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In dialogue between what are alleged to be experienced personnel, the captain should NOT have to tell the comms officer to boost the signal. A good comms officer should SAY he's boosting the signal, so the captain (and audience) will know what's going on. It's not hard to write people this way, it's just that we've all been contaminated by the Star Trek model of shipboard operations.
QQQ 1) How often does a Short get rewritten into a Feature Film? 2) With so many Excellent Shorts on Dust, why aren't they made into Feature Films? You must have several $ Billions at the Box Office of "Movie Trailers" on the site by now, this one included.
As a fan of the Alien series, I thoroughly enjoyed what felt like a well executed tribute to the franchise, with it's own unique touch! The Alien references I noticed were at 3:15 (same alarm sound as on the Nostromo in ALIEN), the fact that the planet they land on is windy af, the helmets picking up a "rogue transmission" (Covenant) and of course the saliva dripping onto the unsuspecting victim. And as another commenter noted, only giving brief glimpses of the creature, leaving you to fill in the blanks so to speak. Well done short by very talented people and clearly fans of ALIEN. Thank you DUST for curating excellent content, as always!
omg.. I was sitting there looking at those terrible cheap plastic bits and saying ' I KNOW them from somewhere.. but where'... of course its dishwasher/clothes washer type ones. thanks!
I think having just a glimpse of the threat was a fantastic move, really keeps up the suspension and mystery. Shout out to the engineer Schultz (John Gessner) on board the Iris warning the others, great performance! Overall a very enticing and thrilling short!
As with a lot of the other comments, a very strong "Alien" feel to it (nothing wrong with that!). Decent acting, FX work was good. Good suspense, not a huge focus on the alien, creature or whatever it is, but enough to let you get the idea... it's NOT friendly! Nicely done.
The main thing it lacks in the Alien comparison is the social commentary. Alien took an extremely dim view of the corporation running the show; people died specifically because of decisions it made. So this has some of the surface-level tropes from Alien, but nothing deeper.
You would think after over 150 years, having interstellar travel and space suites and more, that your flashlights would flood an area like its sunlight.
That stupid waste pipe from clothes washing machine around the helmets was the first thing I see it ... and the command pannel of ship looks like command pannel of a russian submarine from ww2 ... comme on you place the action in 2159 I suppose they won't go in space in a russian sub from ww2
Noooooooooo... What makes it awesome is structured as it is. People create original content, some 1, some 4 (there are multi-part series) and it's free form. Start creating series, etc... then it's not what it is... Anyway, just a thought ;-)
a LOT of their stuff is really good, and would make better series or movies than are currently available. Have any actually been adapted for TV, or picked up by the major studios?
@@TheJacklwilliams They don't have to make a coherent narrative in a new verse. Think about "Love Death and Robots" style of a series :) Just with longer episodes and better funding :)
I think you missed the point…. They looped back in time, the corpse that Cruzado found was a previous version of himself…it makes you wonder for horse long has this been going on.. probably long enough for them to build the structure on the planet. it’s an interesting premise that gives you an idea of the time and relativity factor that one can encounter in deep space travel
Recursion can get to be very messy in real life, this was just the first iteration. This could be a great ideas presentation for a studio to look at. Once they've looked at it it could be a great ideas presentation for a studio that has been supplied a great ideas presentation, ad infinitum.
Well done in relating that there was a non-friendly creature that did not like humans. Also, home warned them 55 yrs earlier while they were in cryo but they didn't heed the warning NOT to land...
Of course, a lot of people are saying it resembles Alien and, it does. That's why I'm here. I like this style and I know it still has a lot of potential.
The basic idea goes back at least as far as Twilight Zone (don't recall the episode title), so at this point its "classic trope" rather than "rip-off".
