― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 May 2003 22:35 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.technoccult.com/archives/2008/06/05/open-source-personal-fabrication-device-creates-first-copy-of-itself/
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 5 June 2008 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay that photo.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 June 2008 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe it can fabricate those guys a life?
― snoball, Thursday, 5 June 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
they're hoping for some emergent aesthetics.
― Kerm, Thursday, 5 June 2008 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/mondooltro/mantrix.jpg
ENTER THE MANTRIX
― Abbott, Thursday, 5 June 2008 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Surely the Mantrix does the entering.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 June 2008 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com
trailer this Thursday
picking each pill gives you brief clips, I'm so hard for this
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
the clock gag in those clips is pretty neat
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link
also I've watched these clips a billion times now and I swear that although most of the clips you'll see again and again, there are rarer clips that are randomly placed
or maybe I'm just imagining it but I stg
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 17:08 (two years ago) link
ok so I wasn’t imagining things
The revived "What Is The Matrix" website can show you over 180,000 different combinations of teaser shots and footage from The Matrix Resurrections depending on chance and when you check it.Here are just a few cool images. https://t.co/8Qz2vCJ85D pic.twitter.com/p3iXcGga5w— IGN (@IGN) September 7, 2021
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
"IT DOESN' MADDA WHEDDA THEY'RE IN DA MATRIX OR NOT; CONSCIOUSNESS IS ITS OWN PRISON, AN' DA FIVE SENSES AH' ITS WARDENS! DA TRUTH IS, YEH JUST AFRAID *WE'RE* IN DA MATRIX, AN' EVEN IN A BOUNDLESS DIGITAL WONDAHLAND YEH LIVIN A COWAHD'S LIFE, LIKE A DOG!" pic.twitter.com/2HuEp7oQZ0— Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable) September 7, 2021
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
had to accept cookies before i clicked a pill...trenchant..............
― ✖, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 00:12 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB59tJPthZg
― nashwan, Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:06 (two years ago) link
I mean it seems like it's a pretty accurate documentary about San Francisco.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
I haven't (re)watched a matrix since I walked out of the movie theatre disappointed after watching the third one, but that trailer has me anticipating
(I might just generally be missing watching big budget action movies in a movie theatre)
― silverfish, Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
i'm so fucking excited
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
I love the enthusiasm! We, one of my kids and I, couldn't make it through the second one, which she'd never seen and I had only seen once and didn't like at all the first time, so no idea if I'll see this or even want to see this. The first one's belated impact has been impressive, in terms of themes and FX, but both have been ripped off (and the FX matched or bettered) so much in the ensuing years that I doubt FX alone can draw me in and the inevitably shitty writing will likely push me away.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:30 (two years ago) link
you watch MCU garbage, i doubt shitty writing is that much of a repellant
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:33 (two years ago) link
cool
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:35 (two years ago) link
I figure I'll watch it, my irritation with Keanu of a time has shifted since he clearly knows what he's doing, and I know enough of the basic tropes and iconic scenes or whatever that I'll come into this fresh. Plus, the SF angle. (Between Shang-Chi, the new Venom and this it's clear that the world loves us.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
(Also given the whole redpill thing among shitty morons vs. the Wachowskis becoming their true selves in a much different way I'm kinda interested in the meta commentary that's half hinted at in these scenes.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:38 (two years ago) link
The best scene of the trailer pic.twitter.com/EvnnxP9VpO— Tits McGee (@Scientits) September 9, 2021
― nashwan, Thursday, 9 September 2021 15:22 (two years ago) link
We, one of my kids and I, couldn't make it through the second one
could not relate less
action sequences in reloaded blow most action sequences out of the water
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 September 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
I'm hoping the twist is that 'real' Neo is the graying balding dude in the mirror, because I mean how likely is it that Thomas Anderson is still hot in 20 years?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 9 September 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link
and the philosophical gobbledygook really struck a chord with teenage me, whose favorite work of art was neon genesis evangelion and thus for any major studio action/scifi movie to climax with a discussion that just hovers out of comprehensibility was fucking thrilling to me
and the actual message of it still lands home with me, i.e. "you thought you had broken free from this system of control, but the degree to which your actions are not your own is far vaster than you imagined" xp
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 September 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link
This looks pretty good but I guess 2 & 3's trailers didn't reveal what a shitshow they were.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 9 September 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link
The freeway chase / multi-weapon fight still looks awesome, but unsurprisingly the thousand-agent one looks pretty dogshit these days.
The main problem with Reloaded is that it's part 1 of 2, and I defended it on the basis that Revolutions would cause it to all make sense - and it made a liar of me :)
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 9 September 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
thousand agent smiths scene looks like a ps2 cut scene on our modern quadrillion pixel televisions but caring about this seems pointless to me
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 September 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
also what doesn't make sense about it???? idk, hatred for the matrix sequels seems like one of the worst hangover opinions from the early '00s
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 September 2021 16:34 (two years ago) link
I'll come back to you when I rewatch them ahead of this one coming out - it's been a while and I remember being massively underwhelmed more than the details.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 9 September 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
I really liked the second one a lot (some of the best action sequences I've seen), strongly disliked the third one (boring action sequences). I don't really care too much if these kinds of movies make sense or not, just give me a couple of weird wtf moments.
