That was really good. I almost can't imagine it cost less than $500. I guess he had a lot of friends helping him out for free or something.
SciFi YouTube Video Lands Million Dollar Deal
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I don't know how to feel about this to be honest, it looked cool considering the budget involved and length of the piece but that's why I'm hesitant. Making this into a full length movie with a big budget I can see it turning into something Michael Bay would fart out. All spectacle and no substance, I hope to god I'm wrong though and I wish the guy luck.
You make valid points, but I actually do expect a treasure chest of gold for $500, because I know that time is the only real factor in the quality of a film, not the budget. I would gladly watch the actual story part of the video, with subtitles, if there actually was one in the first place.scifidownbeat said:
I seem to disagree with the larger part of the population in that regard especially. I believe in film as a storytelling medium above all other purposes. Even a father's shaky-cam footage of his son's baseball game tells a story worthy of the medium, and has a lot more depth than any Hollywood blockbuster or YouTube production of similar variety. Every frame of the father's amateur video supports the story of "my son's baseball game", whereas current blockbusters cut away to "and then something exploded" to connect vague pieces of otherwise unrelated story elements together.
Good action movies operate on this same simple premise - both the action elements and the corny dialogue support the underlying story. It's the difference between Die Hard and Pearl Harbor. "Robots tear shit up" just seems to be a new crutch to get away from actually having to do any work on a story. For all the time spent making these scenes, the effect is a lot like watching fireworks - it's cool for about 5 minutes, then it just gets boring. "Ooh, look - they have to run away from another wall of flame. I bet they'll be shooting those guns they're carrying in the next scene. *sigh* I'm glad I brought my DS."
Well I could go into a point by point rebuttal of pretty much all of that, especially the "want to be us" you couldn't pay me enough money to want Australia to be more like America, in fact we are already infected too damn much by your culture, however arguing with you wont do anything since you've proven my point thank you very much.
You are too centred (yes that is the correct ENGLISH spelling, get with the times) on American themes, you would be one of the people who dismiss things without giving them a chance because they don't fall into your narrow prospective of what should be good, which is a shame since perhaps the best Sci-Fi movie of the decade was set in South Africa (w-t-f is up with South African accents? I can handle every other accent of English speakers, even the damn Scots and Liverpudlians, but South Africans I get lost).
You dismiss this man who has done an incredible video because you don't think his movies, which he hasn't even made yet, wont be centred on your narrow little culture... that's self-centred arrogance of the worst kind. That's part of the reason your nation is becoming more and more alienated to your tradition allies, I mean honestly, do you have to drum on and on about how great you (think) are? It's getting annoying, and I swear every time I see a billowing American flag or hear a monologue about how great America is in a movie I just want to puke, at least try and be subtle.[/quote]
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Well, the world does have a love/hate relationship with America so your thoughts are not exactly uncommon. I could go into it all in more detail, but it would potentially get nasty. I still stand by my statements as accurate however.
Basically for all your comments about Americanism (which I won't analyze) if someone was to put a movie about Uruguay into the Australian theaters I think the odds are very likely that people there will find themselves having a lot of trouble getting into it, or following it. I'd be surprised if many people in Austrlia could even tell you who is in charge of that country or what kind of goverment it actually has.
Things like "District 9" represent a rare exception when it comes to this kind of thing. It largely succeeded because I believe it was both criticizing the Apartheid indirectly (which was an issue of international involvement that put South America on the global stage more than most nations, I don't think the same could be said about this movie-maker working with his homeland), and also because we were dealing with an out of control ship that mostly landed at random as opposed to going anywhere in paticular, and being out in the third world it more or less allowed them to take a far differant approach to what most first world countries would have wound up doing if it was in their back yard.
I'm one of those people who actually thought this movie was a rather bad re-tread of Alien Nation I can understand why it got the acclaim it did, but I personally feel it was overrated and it being set in South Africa actually had little to do with it.
