Prism Is The Best Piece Of Sci-Fi You'll See This Weekend

[chiggerwood]

They murdered at least two innocent guards while stealing what I can only assume is multi-billion dollar technology. Then destroy the other multi-billion dollar piece of equipment, and the way it's told they're the good guys!? Are you fucking with me? I can't believe I live in a world where people actually like this? Aside from that the acting was piss poor the direction was spotty, the music was obnoxious; the only good thing I can say about it is the cinematography, and SFX were above average. I hope this story continues, and ends with the two thieving bastards getting thrown in prison or killed, and the inventor of the amazing technology winning the Nobel prize.

P.S. Am I the only one that felt a little bit happy when the female lead was getting choked out?

 

[viranimus]

Is it just me or am I the only one who is not looking forward to the future where basic Parkour is taught in schools.

Honestly, its pretty bad. 8 minutes is not enough time to hammer out a good narrative when your rehashing old scifi ideas. The Light wave user interface of Minority report, The parkour styings of dozens of video games, The teleporting white practitioner of kung fu nemesis ala Albert Wesker. Hell the footsoldiers are either rip offs of storm troopers or of other ripoffs of storm troopers.

The only thing going for it is the above average special effects and honestly even those are not impressive. I know I ve seen that teleporter reused somewhere else, but cant recall where.

Anyway, I challenge this because this is the worst piece of Scifi Ive seen this weekend.

 

[PeePantz]

Is it just me or am I the only one who is not looking forward to the future where basic Parkour is taught in schools.

Honestly, its pretty bad. 8 minutes is not enough time to hammer out a good narrative when your rehashing old scifi ideas. The Light wave user interface of Minority report, The parkour styings of dozens of video games, The teleporting white practitioner of kung fu nemesis ala Albert Wesker. Hell the footsoldiers are either rip offs of storm troopers or of other ripoffs of storm troopers.

The only thing going for it is the above average special effects and honestly even those are not impressive. I know I ve seen that teleporter reused somewhere else, but cant recall where.

Anyway, I challenge this because this is the worst piece of Scifi Ive seen this weekend.

Sir, you've said everything I wanted to say, except the special effects weren't nearly as good as you make them out to be. Maybe fifteen years ago. On CBS family. On a show that would be canceled after its pilot. Maybe then I would call the special effects average.

This "short" celebrates two teens who, basically, just want to steal some shit. After using the multi-billion dollar revolutionary hardware as an air guitar, they refuse to give it back (without knowing what it is? what the fuck?) and a progressive leveling up fight ensues with those dancers that started on America's Got Talent and later starred in Gatorade commercials.

I would rather watch SyFy originals all day and all night than see this again.

 

[Johnnyallstar]

I like how the villains win.

This was the problem I had with this movie, two assholes broke into an unspecified building, stole a teleportation device, killed a bunch of legitimate guards, and finally got away. The thing that pisses me off the most is that we're obviously supposed to sympathize with them, whereas I was hoping they'd both die at the end.

I know, but it's worse than that. They're anti-establishment thieves and vandals who may have just destroyed a new branch of technology by killing the guy who developed it, while taking the only prototype left, not fully knowing its uses or how to even power the thing. Soon it'll be useless junk and why? Because they wanted to have fun.

Sure, the guy who created it may have been something of an asshole, but he just had his technological wonder stolen, and some of his men killed, so it was totally understandable that he would want to kill them.

I was hoping they'd teleport themselves into a wall or something.

 

[concrete89]

I stopped watching the moment the two upstart teenagers knocked out two highly trained commandos in single combat. Fuck that shit.

Yeah. It would look better if the two of them just barely took out one.

 

[GeorgW]

Pretty cool, but bad acting as people have already pointed out. The effects are pretty damn good though.
And for all the people that are saying they were the bad guys, I guess we can simply assume this is corporate America in a 1984 inspired future where every corporation is evil. That's why these daring youths have decided to abandon their families in a quest for justice and vengeance against the corporation by stealing and sabotaging what they can. As they go they slowly learn things like expert combat, and train vigorously to get to the point they are now.

 

[standokan]

I already saw this,I'm hipster now.

 

[DannibalG36]

Science fiction must be intelligent, or at least have a script that wasn't written by a high school drama club. Yeah, the action is glitzy (not pulse-pounding), but there should actually be some substance to the plot.

Scenes of dialogue don't really tax the budget, guys. Just a few would have given this short some sophistication.

 

[Warachia]

I like how the villains win.

This was the problem I had with this movie, two assholes broke into an unspecified building, stole a teleportation device, killed a bunch of legitimate guards, and finally got away. The thing that pisses me off the most is that we're obviously supposed to sympathize with them, whereas I was hoping they'd both die at the end.

I know, but it's worse than that. They're anti-establishment thieves and vandals who may have just destroyed a new branch of technology by killing the guy who developed it, while taking the only prototype left, not fully knowing its uses or how to even power the thing. Soon it'll be useless junk and why? Because they wanted to have fun.

Sure, the guy who created it may have been something of an asshole, but he just had his technological wonder stolen, and some of his men killed, so it was totally understandable that he would want to kill them.

