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Pictures from the infamous Airport Construction set of MATRIX 2!!!
Hey folks, Harry here with our spy in the sky above Alameda... snapping shots at the developing set of MATRIX 2.... seems like an extension of the 'alleged' massive car chase sequence in the film. And dear god, that seems like a large stretch of highway to be building.... but I guess if they are going to be filming the most astounding car chase in the history of cinema... building your own highway where YOU MAKE THE RULES.... You control the vertical and the horizontal... well I guess that's important. Damn the Wachowskis are damn serious about this flick... looks huge...
Photos courtesy of Sharon Phillips
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wish they could spend like that on road construction round where I live
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Straight road with curve. Neat.
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After the all the photos from the set that AICN's been leaking, I think it's about time to fire the entire security team for the production. I mean... if you can't keep a bunch of geeks with cameras away, what good are you?
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Apr 04, 2001 12:40:14 AM CDT
How much can they really do on this stretch of road?
by domi'sinnerchild
They can do some big crashes and so forth, but it's not like an extended chase can occur mostly on this area of road. A car can cover that much road in what, 10 seconds?
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That's pretty neat. I'm amazed that Matrix production have already started, didn't Keanu break a leg or something?
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On closer inspection, these photos are obviously fake. This "Sharon Phillips" character obviously built these "sets" in her backyard on a 1:1,250 scale and then took pictures from a step ladder. Those buildings and sailboats? Obviously toy and models used as set dressings to complete the illusion. Faker than the moon landing.
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Somebody said that dried canal thing in TERMINTOR 2 was constructed too... Was it?
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So we see there will be a car chase followed by a longer car chase with a gun fight,and then guess what yet another car chase.
I don't think the actors will have much trouble remembering their lines do you ? WHERE IS THE SCRIPT ? -
Bullitt: best car chase ever.
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Apr 04, 2001 1:39:55 AM CDT
Hey, man... Y'see that road set o'er there?! Man, that thing is
by robin goodfellow
Yowzer. That's one hefty set, alright. Looking forward to the two sequels, obviously, but I'm wondering, as Leatherface and many others are no doubt wondering, about the script. What exactly happens in this movie other than gun fights, car chases, and zero grav kung-fu battles? Can anyone shed some light on the subject?
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We should be soooo thankful for the cool spoilers we are getting now. Once this production leaves Oakland for Australian studios, we aren't going to see diddly-shit for a couple of years.
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I'll throw in To Live and Die in LA, when they're going the wrong way on the highway. You've got to throw a bone to Blues Brothers too simply for the mass destruction.
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What are the barriers for? They don't have something crazy up their sleeves like bullet-time cameras running along the barriers, do they? My real guess is they're going to super-impose the city where the barriers are.
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Apr 04, 2001 1:59:48 AM CDT
its not a chase but I like the driving bit in the Steve Martin f
by wilko185
damn whats it called?...hes a weatherman..
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wilko, that film your were asking about was LA story I think. but I don't remember it having a cool driving bit in it but then again I havn't seen it in years.
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That Steve Martin must be LA Story and I like the car chases in Ronin.
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The car chases in Ronin rocked even better for the fact that they did'nt piss around with blue screens and shit. when you see rob DeNiro goin along in that car at over 100 mph he's actually in there goin at 100 mph.
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but it wasnt that great, just nice. best car chase? The Italian Job
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yea, I know... that whole thing about how it's THE classic car chase and whatnot... but come on. deep in your heart you know that it's lacking. especially after having seen ronin and even jade (which I personally think did a better job in sf than did bullitt)
flame away sukkas -
ahem...The French Connection anybody....?
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Just a concern I have with the car chase rumours. if as someone previously mentioned there will be cameras along the walls so that the bullet time effects could be reproduced in the car chase scene won't that get just a little repetitive? i mean all the great car chases being mentioned here go on for a long time how many times can you do bullet time in one scene before it gets annoying?
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you want the straight story. there were some high speed thrills in that movie!!
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PLEASE TELL ME THERE'S NOT A BUS IN THIS SCENE!!!!!
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flown by some morphing cyborg who's chasing after Neo and pals?
