#5706579) Homepage
    Could some post a version of the Trailer in something other then .mov format... How about in .mpeg or maybe DivX .avi

    I promise double points... and a happy reply

    ----
    "Computer science is as much about computers as astronomy is about telescopes" - E. W. Dijkstra

  • Mysterious Future (Score:3, Informative)

    by MeanMF ( 631837 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @06:58PM (#5706590) Homepage
    This post shows why "the mysterious future" [slashdot.org] is a good thing!
  • So that was worth it wasn't it?

  • Other sizes (Score:5, Informative)

    by fava ( 513118 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @07:02PM (#5706615)
    A little experimenting indicates that there are other resultions:

    640 pixels (58 MB) [aol.com] and 320 pixels (17.4MB) [aol.com] are available.

    There may be others as well, I didnt try many posibilities.

  • yeah I'm in a trollish mood (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Sophrosyne ( 630428 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @07:05PM (#5706632) Homepage
    I'm dowloading the trailer... but my only problem with Matrix is that it borrows heavily from other sources of pop culture- I'm sure if you were into the whole main stream hollywood stuff- this movie was fantastic... but if you read Akira way back when it came out or ghost in the shell, saw the subsequent movies- and well generally stayed in the realm of sci-fi- you surley noticed this movie was not shy borrowing from anime and sci fi.
    I personally think the Matrix is cheese, it doesn't have a strong message, and is a little too melodramatic... in music, in story, in the overal mood of the movie. CHEESE..and not even real cheese, like cheeze in a can.
    Its all about kick punch kick, run away, kick punch kick, 3d animation...
    I'm sure I'm going to watch it- but seriously is this cheese really worth all the hype- there are so many other things (movies/comics/anime) that are just so much more deserving.
    Sci-Fi movies have gone to shit- they are nothing more than overhyped action crapola- Star Trek Nemesis blew the big one, not to mention that flick with the electrocution/blow stuff up/jounrey to the center of the earth crap.
    Minority Report on the other hand was great, and well if it counts Monsters Inc. was too- the only two sci-fi movies in recent memory I can stand...
    I'm sure given that this is slashdot I stand alone in this opinion... but that's what forums are for tight?... so enjoy the download :-)

    • Re:yeah I'm in a trollish mood (Score:5, Interesting)

      by anonymous loser ( 58627 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @07:11PM (#5706679)
      You know that the Wachowski brothers based the entire idea of The Matrix on anime, right? That's how they also sold the idea to producers; they showed the guy this anime movie (the producer didn't specify exactly which one in the interview) and said "we want to make a live-action version of this". But they also knew that in order to make the movie they *really* wanted to do (where the protagonist had incredible super powers), they needed to establish a universe where such a thing would be possible. So, The Matrix was written in order to establish that universe, and the subsequent movies will now show the story they originally wanted to tell. Let's hope it's a good one.

    • Re:yeah I'm in a trollish mood (Score:5, Insightful)

      by pVoid ( 607584 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @07:19PM (#5706719)
      While I agree with you that sci-fi of the west has gone down the drains, I'm not ready to quickly discredit the Matrix.

      I am a fan of Akira and Ghost in the Shell as well, but there is something to be said about the goose bumps you got the first 5 times you watched the matrix and you saw trinity kicking that cops ass in bullet time.

      Heck, I'm getting goose bumps just remembering how I felt the first time I saw Neo dodge the bullets.

      It's all about enjoying what's there: people whine about Jar-Jar Binks, or Keanu's poor acting, but really, in the end, you come out of that theatre thinking "hey, maybe if I try real hard, I can walk on that wall"... which is exactly why I see these movies... because I want them to transport me somewhere that's not real, and just plain feels cool.

      If you're going in there to come back out with the insights you get after watching Apocalypse Now, your priorities might be wrong.

      • Perhaps you're right, my priorities might be wrong- I just have a higher expectation art. I really want it to be insightful, entertaining, and cool.
        If I just want mind numbing retardation with a nice buzz- I'll just do speed or acid or something! :-)
      • Heck, I'm getting goose bumps just remembering how I felt the first time I saw Neo dodge the bullets.

        But he didn't dodge any bullets. He just fell over backwards. It looked silly!

      • Exactly the point (Score:3, Insightful)

        by phorm ( 591458 )
        The matrix is about taking the exciting geeky worlds already shown, adding effects and realism to play with the mind, and give something to thrill not only the geeks by the "normal" masses. A lot of people who have watched the Matrix would (unfortunately for them) snub something like "Ghost in the shell."

        And of course, for others, they simply find the most entertainment in this [ebaumsworld.com] set of matrix clips...
    • I personally think the Matrix is cheese...CHEESE..and not even real cheese, like cheeze in a can.

