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The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

wkat4242 wrote: post #9

I'm surprised they used two real locations for the hotels. The "Heart O'The City" one at the very start, and the "Deja Vu" staircase. These hotels look really delapidated in the film. I thought they were studio sets. I wonder how they managed to make them look so bad, tbh with late 90s tech (green screen mostly and limited CGI) it sounds like it would have been simpler to just build a delapidated staircase in a studi…

CGI was not as limited as you think in 1999. Look up films from that year and you’ll see.

Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

andrehacker wrote: post #13
Drunk_Engineer wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was the second one (Reloaded). Filmed in downtown Oakland and Alameda Naval air station.

Sorry man, there never was a second “Matrix” nor a third.

Sorry, they are as canon as the phantom menace even if you don’t like them (neither do I for that matter but hey, if these creators wanted to wreck their legacy who are we to stop them).

Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Post by throwaway992673 »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #2

Seeing the movie as a kid I totally expect it to be filmed in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, but Sydney never crossed my mind since the shots looks too "North America" to be anything else. Probably because in my mind Sydney is a beach with the opera house and an outback with kangaroos and giant spiders.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_funnel-web_spider

The males like to wander around aimlessly looking for mates.

Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Post by dylan604 »

ajxs wrote: post #19
dylan604 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Especially the sound of the crosswalk signals. Orbital introduced me to them in the 90s, so when I heard in person the first time I had a knowing smile and started to groove to the rest of the track that my brain filled in for me

We call them 'pedestrian crossings' down under! It's been sampled in a few songs actually. The sound is so ingrained in our psyche that you recognise it instantly.

the only one ingrained deeper for is Blade Runner's "walk now"

Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Post by sokoloff »

to11mtm wrote: post #14
andrehacker wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry man, there never was a second “Matrix” nor a third.

Eh... I feel like they have aged better over time than a lot of 'trilogies'. They do not measure up to the original but they aren't truly terrible, at least if you're looking at them from a more philosophical standpoint.

Reloaded may have been passable as a standalone film (if not seen as a disappointing sequel by comparison to the original).

Revolutions was (IMO) terrible standalone or as a sequel. It felt like more of a CGI-heavy cash-in on the series than anything else.

Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Post by mattigames »

I still believe the Matrix Online videogame had a lot potential, it just needed a better game loop, I think some new Matrix game taking ideas from games like Helldivers, GTA V and Cyberpunk could become a hit, where there are 2 parallel worlds, the Matrix and reality, and some things you do in one can help you in the other, e.g a way to discover from the matrix where the sentinels are in reality, the overall aim of the game would be to gain territory on "reality", and you would gain "exploits" that help you gain territory faster, meaning destroying robot bases and liberating human farms, plus recruiting some of them. On the monetization side the publisher can of course just do the popular thing and sell skins (that only show in the Matrix of course), for both cars and characters, maybe paint jobs for your ship would work fine too.

Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Post by dkjaudyeqooe »

wkat4242 wrote: post #9

I'm surprised they used two real locations for the hotels. The "Heart O'The City" one at the very start, and the "Deja Vu" staircase. These hotels look really delapidated in the film. I thought they were studio sets. I wonder how they managed to make them look so bad, tbh with late 90s tech (green screen mostly and limited CGI) it sounds like it would have been simpler to just build a delapidated staircase in a studi…

They probably were delapidated, Surry Hills has undergone a lot of gentrification in the last 25 years.

Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Post by neilv »

mattigames wrote: post #26

I still believe the Matrix Online videogame had a lot potential, it just needed a better game loop, I think some new Matrix game taking ideas from games like Helldivers, GTA V and Cyberpunk could become a hit, where there are 2 parallel worlds, the Matrix and reality, and some things you do in one can help you in the other, e.g a way to discover from the matrix where the sentinels are in reality, the overall aim of t…

> On the monetization side the publisher can of course just do the popular thing and sell skins (that only show in the Matrix of course)

A perfect fit. If that didn't already exist in gaming industry, it would've been invented for a Matrix game.

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