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Thanks for the comment : )We looked back at the film, to see what you were talking about, the part that you saw, is where we used a blank gun and the flash you see is the actual flash that the gun produced, so no fx there. As for our take on it it sometimes looks fake.. yeah you just have to play with it really, and make sure the actors react well to the airsoft guns 'firing' and whatnot. Use lots of quick cuts :)

Thanks again ^_^
 
Matt! Damn it! Good fighting! All of the elements are there, but I think you didn't have enough time for the story. I kind of know where it is going, but I felt as if you had to cut to much of it for the fight. Which brings me to the fighting. Hell Yes! It is shot and edited in a way that I could just sit back and watch 15 or so minutes of it. It was in the same style as Ong-bak. I hate what compression does to action scenes.

Fun, cool, more story
 
loved he title reveal - very TRoma in a cool sort of way
nice locaion and loghting
cool mad max post apoclaypic bar set up
music woulda been nice after he shot the thugs ... a little bad ass music
nice CC in the falshback dream sequency thing
conversly things were a litte to soft in the final battle
I couldn't reallu follow the story but didn't care that much because it was cool anyway.

- Jack
 
Great action sequences and action direction.
Believable, hard to achieve. -Kudos- :beer:
But not so much SuperHero eh?
I also thought the look your getting was of a high standard. Some of the shots were very interesting.
A simple story but really showcasing the stunt-talent. I look forward to what you get up to in the future.
Great job.
J.p
 
That was done incredibly well. I am impressed. I would love to be able to get a look and feel like that. And the broken leg was very cool.
 
jp,

Thanks for all the comments on the flick, and hey. Punisher was a hero too ;) Deffinatly more of a vendetta story then super hero.. but hero nonethe less ^_^.. well lol to some people
Thanks again ^_^
 
Jack,

thanks for your comments on the flick : ) I agree with you on the sound in the final battle, we couldn't get up with the villian to ADR his lines.. so we were kinda stuck doing what we could to submit it into for the Hero fest but, in the final product it will deffinatly be redone : )And thanks for the music info, i'll tell Matthew , maybe he'd like to add some in there

thanks again!
 
Hey matt

Glad you enjoied the fight scenes ( this is Nicole btw ) yea.. the film was deffinatly made to showcase his fight choreography. I would like to have seen more story... which was an issue I pressed during production.. but no one listens to me ;) Glad you could sit back and watch the fighting tho. Maybe we'll get together sometime and you can check out the 15 minute version.. more story that way ;)

- nicole
 
RDragonFilms said:
Hey matt

Glad you enjoied the fight scenes ( this is Nicole btw ) yea.. the film was deffinatly made to showcase his fight choreography. I would like to have seen more story... which was an issue I pressed during production.. but no one listens to me ;) Glad you could sit back and watch the fighting tho. Maybe we'll get together sometime and you can check out the 15 minute version.. more story that way ;)

- nicole
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The story can fit in there with ease. I know there is more there. There is no doubt of that. I want to show the 15 min. version at the next "Outdoor Cinema".

We's all fightin' and filmin' type folks. One of these days, we will all pull together and make the biggest, baddest, fightenest film this state has ever seen...oh with lots of blood, guns and weapons too.

Tell Matt to give me a call. I still have his head bashing cop club thingys.
 
I also was having some Ong Bak/muay thai flashbacks in there. Loved it! Watched it all the way thru, then started back at 2:24. Awesome! I also loved the ending. But I agree with a previous post about maybe sacrificing story for stunts...not saying it bothered me. :) This is just my initial reaction to the first 1.5 viewings. heh! Not a very technical review, but man! Loved the fight sequence!
 
I felt the Ong bak feel as well. I also felt that action was great but I didn't really like the white flashes though it seemed very amatuerish
 
SilverWolf said:
I didn't really like the white flashes though it seemed very amatuerish
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Really? I thought they were pretty cool, in a bone smashing, pulverizing way. :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG) :thumbsup:
 
I loved the fighting aspects. Since this was much of the "Acting" part I gave it a 9. I would have given it a 10 but right at the end when the bad guys hits the floor... just before he stretchs for the gun you can see him catching hims self (so he doesn't smash his face to the floor) What would have been perfect is to do the same type of camera moves like you did with the smashes and hits... a flash or something just before he hits the ground to cover that he his catching himself.... andl have a poof of dust in slow mo off the ground when he hits.

Really good action... loved the ending concept. Could have been a bit better with a slight jump edit flash to the shotgun instead of the slow pan.
 
thartley,

Thanks so much for all the comments glad you had the muay thai flash backs, Matthew has trained in Muay Thai for mm over 7 years I know for sure :) Glad you enjoied it ^_^
 
Haven't read the other comments on this, but just got a chance to see it & wanted to leave mine while it's still fresh in my head.

At first I wasn't too impressed, and it wasn't until near the end that I really followed what was happening & then the beginning made more sense. Could just be me, since it's a pretty simple story.

When I finally got really impressed was when our hero jumps up onto the table, and then as he runs across it we dolly shot with him. NICE! Another cool shot was soon after when we do a FAST dolly back from our hero after he's entered the large warehouse room.

The sound came across generally muffled, and sometime perhaps just a SLIGHT bit out of sync. ADR seemed to need some work as well to really sell it.

Otherwise, huge props on the BEST action/fight sequences I've seen out of this fest yet. Not just that they were good for this fest, but they were good period. Some pro stuff, for which I'm really glad I got to see.
 
Note: I haven't read the other posts yet, so I may repeat comments that have already been made.

I liked the western feel to this one...I'm always a fan of a good western. However, I felt like story was pieced together around a really cool fight scene. Hands down the best fighting of the fest, not to mention some of the best fighting I've seen in a very long time. But it was really the corner stone of this project.

During the big fight at the end I felt the music was wrong. I am a fan of techno/house/dance music, but the pace didn't seem to be right for the fight. It felt out of sync with the fight. Actually something a little more frenetic would have fit better, in my very humble opinion.

I understood the "flashback" content, but didn't feel it was necessary...at least not to the length it went. And for sure the second flash back wasn't necessary. The first one at least lets us know why he is there, but the second felt like just a "reminder" even though we saw the first one less than a minute prior.

Want to help me choreograph and film my next fight sequence :) Great job there!! :thumbsup:
 
Hi - nice job. Great lighting. The story didn't really capture my attention all to much, but the great fighting was redeeming. It's nice to see a realistic fight scene.
 
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