Animatrix

Out of curiosity... What's your favourite Animatrix movie?

I loved The Second Renaissance but I think I watched it too many times. Can't decide between Program and Matriculated now.

I think I just love Matriculated cause of what Vibe Tribe did...

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Beyond easily, but I do love Matriculated (that is the one where they hack the machine into helping them, the trippy one?)

My faves in order are

1. Kid Story
2. A Detective Story
3. Final Flight of the Osiris
4. The Second Renaissance Parts 1 and 2
5. Program

The other three just didn't do it for me and I can't help but skip them. Just not my cup of tea.

Yes... Fails in a horrible way since the machine plugs her back in and she (Alexa?) is trapped - most likely forever.

Death by dehydration wouldn't take that long...

Lyr

Final Flight of the Osiris and the Second Renaissance (both) for me.

The rest are all kind of...  bleh.  I know a lot of you liked Detective Story, but for me, the whole story felt very pointless.  Kid's Story would've been good had it not been drawn and animated so horribly.

The rest are neat, but I honestly can't make myself watch them that often.

I liked...

PROGRAM

Beyond

Final Flight of the Osiris

Matriculated

& Superjail-that was awesome.

Final Flight of the Osiris and the Second Renaissance (both) for me.

The rest are all kind of...  bleh.  I know a lot of you liked Detective Story, but for me, the whole story felt very pointless.  Kid's Story would've been good had it not been drawn and animated so horribly.

The rest are neat, but I honestly can't make myself watch them that often.

I loved Beyond, FFOTO, Detective story and both Second Renaissance.

Second Renaissance.

Really throws the whole original Man/Machine war into context and explains what happend and why according to the Zion database. That and Matriculated gave the Machines more depth, something other than evil robot stereotypes.

I liked FFotO too, it was superbly animated and it was the link between The Matrix and Reloaded.

All the animatrix stories were good in their own way but these three are probably my favourites

I watched the Animatrix thoroughly today due to running out of interesting movies, so my list would have to be.

World Record - My favorite (minus funny dressed Agents) just because it shows how breaking the limitations of the Matrix is rare and just a pure show of raw willpower. The part when he "must not wake up" and even then the Agents have a hard time catching up with him as the world around him started to go into conflict with the fact he was going too fast, was probably the best part of the animation, as well as when he breaks the bonds of the wheelchair, again his raw willpower, asking to be freed.

Final Flight - Animation was great, story was great, hurr hurr women gi needs to come off during interlock

Next Ren Part I & II - Backstory on the Matrix = <3

The rest just don't really impress me.

I liked the Noir style of the Detective story, and I also liked where he started to go Agent mode, sort of like a, "Hey, he's a bluepill too, y'know." wake-up call. But I wasn't really feeling the whole "i r detective" self-narrative deal.

Beyond didn't really go into detail, just a worn-down place in the system where you apparently be trippin' balls.

Matriculated was really trippy, where apparently Machines can be converted to serve the way of Man like it used to be, which seemed to me a little more of a back-track than a step forward.

Program was okay, but go lolmxo to tell you that re-entering the Matrix is impossible/leads to Machines executing you.

Kid's Story was good. The animation at times looked like he was getting smeared across a wall, rather than going fast on his skateboard, but the whole self-substantiating thing/dying in the Matrix didn't make sense. I'd assume just like how Neo was seperated from his body, if he died in the Matrix he'd die in the Real, i.e. the link between mind and body being severed. Yet in this story, the Kid dies in the Matrix/buried and yet he's still kicking in the real world.

World Record

love the concept of being physicaly and mentaly powerful. The mind self extracts the body. 

So sic

I'd say Detective Story is my hands-down favorite

Second Renaissance.

Really throws the whole original Man/Machine war into context and explains what happend and why according to the Zion database. That and Matriculated gave the Machines more depth, something other than evil robot stereotypes.

I liked FFotO too, it was superbly animated and it was the link between The Matrix and Reloaded.

All the animatrix stories were good in their own way but these three are probably my favourites

Agreed.  (Although I was a Machinist from the middle of the first movie!)

Illyria

Hmm, I really liked Program and, secondly, Matriculated. Both were outside of the main story and they both really spoke to the human condition in the real world. That's what got me, their lives outside of the Matrix, with hours and hours to think about the state of mankind and the human race.

The philosophical aside, those two stories told me more about the world in which the Matrix exists than the somewhat-cliched Second Renaissance.

Agreed.  (Although I was a Machinist from the middle of the first movie!)

Illyria

i loved every one of the film shorts in animatrix!

on a related note....

 wouldn't it be awesome if they made a construct like the one in "Matriculated"?

The best story to me is the kid one but i really love the Kids in the house that was just a rosettastone like episode explaining alot of things in the matrix

AqueousRei wrote:

Illyria22 wrote:

Agreed.  (Although I was a Machinist from the middle of the first movie!)

Illyria

Really? I have to ask: what sold you? Up until seeing Seraph, finding out the Oracle is a program, and the Arc appeared in Reloaded, I was still under the influence of the typical Human = good/Machine = bad typical scenario. And even after that I wasn't sure of the Oracles intentions until the end of the trilogy with Sati and the conversation with the Arc.

What sold me was the complete disregard that Trinity and the other Zionites showed for the lives of the humans still inside the Matrix.  An elite group that didn't care about ordinary people, that didn't mind if many died just to extract one more redpill, and that would have let the bluepills all die if it meant the Machines would be defeated.

Illyria

I love them all, but "Kids story" is awesome! Feels just like my former life as a teenager...

I rewatched these last week with my 15 month old in the room. Her eyes were wide during the battle scene between man and machines. I remembered how graphic i thought it was the first time i popped that cd in and quickly turned it off so baby wouldn;t have nightmares of being pulled out of an APU with limbs ripping apart.

Final flight is really a spectacle of CGI. Kid's Story and Detective Story are my favs. Probably because they involve coppertops and learning of the matrix. Alice in wonderland references ftw.

beyond, then detective story, then world record. i love when the agents tell him to slow down.

Wish beyond was a "white hallways" like construct in richland that dropped some lowbie gear.

where you see glitched lights and doors and all that.

IncompleteVoid wrote:

Wish beyond was a "white hallways" like construct in richland that dropped some lowbie gear.

where you see glitched lights and doors and all that.

Yeah, that would be very cool... great idea... (all this potential... )

Prankster wrote:

I'm sure that the destruction of a few for many isn't a new topic but one taken as a universal virtue that is made 'ok' in the movie. Many bluepills had died. But, should a few perish for the rest of the human race?

But that's the opposite of what they did in the movie -- in the movie it was the destruction of many for a few.

Prankster wrote:

 But, should a few perish for the rest of the human race?

A better question to ask Zion and EPN: should the rest of the human race (the bluepills) perish for a few (Zion)?

Illyria