Comments on: AVGN Movie Digital Effects

By: Junmanjy

Junmanjy — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 23:35:49 +0000

wow, cool

By: Daniel Moraes

Daniel Moraes — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:09:07 +0000

I kinda refuse to buy a blue ray player because I consider a bullshit that modern TVs are incapable to downscale the image, fortunately there are some AV2HDMI chinese devices, that cost under 40 dollars, also, Im a big Steam fan, Already bought my copy of AVGN. Great movie, I miss the old days when Hollywood didnt suckz.

By: OMA

OMA — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 02:20:56 +0000

In reply to AnKun. I'm not an expert, but I think there could be several reasons such as safety (talking to people in the car while looking at them can be dangerous when actually driving), convenience (you don't have to care about the location and can shoot lots of times if needed without having to worry about driving and waste gas), scene quality (a mounted camera would probably vibrate and shake while driving a lot more than it'd be desirable), and so on.

By: Bryce Neuner

Bryce Neuner — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:40:17 +0000

I see now the people that didn’t have much screen time/ speaking lines were more involved with the behind the scenes portion of the movie. Seeing Mike and Bootsy as the Death Mwauthzyx puppet wranglers makes a lot of sense. I thought the scene were Kyle is singing his song in the desert with Mike tapping his legs would have had some speaking lines between the two, but they are more like extras for the scene. Favorite part of the movie: when Cooper falls off of the mountain pushing the Nerd in the spaceship! Slapstick comedy at it’s best.

By: AnKun

AnKun — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:11:34 +0000

Never understood why everyone shoots car driving scenes (where we see peolpe talking in the car through the windshield) using greenscreen. Why not just mount the camera on the hood and shoot while actually driving?

By: Maoji Wang

Maoji Wang — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 10:18:55 +0000

It’s always interesting to know how things were created. Thanks, James.

By: candlewax

candlewax — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:30:56 +0000

Man I’m glad that the landfill actually existed. There are so few credible video game legends these days.

By: cammcal

cammcal — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:26:10 +0000

That is amazing guys. That’s really amazing the amount of ambition and effort you put into this movie. You wanted to make it bigger and better visually than most would expect and the amount of work put into this must have been really satisfying when finally showing the finished product to audiences.

I love that you didn’t decide to just half ass it and tried to make it all look as good as possible. Stuff like that may not be appreciated by everybody but for those of us who understand what it’s like to make a film youre so passionate about, it becomes your baby and motivates you to strive for perfection and these videos demonstrates that. So much respect to everyone involved.

By: Apostolos Christou

Apostolos Christou — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 08:55:07 +0000

The song is fuckin’ epic !

By: mike

mike — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 08:19:39 +0000

Ok, James. I think you focused way, way too much on VFX when you made this movie. It seems you are obsessed with stuff that doesn’t even really matter. The overdone lighting effects, the reflection in the sunglasses, swapping the driver in the vehicle, I could go on and on. Totally unnecessary.

Sure, the movie may be technically perfect but is that the ultimate goal? No, the goal is to make a funny movie. We, the audience, don’t care if we notice a stuntman, or an obvious ragdoll, or if the light coming through the window is glowing perfectly. We just care about the jokes, and the funny situations. That is what comedy is all about.

If you decide to do another film, please keep this in mind. I know you are passionate about filmmaking, and I think maybe that passion consumes you sometimes and distracts you from seeing the big picture.