Tags for this video have been changed from 'Thriller, baseball, Michael Jackson' to 'Thriller, baseball, Michael Jackson, Seattle, Mariners, Safeco' - edited by SlipperyPete

Thanks Issy!

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*purrmote this smooth criminal in the making

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You'll probably like Source Code. It's a tight SF thriller- a bit on the short side - and a little more mainstreamy than Moon - but still good and validates Duncan as someone who can direct a fairly complicated movie and have it make sense to to a general audience without dumbing it down.

I wish someone good would do a reboot of Bladerunner making a version more true to the original book Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep which had so much more in it:

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What can I say - I enjoyed it. Maybe because I had really low expectations - for the first half, I thought I was watching a crappy supernatural thriller. The plane crash was a scene right out of one of my nightmares. Alex Proyas, the Director (Dark City) shot it beautifully - in a dreamlike way. It really was like watching a dream - the plane crash and flaming moose being just a couple of examples of that. >> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Also, I've got a bone to pick with dag. Although you generally have great taste in movies, Knowing was fucking horrible. Fuh. King. Whore. Ih. Ball.
Issy and I had some friends over, and I said "Hey, I've got Knowing on DVD from Netflix."
"It got bad reviews"
"A friend with good taste recommended it"
Then we started it up and, like.... WOW. The plot, the twists. Yikes. The best part was the flaming moose...<

This video always leaves me transfixed and mesmerized.

A lot of VERY talented people worked on this and cost roughly $90K to pull off. It took thirty some odd takes (with resets, that could take almost no time to a few hours depending on where the machine got to) with two edits and some manipulation (just the speed-to match with the song) This used NO CGI and they actually got the machine to work IN FULL with no resets three times.

People from MIT and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other, just as talented people, helped to build and get this machine to run. And, specifically, to get it to run in time with the music (or roughly so--the editing slows it down and speeds it up where necessary, but they aren't LARGE edits--you won't notice them unless you look HARD). This will always be a great and unique video.

BTW, considering the people that worked on this you should keep your eyes open and on the look out for easter eggs that are included in the course and related with, usually, their day jobs. This would also be a great teaching tool to introduce kids, in a physics/science class, specifically talking about the easiest of beginning physics: Newtonian Mechanics. Maybe, get the class or better, groups in the class, to come up with their own using various objects available. Make sure you show your math!

Thriller is a great music video and is epic to watch and is great in it's own way. This video does the same. It's memorable and very re-watchable (although the music is average ).

>> ^moodonia:

Just wont play for me for some reason, but I recommend "The War Game" on youtube if you fancy stirring up those cold war-kid fears of nuclear war


Have adblocker? Disable it for it to start. It seems to ping home before playing with http://ping.indieclicktv.com/ that was blocked.

I submitted this issue into http://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=8180 ...

>> ^Sarzy:

Also, Thriller is and will probably always be the greatest music video ever made. But this was pretty good too.


hmmm...Thriller is great, but it has no real sense of irony. Which it should have considering it's full of the undead. But enough about Michael Jackson, Thriller has zombies as well.

I prefer artists who can make fun of themselves, the whole nature of music videos, and make a great b-movie trailer in the process.

Also, Thriller is and will probably always be the greatest music video ever made. But this was pretty good too.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
... Some of his performances like in Polar Express and Angels & Demons are cringe-worthy.
...


You do realize that Polar Express has been universally panned for having almost zombie-level animation? Money for Nothing's Minecraftian characters had more life.

Although, I have to agree A&D was possibly the most boring "thriller" I have ever sat through.

I really hate to reduce myself to the level of a youtube commenter, but I feel it's necessary here.

You're an idiot.

Jack-o-lanterns
Thriller
Orange lights

None of those are indicative of Christmas. The title even says "Halloween." >> ^BoneRemake:

I absolutely, and I mean ABSOLUTELY ...HATE Christmas decorations/lights,trees...etc when its November, anyone who puts lights up in November and TURNS them on in November, its ripe for an egging, toilet papering, or good ol flaming shitbag on their door step as far as I am concerned.

ant.. Too soon... TOOOOO SOOOOOON, If you had a door step, this night you would find yourself with a flaming bag of dog goodies adorning it.

>> ^BoneRemake:

hey now. OBVIOUSLY... well maybe not obviously, but I am smart enough to deduce they are not YOUR lights, however Ant, you cannot deny that this was your own personal doing embeding this SHIT too early on the sift.

So really we are left at my original statement, sans your statement.

TOO EARLY
TOO EARLY
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<div><div style="margin: 10px; overflow: auto; width: 80%; float: right; position: relative;" class="convoPiece"> BoneRemake said:<img style="margin: 4px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 40px;" src="http://static1.videosift.com/avatars/b/BoneRemake-s.jpg" onerror="ph(this)"><div style="position: absolute; margin-top: 1px; right: 52px; font-size: 10px;" class="commentarrow">►</div><div style="padding: 8px; margin-right: 60px; margin-top: 2px; min-height: 30px;" class="nestedComment box">I absolutely, and I mean ABSOLUTELY ...HATE Christmas decorations/lights,trees...etc when its November, anyone who puts lights up in November and TURNS them on in November, its ripe for an egging, toilet papering, or good ol flaming shitbag on their door step as far as I am concerned.

ant.. Too soon... TOOOOO SOOOOOON, If you had a door step, this night you would find yourself with a flaming bag of dog goodies adorning it.
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Bah, it's Halloween!

>> ^ant:

>> ^BoneRemake:
I absolutely, and I mean ABSOLUTELY ...HATE Christmas decorations/lights,trees...etc when its November, anyone who puts lights up in November and TURNS them on in November, its ripe for an egging, toilet papering, or good ol flaming shitbag on their door step as far as I am concerned.

ant.. Too soon... TOOOOO SOOOOOON, If you had a door step, this night you would find yourself with a flaming bag of dog goodies adorning it.

Who said it was my lights?


hey now. OBVIOUSLY... well maybe not obviously, but I am smart enough to deduce they are not YOUR lights, however Ant, you cannot deny that this was your own personal doing embeding this SHIT too early on the sift.


So really we are left at my original statement, sans your statement.



TOO EARLY

TOO EARLY

>> ^BoneRemake:

I absolutely, and I mean ABSOLUTELY ...HATE Christmas decorations/lights,trees...etc when its November, anyone who puts lights up in November and TURNS them on in November, its ripe for an egging, toilet papering, or good ol flaming shitbag on their door step as far as I am concerned.

ant.. Too soon... TOOOOO SOOOOOON, If you had a door step, this night you would find yourself with a flaming bag of dog goodies adorning it.


Who said it was my lights?

The 1980 Zucker brothers comedy about a midair jetliner disaster — is a remake of the 1957 thriller Zero Hour!

So, Simon Hollington and Kypros Kyprianou ripped all of the jokes and gags out of Airplane! and turned it back into a drama.

Kept waiting for them to break into a Thriller routine. Now that would have been awesome.