Posted Mostly for Kate to Watch
Jan. 3rd, 2008 02:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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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! :(
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! :(
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Date: 2008-01-03 05:18 pm (UTC)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...