Posted Mostly for Kate to Watch

[teddog]

Well...
http://www.myndflame.com/Movies/p803_sectionid/3/p803_fileid/141/p803_js_on/1

If there is no wank about that, I will be a sad person.

Kate - there's rapping VanCleef in the opening. No word of a lie. I'm under the impression it might be lifted from an older Machinima, although I don't remember it.

The first two movies are better; this one feels like an info dump and a pile of random scenes that go nowhere. While the other ones were random bunches of events that only loosely formed a plot, but nothing really happens at the same pace that the other movies had. The only part I really found funny was the Hunter taming - "We can go questing together!" - but then, my main is a hunter and that sort of crap happens! :(

Comments

[moonygirl.livejournal.com]

Vancleef makes it worth it :P

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

It's RAPPING and DANCING VanCleef. I actually want to see the rest of that video. It appears to be explaining the history of the Defias...

This might be, though, the key to the weakness of the video. Most of the really funny material requires some working knowledge of Warcraft fanom - the Defias rap, Thrall doing what he did (Thrall is the dorkiest of the city leaders, but that's why I like him the most. He's a dork and then goes all badass if you don't treat him as an equal), the Ashbringer/asstoucher, the rawr!bomb, beasts getting ganked while taming, saving the last charge on the yeti, boat camping, etc, etc. All of those are funny to someone who knows what's being referenced. Otherwise, it's a no-go.

Compare to, say, the Snackie Cakes bit in Super Snacks, which is really funny but works without a deep knowledge of WoW. And the summoning scene in Zinwrath, which explains in full detail what a warlock summon is and the deadpan delivery of that explanation makes it even funnier (mostly that's how I imagine many warlocks explaining it). Yeah, the other movies had jokes that needed some understanding of WoW, but it didn't seem to lean so much on it as a crutch. At least for me, this is what set Myndflame's stuff apart from, say, the Azerothian Super Villains, a series that I also really like but the humour is more of a direct parody of canon characters instead of just absurdist.

I rambling...

[mbehemoth.livejournal.com]

I'm torrenting it right now because I hate streaming video. But what I saw at the beginning, the pally being beaten the crap out of by a Moonkin with the Arm of Ragnaros (Whatever its called) was quite fun. Take that Ret Pally!

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

The opening is cute, but it bogs in the middle when the film starts tossing information round.

Not saying it's not an enjoyable movie (after a second watching, I laughed at a few more of the jokes), but it's just not as good as the other two for various reasons.

[lee-in-limbo.livejournal.com]

It was quite amusing in places, but I'm inclined to agree that it was a little bit too referential in its humour, particularly of the WoW-specific stuff. I am one of those people that feels humour has to be more than a lot of inside jokes to really work well. (I guess they figured the yeti and hunter jokes would translate well, because most of us have played a hunter at one point or another, and because most of us hoard our yeti. The Python skit was cute, if unnecessary.

Really, I think that the loss of the original script is what hurt it. "The entire script and all the content produced in 2006 was scrapped after certain contributors failed to follow through with the production."

And my wife wasn't impressed, which is sad, because she was a real fan of the previous Illegal Danish machinimas.

Lee.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

The original script was anything like the ideas hinted in the original trailer, I would have liked to see it more than what we got here. I believe it was being promoted as all out chaos, compared to the lore lesson. It's been mentioned that Zinwrath cut off his ties to Myndflame and was probably one of the "certain contributors".

[mbehemoth.livejournal.com]

Well I can understand it being a bit heavy in the WoW reference jokes, much like This Hour has 22 Minutes and Air Farce are heavily on Canadian Political inside jokes.

As Lee mentioned it really hurts it that the script was lost. Unlike the opening where the two Guildies scwream they had 2 years to make, this was in fact less then a year in the making. In 2007 they did L2P, Clefhoof Brigade and that commerical so this meant that they didn't spend the whole time working on this film.

I almost completely forgot the trailer had Zinwrath summoning an inferno onto Orgimmar stating "Do you know who I am?". I guess the Arms warrior in the giant robot was his replacement to save the Pally in a dress.

In the end it does seem to drag on and I found myself looking at how far in and being shocked how much more there was. Meh.