I was hoping they'd teleport themselves into a wall or something.

Now here's some constructive criticism that you accidentally gave, you did the one thing this short film should have, establish things. They establish nothing, so I've got to go by what the film shows me.

 

[Johnnyallstar]

Now here's some constructive criticism that you accidentally gave, you did the one thing this short film should have, establish things. They establish nothing, so I've got to go by what the film shows me.

Yeah, I guess. I'm a big picture thinker, so when some video pops up like this, I try and see how it all would work in the world. I mean, it seemed like the "bad guy" was actually going to do a press conference about the new technology, or something, so what happens then?

I'd love to see what the media reaction would have been, about how a huge technology mogul had created a world changing device, yet minutes before he unveiled it publicly it was stolen, and he was murdered by the thieves when he tried to stop them.

 

[Daedalus007]

Aside from the special effects, I could not find anything good about this film. The characters are obnoxious, poorly-acted, and without motivation. The action is over-the-top and ultimately meaningless. The costumes aren't cool, either.

I do not understand why we would praise this stuff. It puts shame to the genre as a whole.

 

[Twad]

Effects : Awesome
Plot : nice
Cliche boss fight that can take punch like nothing when armored soldiers fall : Meh

In the end, that's a very nice piece of work.

 

[Akiada]

I liked it. For what it is (something a pair of guys and what actors and support personnel they could garner on a limited budget) it's fairly impressive IMO. It's an 8-minute short, and these guys are relatively new. I liked the SFX work and the effects, and the gunplay was better than in some professional movies. There were some also neato little touches like the heavy weapons guy/marksman/whatever you call a guy with a particle beam had a unique outfit.

The plot could have done with being more... existant, but I don't see too much objectionable about what's there. As it is it looks like the kids are dirty thieves and murderers (because the directors forgot to expound upon whether the faceless corp goons were actually terrible or not) but hey - that's pretty much par for course with Cyberpunk, a genre where the protagonists are not always good people.

My real issue with the plot is how goddamn dumb the CEO guy went at the end. The commandos had the kids. He not only shows up, he shows up in a way that incapacitated his own men. Or killed them. I really can't tell. Why would you do that? It's worse than villians doing the "you've failed me once, despite your skill and loyalty I must kill you for this singular failure!" schtick. Blah.

That aside, not bad at all.

 

[Ben Simon]

Corridor Digital is really overshadowed by FreddieW, but they deserve more credit. Also, I though the acting was really good, just cheesy.

 

[Canid117]

Wow that was a really low quality black ops team.

 

[Hatchet90]

I honestly thought it sucked. A low budget can be considered an excuse for bad acting, but can't be considered an excuse for a lame story and inconsistent characterization. One minute they were running away from two armed guards, the next they're shooting multiple armed guards with no fear. I felt that the main characters had little to no right to steal the device, especially considering the fact that we don't know the intent of the supposed "antagonists." The effects were nice and there were some stylistic elements to it, but it all led to a lame climax. There's no establishment of anything. Why are these two punks breaking into a building, why are we supposed to side with them when they stole a life-changing piece of tech and kill guards. Is there any particular reason why we are supposed to see the antagonist as "evil"?

All in all, it sucked.

 

[sleeky01]

I stopped watching the moment the two upstart teenagers knocked out two highly trained commandos in single combat. Fuck that shit.

And what makes you think they were "highly trained commandos"? Because they wore black threads and toted around machine guns? Hell that just describes acouple of gangers that hang around a.... pharmaceutical distribution warehouse in my neighborhood.:/ And besides, artistic license and all that.

But bringing it back around to video games, I wonder if a little indie Fx groups can be used to create intro/outro scenes like back in the days of Final Liberation or perhaps Command and Conquer. Released 12 and 14 yrs ago respectively. I can't help but wonder if it might be cheaper.

It would certainly look better then back then I would think.

 

[sleeky01]

I do not understand why we would praise this stuff. It puts shame to the genre as a whole.

And what genre would that be?

 

[sleeky01]

Well actually it's way better than most sci-fi that gets made these days (yes, including the acting), but why wouldn't they also make a story that makes sense?

I imagine Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer get asked that question as well.

 

[MaximillionMiles]

As someone who was in a similar (albeit failed) project, I can already tell what this is: a Tech and skill demo. It's the guys from Corridor Digital going "Hey, check out what we can do!" They didn't set out to tell a story, they set out to create an impressive resume piece. The story is there only as an excuse, and I'm willing to bet it wasn't written professionally.

On the other hand, having been in a similar project, I can attest it's FRIGGIN HARD to accomplish even that. Most people have no idea how hard it is to make a movie, especially on a tight budget, depending on the goodwill of loads of people (including the actors, usually). So, congrats on Corridor Digital for the accomplishment, it's no small feat.

And the lessons we can take from this are:

1-Story is important, more than special effects. Which is an unpleasant fact for those who make the special effects, but it's the truth for most people. Story is important.

2-Making even a simple 10 minute story isn't as easy as it sounds.