Ragna "D" BloodEdge
By the Power of Gaia!!!
I found this kinda by accident, but holy CRAP, it's awesome. Especially the ending.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jbsS0M2G94
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jbsS0M2G94
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Bolt
boogie woogie feng shui
Hmmm, did we watch the same video...? :eyebrow: Thought it was pretty hella cheesy. A few things...
-Gun choreography was lacking. Most of it was just walk walk walk, shoot shoot shoot, except for the overstylized parts. I'm really tired of seeing people do these way-too-over-the-top "John Woo style" things where anytime you're laying down or sliding on something firing two guns at once it's considered cool. Too unimaginative. And like the parts where the dudes were hopping back and forth between the cubicals was just stupid. Maybe it's just that I've seen so many of these independent action shorts that everything is just glaringly obvious to me.
-2:47, guy wastes a ton of ammo for no reason...?
-Filmmakers, STOP USING MATRIX MUSIC. It wasn't even good when The Matrix used it, rehashing is more of a death wish for your film than having Zee Lo star in it.
-They shouldn't have used Rose-Colored-Sunglasses-Thug twice, that made it feel totally unprofessional.
-"Big twist"? I dunno about big, but it sure was random. So [HIDE]his dad[/HIDE] is the evil leader of the swivelly-chair people and his base of operations is an abandoned Comcast building? It might've been a twist if there had been some character development, or even any characters, but it felt tacked on and sort of pointless. I do like how they got their Bible verse message across in this context though.
It had some serious potential but it just fell back on all these terrible cliches (the suits, the sunglasses, the Matrix music, the overdramatic yet mysteriously storyless execution, the corny shootouts... all these things should be banned, permanently) and thus wound up being completely unremarkable.
-Gun choreography was lacking. Most of it was just walk walk walk, shoot shoot shoot, except for the overstylized parts. I'm really tired of seeing people do these way-too-over-the-top "John Woo style" things where anytime you're laying down or sliding on something firing two guns at once it's considered cool. Too unimaginative. And like the parts where the dudes were hopping back and forth between the cubicals was just stupid. Maybe it's just that I've seen so many of these independent action shorts that everything is just glaringly obvious to me.
-2:47, guy wastes a ton of ammo for no reason...?
-Filmmakers, STOP USING MATRIX MUSIC. It wasn't even good when The Matrix used it, rehashing is more of a death wish for your film than having Zee Lo star in it.
-They shouldn't have used Rose-Colored-Sunglasses-Thug twice, that made it feel totally unprofessional.
-"Big twist"? I dunno about big, but it sure was random. So [HIDE]his dad[/HIDE] is the evil leader of the swivelly-chair people and his base of operations is an abandoned Comcast building? It might've been a twist if there had been some character development, or even any characters, but it felt tacked on and sort of pointless. I do like how they got their Bible verse message across in this context though.
It had some serious potential but it just fell back on all these terrible cliches (the suits, the sunglasses, the Matrix music, the overdramatic yet mysteriously storyless execution, the corny shootouts... all these things should be banned, permanently) and thus wound up being completely unremarkable.
Vigi-Kami
Now known as MythicFables
Uh.... I don't think you understood the point of the flick Bolt...
[HIDE]All the gun fights and cheesiness were made to build up the ending which I thought was very provocative.
None of it was literal. It was just to say, you think this guy is a killer? THIS is a killer. You'll note that his father kiled him only with his words. It was a statement about how much the words of a father can hurt a son.
The father wasn't the leader of anything. You might even say the gun fights never even happened. The Gunman was just there to be killed by the uncarring words of his father. The fights at the begining were only there to serve as a point of contrast with the conversation at the end so that it had the desired impact. This film wasn't about gunfights at all.
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[HIDE]All the gun fights and cheesiness were made to build up the ending which I thought was very provocative.
None of it was literal. It was just to say, you think this guy is a killer? THIS is a killer. You'll note that his father kiled him only with his words. It was a statement about how much the words of a father can hurt a son.
The father wasn't the leader of anything. You might even say the gun fights never even happened. The Gunman was just there to be killed by the uncarring words of his father. The fights at the begining were only there to serve as a point of contrast with the conversation at the end so that it had the desired impact. This film wasn't about gunfights at all.
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Faded.Memories
Im not straight but my boyfriend is
That was a good video.
[hide] It kinda felt like the son was finally facing the ultimate...evil shall we say, and breaking through all the barriars just to get to it, only to finally realize that his father was the root of it all. It was very well done, I thought.
And there's no bullet proof vest for that kind of ammo in the end, unfortunately.
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[hide] It kinda felt like the son was finally facing the ultimate...evil shall we say, and breaking through all the barriars just to get to it, only to finally realize that his father was the root of it all. It was very well done, I thought.
And there's no bullet proof vest for that kind of ammo in the end, unfortunately.
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