Matrix Reloaded (yes again, get used to it )

[Ch3tan]

Here is the second post with Matrix Reloaded in the title that I have started, and no doubt not the last that will appear here in the next few weeks.

Went to a double bill last night, the original Matrix, followed by Reloaded at midnight. The cinema was showing it on 4 screens and everyone was sold out, people queing for two hours (thankfully we kept our seats from Matrix and didnt have to queue).

It was great to see the original on the big screen again, and it doesnt look dated at all, the effects looks realistic -a point that will become important in a while.

Matrix Reloaded uses lots of computer graphics, especially in scenes involving Neo, and its very very apparent. Either the films budget or technology wasn't up to the job, but it really ditracts from a film when your watching real people one minute and little more than a computer game the next.

Seeing the original film didnt help as it makes the new one look cheap, thankfully the amount of action and later fight sequences (especially the ghost programs sequence) make up for it.

The film is nowhere near as good as the original, but I think that would be impossible. It is still a really good movie though and well worth seeing. I'd love to say more but I dont want to give the story away -the plot is about of much as an issue as it was in the first movie.

On reading this it sounds a bit like I was dissapointed with the movie. It's true, it is dissapointing considering all the hype and brilliance of the first movie. But it is a great movie, it keeps you watching and wanting more, and wanting to see it again.

Oh, and wait till the end of the credits for a very nice Matrix Revolutions trailer which will leave you gasping for more.

 

[Clowneh!]

mixed emotions

 

[Sharma]

Heh from the trailer i saw on channel 4 a while back im positively drooling over it

 

[scooby-doo]

i really enjoyed the first film and im dreading being let down by the second as so many sequels have in the past.hope this isnt the case with this 1. another thing is keanu in this 1?

 

[dysfunction]

Originally posted by scooby-doo
i really enjoyed the first film and im dreading being let down by the second as so many sequels have in the past.hope this isnt the case with this 1. another thing is keanu in this 1?

He is in this one and the next one...

 

[leggy]

God :/

I hope its not shit. I just bought 5 tickets.

fs

 

[dysfunction]

Originally posted by leggy
God :/

I hope its not shit. I just bought 5 tickets.

fs

Ha Ha!!!

 

[Xtro]

Thanks to one of my housemates I'll be attending the staff showing at the local plex next Tuesday. By all accounts I will enjoy it but not be amazed....

 

[Testin da Cable]

Originally posted by leggy
God :/

I hope its not shit. I just bought 5 tickets.

fs

I was supposed to go to the opening yesterday but didn't




not that I've missed anything....so I read

 

[nath]

Metro gave it 2 stars. Erk :/

 

[Xtro]

I find Metro as reliable as Paul Ross tho nath.

I always check stuff out for myself if its shit...so what, only 1hr 30min or so's wanking time wasted.

 

[dysfunction]

Me too. Even if they gave it 0/5 I would still go and watch it.

 

[nath]

Of course, so will I. Still, it doesn't bode well :|

 

[leggy]

I have a bad feeling.

*follows through*

fs

 

[stu]

Originally posted by nath
Metro gave it 2 stars. Erk :/

Yeah. But given the reviewer taked about "Nero" being "half man, half machine", fighting to save Zion, "the only place where humans can still breathe"... I didn't put much stock in it.

Interesting what you said about the effects though. Empire this/last month had a massive feature on Reloaded, going on and on about the effects and how they were so incredibly lifelike, how they'd devised this system whereby they could substitute computer graphics in for real people and it was an invisible change. Which I knew was bollocks anyway, because you can see it in the trailer (when Neo's fighting all those Agent Smiths, it's very obvious).

 

[Sir Frizz]

Aye, even when Trinity jumps out that window, you can see her figure...kind of shake. SPOOKY!

 

[nath]

When the agent jumps on the bonnet of the car, crushing it: totally obvious.

