I’ve got to admit, the short was what got me into the theatre.
It was worth the price of admission on its own. I went into it expecting something similar to the Moebius-like quicktime short that was released a while back-- what a nice surprise to see that this is something totally different.
Ultra-“realistic” 3D-rendered eye-candy-- Sexy as all get-out, too.
The Sentinel-attack in the short comes across way better than in the original film. Holy crap!
How many more of these (if any?) are there going to be before Reloaded comes out? It totally kicked ass!
If they are going to make serialized shorts with direct connections to each other, (which I’m guessing must be the case, since this one ended with a bit of a cliff-hanger,) then I only have one comment:That nice little old lady by mailbox had to be an Agent, right? ‘You never know,’ indeed. I’d like to see her bend a few rules.
As a marketing gimmick, great job! I’m certainly psyched.
I believe there are going to be 12 total cut ins including the “Animatrix” shorts…I believe the deal is 8 online Animatrix shorts, and 4 CGI movie shorts. I could be wrong.
Actually, from what I’ve read there are only to be 9 Animatrix “episodes”. Two anime episodes have already been released online (www.theanimatrix.com), one 3d animation released with Dreamcatcher, and two more anime eps are to be release online as well (one in April, one in May before The Matrix Reloaded is release on the 15th). The last four episodes will go straight to The Animatrix DVD in June I believe, along with the five already seen episodes. Of the nine, only two will be 3d, the other seven are anime.
What I like about ‘Last Flight of the Osiris’ is the fact that it is an example of how dire the human cause is. Neo and co. were extremely lucky.
Some things bugged me though. Zion only 4 kilometers below the surface?Thats not ‘near the core’. And why do they go to the surface to transmit when in the Matrix they do the opposite?!
I know science isn’t the reason we watch the Matrix, but it would be pretty damn hard to build anything anywhere near the core, unless there’s some radical change beneath the Earth. You think lava flows are hot, dig down to the lower mantle see what you think.
Depends what point you’re thinking of. Early on, when it was only the, what, half dozen or so, it would have made sense. After they saw the army about to descend on Zion, however, they couldn’t because a) there were too many for an EMP to get 'em all, and b) they needed to get their warning out.
My post was based on two basic assumptions (at least one of which may be wrong based on the movie).
The EMP would shut down the Osiris as well as the sentinels in the “blast radius.” Now that I think about it, though, Trinity and Neo were making out pretty visibly, meaning the lights, and probably more systems were still up.
The blast radius would have been, say, a hundred yards from the ship’s hull. In the short I seem to remember pretty much a steady stream of sentinels as far as the eye could see.
So if I was right on both counts, an EMP would have fried a couple dozen sentinels and turned off the Osiris, which would have then been swarmed by the next few dozen sentinels.
And even if I’m wrong, well, point B in my original post still stands, right?
