The Awesome Videos Thread (with Extra Sauce!)

[HCGLNS]

Forbidden Cartoons!

#dastardly

 

[PatrThom]

Yeah, I'll have to find the radiolab episode for a commute home sometime.

@Dave linked it, and I also link it in the post right after the post I linked.

--Patrick

 

[Denbrought]

 

[mikerc]

Despite the slow start this is one of the most unintentionally hilarious things I have ever seen in my life.

 

[GasBandit]

Iran has come a long way with their photoshop/after effects skills over the last 10 years.

 

[Ravenpoe]

 

[Kovac]

 

[GasBandit]

@Terrik

 

[Ravenpoe]

@Terrik

Sweet!

I don't believe the claim that it is all rendered in real time, I'm fairly certain they cheat that. Though, if true, my question would be... Why?

 

[PatrThom]

Sweet!

I don't believe the claim that it is all rendered in real time, in fairly certain they cheat that. Though, if true, my question would be... Why?

It's possible, even on previous-generation hardware, but yes there are plenty of tricks they could be using to make it happen.

--Patrick

 

[rac3r_x]

Better enjoy their antics while you can, who knows what horrors 2016 will unleash:

 

[Cheesy1]

 

[Bubble181]

 

[PatrThom]

A ha ha haa ha haaa
Meh ha heh heh haaa hmm hmm

AHH HAH HA HAA HAA

--Patrick

 

[PatrThom]

I approve of this and hope it continues with much variety.


--Patrick

 

[GasBandit]

Apparently this ad just played recently during the Paralympics.

 

[GasBandit]

Are you ready to feel SUPER DUPER OLD?!

Kids React to Metallica.

 

[Celt Z]

There's only one appropriate reaction to Metallica:

"Oh, hey, they're bringing Mo in to close."

 

[Tiger Tsang]

The nice thing about teaching dogs to do things like this, hopefully it was done with love and lots of treats.[DOUBLEPOST=1473461988,1473461701][/DOUBLEPOST]

Are you ready to feel SUPER DUPER OLD?!

Kids React to Metallica.

No old School Metallica from when they were \m/ Metal!! \m/ All opinions are invalid!

INVALID!

P.S. just watched the last half of the video. I am ashamed and somewhat wrong.

 

[GasBandit]

A Doctor Who anime thing from the same guy who did the Tie Fighter anime thing previously.

 

[GasBandit]

When you replace every texture in Doom with Tim Allen, and every sound with the "Tim is confused" noise from Home Improvement.

 

[Null]

 

[strawman]

Movie temp music ruins soundtracks.

 

[fade]

Whoa. I was just having this very conversation with my brother. How very few movies have memorable themes. It's not just a new thing, though, it's all of movie history. But what makes a theme memorable?

 

[Dave]

Apparently HAVING a theme song makes things memorable.

 

[strawman]

Playing it separately and consistently, I'd suspect.

 

[GasBandit]

Putting it plainly, none of their songs have a "hook," an easy to remember, oft repeated distinct musical phrase that sticks out. The closest they came was this part of the Avengers theme (they often used it as a leitmotif for when somebody had just done something triumphant), but they didn't quite seal the deal with it.



Most of the memorable movie themes also like to put their "hook" right up at the start of the piece, instead of halfway through it.

 

[GasBandit]

Whoa. I was just having this very conversation with my brother. How very few movies have memorable themes. It's not just a new thing, though, it's all of movie history.

Fade is also correct here - There are hundreds of movies every year, and dozens of Oscar contenders, but how memorable would we say that the theme from, say, Schindler's List is? I can't recall it from memory. I remember the stirring russian chorale part of Hunt for Red October's theme, but for the life of me I can't remember any music from any other Jack Ryan movie - not even the ones with Harrison Ford. But you do know what theme always comes back to me? A tawdry little Michael Bay-directed Connery/Cage action vehicle from the mid 90s called The Rock.



This theme was so striking they used it, unaltered, in a half dozen other movies and movie previews in the following 10 years. The movie itself was an entertaining flick that otherwise failed to endure long in the cultural zeitgeist, but I still catch myself humming the above-cued section. That, and the part that begins at 3:37.

 

[Bubble181]

An easily-remembered, catchy bit that's repeated a few times and, preferably, has an actual emotional resonance with the scenes used. Harry Potter, LotR, obviously Star Wars and Indiana Jones, Jaws,...

 

[GasBandit]

An easily-remembered, catchy bit that's repeated a few times and, preferably, has an actual emotional resonance with the scenes used. Harry Potter, LotR, obviously Star Wars and Indiana Jones, Jaws,...

AKA "Be John Williams."

 

[Bubble181]

AKA "Be John Williams."

Well, or Morricone. Or Basil Pouledoris.

 

[strawman]

Zimmer. Elfman. There are lots with the chops to write memorable stuff, but the directors and studios have to give them the space to do so.

 

[fade]

Hans Zimmer is usually pretty memorable. You can probably recall the Pirates of the Caribbean theme (even though it got him sued by the Holst estate). Or probably "Time" from Inception.

(EDIT: Ninja'd by @stienman )

 

[GasBandit]

Hans Zimmer is usually pretty memorable. You can probably recall the Pirates of the Caribbean theme (even though it got him sued by the Holst estate). Or probably "Time" from Inception.

(EDIT: Ninja'd by @steinman )

It was Gladiator that got him sued, not Pirates, IIRC

 

[fade]

I know he got a lot of flak for Gladiator and Pirates being extremely similar.