I really liked it. Great job on the alien. You used a trick that I haven't seen in modern films. I think it makes it much more scary. Directors like Jack Arnold and Alfred Hitchcock would often use it. The idea was to only give you glimpses of the creature and force your mind to fill in the blanks. The mind can make a simple costume in the dark turn into something much more horrific than any amount of special effects can. Not sure if time was a constraint, but I would suggest giving the audience a little more time to build suspense. Areas like the process of landing, moving through the building. A couple of jump scares that are false like something falling over etc... In all I thought you did a great job.
good fun jog down memory lane with poking fun at all the elements we all enjoyed in "Alien" while throwing in a couple new twists! i love zero-budget films as it gives me inspiration for projects i am working on. thank you for having the guts to see it through and putting the result out there! cheers!
The thing is, those 'see-through, floaty panel things' aren't sci-fi anymore; we already have them in AR and VR. Obviously that tech is not yet reliable enough to use in current space vehicles, but it won't be too long before buttons and switches will be for science-history rather than science-fiction.
Nice film. The weather/coms guy is definitely the best actor. Stole the final scene he was in. Costumes were great and very scrufftech. Would love to see the developer make more and expand his universe!
@@HeyIFoundACamera except the older gentleman. He was startling good in comparison. I give the creators and actors mad props for pinching every cent of production value making this. We have seen untrained actors shine after they are first published.
This is an example of how small things can leave a bigger impression on the overall feeling of a film than you might realize. Having the two guys who come up to the helm that don't know the importance of being able to get a reading on the land, also have the knowledge to suggest sending down a beacon ship to get readings. Then that leads to thinking about other contextual things relative to current times and the setting of the movie. Such as you're in the future and you can travel to other planets with your billion dollar vessel, but don't have the ability to use a drone that you can send down if all you're trying to accomplish is get readings from a scan? Shows the importance of writing across genres.
Nicely done. Saw it was Paradox and thought it was gonna be a scene from a game. Accomplished a lot in a very short time: set the context, established the mission. Evil corporation sends its pawns into supposedly uncharted space but someone's been here before ... oh nooooo
I want to see where that storyline goes. seriously. that was well paced. well edited, and fairly well directed. good job you guys. I want to see more of this.
Nice Alien references, cinematics were solid, good opening, acting was direct to VHS. Few things that stuck out to me, when you open a door to a building on an alien planet with wind howling outside and then you have the air inside the building totally calm it ruins the immersion, also BOSH washing machine division wants it's waste water pipes back. Not bad all in all.
@@CadenButera I did, very much so. There are many parts that Ridley Scott would have been proud of. Polish is all it really needs, and... like many visually impressive shorts, less talking. ;)
Oh, I love how it leaves questions. Primarily, what causes the time effect? Is it the creature? Is it the storm? Is that why the storm has been there for so long, but they didn't know about it? If they just got there, but the structure is man made...who made it and where are they now? Obviously not this crew. Fantastic.
Personally I despise time travel plots. They're lmaost always done wrong and are just a cop-out tool for the writers to do whatever they want (exploiting the paradox wrongly). Very few time travel stories are good or interesting like the movie "Primer" or the book "Thrice Upon a Time". Babylon 5 skirted the main issues (of time travel) by making it cool and not matter in the actual current plot.
@@Albtraum_TDDC Well the Terminator movies were pretty cool. Until Terminator 3 and all the films that came after. Then everything went downhill right into a plot hole abyss from there. :(
Let's see. Well, hmm... It's genuine Science Fiction... Yes! Always nice to see it again on Dust. Space ship..check. Far away planet.. yup. Special effects, props, costumes, lighting, ...all good. And a complete storyline with good acting all in 10 minutes. Woohoo! I like it! Although, I kept yelling at the screen, "Don't go down there, haven't you seen Aliens!"
Definite 'Alien' feel to it, but in the original film, some of their VFX were cheesy too. The masks they used in med bay and the tubes from Ash's innards - having been a 902xx in the AF, the items were easily recognizable. BUT, with that said, enjoyed it and very much agree with others - flesh it out more and make a full length movie - I'd pay money to see it.
