afan, haven't you seen it till the end? The guys becomes so concentrated and conscious of his body during the race that he manages to wake up from the matrix.
that's my favourite short in the movie. I agree that some were mediocre.
A few brilliant shorts in here. Beyond was my favourite, but I might be a bit biased since I love their film Tekkonkinkreet. It really was great, though. Would have made a great film.
World Record was pretty fascinating, and made me want to see a spinoff about people who did things like that.
The Second Renaissance was really gory (at least to me, anyway), but interesting nonetheless. It filled in a lot of gaps for me and definitely made a lot of sense. I felt really bad for the robots in act 1 (and most of act 2...but my god, they were so creepy).
Kid's Story had some pretty fantastic art. I never really liked the kid, but he was fine in this one.
All in all, it was a good collection of shorts. Not something that I'd watch again, but it was good.
Animatrix shows us that machines are not that bad even we can say they are innocent compared to what people did to them and the humanity with its selfishness that has no limit is really a cancer for this planet and all the other species on it. It must be watched for fully understanding the trilogy otherwise one would think Matrix is just a good kung-fu movie as most people do.
Only The second Renaissance is worth watching for the plot, all the other stories were pretty boring and pointless. However, all of the stories are worth watching if you want to see many different kinds of beautiful animation.
The Matrix franchise eventually went wrong, but there's actually a lot to like about Animatrix. Of the 8 anime-style stories by different writers and directors, the strongest to me was "Beyond" about a haunted house which, in Matrix terms, is simply "buggy". Beautifully inventive. "The Second Renaissance" tells the origin of the Matrix and is great to look at too. "Final Flight of Osiris" and "Kid's Story" tie into the films but are not any more essential than the ones that don't.
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LesIncompetents
afan, haven't you seen it till the end? The guys becomes so concentrated and conscious of his body during the race that he manages to wake up from the matrix.that's my favourite short in the movie. I agree that some were mediocre.
yukononun
A few brilliant shorts in here. Beyond was my favourite, but I might be a bit biased since I love their film Tekkonkinkreet. It really was great, though. Would have made a great film.World Record was pretty fascinating, and made me want to see a spinoff about people who did things like that.
The Second Renaissance was really gory (at least to me, anyway), but interesting nonetheless. It filled in a lot of gaps for me and definitely made a lot of sense. I felt really bad for the robots in act 1 (and most of act 2...but my god, they were so creepy).
Kid's Story had some pretty fantastic art. I never really liked the kid, but he was fine in this one.
All in all, it was a good collection of shorts. Not something that I'd watch again, but it was good.
stexdo
Pretty cool, with some nice twists on the matrix universe. My favorite is "the second Renaissance". The extras in the dvd are pretty interesting.hyperform
Animatrix shows us that machines are not that bad even we can say they are innocent compared to what people did to them and the humanity with its selfishness that has no limit is really a cancer for this planet and all the other species on it. It must be watched for fully understanding the trilogy otherwise one would think Matrix is just a good kung-fu movie as most people do.Toastinator
Only The second Renaissance is worth watching for the plot, all the other stories were pretty boring and pointless. However, all of the stories are worth watching if you want to see many different kinds of beautiful animation.Siskoid
The Matrix franchise eventually went wrong, but there's actually a lot to like about Animatrix. Of the 8 anime-style stories by different writers and directors, the strongest to me was "Beyond" about a haunted house which, in Matrix terms, is simply "buggy". Beautifully inventive. "The Second Renaissance" tells the origin of the Matrix and is great to look at too. "Final Flight of Osiris" and "Kid's Story" tie into the films but are not any more essential than the ones that don't.Marmalade
This should really be on some kind of list. One of the best anthologies ever made.afan
Thanks MatteoTib. I guess I can buy that.DangerDinosaur
Great animation and some really interesting ideas. A good watch.MaxBG
Almost as good as the orignial, in my opinion.afan
what the heck does "World Record" have to do with the series?