Just saw the Animatrix on Cartoon Network
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Just saw the Animatrix on Cartoon Network
Overall, I say it was much more coherent and interesting then the last two matrix films. Highlight of it was the Second Renissance in my opinion.
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I thought it was pretty sweet myself. The Second Ren. thing was very cool, I also liked the samurai kinda one, didn't manage to catch the name of that one though. The other ones did have some cool things about them though.
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Did they show the Square CG one first? I only turned it on near the end of The Second Rennisance, P1.
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Which one did Chung do?DPDarkPrimus wrote:Did they show the Square CG one first? I only turned it on near the end of The Second Rennisance, P1.
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The Animatrix is definitely better than the last two films; they actually had fun with the idea of the Matrix and reality, unlike Reloaded and Revolutions.
Both of the Watanabe shorts were absolutely top-notch, in my opinion, as was Koji Morimoto's short (Beyond). The Second Renaissance shorts represented very fine storytelling, in my opinion, but it's rather difficult to get past the grating plot holes and irrationality of most of the stuff that happens in them.
Program and the Final Flight of the Osiris were OK, World Record was crap, and as I have said before, Matriculated was a festering, infected wound on the anus on anime and the best case yet made for locking Peter Chung up in a small room and never allowing him to ruin perfectly good pieces of paper again by adorning them with the visual abortions he has the gall to call "character designs."
Both of the Watanabe shorts were absolutely top-notch, in my opinion, as was Koji Morimoto's short (Beyond). The Second Renaissance shorts represented very fine storytelling, in my opinion, but it's rather difficult to get past the grating plot holes and irrationality of most of the stuff that happens in them.
Program and the Final Flight of the Osiris were OK, World Record was crap, and as I have said before, Matriculated was a festering, infected wound on the anus on anime and the best case yet made for locking Peter Chung up in a small room and never allowing him to ruin perfectly good pieces of paper again by adorning them with the visual abortions he has the gall to call "character designs."
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Did they show Detective Story? That one was crap.
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Its a shame too, its started out very promising in terms of art and potential story line. It all went downhill after they "jacked in".DPDarkPrimus wrote:The last one. The one with the horrible animation and the trippy, pointless "plot".Captain_Cyran wrote:
Which one did Chung do?
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Detective Story, Beyond and Kid's Story were the best in my humble opinion. Matriculated had a neat concept (humans reprogramming machines to be their servants again? Neat! Why didn't they do that in the first place?) but got a little too uhh...off topic.
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Second Renaissance was brilliant IMO.
FFoTO was a little too built on eye candy for me.
The rest was just odd.
FFoTO was a little too built on eye candy for me.
The rest was just odd.
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2nd. Ren. was pretty, I'll give it that much.
But some parts of it were fucking stupid beyond all belief.
"We're going to make sentient robots without any hardwired safeguards whatsoever! And then we're going to put them in a position where they could destroy us!"
"Our nukes have little to no effect on the machines, despite the fact that nuclear weapons produce really big EMPs when they detonate, and that nukes are the most powerful weapon on the planet!"
"Hey, let's completely destroy most life on Earth by permanently blocking out the sun!"
But some parts of it were fucking stupid beyond all belief.
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"Our nukes have little to no effect on the machines, despite the fact that nuclear weapons produce really big EMPs when they detonate, and that nukes are the most powerful weapon on the planet!"
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Because that would be smart Colin...and in 2nd Ren, people are dumb.The Yosemite Bear wrote:how about instead pf dark storm we detonate upper atmospheroc nukes amd fry every fucking circuit on the planet?
Overall I liked Detective story the most , and Final Flight. One because I enjoyed the tale...and FFoTO just had some great eye candy.
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The Detective Story was the best one. Film noir in sci-fi settings is always a bonus. Final Flight of the Osiris was pretty trippy too. I honestly think i enjoyed the animatrix more than reloaded in some ways.
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I liked Watanabe's, the story about the runner was good if only because of the way it characterized the matrix, the agents and the people within the matrix.
Though second renaissance was a bit, how could they actually be so incredibly stupid? I mean that it really really really doesn't follow that you give robots working in factories AIs. It just turns the whole thing into a bit of Marx's history of the future.
Though second renaissance was a bit, how could they actually be so incredibly stupid? I mean that it really really really doesn't follow that you give robots working in factories AIs. It just turns the whole thing into a bit of Marx's history of the future.
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just saw it last night too, the 2nd Renissance in was indeed good and having never seen the last 2 films of the matrix itself.
the stuff was weird but interesting.
the stuff was weird but interesting.
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Second Renissance was one of the stupidest, most bullshit thing I have ever seen. They had dozens of fully sentient robots that got breaks PULLING blocks of a pyramid. WTF was that? The second part has thankfully mostly been blocked from my mind.
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Specifically, it's Peter Chung's "style." Every single person he designs is an ugly emaciated woman decked out in outfits a gay stripper wouldn't be caught dead in.kojikun wrote:Matriculation's very American style nuAnime is horrible.
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Kid's Story, Detective Story, and Program I liked. I liked Osiris too, but I had seen it before. World Record I didn't care for.
Second Renaissance *could* have been good, but as others have expressed, the sheer stupidity and bullshit is so immense that it makes the act of enjoying it and having a brain incompatible.
As for the other two, I haven't watched them yet.
Second Renaissance *could* have been good, but as others have expressed, the sheer stupidity and bullshit is so immense that it makes the act of enjoying it and having a brain incompatible.
As for the other two, I haven't watched them yet.
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