Word: matrixes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...back, and take in The Matrix Reloaded passively in a darkened theater if you want. But for the real red-pill experience, you're going to have to swap that bucket of popcorn for a console and controller. The Wachowski brothers, raised on video games, always intended it that way--and created an intricate plot for a game called Enter the Matrix that wraps around the second movie like one strand of a DNA double helix around another...
...Chong (one half of Cheech and Chong), is gone. Neither the studio nor Chong would comment on why, but Warner Bros. replaced him with Harold Perrineau, the guy in the wheelchair from HBO's Oz. Chong told ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY that after he was replaced he tried to crash a Matrix press junket and he took food from the Matrix...
Video games with cinematic tie-ins are often wan, but Enter the Matrix is rich, complex and compelling--almost a new movie in itself. In production since February 2001, it puts Jada Pinkett Smith's Niobe--not exactly a central figure in The Matrix Reloaded--front and center. There are two hours' worth of new scenes that pop up between levels, and Pinkett Smith submitted to several months of highly advanced "mo-cap"--a motion-capture technique that turns body movements into digital information--so that you're literally playing...
...course, there would be no point to a Matrix game in which you couldn't dodge bullets in slow motion while the camera sweeps around you. You don't have to be a trigger-twitching teen to play: simply press a button, and time slows down, allowing you to deliver martial-arts moves and avoid being strafed at a more middle-aged pace...
That may ultimately make Enter the Matrix a little beyond the reach of less tech-savvy gamers, but it will increase the Internet buzz about the game--and the Wachowskis' street cred. If in the future no self-respecting sci-fi director can make a movie without producing a video game at the same time, blame the brothers. Like the film that spawned it, Enter the Matrix already has the makings of a cult classic. --By Chris Taylor/San Francisco