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Post by sangnoir »

lelandbatey wrote: post #16

For folks who are having problems or are in a scenario where you can't see this (issue on mobile, text only browser, always reads the comments first, don't want to click on a thing that says "trailer"), here's what the link portrays: Overall, the page is an ad for the new Matrix movies, a teaser for some upcoming trailer. It's a white screen showing a red pill on the left and a blue pill on the right. You click on on…

The audio tracks may be the same, but the video changes every minute. The videos contain (very) brief flashbacks to previous matrix movies as well as new footage - each scene gets less than a second, but the scenes shown change minute by minute.

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Post by omnimus »

adamrezich wrote: post #112
yepthatsreality wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disagree, the trilogy is one of the best Sci-Fi trilogies available and utilizes ideas about people and computing in unique ways. I always heard that the sequels didn’t live up to the hype and avoided them during release. It was only later that I rented them and found out I was taking advice from lowest common denominator action movie fans. I only label those fans like that because their criticism only makes sense if…

I haven't played it since (and I know it's generally considered Not Very Good) but I remember greatly enjoying the Enter The Matrix video game, largely because the concept of tying the plot of the game into Reloaded directly was such a cool idea. it wasn't just your typical video-game-of-the-movie, instead it follows the story of two minor characters from the films that runs parallel to the second film. it's kind of…

This was super groundbreaking it was wild. Also Animatrix - set of animated short movies each discribing some part of the world. Super nice pack.

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Post by odessacubbage »

Apocryphon wrote: post #58
yepthatsreality wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disagree, the trilogy is one of the best Sci-Fi trilogies available and utilizes ideas about people and computing in unique ways. I always heard that the sequels didn’t live up to the hype and avoided them during release. It was only later that I rented them and found out I was taking advice from lowest common denominator action movie fans. I only label those fans like that because their criticism only makes sense if…

I think they were too cryptic and the Wachowskis were consumed by the grandiosity of their own mythos, but they were still impressive for what they attempted to do: build a sci-fi epic.

having re-watched the original recently, one of the most striking things was how successfully they managed to create a setting that excuses practically every single convention of bad screenwriting and still works as a film.

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by agmm »

I just created a little tool to aid in the reverse engineering of the system that generates the URLs for each custom video segment. The filenames of each video are the result of hashing an "options" string plus a pepper value; this tool takes care of the hashing.

Tool: https://agmm.xyz/matrix

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Post by jumelles »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #37
cblconfederate wrote: post #18

this is barely interesting. It better be worth it or movies will be officially finished for me. feels like we re in a 20 year cultural swamp.

It's not just movies. There has been some interesting writing (none of which I've been able to find with google) about the ways in so many different aspects of western culture (and maybe more) have really gotten stuck for at least 30 years. Hair, fashion, cars, music, food, film, writing and more.

No way, you can find all sorts of types of each of those things if you look past the mainstream.

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

jumelles wrote: post #125
PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not just movies. There has been some interesting writing (none of which I've been able to find with google) about the ways in so many different aspects of western culture (and maybe more) have really gotten stuck for at least 30 years. Hair, fashion, cars, music, food, film, writing and more.

No way, you can find all sorts of types of each of those things if you look past the mainstream.

Oh, the claim is not that there are all sort of types of each of these things.

It's that there hasn't been:

1. anything new since sometime in the 1990s

2. any dominant form in any of them since the 1990s

The usual angle is something like: consider hairstyles. Find pictures of popular hairstyles from the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s and so forth, and they will be highly correlated with the decade they were popular in. Now look at hairstyles from the 90s, the aughts, the tens: you will have no idea idea when the hairstyle was popular, because ... it wasn't. In fashion these days, "anything goes", and the same applies to all these other things. At least, that's the claim of this view.

I'm not 100% certain I agree with it, but it does seem to contain a kernel of truth.

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Post by lostmsu »

Apocryphon wrote: post #108
motohagiography wrote: post #102

Perhaps a bit meta, but between a new Matrix reboot, this weekend's Rick & Morty finale, and previously even Midnight Gospel among quite a number of other cultural themes about meaning, reality, good & evil, nihilism, I'm feeling a little metaversed out and wondering whether this kind of entertainment is a healthy thing to indulge in. The idea that it is good to be unmoored from our senses and experiences in favour o…

Don't forget Loki , or WandaVision for that matter. I think there's been both qualitative and quantitative changes to American pop culture. Today's audience is able to handle more sophisticated or just convoluted complex narrative structures than in the past. From comic book cinematic universes to Christopher Nolan's gimmicks, we've come along way from straightforward standalone popcorn films. Now even dumb action mo…

> Don't forget Loki, or WandaVision for that matter.

> ... convoluted complex narrative structures than in the past.

You've got to be kidding...

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by Apocryphon »

lostmsu wrote: post #127
Apocryphon wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't forget Loki , or WandaVision for that matter. I think there's been both qualitative and quantitative changes to American pop culture. Today's audience is able to handle more sophisticated or just convoluted complex narrative structures than in the past. From comic book cinematic universes to Christopher Nolan's gimmicks, we've come along way from straightforward standalone popcorn films. Now even dumb action mo…

> Don't forget Loki, or WandaVision for that matter. > ... convoluted complex narrative structures than in the past. You've got to be kidding...

Mass market pop culture in the past wouldn't place the focus on plot elements like multiple dimensions, alternate timelines, elaborate nostalgic homages to different genres of television, stuff like that. The more high concept sci-fi or fantasy might, but not something as basic as a superhero television show. It goes to show that even mass appeal entertainment are now experimenting with nonlinear storytelling.

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Post by Apocryphon »

odessacubbage wrote: post #123
Apocryphon wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think they were too cryptic and the Wachowskis were consumed by the grandiosity of their own mythos, but they were still impressive for what they attempted to do: build a sci-fi epic.

having re-watched the original recently, one of the most striking things was how successfully they managed to create a setting that excuses practically every single convention of bad screenwriting and still works as a film.

I'd read an article about what those conventions were.
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