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"Animatrix?"

I keep on hearing about this Animatrix thingy and I don't know what it is!! Can someone please tell me what it is and what it is about? Thankyou!!

pring

Aye, I cannae wait to see the new movie, and (this'll please Snuggly), after taking advantage of Game's Xbox pods, I believe I shall be buying the Xbox or GameCube game of the movies sometime in the near future. It doesn't look much, but it plays well - even if the running and climbing animation looks pathetic :D

Didn't watch it, waiting till I get the DVD.

Certainly planning to go ad see the Matrix Reloaded again tomorrow though, if only for THAT fight between Neo and the Smiths - favourite bit so far, and boy is Revolutions going to have to go far to top that.

Was good, short and sweet. Animation was incredible. The chick had nice legs too.

Basically, the problem with animated shorts (I think each one is about 10 minutes long) is that there's no room for character development. Like you say, I couldn't really give a damn about the crew of the Osiris, because we didn't know them.
If you were to watch an anime series like Cowboy Bebop (which might appeal to Matrix or sci-fi fans), which is about 26 episodes of 25 minutes each, what you get throughout the series is great character development and you end up learning loads about each character and end up caring about them a great deal, even though they're just animated characters.

I also watched The Animatrix 'Detective Story' not long ago (it's directed by Shinichiro Watanabe also the director of Cowboy Bebop, so a similar style is apparent), and though I liked it, it also proved too short as I didn't know the main character well enough.
I think each Animatrix episode should have been at least 25-30 minutes.

That's "Ever" not "Everywhere" :D

I'm still tired and ain't woken up properly.

Final Flight of Osiris was the biggest pile of toss everywhere.

One comment I made whilst watching The Matrix was that although they could do all these amazing effects, they didn't go over the top with them, and so they were great, as was the film.

But, The Animatrix was nothing but a show off of computer animation, which, to me just looked like an over-done FMV sequence. Too much special effects, not enough realism. I just didn't give a damn about the Osiris crew and wanted them all to die - and got my wish.

But, it does supposedly introduce Reloaded, adding that little bit extra to the story. So I had to watch it.

I wont do it again though.

Animatrix is worth watching if your a fan of the movies. 2 of the parts actually show how the world got to the way it was and how the machines took over etc.

You can get Mpg. The first one I have is in perfect DVD quality.

are they all in apple quicktime .mov format, or can you get them in mpeg too? i only ask as when i run .mov files with quicktime the sounds all screwed up and 'echoey', making it rrrrubbish.

They're crap though, so you should'nt.