I just hope it's better than the cg used in blade 2, that was fucking shit. And they used it for such a long sequence too, so lame :|

 

[old.I_Am_Glen]

When the agent jumps on the bonnet of the car, crushing it: totally obvious.

c for me i did not notise it (mebbes not look hard tho..)... being dum is grate for sum things in life imo :/

 

[Xtro]

Originally posted by old.I_Am_Glen
I ...am...Scooba

 

[Summo]

Originally posted by leggy
I have a bad feeling.

*follows through*

fs

I laughed for a full five minutes.

 

[Ch3tan]

Originally posted by stu
. Which I knew was bollocks anyway, because you can see it in the trailer (when Neo's fighting all those Agent Smiths, it's very obvious).

That scene is too long, and way over animated. I don't think that there was much acting involved in it at all, the change from actual acting to CGI is very very obvious. Empire have a Matrix hard on and cant see past the cum in their eyes.

Originally posted by Sir Frizz
Aye, even when Trinity jumps out that window, you can see her figure...kind of shake. SPOOKY!

THats the first scene in the movie, andyou can really really tell its all computers. If they made bullet time look so "real" in the first movie, I dont know why the hell they failed in this one.

Originally posted by nath
When the agent jumps on the bonnet of the car, crushing it: totally obvious.

I thought that effect and the whole scene surrounding it was really good personally, didnt look nearly as fake as the rest of the movie.

Oh, let me say again, its still a great movie though, you get passed the dissapointment of the effects quite quickly. It does do a very good job of building up to the third movie, lets hope they dont delay its release and we do get it this year as promised.

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

The CGI looks so bad because all the fucking US degree grads they employ spend so long working on the effects there's no way it can look bad to them.

CGI seemed to be getting better, now it's getting worse again, huzzah for technology.

 

[old.I_Am_Glen]

Originally posted by Scooba Da Bass
The CGI looks so bad because all the fucking US degree grads they employ spend so long working on the effects there's no way it can look bad to them.

CGI seemed to be getting better, now it's getting worse again, huzzah for technology.

yaya so tru, leik when noob makes there own web site..look good to them even if shii... :/

Glen have a Matrix hard on and cant see past the cum in his eyes.

thanks for diag doc tbh cum is gud, wont spoil efect!!!

 

[nylex23]

Originally posted by old.I_Am_Glen
yaya so tru, leik when noob makes there own web site..look good to them even if shii... :/



thanks for diag doc tbh cum is gud, wont spoil efect!!!

Please stop, it's getting old now.

 

[Summo]

Leave him alone!

*shove*

 

[-Ultimate]

No YOU leave HIM alone!

*shove*

 

[Clowneh!]

FS SPOILERS SPOILERS SHUT UP

 

[old.I_Am_Glen]

*Hugs* summo

 

[Durzel]

Originally posted by nath
When the agent jumps on the bonnet of the car, crushing it: totally obvious.

I just hope it's better than the cg used in blade 2, that was fucking shit. And they used it for such a long sequence too, so lame :|

Aye, although the vamps biting it was shitloads better in Blade 2 then Blade.

I know what you mean though, you could see it was CGI when he was fighting the female pure blood vamp in that foxy suit she was wearing. It almost bordered on Manga to be honest.

Apparently the imputus behind the new effects in Reloaded was primarily because the Wacowski bros. were pissed off that everyone copied bullet time after the first one. Joel Silver (the director) said this time around they wanted to do something which would be too costly/time consuming for anyone else to knock off.

 

[nath]

Thing that fucks me off is that so many film type peeps have seen this new cgi revolution as a fantastic way to realise their ideas. Problem is, it makes them complacent. George lucas used nothing but cg in attack of the clones. Granted, yoda looked pretty good, but it became so obvious that it destroyed the suspension of disbelief. You think "wow, cool graphics" rather than "wow, what an exciting scene". The original star wars film still look great 20 years after, obviously you can see how it's done, but they used ingenuity because they couldn't rely on crappy computer graphics. Whereas, a year or two after aotc has been released, it's starting to look pretty lame.