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Someone leaked a brief storyboard for this film? It showed Neo fighting an agent surrounded by burning cars and traffic. Could this be the set of a fight scene? Is that why they built a short stretch? They wouldn't need a long one and they'll probably destroy it. Anyway, I'm sure we'll get pictures of the filming here.
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the best ever, no contest: RONIN. (+ saw a documentary about the film, that showed them adding all sounds e.g. tyre squeals, engine noises at a later date - is this normal procedure?
Can't wait for more pics/info on Matrix 2, but... surely if Neo can fly, is not bound by normal laws of physics etc (and he's had all this time to teach Trinity a few more tricks) then car chases are a bit mundane, earthbound, etc? Just a thought. -
Besides the fact that they didn't use any blue screen or cgi stuff, the car chases in Ronin are cool for using European cars in being set in places like Nice and Paris. I thought that was a refreshing break fromm the usual car chases we see in movies.
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Mattun already touched on this, but how are they going to put the backgrounds in? Greenscreen the barriers for the entire length of the track?
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...that those walls look like this could be for one hell of a Bullet-Time
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is that of THE ROCK. C'mon, a Ferrari chasing a Humvee? It is the coolest one by far. RONIN might be the most realistic, but who goes to the cineplex for realism. Anyway, considering Bay had only 2 blocks to film the entire chase, I say it is kick-ass! Plus the score is awesome.
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Apr 04, 2001 6:56:56 AM CDT
Here's what this scene is going to be about...AICN or somebody h
by mesma mahar
I posted this last time but it was too late and nobody saw it. A while back somebody leaked info that they were storyboarding the MOTHER OF ALL CAR CHASE SCENES for the next Matrix movie. The report mentioned something about the complexity of it and that they were probably going to have to construct a road to shoot it. Basic concept is this: Major car chase with all the rigs we've been hearing about, the twist is that everytime the good guys waste and agent and the car veers off the road and blows up, THE AGENT JUST ASSUMES THE BODY OF ANOTHER DRIVER IN A DIFFERENT CAR. So you can imagine the potential here, you shout the tire out, the car crashes, BOOM, now the Agent is in the Oldsmobile next to you shooting at you, and the 70 year old retired lady whose sitting next to what used to be her viagra-addicted husband is screaming her fucking head off. You blow up the Olds, and he shows up and assumes the hopped-up-on-amphetamines truck driver behind you in the fast lane, or he becomes a passenger on the bus that's sitting in the window right along side of you with the perfect kill shot angle. Bottom line, its a fucking great concept, and its why I liked the first Matrix movie...its a thing I like to call "Shit you've never seen before". The first one was full of it, and thats why this car chase will be like...nothing you've ever scene. Fuck Ronin, this will put that car chase to shame, I guarantee it.
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Car Chases can be pretty Generic, but I guess my top five are:
The Blues Brothers
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Terminator 2
Bullit
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I forgot one:
Risky Business ("I can't believe I'm being chased by Guido the Killer Pimp!" -
The rarely seen French edition of Herbie the Love Bug, where Herbie goes insane when someone "accidentally" puts leaded gas in his tank. Makes Carmaggadeon look like a picnic.
