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Title: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Xanatos on September 17, 2007, 04:19:21 pm: Dr. Strangeman, a 39 minute b&w machinima comedy, was released this morning :D

Definitely relevant to this forum as many people in the community past & present were involved in its production. not to mention two familiar GES cameos ;)

Watch it on Stage6 (RECOMMENDED) (http://stage6.divx.com/user/jsXanatos/video/1652294/Dr--Strangeman)
Watch it on google video (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1423658834402035574)

More information HERE (http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/showthread.php?t=419919) with more links (stage6, gwchannel, youtube, etc) coming soon.

(http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/2241/posterzw9.jpg)

polizei i expect your movie analysis report in the evening!
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Dexee on September 17, 2007, 06:44:37 pm: THIS MOVIE IS 20/10 STARS. IT IS THAT GOOD. WATCH IT FOR THE SAKE OF GARRYS MOD. IT IS THAT GOOD.

(sorry for all caps. It gets message across, yes?)

My Favs...
Gordon Freeman
"My Balls!"
Lt. Vader
Hitler still roaming around
Kong Crowbaring himself.
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Mike [fourtecks] on September 17, 2007, 06:45:45 pm: my fav parts:

2001 parody of smashing the bones
Turtles in time parody
Breen in the pods
Gordon Freeman's cameo
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Polizei on September 17, 2007, 11:30:55 pm: 40 minutes? :'( I'll watch it later. 8)
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Xanatos on September 18, 2007, 12:23:46 am: hey, you can't make a spinoff of anything kubrick that's breif. otherwise it's not faithful.
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: ConfusedWisdom on September 18, 2007, 02:19:00 pm: Epic movie.
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Xanatos on September 19, 2007, 12:50:25 am: for those of you youtube and google video haters, i'll have a divx stage6 upload up late tonight/tomorrow morning
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Dexee on September 20, 2007, 05:34:02 am: Just watch it on GoogleVideo.
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Polizei on September 20, 2007, 08:31:08 pm: I'M CONVINCED.
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Xanatos on September 20, 2007, 10:43:41 pm: EH

pol if you havent watched it yet go with this new mirror, its stage6:
http://stage6.divx.com/user/jsXanatos/video/1652294/Dr--Strangeman
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Polizei on September 21, 2007, 06:41:49 am: I don't have time, I'm too busy looking up bullshit not taught in class and not even in the textbook which my anthropology professor is testing us on anyways. I spent >$100 on material for this class and I have to look half of the test up on wikipedia. SKOOL IZ KOOL!111
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Xanatos on September 21, 2007, 12:47:19 pm: WEAK.
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: MetalLizard on September 22, 2007, 12:26:52 am: Quote from: Polizei on September 21, 2007, 06:41:49 am
I don't have time, I'm too busy looking up bullshit not taught in class and not even in the textbook which my anthropology professor is testing us on anyways. I spent >$100 on material for this class and I have to look half of the test up on wikipedia. SKOOL IZ KOOL!111

If you watch it, you will feel better. Strangeman > Education
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Shaken not Stirred on September 22, 2007, 10:05:42 am: It was....decent at best.

(Full review coming soon)
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: VC on September 22, 2007, 01:20:15 pm: Making a parody of a sarcastic comedy that is itself a parody is a challenge. For it to work, it needs to be a parody of the original topic (the cold war) and of the subject (Dr. Strangelove) without becoming a clone of the subject. Overall, Strangeman did well, but it is heavily damaged by a number of scenes that just didn't work.

To ensure freshness and lack of bias, I review the Google version with timestamps as I re-watch it.

"Just go for it!"

Preface
1:08 -- The "why" cue is off by a second. Other than that, and the laggy physics on the skull, the scene is great. 8 points.

Scene 1
The voice acting feels a little stilted. Mandrake doesn't sound quite genuine, and Ripper was over-enunciated on a few lines. 9 points.

Scene 2
Epic fails for the voice selecton on Kong. You couldn't find one real cowboy/redneck in the whole interwebs? It isn't too jarring at first, but by the end of the film it's distracting as hell.
Good way to close the scene. 7Â½ points.

Scene 3
6:10 - If I recall, this was one of the dissapointments in the trailer... the Spaceballs reference was good while it was a reference, but ripping two lines from the script feels lazy, especially since Spaceballs is a farce parody and Strangelove is a sardonic parody. This shot needed a rewrite that would assume the characters had seen Spaceballs, and kept it referential. E.g., "...didn't see what I was doing, right?" "No, I didn't, Mr. Administrator. I..." [Abruptly] "Good!" would be enough to bridge the clunky farcical talking while keeping the reference obvious.
Excellent delivery on "GOOD!" 8Â½ points.