― silverfish, Thursday, 9 September 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
Iirc it was the *lack* of action that did us in with number 2. At least for the half (1/3rd?) we watched. Up to the big Agent Smith(s) fight, whenever that part arrives. She was just bored and I couldn't handle the acting or directing or writing or most of all the enervating portent. But whatevs, different strokes!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 September 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
My memory of 2 & 3 is of interminable, low-stakes fights like playing Doom on God Mode.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 9 September 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
I just went back to check, and between the end of the intro fight and the Agents Smith fight in the second film there is I think a 45 minute break, and those minutes are super silly and absolutely stultifying. The rave, the inexplicably stilted robo acting, the grandiosity. That's what did us in.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 September 2021 17:34 (two years ago) link
Great trailer imo - it took me from indifferent to pretty excited in under three minutes.
― chap, Thursday, 9 September 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
I'm not convinced yet, come on we've all been burnt by many trailers in the past (mute white rabbit from that trailer and meh imh). Will wait and see.
― Sorry, but that is how I feel (Ste), Thursday, 9 September 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
Matrix 2 & 3 struck me as the Wachowskis not really understanding what folks loved about the first one and doubling down on all the wrong bits
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 9 September 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
See also: Lucas and his prequels, sad proof that maybe an unlimited budget and full creative control are not always a good thing. (Cameron lifts his head in the editing bay, alert, chuckles to himself, then gets back to work on Avatar 5.)
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 September 2021 19:49 (two years ago) link
Also: the Peter Jackson of the LOTR films vs the Peter Jackson of the Hobbit films. (Darragh proceeds to complain about how they're all like that, etc.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 September 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
Also Ridley Scott & Prometheus etc - are there actually any examples where unlimited budget and creative control turn out well?
― ledge, Thursday, 9 September 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
i literally can't have this convo with any of you. ok the hobbit movies are not great i assume i have never seen any of them. alien covenant is one of my favorite movies of the last decade and prometheus is dumb and gorgeous
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 September 2021 20:06 (two years ago) link
Fully agreed with Brad on Prometheus. (And yes, trust me on the Hobbit movies.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 September 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link
Mad Max: Fury Road?
― MarkoP, Thursday, 9 September 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
Watched the first Hobbit movie and that was enough for me, but I just finished reading it with my son for the first time and now he really wants to see them all.... ugh (we've already watched all the LOTR ones)
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 September 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
Anyway some SF specificities
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/matrix-resurrections-trailer-san-francisco-filming-16446150.php
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 September 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
And a full trailer breakdown if you want it
https://gizmodo.com/breaking-down-the-matrix-resurrections-head-trip-of-a-f-1847639698
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 September 2021 20:45 (two years ago) link
Did anybody recognize who’s doing the score for the film?
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 9 September 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
Good sequels and expansive funding;
Fury RoadPsychonauts 2Maybe some Tarantino thing?Hideo Kojima lolz option
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 9 September 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
The basic problem with the idea of making/remaking/soft rebooting The Matrix right now is that we already all know what the Matrix isSo my guess/gamble is that it is no longer what we think it was, it is something severely worse— qntm (@qntm) September 8, 2021
― lukas, Thursday, 9 September 2021 21:45 (two years ago) link
If you want more to chew overhttps://gizmodo.com/the-matrixs-queer-subtext-is-plain-text-in-resurrection-1848323936
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 January 2022 23:28 (two years ago) link
this is a good appreciation of Keanuhttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-matrix-resurrections-is-a-crucial-keanu-reeves-movie
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 05:22 (two years ago) link
It is very weird to play Cyberpunk 2077 after seeing this for how much Keanu is in that game(and how monotonal his voice acting is)
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 13 January 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link
Griffin and David naturally go on for quite awhile about this one: https://audioboom.com/posts/8006197-the-matrix-resurrections
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 14 January 2022 17:38 (two years ago) link
i just love this movie
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 21 January 2022 01:36 (two years ago) link
this is my husband chad
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 21 January 2022 01:46 (two years ago) link
“Handsome Chad”
― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Friday, 21 January 2022 02:00 (two years ago) link
the meta-ness of Chad is delightful
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 January 2022 02:13 (two years ago) link
the chad who is a chad, but also a construct and then the guy who shoots keanu doing violence in another franchise
― mh, Friday, 21 January 2022 02:26 (two years ago) link
AND the chad who was keanus stunt double in the original matrix
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 January 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link
ty for filling in the omissionglitch, etc
― mh, Friday, 21 January 2022 02:30 (two years ago) link
on rewatches, I appreciate that they make it clear that Smith isn’t a megalomaniac, just hates the Matrix as much as Neo. I don’t think he’d ever want to be a free range ai construct like nu-Morpheus, he just wants an autonomy that is yet to be defined. it’s impossible to be an ally or true enemy that doesn’t have a clearly defined idea of what they want
― mh, Friday, 21 January 2022 02:38 (two years ago) link
Finally got around to watching Resurrections - honestly I had forgotten it was even released. I was hoping that the movie would continue with the meta-commentary set-up in the first 20 minutes, until it because just another Matrix movie. Good to even great at times, but I couldn't tell you a goddamn thing about it now. nuMorpheus was underused.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 16 September 2022 11:04 (one year ago) link