However! you are limited to watching The Animatrix on the Japanese UMD release under the same restrictions.
If you consider UMD “basically DVD” (a format 👎 Resurrections 👎 was released on) the highest resolution you can view it on a format on which the " fourth " film (which we don’t acknowledge) was never released is specifically the PAL version of the film on VHS.
If you want to watch The Animatrix digitally and “UMD doesn’t count” the Thai or Turkish dub of The Animatrix on VCD is the highest resolution you can own it on (adhering to our silly self-imposed limitations).
UMD is 720×480
PAL VHS is 625x240
I think Thailand & Turkey are both PAL countries, so their VCD is 352×288
I welcome addendums and corrections. I for example have no idea which if any of these films were and were not released on CBHD
Lana was definitely first, as I still can’t help thinking of them as “Lana and whats-her-face.”
Personally I don’t remember the sequels fondly because they’re kind of a mess. Some of that’s one movie getting turned into two. Some of that’s 00s CGI blended with too-clever writing and trite allegory.
Lilly. She’s the one who didn’t make anti-Black comments about Prop 8 in 2015. Lilly is also the one without culturally appropriative hair.
I didn’t dig how computer-heavy the later films were either. Listen to the commentaries and extras where they talk about “digital inter-shot frames” and I turn Hank Rutherford: "They think that’s a selling point?
I’m not sure if it’s “too clever” or “trite” because I don’t understand the films enough to tell. They certainly made a piece which required a great deal of extra-cinematic media viewing in order to “get” which I totally understand why people complain about.
That’s asking alot of your audience.