None of those characters should be in charge of a taco cart, let alone a billion dollar spaceship. There's the Corporate Guy who doesn't listen to anyone, The Experienced Guy that no one listens to, the Smart Female, who is also ignored, and the two Guys With Rebellious Attitude who could also be Guys Who Are Obvious Fuckups that are given the important mission. Why are they in a hurry to land in obviously dangerous conditions? Then they land and literally stick two poles in the ground, which could have been done from orbit. Somehow they land next to the only building on the planet, the odds of which are astronomically small. They're 20 feet inside the building when they get attacked and somehow the survivor doesn't go out the front door but deeper inside. Its a bunch of tropes wrapped in cliches that fails to do anything beyond waste the viewers time.
Nice work. Decent suspense, and competent sfx. The acting was the only weak spot really. I was also particularly amused by teh football helmet face grill on the back of that cockpit chair :-)
Story was intriguing, acting wasn't horrible , however the costume designs took you right out to the experience from the jump. Motorcycle helmets with open ended vacuum hoses sticking out was ridiculous. You can't buy a story if you look like your 12 years old playing space man with you best buddy when you was a kid from parts from the garage.
Well shot, fast paced and competently acted; you can't find much of that on paid TV anymore, the praise is well deserved. Also, as a former USAF 304XX, I do appreciate seeing the AFCC patch early on (I was in when it was upgraded to a command and it still is, by Gawd!), though I couldn't remember what Army unit the rest of the patches were; that gave me a bit of a throw-off since I recognized them, realized I'm probably one of the few who actually recognized them and that's why you used them. A very minor peccadillo.
I was more thrown by the odd combination of a very specific Oatey/Harvey washing machine waste water support hook (UPC 00009326409016) paired with a generic 19/21mm corrugate waste pipe on their helments.
Set in 22nd century, super advance tech (kinda), cryo sleep, interstellar travel, yet the same tropes of stupid and incompetent crews like guys in Prometheus or Covenant. But I love it! Same like horror/slasher tropes, it just doesn't get old, at least for me.
Yes, it totally makes sense for people to volunteer to land into the the storm where they don't even see where they are landing. I guess it's normal practice to crew spaceships with suicidal halfwits.
How am I going to finish connecting up my new washing machine if the sci-fi film makers use up all the plumbing accessories at my local DIY hardware store!? No, seriously a very good short film and I liked the litle time travel twist at the end. PS: I would argue as well with the Captaine that the coffee machine IS an essential piece of ship equipment!
Actually, Atropa is still the best, so I can't tell that I like this one because I prefer more starships, more anomalies etc..not hunter alien species or space horror movies..
This was visually beautiful. Top class lighting and camera work, great set dressing, sound spot on too. Could you forgive one whinge? Long/mid/close shots on a subject can't be from different sides. Threw me on the bridge with cup-holding guy especially, I thought there were two very similar guys on opposite sides til I figured it out. Hope that's constructive, and again, great job on the quality. More please! 😁
Get an old abandoned warehouse, out dated equipment, $200 at the Army/Navy store and actors from the coffee shop around the corner boom- you got a movie. The patches are upside down USArmy unit patches.
This was really good, suspenseful and a sci-fi horror show, could make for a great movie. There's nothing wrong with the acting, they played their roles well. They did great with the CGI work, the ship looks believable. I really enjoyed this short show, wish it was longer really. If I had to make one critique, it would be in the beginning where we saw the planet. We're told there's a massive storm on the planet but, when they show the planet and ship, the planet doesn't look like there's a massive storm rolling over the planet. Maybe no one else really noticed but, that's really all I can say for a critique, I did enjoy this and do want more. Great job to the team who made 'Recursion'.
@@raffaelevalente7811 I'm pretty sure it's just the basic reasoning of resources on the planet and it was supposed to be uninhabited. I kind of thought the other guy would explain that.
That was nice, yes one can see they had a tight budget but lets be fair, we all have seen movies with more budget that looked less good and way much more worse. Sweet movie i enjoyed it.
