Comments on: Makes Keanu look like Olivier

Makes Keanu look like Olivier

Pretty_Generic — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:10:45 -0800

Straight outta Belgium, it's "The Matrix: The Beginning". This is a see-it-to-believe-it occasion. [20m WMV; Trailer for those with a lower tolerance for this sort of nonsense; Main site]

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:11:26 -0800

Make sure you at least see 10m35.

By: TetrisKid

TetrisKid — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:21:48 -0800

I officially hate Belgium

By: Josh Zhixel

Josh Zhixel — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:29:23 -0800

KILL IT. KILL IT WITH FIRE.

By: grimcity

grimcity — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:34:00 -0800

"Who says I vas runnink avay?"

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:40:25 -0800

13:55

By: ori

ori — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:41:47 -0800

abstract for those of us on dial-up?

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:43:44 -0800

Belgian people attempt to make The Matrix prequel. Success. Horror. The end.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:46:37 -0800

The fight scenes sure do make me think stuntmen deserve Oscars. But 'yay' for effort. Effort always gets a 'yay.'

By: papakwanz

papakwanz — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:51:56 -0800

Wow. That was... Well you know what? Apart from the special effects, not that much worse than Reloaded and Revolutions.

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:54:10 -0800

(the "main site" link includes info for those on dial up, including script and photos)

By: obeygiant

obeygiant — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:27:54 -0800

silly rabbit, matrix is for kids

By: nomad

nomad — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:30:57 -0800

Come on people; payless has dress shoes for $5! Buy a pair, spend the afternoon filming your fanfic, and then return them for a full refund. The alternative is getting closeup shots of agents walking menacingly in suits with stupid looking sneakers on.

By: fungible

fungible — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:42:54 -0800

By "this sort of nonsense" do you mean Windows Media? "Buffering..."

By: nixerman

nixerman — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:50:33 -0800

I feel sad but hopeful for mankind.

By: tomplus2

tomplus2 — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:50:37 -0800

Slow mo bullets! Makes for a boring fire fight.

By: tomplus2

tomplus2 — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:59:37 -0800

Cripes, I can't believe I watched it all. Makes me wonder, did they?

By: thebabelfish

thebabelfish — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:24:12 -0800

Ow, my head! That was terrible. So so terrible.

By: twiggy

twiggy — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:27:34 -0800

Why did you have to post this? This is so bad it makes me want to kick puppies. But of course I had to watch the whole thing to see if it was a big joke or if these people were serious. Wow. I've seen another matrix fanfilm somewhere and while it wasn't "good" at least it looked like the kids who made it put in some legitimate effort. This... this makes me want to cry.

By: intermod

intermod — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:27:40 -0800

I want my 20 minutes back. Outtakes?!

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:53:45 -0800

I just had a thought. Um... how do all the people in the robot-enslaved-battery-pods have kids? Do the machines have some kind of jizz-relocation plumbing apparatus? Kill me now.

By: Sangre Azul

Sangre Azul — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 22:08:45 -0800

Wow, what, um, choreography. What they should have done was to speed it up slightly, convert it to b&w, remove the sound, and insert some old-timey piano music. Then it'd be a perfect "first matrix" ala a silent movie. Even the dialogue placards write themselves as per grimcity's comment.

By: borkingchikapa

borkingchikapa — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:28:38 -0800

I have to give them some credit. It's probably better than 99% of the movies that three high school kids could produce. Plus, the accents were pretty funny.

By: Uncle Ira

Uncle Ira — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 01:07:13 -0800

Metafilter: Jizz-relocating plumbing apparatus.

By: skallas

skallas — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 01:08:07 -0800

For a fan film this is actually pretty good. They obviously did a lot of planning, got a lot of things right, etc. Okay, it is bad, but I like watching fan films and picking out parts I think were done well and thinking about how I would change parts I thought were not done well, albeit with my limited understanding of filmmaking. I think that's the fun of fan films, seeing what your peers are doing and wondering how you would have done things differently. And yes, its super cheesy and full of unintentional comedy. Its all in the way you watch it.

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 06:33:16 -0800

Most fan films are a waste time and energy, like the losers who audition for American Idol who have grande illusions about themselves. This is pathetic. The slow-motion fighting looks silly. It would be better to take a couple of guys with some martial arts training, put then in black suits and shades and let them go at it on the top of a building during a thunderstorm.

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 07:01:51 -0800

omg disgruntled that would be just so much better.

By: Robot Johnny

Robot Johnny — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 07:52:36 -0800

People still care about The Matrix?

By: kcds

kcds — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:14:27 -0800

Oh, come on. If any of you can do any better, please post your efforts. Yes, the acting was wooden, and the dialog was lame, but, wow, the bullet-time effects and the faux rotoscoping were 90% as good as the "real thing" for, what, 0.01% of the budget? I'm serious - for a zero-budget amateur effort, I thought it was damn good. Oh yeah, and A+ for effort.

By: neckro23

neckro23 — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:16:22 -0800

I'm surprised nobody's compared this to the Fanimatrix yet.

By: sswiller

sswiller — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:20:44 -0800

he is really the one

By: mervin_shnegwood

mervin_shnegwood — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:17:36 -0800

I think I used to own a BB gun just like that...

By: abcde

abcde — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:22:25 -0800

Uh, most of the bullet time effects were accomplished by them moving around slowly, heh.

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:40:55 -0800

No, neo-cow is really the ONE. http://www.keanuvision.com/archives/001393.html

By: bingo

bingo — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:48:31 -0800

I thought the effects were pretty good.

By: superchicken

superchicken — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:54:46 -0800

this made me flaccid

By: papercake

papercake — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:34:24 -0800

The horror. I kept watching only to get up to P_G's recommended 10:35 and it froze right about the 10 minute mark. I actually shouted "no!" This is bad (fanfic allowances and all). Not to mention a complete rip-off of Terminator.

By: dougunderscorenelso

dougunderscorenelso — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:36:55 -0800

Good effort, it just seemed like so much was much more derivative than it had to be. The agent firing, missing, then tossing his gun away was nearly a frame-by-frame recreation of the same seen The Matrix. What's the point of making a separate entity if you can't even expand on what little material was there in the first place? Fan-created materials should flesh out existing stories with things fans themselves are curious about. Like what was done with this one. *looks uncomfortable now*

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:50:08 -0800

OMG. I did laugh loudly at 13:55, though. I like how the guns shoot bullets plus casings. You can see the primer pad (but curiously lacking a pin punchmark). Wooden doesn't even begin to describe their acting. I've a little more respect for the talents of actors now; most of them make it seem eversonatural. Quite the opposite of these guys. Hoo. still, it's better than any film I've ever been in...

By: cr_joe

cr_joe — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:26:36 -0800

Ooooohhhh... My stomach...

By: Spacey

Spacey — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 06:26:01 -0800

Your kung fu is not strong. ...or even mildly abrasive.