What's the best short?
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What's the best short?
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The Second Renaissance
fpbp. The woman not trusting the robot in the end of Matriculated was deep.
This, it was what other matrix media should have been
No AI would be as petty as to do this. If they have fusion, keeping humans around despite the risk of an uprising is just irrational petty spite. Humans might do this shit, but an AI wouldnt. Unless the trannies think that an AI is just like a human mind but with infinite IQ
Kid Story
bump
They're basically all good except for the CG one, which was only valued as a sneak peak for Reloaded.
You're too young to understand how erotic it was at the time.
man can cum whenever he wants
They're all equally dumb.
Haven't seen it in like twenty years, but I liked the one where they beat the booba robot to death and it had the robot guy riding the robot horse blowing his horn while the apocalypse happened in the background.
The only one I recall disliking was the 3D one.
Loved all of them. Wish there was more things like this but nu-movies are far too soulless. At least there's love, death, robots.
Star Wars essentially did the same thing, recently. I don't know if it's any good or not. I haven't actually watched it.
Don't watch it. It's really fricking bad.
The very first one was good. The rest reeeeeally didn't feel like a good fit. What were they thinking with the fursona wannabe samurai characters just what the frick
Lop a cute
Blade Runner got 2 different anime.
They any good?
> At least there's love, death, robots.
fricking reddit trash
The one were they redpill the robot.
>redpill the robot.
They literally brainwashed it by their own bullshit.
>They literally brainwashed it by their own bullshit
yes, it was a direct opposite of the CG story, instead of a program to weed out traitors in the allied ranks, it was a program to create traitors amongst the enemy's ranks. It was very well thought out too
Indeed - very clever symbolism used for the brainwashing sequence in that one. It's a massive pleb filter.
Thank you, I was beginning to think I was alone in appreciating the symbolism throughout it. Its also visually stunning, like watching an animated Alex Grey short
>It was very well thought out too
eh
I mean concept wise it's pretty good but in a lot of ways it always pisses me off. Did the humans REALLY expect no more robots were coming and just completely let their guard down? Like ALL of them let their guard down and then they all die. I mean it sets up for a pretty kino ending but the logic behind it was flawed.
They basically turned him into an incel and shamed him into taking on a human form.
that's what redpilling means, anon
The one with the athlete reverse buck breaking agent Smith by being too black and running like he just stole the latest sneakers.
all of them except the 3d one
Second Renaissance, duh. What a shit thread.
The Olympic runner. Breaking the matrix by pure force of will is so fricking based
yes
I like that one too.
Indeed. GIGABASED.
Why 2000s stuff have so much sovl
Yes. Also the detective story for the atmosphere and visuals.
The Detective one, can't remember the name. It was noir kino.
This and I like them showing other simulations based on different time periods and cities.
For me it's Beyond.
I'm a sucker for shit with good atmosphere, haunting mood, and mystery. I liked how it tied glitches in the Matrix to the kind of magical, unexplained shit you see as a kid, which is so different from how the Matrix is usually framed. In the other shorts the Matrix is this awful, horrible thing that HAS to be escaped from and/or destroyed, but here it's actually something that can be really beautiful, which I think ties into a thematic thrust of the sequels that the literal Matrix isn't the core problem. In fact, from a certain point of view, the Matrix can be a good thing, a world of possibilities. The problem comes when the systems of control and the beings who perpetuate it clamp down on people's capacity to live and be free, even if that means being able to explore a dangerous haunted house every once in a while.
The ending of the short feels a bit like World Record and Detective's Story. All three have protagonists that come so close to touching some kind of truth or pulling the curtain on some ineffable mystery until they're snatched from the threshold. In the other two, it's by either by death or debilitation. In the case of Beyond it's a literal threshold, and the result is something far more mundane, and to me more relatable, and thus tragic. When most folks see or feel something unexplained and you can't see, touch, or feel it again, there's no denouement, no revelation or climax. You just go on with your life, with the moment either living on as a memory or fading like so many childhood experiences. Just a yearning you can't explain. A splinter in your mind.
It feels so fundamental to the ethos of the Matrix: maintaining that sense of childhood openness to new ideas and experiences that, for most, grows rigid and calcified as we age.
Other favorites are Second Renaissance and Kid's Story.
Good post
>All three have protagonists that come so close to touching some kind of truth or pulling the curtain on some ineffable mystery until they're snatched from the threshold.
The Animatrix really encapsulated that late 90s feeling of adolescence and loss of innocence. Beyond is my favorite along with World Record and Kid’s Story.
>That gif
God it's been so long since I saw this it would have been on the VHS I watched all the time, why can't we go back bros?
>Beyond
Patrician answer
Incredible post, wholly agree.
good points, the rotoscoping always kinda bothered me though.
mah homie. Inspired me to go back and rewatch them all.
>Second Renaissance
Honestly. The fact that the wachowski troonys never tapped into this lore is proof they never really understood the zeitgeist around Matrix I.
How can you create a masterpiece and not realize what made it a masterpiece?
...Or is that the only way to create a masterpiece?
By copying others and getting lucky.
I like that one.
Extra forboding having the thought that maybe the authorities wouldn't be forgiving about kids screwing around in the area.
I watched Paprika recently and really reminded me Animatrix with its atmosphere. Made at about the same time (2006). I can't recommend it enough, it's a masterpiece.
It's very pretty, and has amazing music, but let's be honest... The story is quite shit. It doesn't hold a candle to most of the Animatrix shorts.
