RDragonFilms- Atrocity

Brandon Rice

Brandon Rice

Distributed Producer
Didn't see a thread for this one yet... cool flick! Liked the grit, and the fight scenes were pretty cool.
 
Ditto! I really enjoyed this one and must say as a martial arts instructor and choreographer, the flying knee off the table was awesome!!!!!!!!
 
This is hands down the best fight choreography of any movie. I wasn't taken away by much of a story, but what was shot looked great.
 
Yes. Excellent fighting.

My Thoughts:
Excellent fighting until they opened their mouth. Acting just did not do it for me.
The bigger goon sitting down cracked me up.
The one chick leaving was definitely not in a hurrry to skiddatle was she?
LOCation, location, location. FRIGGIN VERy cool.
Lighting was really great. Although there was great natural light, I saw you had a few extras in there to enhance it.
The flash back was cool. The girl did a great job I think and the story of the two main character kinda meshed together. He's on a revenge path right? But, was that not the girl from the bar leaving? I'll have to watch again.
The guy in the black coat/hat.. I'm not sure what that was about on the flash back but his broken leg was cool.
Fighting.. again, superb.
Story was good and I liked the pure raw revenge.
Music.. Very fitting and worked well. I assume it was stock since there was a "music mixer" in the credits?
Sound FX. Needed a bit more work. There were quite a few holes here and there.
ADR... ummm.. Not sure about that. Just cheesy dialog imo.
I really liked the main character and the main boss's 'look'. I think they've got a great feel on camera. Great stunts. Just need work on the delivery.
Opening credits.. I really liked the transition of the title into the sign. Felt like i was going to sin city.
I loved the ninja Bartender.
The "married" thug was funny too.
I actually liked the end line. Good pure fun.

I enjoyed the action of the piece and it was great fun to just let go and have a good ride.

cheers on the submission.
/j
 
Thanks so much ^_^ I'll have to get him on here to read all of this for sure, he's been doing martial arts and fight choreography for about 14years, so he'll to hear that you enjoied it ^_^
 
Thanks so much :) The movie was deffinatly made for action.. Matthew really wanted to showcase his choreography in a film, and this was his chance ^_^
 
Ahh! So much to comment back to!!
The Acting.... yuh. Those guys were deffinatly fighters. Being the only girl involved I would have had better actors to enhance it, for sure.
He was indeed on a revenge path . Sorry if that confussed you, I ( the filmmmakers wife ) was the only female involved more less b/c I was avalible and up for wearing differant costumes, tried to make them as differant as I could ^_^ Sorry if that confussed anyone.
The hat/coat thing, his hat and coat were taken away and ... the flashback was to kinda show that his wife had given them to him.. thus the fight scene :)
The ADR... yuh. LOL yuh. It was rushed for sure and the main villain actually, we could never get ahold of him to finish up his adr.. i think it would have improved that scene if we could have gotten him over here to finish, for sure

Thanks for all the comments and critiques! I'll have him sign on and read everything later on :)
 
I wasn't able to completely follow the story line in this one, but the fight scenes were so well executed that I still enjoyed the viewing experience. Great, great mano-a-mano scenes. I love it that, with as few women as we have here on this board, some of us were involved in the most action-packed flicks... ;)
 
Hehe thanks for the comments.. The film was origianlly 14 minutes long... so we had to cut out awhole lot in a hurry and looking back there's deffiantly things that could have been left in and out to make more sense of it all but at least the guys got a serving of action ^_^ haha

thanks again!
 
I have to echo the compliments on the action scenes in the end. We did a short fight scene in our movie and it was hella hard just to do the stuff we did. I saw yours and I was just impressed throughout. The camerawork during the fight scene really stood out and it really seemed to heighten the speed of the action. Awesome job!
 
Oh yeah. Finally a thread. I was looking for this one before since it was the first one I watched. The fight scenes were kick a$$ dude. That flying knee kick was pimp. The cuts, the action, the lighting all flowed for this. The story was a little not so great but like MsManhattan said it was an engaging veiwing experience.
 
Hi Shaun! Thanks so much for the compliments! you mentioned you had an action scene as well, I will check that out asap because i don't recall watching yours yet. Our cameraman ( actually two of them ) are some really good friends of ours, who've been filming local action flicks for years so they amazing to have on board to come help us out :)

Thanks again!
 
The first one you watched? Wow :) Sorry I didn't make one the first day, really wasn't around the comp too much :) Really glad that you enjoied the action tho that's great to hear, I've been calling matt telling him what everyone has to say and he's really happy about all the feedback :)

Thanks again!!
 
good fight choreo. the early costume reminded me of Van helsing and the Nightwatch video game. great job.
 
Broken record time, but you can't ignore it, the fight scenes were great. A very realistic and solid fighting style and stances. Nothign Crouching Tiger fancy, it's practical and well executed moves. Flying knee - total eye candy!

I loved the bar at the beginning, I'm a huge sucker for the post-apocalyptic kinda feel.

Well done!
 
Thanks for the comment ^_^ Can't believe everyone liked that flying knee so much :O We thought people would enjoy the leg break more, odd :O.

Glad people liked the straight up gritty, real fight feeling it had too it ^_^

Thanks again!!!!
 
I like when the nunchuck guy is killed with the kick to the back of the head. Great whoosh and contact sounds too! How'd you do those? One thing I noticed though, is that the muzzle flash doesn't look like it's coming out of the barrel of the gun, looks more like its coming from the hammer. I've done muzzle flashes before, and I know sometimes putting them where they're supposed to be actually makes it look fake. What's your take on it?
 
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