      Troll, ahoy. But I think you are egregiously off. I am a literary critisicm fellow, and what grabbed me about The Matrix was its epic/heroic/mythic themes. I found the "humans as batteries" concept complete BS as a scientific speculation, but as a mythic theme, HOLY SHIT that is good stuff. Star Wars did the same thing (originally, in IV) with the mechanistic, soulless Empire as "the State" crushing your will t

    • Indeed you are (Score:3, Interesting)

      by Syncdata ( 596941 )
      Its all about kick punch kick, run away, kick punch kick, 3d animation...
      And?
      Look, I'm going to watch the Hulk when it comes out too, and I won't be watching for political themes, nor will I watch XMEN2 to see a superb ensemble cast.
      I, and most SciFi/movie fans are going to the matrix, et all, to see the skill with which the production tools are used. Cameras, Sets, Special effects. If you can appreciate what it takes to film a movie and make it visually appealing, there doesn't need to be a subplot abou

  • lacking speeds? (Score:4, Funny)

    by NewWaveNet ( 584716 ) <me@austinheap.com> on Thursday April 10, 2003 @07:06PM (#5706641) Homepage Journal
    368 KB/s 379 KB/s 380 KB/s hmm...i think the slashdot effect is loosing it's power! so sad ;)
  • That was the best 100MB's Ive ever seen, downloaded, and risked being kicked off my college network for downloading. (I download alot, probably in the top 10.)

  • Advertising (Score:5, Interesting)

    by SlashdotLemming ( 640272 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @07:14PM (#5706694)
    I saw more Cadillacs in that trailer than I've seen on the road in the past month

  • Now that's odd... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by defile ( 1059 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @07:17PM (#5706709) Homepage Journal

    On my Athlon 700 running Linux and mplayer, it plays smoothly and sharply, but with no sound (not supported).

    On my Athlon 950 running Windows 2000, QuickTime plays sound but drops hella frames.

    Any explanations?

    • Re:Now that's odd... (Score:4, Interesting)

      by The Bungi ( 221687 ) <thebungi@gmail.com> on Thursday April 10, 2003 @07:25PM (#5706751) Homepage
      Any explanations?

      QT sucks unless it's running on a Mac. Not a general statement on Apple software, but their software on Windows feels and acts the same way as IBM's - an afterthought. People complain stuff is not ported to Linux - I wish stuff was ported to Windows correctly.

      I've never really gotten QT to work correctly in Windows. Multiple machines, multiple versions of the OS, etc. Something is always wrong.

      OTOH, on a Mac QT is absolutely amazing, especially the sound.

      • > Not a general statement on Apple software,
        > but their software on Windows feels and acts
        > the same way as IBM's - an afterthought.

        I think that's a both very general and apt summary of Apple software on Windows - QT is far from as bad as it gets. WebObjects for windows is a disgrace. Buggy; unmaintaned; just installing it reduces the staiblity of your machine; slow; written in a braindead way so that the frame abstraction acts like it would on a mac (except buggy); too much stuff bundled in the s

    • Re:Now that's odd... (Score:3, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      MPlayer error: requested audio codec does not exist.

      You need to get the 'faad' codec for MPlayer--
      "http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs.ht ml#aac" for a howto.

      Then you can recompile MPlayer and all is good

    • AAC Audio? (Score:2, Informative)

      by TwistedGreen ( 80055 )
      Quicktime 6 uses this new "AAC Audio" standard to replace MP3: http://www.apple.com/mpeg4/aac/ [apple.com]

      I'm using Quicktime 5 and mine won't play sound either, in Windows XP. Looks like I'll have to "upgrade." The video quality itself, however, is absolutely amazing.

  • Sorry... I gotta pull "The comic book guy" (Score:5, Funny)

    by Rooked_One ( 591287 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @07:19PM (#5706717) Journal
    and say "BEST TRAILER EVER!"
  • Using Winzip to compress an already compressed file is a rediculous waste of time and processor power.

    Let's hope that Neo has a better knowledge of basic information theory than whoever put these trailers online.

    • Insert foot. (Score:3, Insightful)

      by juuri ( 7678 )
      Actually if you run the numbers even get marginal compression of 3-7% (which is what trailers tend to get) the bandwith saving is huge.

      Think of it this way, 7% of 100 meg times 250,000 downloads. It makes sense to do the compression this way thereby speeding up the slowest part of the whole trailer experience, the download.
  • Its times like these when you absolutely love to sit behind corporate web proxy. With a download speeds like 2M/s, who can ask for more?

  • I hope some of that slo-mo was inserted (Score:3, Funny)

    by Galvatron ( 115029 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @07:34PM (#5706826)
    If the trailer is all actual, real time footage from the movie (ie, none of it was slowed down for the trailer), it looks like they filmed about 10 minutes of footage, and are stretching it out to 2 hours.