Scene 4
6:53: EPIC WIN. 11 points.

Scene 6
Ugh, more SureFine Kong speaking. "Outside radio transmissions disabled" guy probably could've done Kong just fine if he got fired up and in-character. 8 points.

Scene 7
10:40 - You mention the three-letter-code, but it's never actually important.
Scene flows well. 9Â½ points.

Scene 8
15:40 - Strangeman can valk! Or at least, stÃ¤nd vithout aÃŸistance. -1 Get.

Scene 9
Vader for teh win. 1 point extra credit.

Scene 8 Resumed
18:20 - "jerkinnnnnnnngggh offfph" Another stolen line, and delivered with suprise drunkenness on the 'ng'. 8 points.

Scene 10
Combat looks good, it stopped before it got boring, and Cicirega makes any imagination sequence rock. 10 points.

Scene 11
25:45 - Kong almost sounds like he's trying. No complaints.

Scene 12
27:04 - Preevert, not prevert. -1 Get.
I was disappointed there was no "i told u i was hardcore" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Vedas) reference.

Scene 13
30:XX - Tiny Tim and Power Point = Priceless. 10 points.
34:20 - Problem with the ragdoll I assume? Not much of a wave, there.
OH YOU. 1 point extra credit.

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You're
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89.5 / 110
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Xanatos on September 22, 2007, 05:14:41 pm: poor poor mrsentual. i think the unseen ironic part about your major kong critique is that I had to double for him voicewise in the very end when he's riding down on the bomb O_O and yeah TFG did mess up on the prevert line. couldn't get him to correct it since he was this thing called busy so I had to let it slide. good read though, at least for me and a couple others. i'm sure everyone else reading this thread is thinking along the lines of tl;dr.

and out of all people and to be fair i'd prefer not to see an analysis from SnS :P
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: VC on September 22, 2007, 05:43:31 pm: The whoo-hoos were good. ; j

I would've re-cast the role for proper preeversions.
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Shaken not Stirred on October 24, 2007, 05:33:15 am: It must be your lucky week, Xanatos, because my computer apparently broke up with Google Video, and I don't much care for the "film" to download it.
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: MetalLizard on October 24, 2007, 10:16:10 am: Quote from: Shaken not Stirred on October 24, 2007, 05:33:15 am
It must be your lucky week, Xanatos, because my computer apparently broke up with Google Video, and I don't much care for the "film" to download it.

You're about a month off buddy.
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Xanatos on October 24, 2007, 12:52:37 pm: there are more mirrors but i could care less to provide you with them
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: basstronix on October 24, 2007, 06:30:33 pm: If you could care less, then you still care.
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Polizei on October 24, 2007, 10:33:40 pm: You care more than you should, actually.
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Loafie, Hero of Dreams on October 24, 2007, 10:38:43 pm: (http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j114/Brad_Will/Fark/Cats/cat-getinthecar.jpg)
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Xanatos on October 24, 2007, 11:45:54 pm: well duh, if he actually asked for mirrors without that pointless comment at the end i would've provided them. STUPIDS!!!
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Shaken not Stirred on October 25, 2007, 05:44:12 am: I'll sum it up from what I saw until interwebz is fixed:

1. Your pacing could be much, much better.
2. Stop using inside jokes. They only apply to a niche audience.
3. Your camera work needs improvement.
4. The "he took all the ammo" line was priceless.
5. Your editing was okay, but there's room for improvement.
6. Do you know what a "stage line" is?
7. Overall, there we opportunities, Xanatos. Opportunities for a great joke. Opportunities missed.

Of course, the full review will have details, but that's all that I can remember.
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: VC on October 25, 2007, 11:15:21 am: He is targeting a niche audience. Otherwise, yes.
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Xanatos on October 25, 2007, 12:55:50 pm: a little bland and lacking of detail aren't we O_O

i'm guessing you haven't seen the whole thing so maybe that's why you're being really vague. it'll be good once you've seen it all.
Title: Re: Dr. Strangeman or: How I learned to stop worrying and plant the bomb
Post by: Shaken not Stirred on November 18, 2007, 01:32:16 am: Finished. http://forums.goldeneyesource.com/index.php/topic,1292.0.html