The Animatrix

[Endur]

Final Flight was awesome

Final Flight was awesome animation.

 

[Victim]

Hmm. I didn't like Second Rennaissance very much. It seemed rather silly. I was kind of hoping that it would be false, and based on the new information, the files in Zion's archives come into question as reliable sources of historical information.

 

[evilpeebor]

After watching Second Rennaissance twice, and hating it the first time, it occurred to me that maybe it was told from the machines perspective.

The whole story really didn't seem to fit into the Matrix universe. Man creates machines as slave labor, then decides to kill all of them because one machine killed a human.

 

[Holy Bovine]

After watching Second Rennaissance twice, and hating it the first time, it occurred to me that maybe it was told from the machines perspective.

The whole story really didn't seem to fit into the Matrix universe. Man creates machines as slave labor, then decides to kill all of them because one machine killed a human.

Bingo! That was exactly the feeling I had while watching it. This was not a story being told from the 'losers' perspective. It is subtlely done but I feel quite strongly that this was the machines' interpretation of events as they struggled to understand humans (note especially the experiments performed on humans when the machines are trying to set up the Matrix - how on earth would any living human have gotten that kind of footage?)

 

[s/LaSH]

Having just gone on sale here, I purchased it and thought it was quite neat. Maybe not satisfyingly neat in all the endings, but I've come to the conclusion that happy, clear-cut endings are just another fiction of 20th century California.

Final Flight looked cool. Second Renaissance gave a chilling perspective on things. Detective Story was so noir it hurt (as I said while watching). Those would probably be the standouts on some very high-quality stuff in the first place - stories notwithstanding; they're clearly designed to bring certain perspectives on inevitability and machine dominance to the viewer, probably just so the films about people who can fight machine dominance will seem cooler.

Duzzat make sense?

 

[Liquid Snake]

I think the Second Renaissance was great. (I still can't take the image of the apocalyptic robot rider from my head. ) Its animation technqiue was great, the music was superb and I found the storyline very convincing.

The robot's trial was just the tip of the iceberg and you've got to remember things slowly escalated from that point to all-out war. I can imagine there were other kind of factors involved, perhaps resenting people pissed off against the robots because the company let them go in favor of mechanized laborforce.

 

[Welverin]

I've been semi intending to post a link to the online comic by the WB and Darrow telling the story of the butler robot that lead to the rise of the machines, and now I have.

 

[NiTessine]

I'm going to have to cast a dissenting vote here and say that I didn't think The Second Renaissance was all that good. Decent, yes, but nothing to write home about. My favourites would be Program, Last Flight of the Osiris and Beyond. World Record I disliked, mainly for the animation style. Kid's Story had the same problem.

 

[Mistwell]

I cannot believe so many of you liked Detective Story. I love film noir. But that was a seriously crappy version of it. I watched with 5 other people, of varying degrees of nerdiness, and all agree without question that it was by far the worst one of the bunch in animatrix (and we all liked it overall). In fact, it convinced me to NOT buy the cowboy beebop dvd I was thinking about buying. If that short was representative of this guys work, he can keep it.

World Record was not bad. Far far better than that crappy Detective Story.

 

[Welverin]

I cannot believe so many of you liked Detective Story.

Well there had to be one dissenter and that's you.

I would appear to be the one for Program.