Video Essays on film and gaming

[Lex]

This guy does some pretty comprehensive docu-things on old developers, and his shit is well researched. His voice is a little weird but get past that and the information is so worth it:

 

[Cthulhu]

I'll just abuse this thread as a news dump:

Hollywood surprised that sequels and money-grabs and whatnot might cause them slightly worse box office results than last year or whatever. TLDR, they're making more money than they ever did but it's not enough.

 

[Geostigma]

Great vid both due to being from KaptainKristrian and also due to being about really good use of CGI in cinema.

 

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[Geostigma]

That was great

 

[Lulcielid]

Not exactly a video essay (or an essay) but I think it was worth sharing.

A look inside the world of film editing.

 

[Lulcielid]

I always think and feel that critics and some fans don't give enough credits to the first two sequels of Pirates of the Caribbean, which in my money are superb, ambitious, well crafted films that are superior in almost every way to the critically aclaimed Curse of the Black Pearl.

I am not good at articulating thoughts in a coherent long wall of text (and if I could, it would probably take lots of months to write them) but the following articles and video are for the most part pretty good explanations as to why I think and feel Dead Man's Chest and At World's End are great:

• A PIRATES LIFE FOR US: IN DEFENSE OF THE ‘PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN’ SEQUELS
• ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ 2 and 3: In Defense of Gore Verbinski’s Gloriously Weird Sequels
• A Pirates of the Caribbean Retrospective
• Why 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest' is Great

 

[Lex]

 

[Pixel]

I've been waiting for this. This is the kind of stuff I'd love to do for our channel.

 

[Geostigma]

Sir thats a Documentary. Not a video essay.

Mods. Mods please remove this. Reported.



Jk , love no clip. Got hooked on his Doom documentary and am glad to see someone with Dans talent cover the incredible story behind ARR.

 

[Shademp]

 

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Yes, this is a link, but there're a couple videos that're given good context in the article: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/the-uncanny-sound-illusion-that-creates-suspense-in-chr-1797295094





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[Lulcielid]

Studies show Rotten Tomatoes is influencing moviegoers.

 

[Lulcielid]

This is the power of editing:

 

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Only barely qualifies at best, but it's fucking brilliant.

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[Tetsujin]

Nailed it

 

[Flare]

That made me chuckle a few times, X. So frickin true.

 

[ForceStealer]

Damn, perfect.

 

[Cthulhu]

booj

 

[Geostigma]

Not an essay but very cool

 

[Cthulhu]

I love that guy's videos (there's others too, watched one on Klingon and shit earlier ). He knows his shit. Like retroflex consonants and uhh. Other such complicated technical werds .

 

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Some minor spoilers for a couple things, but this Twitter thread is STUFFED with neat little tricks and ways that engineers and devs secretly tweak game mechanics: https://twitter.com/Gaohmee/status/903510060197744640

I honestly can't get enough of all the little things in here.





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[Cthulhu]

That's a pretty shit way of presenting cool shit though, have to filter through a billion messages to get to the good part. Reddit thrads are better .

But only slightly because you have to scroll through a few dozen circlejerk comment chains.

 

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I think that Jennifer Scheurle‏ is gonna do an actual presentation of sorts about these things, and the Twitter post/feed was just a place for gathering comments. Twitter's a pretty good place to be able to easily check who's posting them, etc. for verification and such, and while it might not be the easiest for consumption, it was too cool not to share.




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[Lulcielid]

Didn't find the right place to post this I wanted to put to share this response to a dumb "controversy".