I love these types of videos. The ones for Jurassic Park and Jaws are also good. The problem with this type of content is that nobody has the time or money to do more than a couple of these videos so the body of work is spread over hundreds of different creators, making it next to impossible to find and watch a significant fraction of what's out there.
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]
#52I'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…
The real Heart O' the City Hotel is in Chicago, like the rest of the place names in the movie (although the real name is Heart O' Chicago). The Wachowskis wanted to film there, but Major Daley (historic asshole and scumbag, in case you're not familiar) wouldn't let them. I can't remember what the rationale was, but then of course two Batman movies shot there.
The hotel: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh...
Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
#53I'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.
Indeed. The compositing tool of choice for this movie and any other effects-heavy movie from the late '90s well into the 2000s was Shake (by Nothing Real, later bought by Apple). The only competition was Nuke, the in-house tool at Digital Domain. It is the last one standing today, since Apple gave up on the high end.
Interesting anecdote I heard: Shake was up for an Academy Award, but Apple pissed off the wrong customer when they discontinued the Windows version (which was used for The Matrix). I won't name the post house, but the owner reportedly sat on the academy's technical committee and tanked Shake's nomination as punishment. Kinda sucked for the team, who of course were blameless.
Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
#54I love these types of videos. The ones for Jurassic Park and Jaws are also good. The problem with this type of content is that nobody has the time or money to do more than a couple of these videos so the body of work is spread over hundreds of different creators, making it next to impossible to find and watch a significant fraction of what's out there.
There’s some really good ones for Terminator one and two as well. It’s fantastic to see the locations in Los Angeles and California. Different channel.
Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
#55I was hoping to see the subway location, but I guess this was just a set piece
No, that subway was definitely real as well, on what used to be the city circular line. The guy missed a few of the locations such as the Oracle apartment, which is actually an apartment building in Redfern.
Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reloaded is ok. It's not like Star Wars 1 (which btw isn't real), more like Star Wars 6.
Return of the Jedi (6) was perfectly fine. More like 7 which was ok as a nostalgic cameo vehicle, but resulted in throwing away the Rogue Squadron arc which should have always remained canon. But not like that hadn't happened before. Anyone remember Splinter of the Mind's Eye, the original sequel to Star Wars?
Return of the Jedi was in fact the best of the original trilogy. It's weird to use it as a point of comparison like that's a diss.
Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
#57I'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…
Fullerton Hotel (the deja vu staircase) was Sydney's General Post Office. It underwent renovation which took years, at a guess around the time the movie was filmed.
Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
#58I was hoping to see the subway location, but I guess this was just a set piece
Lots of sources online say it was shot on the disused platform at St James, but that was the subway scene in the second film. Some sources say it was shot at a freight siding at White Bay. If that's true then the actual station must be a set piece. You can find some behind-the-scenes footage online[1], and you can see that the staircase down to the platform is real, so that makes me doubt it was White Bay. Whatever t…
https://www.uer.ca/locations/viewgal.asp?picid=88851
I think this confirms the White Bay answer. I doubt this location exists anymore. The entire Glebe Island Silos area has been heavily redeveloped since the 90s.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
yeah, telling me about midichlorians and using some scientology reading of them just killed it for me.
not just the midichlorians, but the fact that every little knob and lever in an x-wing or on your blaster has an explanation of what they do. every single alien you saw in Mos Eisley eventually got an official name and canonical backstory (not to mention the small-world effect where it just so happens that most of those backstories intersect with the same small handful of important people). so it's no longer a world…
Though you have to admit this was funny...
Ponda Baba's bad day:
Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Return of the Jedi (6) was perfectly fine. More like 7 which was ok as a nostalgic cameo vehicle, but resulted in throwing away the Rogue Squadron arc which should have always remained canon. But not like that hadn't happened before. Anyone remember Splinter of the Mind's Eye, the original sequel to Star Wars?
Return of the Jedi was in fact the best of the original trilogy. It's weird to use it as a point of comparison like that's a diss.
It's not a diss, it was an ok movie. Most people consider it less great than 4 and 5, partially because they redid the big scene in 4.