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Hmm
didnt care for it looked low budget as hell plus story is a ripoff of "Pitch Black" with Vin Diesel
In dialogue between what are alleged to be experienced personnel, the captain should NOT have to tell the comms officer to boost the signal. A good comms officer should SAY he's boosting the signal, so the captain (and audience) will know what's going on.
It's not hard to write people this way, it's just that we've all been contaminated by the Star Trek model of shipboard operations.
@@effenkat3893 They are wearing the same name tag at the end... Recursion in computer programming is a loop.
QQQ
1) How often does a Short get rewritten into a Feature Film?
2) With so many Excellent Shorts on Dust, why aren't they made into Feature Films? You must have several $ Billions at the Box Office of "Movie Trailers" on the site by now, this one included.
I really liked the intro text appearing and disappearing "A L I E N"-style. Now on to the movie.
As a fan of the Alien series, I thoroughly enjoyed what felt like a well executed tribute to the franchise, with it's own unique touch!
The Alien references I noticed were at 3:15 (same alarm sound as on the Nostromo in ALIEN), the fact that the planet they land on is windy af, the helmets picking up a "rogue transmission" (Covenant) and of course the saliva dripping onto the unsuspecting victim. And as another commenter noted, only giving brief glimpses of the creature, leaving you to fill in the blanks so to speak. Well done short by very talented people and clearly fans of ALIEN. Thank you DUST for curating excellent content, as always!
Exactly! you missed the clanging chains 6:54 and the opening titles of course. But the twist at the end is new
I actually think it was the self destruct alarm from the Sulaco in Aliens.
7:02 "...whatever happened here, it looks like we missed it."
Aliens.
The clanking chains too
Loved the dishwasher outflow pipe parts on the EVA helmets. Good use of everyday stuff for props!
Haha thank you! Perks of the low budget sci-fi genre!
First thing I noticed too
It’s for a washing machine but really good eye 👁
Thinking that whole time I was watching!! But if you didn’t know what it was you’d never see it! GG.
omg.. I was sitting there looking at those terrible cheap plastic bits and saying ' I KNOW them from somewhere.. but where'... of course its dishwasher/clothes washer type ones. thanks!
I think having just a glimpse of the threat was a fantastic move, really keeps up the suspension and mystery. Shout out to the engineer Schultz (John Gessner) on board the Iris warning the others, great performance! Overall a very enticing and thrilling short!
the washing machine pipe stuck to the helmet + the fact that the pipe was open, made it hard for me to suspend my disbelief
As with a lot of the other comments, a very strong "Alien" feel to it (nothing wrong with that!). Decent acting, FX work was good. Good suspense, not a huge focus on the alien, creature or whatever it is, but enough to let you get the idea... it's NOT friendly! Nicely done.
Thanks so much! Yes Alien was definitely the main inspiration. Glad you enjoyed it!
and the length was appropriate, too.
some of the acting was decent, some not so decent
yeah, even alert in 3:15 sounds like from Alien. Like it
NOT FRIENDLY? SEEMS TO ME LIKE IT WANTS HUGS, LOTS AND LOTS OF HUGS...
This gem requires another episode, or two or more...
It's like watching Alien in ten minutes. It was gripping and worth the watch. Thanks guys for the upload!
but nobody got deep throated by an alien
Thank you! Alien was definitely the main inspiration, one of my favorite movies of all time!
@@nothingsurprisesmeanymore Hahaha, fair enough! Thanks for the watch my friend!
I thought it was a spin-off short from alien you know like the anniversary ones.
The main thing it lacks in the Alien comparison is the social commentary. Alien took an extremely dim view of the corporation running the show; people died specifically because of decisions it made. So this has some of the surface-level tropes from Alien, but nothing deeper.
In the year...2159... When every single printed letter still needs to make a blip sound.
Captures the “Exploring/exploiting outer space with all your equipment made down to a price” vibe of Alien perfectly.
You would think after over 150 years, having interstellar travel and space suites and more, that your flashlights would flood an area like its sunlight.
Well done! Great effects, outstanding story telling.
Bravo!!!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!