Memories is 100 x more entertaining than animashit.
Paprika is the only movie I ever saw that invoked physical reaction in me, when someone was vaulting over fence and it collapsed under him, I had strong sense of vertigo.
honestly everything kon did after perfect blue was a bit too campy for me. Paprika is the closest it got to remaining kino but it also kinda was just a ghost in the cell rip off spin off episode.
>Paprika is the closest it got to remaining kino but it also kinda was just a ghost in the cell rip off spin off episode.
I get that you're a fricking moron and an npc, which is to say a human being but not an actual person, and you can only think about things in terms of other things you're aware exist but Paprika isn't a GITS rip-off. Paprika is adapted from a text novel which was published in parts before eventually being compilled, with the first part releasing in January 1991. GITS debuted in 1989, iirc, which means for the author Yasutaka to steal anything, he would have had to get to work immediately and would have had extremely little actual GITS content to draw from... which means he ripped-off GITS before GITS could even do most of the things you seem to be identifying with. How fricking devious, to pre-steal ideas before others even think of them! The thieving c**t!
>I imagine this fat homosexual now says the movie stole, not the novel
In what way did the film disregard its own source material and what GITS ideas did it then blatantly replace them with? Please be very specific.
I honestly can't pick one. The entirey of it is epic. Every story, the tone, the universe, the variety. There isn't one that stands out further than the rest, they're all pretty incredible. I wish more movies were like this.
You've probably seen it already but jic don't miss out on this one
I know I should say the sprinter one, but I like animated butt
this made boomers coom in 2001
To be fair it is a pretty nice butt.
it's a 6/10 at best
What’s a 10/10 then buddy?
your mom lol
You take that back.
Proto-blacked
Stuff like this is funny to me Bc the matrix was very obviously a movie marketed to males aged 15-30 and it’s funny when the porn poisoned freak brothers try to retroactively claim it was really about being trans
The first one that was 2D animated
All the others sucked
tbh I don't know why so many praise this when only the first animation is good
the one with the CG asian chick because you can see her feet up close
the one with the sprinter
Sprinter one is the coolest.
Renaissance I think is pretty stuck in my head.
I forgot about the detective story tbh.
I think as a kid I liked the samurai one a lot.
>I think as a kid I liked the samurai one a lot.
i still like it
Did the Wachowskis write this short because I know they directed/wrote the Path of Neo video game and that had an extended Matrix 1 training sequence with a samurai section.
No, jap director did
Wachowskis only wrote Final Flight of the Osiris and provided the story for The Second Renaissance and Kid's Story.
world record, the idea of someone running so fast that they momentarily break through the simulation is the tightest shit and it was animated so well
It wasn't about running so fast though. It was about his willpower to succeed breaking through the programming.
The guy getting ripped out of his mech, seeing his limbs torn apart makes me sick to my stomach. Nothing else has that strong of an effect on me.
The way he screams haunts me to this day. This very scene was also my first blackpill on dubs, I was a kid so I watched the DVD in my native language and in English, and in the English version the guy actually sounds like he's dying in agonizing pain and unspeakable terror. In my language's dub, the guy sounds mildly inconvenienced. Now that I think about it this might have been the beginning of my lifelong journey of snobbery.
For me, it's the one with the duel or Matriculated. The cruel twists of both are really good.
Does anyone have that comic of this girl snooping around some kind of lab and another girl surprises her and tells her that she isn't meant to be there. Then some computer tentacle thing grabs the second girl and strips her down to her bare atoms?
It was a very fricking gruesome comic, and I would like to see it again.
everytime it played on tv i always remember turning it off at a certain one. ill report back. the cg one looks kino so far
I like the haunted house one, with that beautiful music playing. It unlocked a deep part of my memory which i forgot as a kid. So nostalgic
>I like the haunted house one, with that beautiful music playing
the way she floats with that music playing is very reminiscent of heroin
For me, it's the second renaissance. I wished they'd made more like it, showing in detail pre-matrix human civilisation and the machine war.
One neat theory I have about the second renaissance is that the story has been deliberately manipulated by the machines (given they created the Zion archives, where the animatrix comes from) to make the machines look good and the humans look worse, which is why we see humanity pull so much objectively moronic shit that defies logic in the second renaissance. It's literally machine propaganda, and it stands to reason that the "real" sequence of events was much more nuanced in favour of humanity.
>FRICK CLANKERS FRICK CLANKERS I'M NOT GOING IN THE POD AUUUGHHH
Also the whole post-dark storm war sequence with the crazy tech music was traumatising
seriously though it's the only thing that explains
>dark storm being presented as such an objectively terrible idea (perhaps in reality it was a valid strategy that went wrong / out of control)
>repeatedly refusing offers of truce with the machines for no apparent reason
>using literal trench warfare in the 22nd century
>infantry charges in the 22nd century
>no redeemable traits in human civilisation presented
The scenes where the machines begin tearing people out of their mechs, when it becomes a harvest instead of a battle, has always haunted me.
>no redeemable traits in human civilisation presented
From the machines (and I bet certain humans too) point of view, there are none.
I don't know, but literally any scene in the Animatrix is better than the Matrix troonyology
>be me
>love matrix trilogy
>discover this exists
>hype it up and watch it with my qt asian gf
>first short is an asian girl BLACKED
>gf gets horny and we frick before seeing anymore shorts
Idk if this was a good or bad thing bros
Many such cases.
the one without Black folk