Re: Doom, the opening door (originally from Doom, not the sequel), the former human death, and also the imp "alert" sound gets used a lot, the latter for a host of random monsters from random films/TV episodes.

The yeeeEAAAAAAGH (or the one I think you mean) came from Aliens afaik; scene where Drake gets sprayed with acid. I've definitely heard that in other movies since, and I think Aliens is the origin just because it fits in with Drake's voice, and the shot is a closeup up his face as he's screaming, which seems bolder than any of the Wilhelm scream usages or their equivalents for that scream.

nice, woulda liked to see closeups and an explanation of how it was built, this would actually be useful in a lot of places.

Wow I've never seen inside a ladies room before. Everything I was led to believe was untrue

Still cool for the closeup of her hand full of goo

The music, the closeup head shots, and wailing guitar. This is awesomely terrible.

A bunch of stupid rednecks being cruel to animals, awesome. But where's the closeup of the same squirrel, writhing in pain, and trying to move but it can't because so many of its bones are broken? YES, I'm being sarcastic.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'hinode, sun, closeup, stunning' to 'hinode, sun, closeup, stunning, global warming' - edited by choggie

Interestingly you see on the closeup of the computer it is manufactured by Cyberdyne. I hope they aren't working on a Terminator as well

http://www.cyberdyne.jp/English/index.html

I've seen a lot of these now, but this one is special for its relatively slow pacing, pyrotechnics and the extreme, probably toxic mess it makes.

I suspect that the out-of-focus closeups that we see now and then are designed to hide film cuts, just in case the whole thing doesn't work in one go.

love the small depth-of-field in the closeups. very cool.

looks like they arent really playing the keyboard on the closeups, though I guess they really are eh

Those were the times when action / war movies didn´t came with closeups of wounds, exploding bodies, missing arms and legs and all that gore stuff. and it was also very moving. what has happened that every kids-rated movie nowadays has to show excessive violence, fountains of blood etc.? obviously it also works without that stuff...

- liquid nitrogen in a metal divot? or rapidly vibrating metal with small amount of liquid (however it doesn't look like its vibrating)
- overlay-fade into a closeup picture of a metal marble
- digital zooms away from metal marble image
- overlay-fade to one marble in a bowl structure, being joined by other metal balls and shook by speaker
- overlay with burning paper into pingpong ball on speaker-shake board viewed from side
- digital movement of ping-pong ball up and down, towards and away from camera
- overlay into pile of sand struck by ball, then shaking on speaker shake bowl/table
- fade into what looks like an undershot up threw the shaking bowl, fade to a digitally filtered image

hah, yeah, sorry about that. I thought at the end if I constructively pointed out some of the things I thought were lacking then it wouldn't be just some bullshit film snob comment,... but it still was. I'd be willing to bet this video gets >20 votes in the next weeks.

This happens to me more often than I'd like; a song that I really like and that is very visually appealling to me (in the sense that you can close your eyes and imagine all sorts of accompanying visual themes and elements) is mangled on the visual side by someone who's not yet a director. This was especially a let down because the premise is fine (climactic murder film noir), but every details betray the inexperience of the artist. He/she'd make a fine closeup portrait photographer.

In reply to your comment:
“You know how big of a film snob comment that was? The scale is hitting a 110 right now.

In reply to your comment:
“i've never seen this. and despite my love of portishead and my love of film noir,... I didn't like it.

slightly too amateurish, in lighting, in editing, in shot framing,... jeez, when did i become a film snob? crap. i hate film snobs...

a bit more contrast (some blown out whites), a bit more grit, a more 'appropriate' looking apartment/hotel setting, some scene establishing shots, and some camera movement... so bored with no activity in the background and no camera movement... glad i hung in there for the death scene, which is soo bad its almost like they were making fun of film noir.

picking such a good song as background was a savy choice, otherwise nobody would see this.””

It looks pretty amazing, but there is something odd going on with the kids hands. There is never a shot of his whole body while painting, only closeups.

Something just isn't right.

David zanthor is teh sex. I watch these purely for the cheesey closeups.