@@maxnex7676 Thanks for the Feedback!
That stupid waste pipe from clothes washing machine around the helmets was the first thing I see it ... and the command pannel of ship looks like command pannel of a russian submarine from ww2 ... comme on you place the action in 2159 I suppose they won't go in space in a russian sub from ww2
@@gigeldurgigicu4043 It kind of passes the "Alien" vibe of expendable ship and crew. Corp wouldn't waste a brand new starship with these people.
warning alarm sound from the acutual 1979 "Alien" movie. Classic.
We need a whole series of such Sci-Fi. Dust, can't you guys gather all these artists and try to get a funding? :|
I agree!
Noooooooooo... What makes it awesome is structured as it is. People create original content, some 1, some 4 (there are multi-part series) and it's free form. Start creating series, etc... then it's not what it is... Anyway, just a thought ;-)
a LOT of their stuff is really good, and would make better series or movies than are currently available. Have any actually been adapted for TV, or picked up by the major studios?
Those space helmets 🤣 need funding for better helmets.
@@TheJacklwilliams They don't have to make a coherent narrative in a new verse. Think about "Love Death and Robots" style of a series :)
Just with longer episodes and better funding :)
This0:44 space ship ambient sound so is my favourite 😭😭😭❤️
It may not be the most original premise/story, but it was really well executed.
Thanks! I agree, the inspiration for the project definitely came after re-watching Alien, haha. Glad you enjoyed it!
Welllll, not really .
I think you missed the point…. They looped back in time, the corpse that Cruzado found was a previous version of himself…it makes you wonder for horse long has this been going on.. probably long enough for them to build the structure on the planet.
it’s an interesting premise that gives you an idea of the time and relativity factor that one can encounter in deep space travel
@@arbjful Thank you! I’m glad you picked up on that at least 😉
Recursion can get to be very messy in real life, this was just the first iteration. This could be a great ideas presentation for a studio to look at. Once they've looked at it it could be a great ideas presentation for a studio that has been supplied a great ideas presentation, ad infinitum.
Well done in relating that there was a non-friendly creature that did not like humans. Also, home warned them 55 yrs earlier while they were in cryo but they didn't heed the warning NOT to land...
That was way to awesome to be so short. More please!
Perhaps one day we'll make a sequel of sorts. Glad you enjoyed it!
"... the message is 52 yrs old, obviously a malfunction..." Not sure how one has anything to do with the other!
Full season when?
10 minutes and I'm hooked, I wanna know everything bout this!
Certified Gold!!!!!
The cast and crew did a great job with this.
I'll admit, that last shot of the creature sure got me. Knew it was coming, did NOT expect it to look like that. Sheesh.
Of course, a lot of people are saying it resembles Alien and, it does. That's why I'm here.
I like this style and I know it still has a lot of potential.
good job Caden! making mark proud
Thanks, Bill!
*"That's the first time I've been blown in a while."* 😆🤣👍
the ending was legend
Sci fi film called "Recursion"
well im definitely watching this!
Hopefully it didn't disappoint..!
Not bad....Old guy using scanning machine best actor for sure. 👍
I enjoyed that.. I figured very early the signal was from themselves, it didn't detract from enjoying this though.. well done all
Well I mean the title is Recursion, so it was sort of implied already.
The basic idea goes back at least as far as Twilight Zone (don't recall the episode title), so at this point its "classic trope" rather than "rip-off".
I love when movies do not add stupid sounds to ship's flybys and everything in the vacuum of space, well done!
Now THAT was a short! Sweet, to the point, and no confusion.
and a blown fuse is a short, but it doesn't say much about the circuit
Ich lach mich schlapp! :-D Die Badewannenablaufschläuche/-Halterungen an den Helmen sind der Hammer! :-D Das nennt man Improvisation!
Gorgeous! Second part, please!
Amazing how 9:32 seconds had me on edge of my seat great job liked the ending twist
Predictable ..... But watchable 👍
I'll take it! Thanks for watching!
