the matrix and bullet time

[Gohan]

hey all dont ya think that the matrix trilogy was awsome my fave would be 1 or 3 the 2nd was so like wow like weve never seen bullet time b4. compared to the others it was nothing also other films are sartin to p!ss me right off using bullet time all the time when we first saw it it was great but now its old. the best charector on all matrix's would have to be either morpheus, neo or seraph.

:rawk:

[Cjw]

Bullet time should go down as the most ripped off special effect ever.

[AngryPaul]

Very true, but it also created the original interest into The Matrix. I think without the fancy camera work then the film coulkd have been less famous and less well-recieved. But it is mighty cool especially when you use it yourslef in Enter The Matrix game (Xbox for me) :D:D:D:D:D:D

[I'm Jim Too]

Second best use of bullet time is in the jet li film "The One".
Shame they decided to make it in ingrish lo...

[AngryPaul]

A similar thing with Jet Li is Romeo Must Die, when he is fighting and breaks a mans arm - the camera zooms in and you see insde the bone actually snap - same goes for later when he kicks someone in the head, you see blood vessels burst on the brain :eek:

[djnrrd]

That might be because Romeo Must Die was produced by Joel Silver who also produced... The Matrix!

But lets face it kids, the Matrix is essentially big budget poop. The plot was obviously made up by a bunch of stoners:

"What if, like, we weren't really here. And like, part of a computer program dude."
"Yeah man, that would be so wierd..."
"Dude, has anyone got any munchies?"

Proof if proof need be that no true great art comes out of drug use.

The only good thing that came out of the whole Matrix franchise was the Animatrix, probably because it wasn't directed by the watchoomacallit brothers and didn't star Keanu Reeves (the most wooden actor since John Holmes)

[squealpiggy]

The third one was bab. The first one was fair. Bullet time was ripped off from a coolio video "C U wen U get there".

[Cjw]

Techinically amazing things could be done with bullet time like slow mo zooming over cars and things..

[Shadow_Keeper]

Originally posted by AngryPaul
A similar thing with Jet Li is Romeo Must Die, when he is fighting and breaks a mans arm - the camera zooms in and you see insde the bone actually snap - same goes for later when he kicks someone in the head, you see blood vessels burst on the brain :eek:
Similar to a film, Three Kings, when someone gets shot, the camera zooms to inside them as the bullet continues on its path...

[3v1l |\/|1NiOn]

Originally posted by djnrrd
But lets face it kids, the Matrix is essentially big budget poop.

The budget for the first movie was very low, i cannot remember the exact figures or anything, but the Watchowski(sp?) brothers were hired because of their skills of making lots out of little

[djnrrd]

From IMDB - Budget $63,000,000

That's still a lot of money. Your average action flick these days is about 30-40 million if memory serves correctly.

[Gohan]

my point exatcly bullet time has been stolen from the matrix all thought it is cool when u ur self use it when playin' enter the matrix on xbox lol i go all bruce lee on there ass's but then i run out of focus lol

[Gohan]

The budget for the first movie was very low, i cannot remember the exact figures or anything, but the Watchowski(sp?) brothers were hired because of their skills of making lots out of little

didn't the watchowski brothers make ANIMATRIX b4 the matrix was made ?

[I'm Jim Too]

They originally wrote "the trail of robot blah blah blah" before the matrix. The original script can be found in the matrix comics...

I seem to think bullet-time started with the video to Smoke City's Underwater Love...

*sings*
"thees must beee undurvaser lurvv..."
...
Thats all i can remember. It was in a levi's advert.

[Gohan]

hmmmmmmm good point all though the tune was annoyin it was catchy lol

[Dibbie]

Originally posted by 3v1l |\/|1NiOn
the Watchowski(sp?) brothers were hired because of their skills of making lots out of little
Fraid not old bean, they had only made one film before and refused to let anyone else direct. Fortunately it wasn't a problem because Joel Silver loved Ghost in the Shell when the brothers made him watch it and he thought that their vision matched that of Kenji Kamiyama.

If you haven't seen Ghost in the Shell you should it makes The Matrix look like The Goonies.

[Mexican Pie]

Ghost in the Shell is cool. I'm pretty sure they made an Animatrix on as well...

The people who made Vamp Hunter D: Bloodlust made one of them. You know, the white haired girl fighting the Green Ninja?

[Gohan]

i just bought ANIMATRIX on dvd for mvc and its weired theres this episode were theres this black guy running but if he carrys on he'll snap his leg, BUT he carries on and in the REAL world he starts wakin' up and then this do0d (think it was an agent) so your not ready to wake up and then it goes off that confuddled me.

[Dibbie]

Errrr yeah

Overall The Animatrix is the pick of the litter - if the whole matrix series had been done as anime it would have been a lot better (although not as commercially viable).

[Gohan]

yeah i have gotta agree