What's fascinating is that they still have phone booths in Syndey (re: the last shot). Do they actually still work?
Yes, and they provide free nationwide phone calls. https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/payphones-free-for-calls...
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]
#82Seeing 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.
You have to go a long way to get to the "outback" from Sydney, though Hollywood has other ideas. I laughed in Mission Impossible 2 when they set up their base in the desert for their operation in Sydney Harbour. Just a short 500km (at least) helicopter ride away.
You remind me of a movie that I can't remember the name off but it was a low budget American spy movie that was shot in Europe through European subsidies targeted at getting work in Europe for cinema crews.
One shot is supposedly happening in an American city, but it's shot somewhere in Brussels, where they discuss people hiding, then you got a transition shot where now they are supposed to be thousands of km away with said people hiding, and the second shot is filmed in the building across the street.
Many other shots were also combination of places that I knew extremely well, which really was funny at times because once you locate everything it makes the whole situation much more comedic.
Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
#83Earlier 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…
That kind on detail can be great for the writers, because it can keep things in sync.
But for the enjoyers, most of it should only be “glimpses of mountains far-off”.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
GP's comment is probably a reference to this classic XKCD: https://xkcd.com/566/ (the last panel)
Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
#85The Occupy Sydney protest was held in front of the federal reserve in the same plaza as the scene with the woman in the red dress. I didn't find that out until after the protest. While there, I thought the place looked familiar but couldn't pinpoint where I knew it from.
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#86It’s wild how much the green color grading used in the film made the daytime location shots look un-Californian.
There's actually a bit of a controversy over what the original film actually looked like. There are 35mm scans out there with no colour grading at all (e.g. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ow1KDYc9XsE ). Some people claim it never had the green and it was added later for the DVDs. The sequels definitely had it but turned up to 11. Trouble is nobody can really remember what they saw in the cinema in 1999 and there's a bit…
From a quick look there's at least one CAM[corder] recording from when it released - is that any use for settling the debate?
short clip from it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k71faZm6P1A
Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
#87Seeing 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.
Didn't they have to reverse the footage of cars (like when Neo is climbing outside out of his office building) so they look like they're driving on the right-hand side?
All that work and the elevator still says Lift.
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#88I 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.
Also the club scenes, with a bunch of regulars from Hellfire/Black Market, on Regent St. (Now a cafe supply store.)
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
what about the fourth with the gender bend twist? I guess the meme is older than the fourth movie, but I rarely see it even get mentioned let alone memefied. I guess less people would know tetralogy instead of trilogy, at least, I had to look up what a series of 4 would be.
The first film was groundbreaking. It matched "Star Wars" and "Lord of the Rings" in terms of its cultural penetration. Unfortunately the series failed to live past that strong debut. The second and third films were a total letdown, and The Animatrix only appealed to a niche audience and was itself a mixed bag. The surprising and unsolicited fourth film had some promise in the first third of the film - I loved how it…
>subverted expectations ... meta deconstruction
Anytime these words are written or spoken it is time to run.
Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
#90I 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…
This really is old men rambling huh.
WoW was already dominating. Nobody played it.
>it just needed a better game loop
This car would be good, it just needs a better everything...
Games are for gameplay!