In part I guess it's because I kind of caught the political analogies, and as someone who believes putting Mandela in charge was one of the biggest mistakes we could have made, I have trouble takinbg South Africa seriously in any human rights arguement (even indirectly) since he's arguably worse than the people he replaced, albeit in the other direction. That gets well off the subject though.
You are too centred (yes that is the correct ENGLISH spelling, get with the times) on American themes, you would be one of the people who dismiss things without giving them a chance because they don't fall into your narrow prospective of what should be good, which is a shame since perhaps the best Sci-Fi movie of the decade was set in South Africa (w-t-f is up with South African accents? I can handle every other accent of English speakers, even the damn Scots and Liverpudlians, but South Africans I get lost).
You dismiss this man who has done an incredible video because you don't think his movies, which he hasn't even made yet, wont be centred on your narrow little culture... that's self-centred arrogance of the worst kind. That's part of the reason your nation is becoming more and more alienated to your tradition allies, I mean honestly, do you have to drum on and on about how great you (think) are? It's getting annoying, and I swear every time I see a billowing American flag or hear a monologue about how great America is in a movie I just want to puke, at least try and be subtle.[/quote]
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Well, the world does have a love/hate relationship with America so your thoughts are not exactly uncommon. I could go into it all in more detail, but it would potentially get nasty. I still stand by my statements as accurate however.
Basically for all your comments about Americanism (which I won't analyze) if someone was to put a movie about Uruguay into the Australian theaters I think the odds are very likely that people there will find themselves having a lot of trouble getting into it, or following it. I'd be surprised if many people in Austrlia could even tell you who is in charge of that country or what kind of goverment it actually has.
Things like "District 9" represent a rare exception when it comes to this kind of thing. It largely succeeded because I believe it was both criticizing the Apartheid indirectly (which was an issue of international involvement that put South America on the global stage more than most nations, I don't think the same could be said about this movie-maker working with his homeland), and also because we were dealing with an out of control ship that mostly landed at random as opposed to going anywhere in paticular, and being out in the third world it more or less allowed them to take a far differant approach to what most first world countries would have wound up doing if it was in their back yard.
I'm one of those people who actually thought this movie was a rather bad re-tread of Alien Nation I can understand why it got the acclaim it did, but I personally feel it was overrated and it being set in South Africa actually had little to do with it.
In part I guess it's because I kind of caught the political analogies, and as someone who believes putting Mandela in charge was one of the biggest mistakes we could have made, I have trouble takinbg South Africa seriously in any human rights arguement (even indirectly) since he's arguably worse than the people he replaced, albeit in the other direction. That gets well off the subject though.
Ha! Nice. This hits all the same neurons District 9 did, except I'm even more partial to robots than aliens.
I'm puzzled as to why the invasion would be going down in Uruguay, of all places, but I know that's not really the point. I hope this goes the route of District 9 and turns out classy.
Now someone get Sam "Spidermanfucker" Raimi's hands off of it.
I'm puzzled as to why the invasion would be going down in Uruguay, of all places, but I know that's not really the point. I hope this goes the route of District 9 and turns out classy.
Now someone get Sam "Spidermanfucker" Raimi's hands off of it.
Did it? I beg to differ really. I mean, it's cool that this guy got the attention of Hollywood through Youtube, and I wish this guy all the luck of the world, but the video itself was rather...meeh, if you ask me.Greg Tito said:
It actually reminded me of Micheal Bay a lot. Lots of explosions, lots of random stuff being destroyed, big robots, no story. It only missed a hot girl and slow motion. Sorry, can't say I'm very impressed. The fact that they waaaaalked soooo slooooowlyyyyy made it only duller. Then again, it's made for $500, maybe he could do a lot more with a proper budget, but judging from this, meeh.
He's a very good animator though, but a movie director? I'm not so sure.
Really? He was just...playing, running, and looking with a blank face. His "holy shit" face reminded me more of a yawn than of surprise and terror.Xvito said:
