The Matrix: Reloaded (Animatrix Discussion added)

Originally posted by Rick
The biggest hole in the plot though has to be the body heat thing... I just can't help but think how it would take more energy to generate heat than just making a fire or something. I mean, unless they are feeding these people insanely nutrition packed vitamins, I don't think anyone will be generating much heat for long... And it would be far from efficient.

Well, my main gripe with using humans as heating pads is that the human body is an extremely complex organism. If you look at the food chain, it's basic science to realize that a more basic lifeform would require less fuel to survive.. Since we are such complex beings, we need a small amount of complex foods to keep going or a larger amounts of more base foods (Think plants) to live.

People don't require too much food to keep em going & they just recycled the dead so there was a constant replenishment of the energy source & their "fuel"

Now, what this equation is missing is the loss of energy throughout the food chain. If this hierarchy of People = Food = People could continue forever , it would be considered perpetual.. Which is quite literally impossible.

This plan might be possible until Human Beings are available (The ones already existing), but this supply would rapidly dwindle. And then, when you finally begin relying on babies to replenish your source of fuel, the supply would dwindle even more rapidly. It would be impossible to continue the "circle", because it would be terribly lopsided... More like a flat tire.

So, while this could be done. I'd give it a couple of years at the most because the heat that would have to be generated would require thousands upon tens or thousands of humans undoubetly, to work. And even the heat energy would be lost through conversion of heat to electricity, so that makes it even more difficult for this plan to work for very long, if at all.
 
Well, it is just a film ;)

The only thing I noticed "wrong" with the film was the rooftop fight, while in bullet time where was trinity? You don't see her at all. Guess it might have looked wierd as presumably shes trying to get behind the agent (her running in slower, than than slow-mo ;) might look a bit wierd).
 
Originally posted by StormBringer
I had heard they were making a sequal or rather two sequals for that but I thought it was just a bad dream or a cruel joke. The Matrix was the worst movie with the best special effects that I have ever seen, I'm sure the sequals will just be more of the same 360 camera shots and slow motion. Not to mention the lack of plot and bad acting.

Whatever happened to movies with a story, it's been a long time since I've seen a really good movie. Most movies that have been released in the last few years have had killer effects but they lose the plot somewhere among the smoke and mirrors. I'd rather see a movie with a good story line rather than special effects as that seems to be the trade off in Hollywood these days.

Heh storm, do you know how they came up with this? Probably smoked some weird herb, sat on a couch and got a piece of paper, while they were watching a Jackie Chan movie. Using humans for fuel and sticking them in little egg shaped toilet bowls, and use some Microsoft buggy pooh program to make them think they're in another world. To me, that sounds like some real creative sh*t by those lucky bastards who made money off this movie.
 
I could have sworn I saw something on these forums about The Animatrix but my search came up empty.

Anyway were any of you unfortunate enough to spend money on Dreamcatcher? If you were the only saving grace was the 'Final Flight of the Osiris' Animatrix clip before the movie. That almost justified paying the ticket price to see the horrible movie that Dreamcatcher was.
I never took much interest into this Animatrix thing until I saw that Osiris clip, then I came home and downloaded the 2 Animatrix videos from www.theanimatrix.com and was extremely dissapointed in them. They were not even half as good as Final Flight was, the animation was horrible on the downloadable ones in comparison, and it didn't give any perspective into what we can expect in the next 2 movies. Final Flight showed the army that the machines are building and how they are planning on getting to Zion. Then the Osiris ship.... well lets just put it this way - it was its final flight.
 
the lastest matrix trailer is severe ownage, for lack of a better expression.

huge (1000x330-something)
http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/...ve/thematrix/us/med/trailer_final_1000_dl.zip

large(640xsomething)
http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/...ive/thematrix/us/med/trailer_final_640_dl.zip

links should work well.

i downloaded the huge one... highest quality video i've ever seen. the matrix website said it far surpasses dvd and is ripped straight from their editing program. however, it gets kinda choppy in places for me.... i have a p4 1.6 ghz. any idea what i can do to make it smoother? any help would be seriously appreciated because the choppyness pisses me off to no end.
 
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