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The mother of all car chases has to be THE DUKES OF HAZZARD. Think about it you get 3 chases per show, tires sqeel on dirt, bridges out, road construction, more police cars getting banged up than Cooder can scratch his head at. Then there is the cut away jumps where they cut to a commercial in the middle of a jump only to hear Waylon Jennings say "boy this looks bad" then cut back to a totally diffrent landing. You get a car that can jump through a barn out run the sheriff.After that meet up at the Boar's Nest for a couple of drafts and the sweet songs of Johnny Paycheck "Take this job and shove it".Now you tell me better chase scenes than those, by the way what did Uncle Jesse do at the dinner table that was so damn funny in the opening credits."Fighten the system like two modern day Robin Hoods"."YEAH; YEAH; HA
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Apr 04, 2001 9:04:18 AM CDT
What I think this scene will be like!!!! Bullet Time Walls? 10
by kampbell-kid
Reference to the previous talkback I too remember that post a couple months ago. I think this 30min car chase scene will be this putting all the facts we have so far together. SCENE BEGINS!! Trinity & Morpheus start the car chase in town while being chased by the Virii, crash bang boom etc etc out of the city into tunnels and then eventually out onto the highway where the chase sceene climaxs. I think it's mabye Virii that shift from car to car but the agents might be still thrown into the mix. Shift, shift from car, to bus, to truck, etc etc to finally where Neo steps in to try and help finish them off which probably ends with a wire-fu fight over traffic a la Crouching Tiger to where Neo kicks lots of Virii/Agent ass surrounded by traffic distruction from the previous chase. END SCENE!! A long ass shoot that will be edited into a 30min scene. End of story get over it and stop making moronic illogical assumptions like bullet time in the walls when bullet time camaras go in circles... last I recall the walls looked straight for a mile and the purpose of bullet time is to capture and rotate around a moving object in real time. More facts, think about it... What is a virus? Virii are probably like agents but they infect the matrix, so I'd think Neo as well would have that weakness against a virus. I knew that after Neo got such cheezy minipulation over the matrix in terms of self powers that only a virus could bring him down to their level. Does anyone remember Superman II, where he is againts the three enemies with his same abilities. Neo has control and a virus takes control.
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I don't no if anyone has refuted the fake claims, or if it was just a joke, but it is most definitely real. It's the Alameda Naval Base runways. The base is on the island of Alameda (where my best friend lives) and has been closed for years. The canal in the background is the San Francisco Bay running between Alameda and the city of Oakland. You can get from the base to the locations shown in Oakland earlier this week in about 10-20 minutes, depending on traffic. Coincidently, the shots shown in Oakland are only 25-30 blocks from some of my other really good friends. It's been cool to know that I will get to see the places I frequent on film. The weather has been damn chilly lately, but clear and beautiful spring days, for the most part.
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I was reading some of the posts the last few days and couldn't believe some of the shit that people were coming up with fow what this scene might be. Its nice to see that some of us Matrix fans aren't suffering from alzheimers and still have the use of all of our brain functions. I can't wait until six months from now when new pitures of the silver virus guys show up with a new rumor and we have idiots in the talkbalks guessing..."I heard those silver dudes are like, Neos cousins...yeah..." Just keep adding it up, people.
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scifiboyuk, What?? Okay I liked the Ronin chase scene too but the rest is shite (as you say in englund) and ATR, what do you mean NO CG??? Hello!? That part when the tires smoke up in the square, The freakin smoke was the most horrible CG Ive ever seen!! How did you miss that?? Oh and you ever wonder how they do looong chases in movies?? Have you ever seen Scent of a woman? That ferrari scene that seems to go for like 16 blocks? Watch for the bridge at the end, Its the same bridge you see near the start of the scene too! 4 blocks equals 16 blocks on camera if you have a great editor and director! The Warschows...Wachuska...Wahshra... Whatever the hell there names are! they're gonna make this chase last forever in that much road.
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Lets think about this. Why would an agent ever chase a car when he can re-appear in the vehicle in front and shoot back.
Why use the automated weapons that we've seen in the pics when they could use rocket launchers a la back to the future.
Now i'm pretty certain that there was a pic of Neo in the car. FIrst off, why be in a car? Secondly why worry about being shot, he can stop bullets. Not only that, but if he gets hit by one he can come back to life. The reason why we've never seen this done before is because it doesn't make sense. -
Here's how it panned out, trust me I don't care if I get fired for this, I can get a job elswhere.
Let me tell you how the shite is gonna hit the fan, At the start of the film, we find Neo in the matrix meeting with the oracle, she tells him there is a storm a brewing, and that People are going to have to be very resiliant in the days ahead. He doesn't understand exactly what she means, until all hell breaks loose and the agents begin attacking, but instead of using the typical agents they are using Virii, here we see some of the zero G kung fu in a big scene where everything is getting demolished, but the Virii are different, they effect the matrix differently, creating things as they wish just as Neo does, and worse they can effect Neo so that he can't fight at the best of his ability. The virii are bad for the Matrix, but the agents believe it is the only way to flush out neo and the rebels. Afterwards neo becomes infected by the virus and isn't allowed back into the matrix. but it is the exact opposite for the others (TRINITY, and MORPHEUS) they can't get out. Now Neo has to find a way to hack into the matrix in the real world as a normal man so he can get back into the matrix and save Morpheus and Trinity before they end up dead. He gains the aid of Morpheus's woman - jada Pinket Smith and other humans from Zeon to Storm the Robots main CPU and get rid of the Virii.
