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"The Matrix?"
It worked okay in the theatre, but on my TV it just looks like everyone's going Bruce Banner.
Can we get an obnoxious tint-free version, like on the menu

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Yes I'm with you on this one Chris - They just didn't know when to leave the levels alone. Stylization gone a tad too far.

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
"The Matrix?"
It worked okay in the theatre, but on my TV it just looks like everyone's going Bruce Banner.
Can we get an obnoxious tint-free version, like on the menu?


The visually irritated Chrisisall

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
That is hysterical! I make a lot of my own DVD's, burning them directly from Dish Network cable to my DVD recorder. They're great, and I never have to go thru those menus and warnings and hype. I just I go immediately right to the movie when I want to watch.

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And back to the issue at hand, I'm not bugged by the greenish tint of The Matrix. At least, of all the things that bug me about that movie, that's the LEAST of my problems with it. The sequels are probably my BIGGEST gripe.

I just see the greenish tint as part of the filmmaker's overall vision for the look of the film, much as I do the overall BLUE tint in Mel Gibson's "Payback". It doesn't detract from the movie; it helps set the mood.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

Funny you should mention that.

Was discussing the horrors of User-Prohibit-Flag.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UserOperationProhibitFlag
With a couple DefCon Geeks a couple days ago.

And one of em landed THIS in my mailbox this morning.


I wish I knew who to credit for it, cause that's pure genius.

-F

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
"The Matrix?"
It worked okay in the theatre, but on my TV it just looks like everyone's going Bruce Banner.
Can we get an obnoxious tint-free version, like on the menu?


The visually irritated Chrisisall

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
And back to the issue at hand, I'm not bugged by the greenish tint of The Matrix. At least, of all the things that bug me about that movie, that's the LEAST of my problems with it. The sequels are probably my BIGGEST gripe.

I just see the greenish tint as part of the filmmaker's overall vision for the look of the film, much as I do the overall BLUE tint in Mel Gibson's "Payback". It doesn't detract from the movie; it helps set the mood.

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Matrix had not one but two colors so you could subconsciously know reality from simulation. "... the film's production design placed a bias towards its distinctive green color for scenes set within the Matrix, whereas there is an emphasis on the color blue during the scenes set in the real world." - http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/The_Matrix

There is David Chalmers’ paper “The Matrix as Metaphysics”. http://consc.net/papers/matrix.html The key takeaway point is that various hypotheses (maybe the world is a holograph, maybe the world is a computer-simulation, maybe the world is someone’s hallucination) are often presented as skeptical hypotheses when we should probably think of them as metaphysical instead. In other words, instead of saying “everything we thought we knew about the world is wrong and it’s all fake!” we could just say “aha, this is an interesting new fact.” After all, at one point it was determined that what we thought we knew about solid objects was all wrong. Solid objects, it turned out, aren’t actually solid at all—they’re made up of atoms, and the atoms are composed of protons and neutrons and electrons and are actually mostly empty space.

But people didn’t run around freaking out at the discovery that the world is fake and actually it’s all just a bunch of empty space. Instead, we learned that molecules are made of atoms and atoms are made of protons and neutrons and electrons. Further discoveries about the nature of sub-atomic particles are, similarly, interesting and important scientific discoveries but they’re not taken to somehow debunk our previous knowledge of the existence of macroscopic objects. Similarly, if subatomic particles are “really” a reflection from a different 2D surface I think the important thing is to take the revelation in stride, as we have a whole series of scientific revelations about the nature of matter. - http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/02/is-the-universe-a-h
ologram-should-we-care.php

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by Storymark:


Which version are you watching?

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Originally posted by Storymark:
Just play with the color on the TV. Same difference essentially.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Problem with that is the idea that the DMCA makes it illegal to do that even to a DVD you paid for and own, which is kind of ridiculous, innit ?

That'd be like a cereal company suing you for pouring your rice krispies in a sealable plastic container to keep them fresh longer, it's just asinine,

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