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The Matrix 4

MakeshiftPython said:
They've mostly been working with digital cameras since SPEED RACER. I think the only time they shot on film since then was for CLOUD ATLAS, but they were using multiple formats so to give each storyline their own visual aesthetic.

If the IMDb info is accurate, RESURRECTIONS was shot on Red cameras. Given how much digital processing the first three films went through, it makes more sense to just go digital from the start.
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REALLY? Let me tell you something, those Red Cameras are one of the best camcorders I've ever shot with. One time a friend of mine forgot to white balance the thing and it still manage to produce very detailed and color picture. I only managed to shoot on a RED ONE but I know David Fincher uses far advanced cameras but if anyone is interested in shooting a RED get the editing package with it. It will help rendering your images.
 
thribs said:
Yeah. How does that clock thing work? Really clever. I just thought it was a coincidence when I played it. :)

My only nitpick is that I wish Keanu changed his hair style. I just get the feeling I’m going to just see John Wick.
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I'm no programmer or web designer but i guess it's a simple request by the website for your computer's system time and then generate the time in the video with pre-recorded time stamps and voices.
I guess for a professional programmer and web designer no big deal but the idea itself is brilliant.

As to Keanu - yeah, after Bill & Ted, Neo and John Wick it's hard not to look for either of these whenever he plays a role. If he has long hair it's automatically Wick but honestly it doesn't matter if he still kicks ass in a serious of awesome choreographed fight scenes and some weird CGI effects.
 
The clock thing is a neat gimmick.

As for the movie...well I'm interested, but my expectations were always pretty low given what happened with the last two movies. Hopefully this is a little more focused, restrained, and less in love of the sound of it's own voice.
 
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The Red & Blue Pill promotion is clever; different narrations from the actors including Will Smith's wife to share their POV of the world inside the Matrix. The countdowns including the time for my time zone is spot on. I'm looking forward to the trailer.
 
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To be honest, not really blown away but then again i'm more interested in the actual story and that trailer only touches it of course.

As trailers go it is ok, Special Effects have of course improved in 20 years, there is still Kung Fu and Gun Fu, running along walls and ceilings and Agents still shift into people.
 
Obviously we're yet to see if the story holds up, or if it even has a point to exist, but that trailer looks pretty damn good.
 
This looks more like a follow-up to the original Matrix than a sequel following the 3rd movie and how it ended. Just using Neo's 'power progression levels' where he was (before he 'died' in the third movie) you could see him going from the first movie to being this guy in Resurrection.

He was so immensely more powerful inside the Matrix(and without) by the end of the 3rd film though.
 
Pretty sure they showed a glimpse of his real body in memory flashes and it seems to be still sans eyes.

Indeed I wouldn't be surprised if part of the reason he is where he is, is precisely because the machines are the only thing keeping him alive; so he can't live in the real world anymore. He may have even chosen to become a blue pill after the armistice. I mean he's essentially a living WMD within the Matrix so his "exile" may have been a condition of the new status quo.

Wild guess, but I think this time around it's going to be less of a resistance vs. authority conflict and more of a civil war, with both redpills and machines on both sides, and they both want to either control Neo or recruit him to their cause.
Not sure how Trinity figures into it; either she was also saved and bluepilled by the machines for largely the same reasons...or that's not really her, but a program in the Matrix designed to snap him out of it.
 
My suspicion, re: Trinity - Neo has used his powers to rewrite the Matrix to resurrect her within the system. She can no longer exist in the real world. And so Neo no longer has any interest in the real world. Hence the both of them being bluepilled.

I'm even wondering if the Morpheus analog character will turn out to be human or a program. There would be something fitting about a machine program awakening The One this time, for whatever reason. Particularly given the obvious similarity to Morpheus, perhaps a program designed for this very purpose.

I'm also wondering if Neo's bluepilled status is to entrap him, or to protect the Matrix. His powers would be incredibly dangerous to the stability of the system and to anybody (human or program) that chose to live there or hadn't yet been unplugged. He's effectively a god within this world, after all. But still only human. That might be the thing I'm most curious about. Not so much the story that plays out in the film, but the backstory and how we connect the end of Revolutions to this place and his setup.

The trailer looks interesting. I'll be more than a little interested just to see how they justify it's existence. On the surface it appears to be a much more straightforward action film, with Neo reclaiming his identity and powers in order to protect Trinity. One presumes there will be more to it than that.
 
WB released a synopsis of the movie

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/sci-fi/matrix/the-matrix-resurrections-check-out-an-intriguing-synopsis-and-two-new-stills-a187899

“The Matrix Resurrections is a continuation of the story established in the first Matrix film… 20 years after the first film, the franchise that helped define pop culture at the turn of the century is back for a continuation and extension of the original movie. A mind-bending new adventure with action and epic scale, it’s set in a familiar yet even more provocative world where reality is more subjective than ever and all that’s required to see the truth is to free your mind"
 
What if the machines are now making the human bodies and trying to live outside the Matrix? They need Neo because he's the key to resurrection.

They saw Agent Smith inhabit a human so maybe they want to do something.
 
Just saw the trailer. I personally wish it had provided a clearer sense of the film's story, but I'm still excited.
 
Very interesting. It looks NPH is either a person or program that's monitoring Neo to make sure he doesn't remember his real life.
Could meeting Trinity be an accident that jump starts his memory, or a set up by someone else?
As was expected, the action looks incredible.
Definitely looks like Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is playing a new version of Morpheus.
 
Looks interesting. I wonder if Neo exists without a body now. Either way, he better say "Whoa" when he finds out stuff.
 
Mage said:
He apparently confirmed this on his instagram, I just read.
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Which begs the question why is he playing a new Morpheus...and why wasn't Laurence Fishburne (by his own assertion) asked back?
 
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