As this is happening Trinity and Morpheus need to survive the constant attacks from the virii and agents by way of car chase, fight scenes and what have you.
In the end the virii, being a virus and all becomes self aware and deicdes to destroy the matrix, this causes the Agents to have to go against them as well. So that their entire crops won't be lost as well as their entire mainframe.
In the later portion of the film Neo learns some things about the Robots as well as what the matrix "REALLY" is. Finally allowing himself to hack back into the matrix and kick some ass Zero G style all while fighting multiple virus trying to destroy the matrix and life as we know it. -
has to be in THE TERMINATOR. When Reese and Sarah are being chased by the cop car driven by Schwarzenegger, out of the car park and onto the freeway. The way they kept blasting at each other with those shotguns was awesome, and Brad Fiedel's music just added to the frantic tension.
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Do any of you have an idea as to exactly how long the runway is to the former Alameda Naval Air Station? Suffice it to say that it's long, very long.
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#1. Road Warrior - the final chase. #2. Raiders - The Truck Chase #3. Ronin - wrong way in France #4. The Hitcher - take your pick (a personal fave, I know I'm gonna get creamed over this) #5. Terminator II - Truck and Motorbike. #6. Terminator II - Helicopter, then truck #7. French Connection - because of the way Freidken shot it, the irresponsible magnificent bastard. #7. Tie - Opening scene of Lethal Weapon II, and the one that ends with the surf board smashing the guy's head in Lethal II #8. DUEL - the whole fuckin' movie #9. The Last Boy Scout "B-O-M? That spells fuck you in polish!!!") and finally, #10. And I hate to put this on here because it's alternately a great movie and a stupid piece of shit - The Blues Brothers, when that Nazi car goes off the freeway, inexplicably shoots thousands of feet into the air and just as they're about to hit the ground the one Nazi turns to the other and says "I've always loved you."
I didn't include the one from Bullit because it has not aged well at all, it's a bunch of lame static shots of cars speeding by, which is the wrong way to shoot a car chase. -
...haven't you ever heard about "image thumbnails"? It'd make your site a lot better, in my not-so-humble opinion.
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Noone probablt bothered to see Stallone's "Get Carter" - but there was a pretty cool car chase in there too. But I agree with just about everybody else - Ronin's car chase kicked ass (and its one of my favorite movies!)
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Those plywood walls are probably going to be green screens. When I think of green screens I can't help to wonder how cool Bullet-Time would look in a car chase! This set is huge and will definetly let the Brothers go as big as they want. These boys are masters and I can't wait. Thanks for the photos...
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Hmmm...it seems that you have ALL forgotten about not only the best car chase, but the original car chase that set the standard for ALL of the other car chases you have mentioned...the final non-stop 45 MINUTE LONG car chase that ended the original GONE IN SIXTY SECONDS! Written by, produced by, directed by, stunt co-ordinated by, and driven by the late, great Toby Halicki!
It's available on DVD so check it out and see just how lame all those others seem in comparison, even though most of them were excellent in and of themselves. -
you have got to be kidding. you name basic instinct as a good car chase? the whole film was pretty shite but the car chase was dull to say the least.
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They can't fire security because it's on public property. You too can see if you live near by. It is by the skate park on the old navy base.Built on the old navy air strip.I know because I have lived in Alameda for like 30 yrs.What I want to see is the sets built in the old air hangers Burlyman any help?
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I'm sorry, but I think every brain cell that stored memories of that movie died. I just remember motor cycles magically able to make up huge distances on each other, stupid masks with predictable results (besides the silly concept of seeming having the correct mask for every remote possibly situation), doves, and a hot girl. I can't even remember the chase scene you're talking about. The one where Cruise chases the girl?
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you just read that in another post here at aicn...
they have some medicine for compulsive liars... seek it out.
and how about a spoiler warning next time before you spout off something that might ruin someone's movie-going experience
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