    Seriously, I understand that playing with the speed of the camera can make things more dramatic, but that was just ridiculous! It doesn't work if you keep using the same trick over and over again.

  • The red pill... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 10, 2003 @08:18PM (#5707051)
    Morpheus: Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain. But you feel it. You've felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is but it's there, like a splinter in your mind driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?

    Taco: The Duplicates?

    Morpheus: Do you want to know what THEY are? The Duplicates are everywhere. They are all around us, even now in this very forum. You can see them when you search for old stories or when you view yesterday's stories. You can read them when you go to work, when you go to user's groups, in the background when you do your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

    Taco: What truth?

    Morpheus: That you are a slave to techno news & discussion, Taco. Like everyone else you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind.... Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Duplicates are. You have to see them for yourself. This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how many rabbits are in the hole.... Remember, all I'm offering is the truth, nothing more.... Follow me.... Cowboy Neal, are we online?

    Cowboy Neal: Almost.

    Morpheus: Time is always against us. Please, take a seat there.

    Taco: You did all this?

    Trinity: A-huh.

    Morpheus: The pill you took is part of a trace program. It's designed to disrupt your input/output carrier signal so we can find similar inputs.

    Taco: What does that mean?

    Cypher: It means buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, because Kansas is going bye-bye.

    Taco: Did you...

    Morpheus: Have you ever read a story, Taco, that you were so sure was original. What if you were unable to tell the difference. How would you know the difference between the original story and the duplicate?

    Taco: This can't be...

    Morpheus: Be what? A duplicate?

    Trinity: It's going into replication.

    Morpheus: Cowboy Neal?

    Cowboy Neal: Still nothing.

    Taco: It's old. It's old.

    Morpheus: Tank, we're going to need a signal soon.

    Trinity: We've got duplication.

    Morpheus: Cowboy Neal, location.

    Cowboy Neal: Targeting almost there.

    Trinity: It's going into the home page.

    Cowboy Neal: Lock, I've got him.

    Morpheus: Now, Tank. Now.

  • Mplayer audio/sound problem: aac and faad (Score:4, Informative)

    by Gyorg_Lavode ( 520114 ) on Thursday April 10, 2003 @10:49PM (#5707860)
    While to say, "I have solved" would be somewhat incorrect since I didn't solve jack, I just put the pieces together, I can tell people how to make the audio work for this, (and the animatrix movies).

    Basically, as others said, the problem is that the new quicktime movies us aac (advanced audio codec) audio instead of mp3 like older quicktime files. The solution of course is to install aac support for mplayer.

    To do this, first you must install the codec. The codec that supports aac is available at audiocoding.com [audiocoding.com]. It's called FAAD2. I used the cvs (1.2 beta) so I don't know if the stable 1.1 will work. (The 1.1 requires a small patch to get it to compile with newer forms of the libsndfile or forms of gcc > 3.) Other than that it compiled fine. The second change is that the libraries for faad are installed in /usr/local/lib. Apperently mplayer doesn't, by default, look in /usr/local/lib. I symbolically linked the libraries to /usr/lib (where mplayer DOES look), but I assume you could add /usr/local/lib to the search path.

    Hopefully this helps many of the peopole who want to run these and other quicktime files on linux. Mplayer has made great strides and while it's not perfect, (crashes if you try to run 2 qt files back to back without restarting), it is the best there is for linux, (or for that matter any other system). (As an alternate note, the rpm faad2-1.1-fr1.20030409.i386.rpm does not work. While it installs to the correct place, the mplayer config is not able to detect the version of faad from it.)

  • Floating wheels and bad FX? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by ethank ( 443757 ) on Friday April 11, 2003 @02:52AM (#5708784) Homepage
    OK, not to be nitpicky here, but I went through the trailer frame by frame and am noticing some really terrible stuff going on effects wise.

    Specifically, the freeway scene with the motorcycle chase.

    See this picture:

    floating trucks [murmurs.com]

    Does anyone else see the problem here? The lighting under the truch is all wrong, and the wheels are floating and not giving any sense of weight. I know its really a little detail, but you can honestly see it on a few of the other cars and trucks in this scene as well.

    Still, it rocks, just get rid of the floating trucks!
    • Actually, most of us don't spend our morning commute making a detailed analysis of the shape and configuration of the shadows under large trucks, or of the way their tires are compressed by weight. In fact, I've never once given a thought to it. So to me, that picture looks totally right and natural because I DON'T FUCKING CARE WHAT THE SHADOWS LOOK LIKE UNDER A FUCKING TRUCK!
      Why the fuck are you frame-by-frameing the fucking trailer? Do you have no fucking life? Get a job you hopless fuck! It's a movie not

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