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Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Sunday, November 13th, 2011 1:04pm PST - promote requested by original submitter geo321.

Damn! That made me jump! lol

So, the whole thing is a PSA for the pharmaceutical-industrial complex? That goes a way to explain the crazy high production value.

So... It had great production values and the idea was interesting. Was it necessary to have the first 4 minutes saturated with completely random quick cuts?

And then, what the fuck? Was this funded by GlaxoSmithKline or something?

And yet despite the good acting and high production values the CGI looked a bit ropey at times.

Loved the short, the word of warning message at the end was all kinds of what the fuck though.


Remember to always buy name brand at 3x+ the price and be sure your friendly pharma companies can continue to indefinitely extend the patents on their moneymakers, er, lifesaving drugs!

I would like to see more of this.

*commercial.

Call it what it is.

Such a cool vid, taking a turn for the fear-mongering.

Adding video to channels (Commercial) - requested by bareboards2.

http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2011/11/10/EXCLUSIVE-Dazzling-DNA-mutation-short-THE-GATE

In the undying words of Homer Simpson:

Boooooring!

Why isn't this under documentary?

The end message is that people are going to purchase these drugs at cut costs just to stay ahead in the marketplace. The real evil is the lack of monitoring of these companies? I am thinking it is the cost of the drugs in the first place that drive people to put themselves at personal risk.

Awesome vid. Those dudes in the suits were cool too. Glad to see the "public health crisis" of Bob from accounting turning into a giant mutant was safely averted.

Well... that certainly explains my last Viagra purchase.

It's pinky!!!

Well.

I have several thoughts regarding this video:
1) Yes, the CGI could have been better, it detracts from the experience.
2) This is a thinly veiled commercial (as already pointed out)
3) The fact that this is a commercial makes it kind of silly to go the sci-fi route. If this were just a simple sci-fi short, I would let it slide, but seeing as this is trying to get a commercialized message across, I have to say the "science" behind the "fiction" ia a bit improbable. Frankly, I think unfair to make up dramatic stuff like this to get their point across; its misleading at best. (Note, I say this as a biochemist, and a person with both friends and relatives in big and small pharma)

All of that said, I enjoyed it. Cool concept, but NOT as a viral marketing campaign.
Also, as a former employee of a certain regulatory agency for some country, I can tell you that all generics are required to be just as safe and effective as their primo-name counterparts. The "danger" occurs when people are acquiring generics (or for that matter, counterfeit drugs from e-retailers) through atypical channels (as they mentioned in the video). HOWEVER; the likelihood that they could activate genes or pathways to cause mutations like this is implausible.

They'll just kill you because they're contaminated with heavy metal, or something.

>> ^Deano:

And yet despite the good acting and high production values the CGI looked a bit ropey at times.


+1 to that

I liked it. Bad CGI and Doomsday Pharmacists included. If you're not too critical and view it purely for entertainment value, it's pretty damn good.

Man, am I the only one who thinks that the distorted human form is one of the freakiest things to view?

I'm with you.
>> ^mizila:

Man, am I the only one who thinks that the distorted human form is one of the freakiest things to view?

You guys should see...

..

MY PENIS
>> ^AdrianBlack:

I'm with you.
>> ^mizila:
Man, am I the only one who thinks that the distorted human form is one of the freakiest things to view?