Pretty wild seeing your own body. Perfect ending. Well acted.
I really liked it. Great job on the alien. You used a trick that I haven't seen in modern films. I think it makes it much more scary. Directors like Jack Arnold and Alfred Hitchcock would often use it. The idea was to only give you glimpses of the creature and force your mind to fill in the blanks. The mind can make a simple costume in the dark turn into something much more horrific than any amount of special effects can. Not sure if time was a constraint, but I would suggest giving the audience a little more time to build suspense. Areas like the process of landing, moving through the building. A couple of jump scares that are false like something falling over etc... In all I thought you did a great job.
@Stephen Morton - HELM Theory yes!
If space systems and equipment in 2159 are as steampunk as presented here, we're in big trouble.
They can easily stretch this concept to a full length movie (and I would watch it)
9:11 What nightmares are made of
good fun jog down memory lane with poking fun at all the elements we all enjoyed in "Alien" while throwing in a couple new twists! i love zero-budget films as it gives me inspiration for projects i am working on. thank you for having the guts to see it through and putting the result out there! cheers!
Thanks so much! Yes this was definitely my attempted love-letter to the 1979 Alien. Glad you enjoyed it!
Hello DUST. You are my competitor 😏
Buttons and switches! YES, more please! i really dislike the see-through "floaty panel thing" you see in most sci fi now a days. Thumbs up!
The thing is, those 'see-through, floaty panel things' aren't sci-fi anymore; we already have them in AR and VR. Obviously that tech is not yet reliable enough to use in current space vehicles, but it won't be too long before buttons and switches will be for science-history rather than science-fiction.
The spaceship in the thumbnail and beginning looks amazing
Nice film. The weather/coms guy is definitely the best actor. Stole the final scene he was in. Costumes were great and very scrufftech. Would love to see the developer make more and expand his universe!
I dunno. I thought all the acting seemed a bit stiff and forced.
@@HeyIFoundACamera except the older gentleman. He was startling good in comparison. I give the creators and actors mad props for pinching every cent of production value making this.
We have seen untrained actors shine after they are first published.
@@HeyIFoundACamera me too
Thanks! Great job guys.
Not a huge fan of the, "Oh my God, it's us!" angle, but this was done well enough that I would watch this as a full length movie. Thanks.
I think it has been over done. It's become a trope.
It was fast and furious and left you, the viewer, with a flurry of thoughts and visuals. That last scene worked out pretty well.
This reminds me of an old Twilight Zone episode called "Death Ship" from 1963.
@@paulrouk714 I've probably seen it years ago but I'll watch it again later. So many great sci-fi stories were in that original Twilight Zone series!
I like this lady commander.
That was the best jump-scare I have had for a while! Nicely done.
3:57 Are those a laundry machine hose and hanger on the helmet face shield?
Thumbs up for the Prop department :D
This is an example of how small things can leave a bigger impression on the overall feeling of a film than you might realize.
Having the two guys who come up to the helm that don't know the importance of being able to get a reading on the land, also have the knowledge to suggest sending down a beacon ship to get readings.
Then that leads to thinking about other contextual things relative to current times and the setting of the movie. Such as you're in the future and you can travel to other planets with your billion dollar vessel, but don't have the ability to use a drone that you can send down if all you're trying to accomplish is get readings from a scan?
Shows the importance of writing across genres.
@Stephen Morton - HELM Theory One actor in particular stood out from the rest.
This is why I subscribed. Content like this film
❤️❤️❤️
Nicely done. Saw it was Paradox and thought it was gonna be a scene from a game. Accomplished a lot in a very short time: set the context, established the mission. Evil corporation sends its pawns into supposedly uncharted space but someone's been here before ... oh nooooo
She is so strong and independent.
Loving the washing machine hose on the helmet visors!!
Haha nice catch! We used whatever we could that wouldn’t break the bank!
I love the washing machine hose around the visors
I want to see where that storyline goes. seriously. that was well paced. well edited, and fairly well directed. good job you guys. I want to see more of this.
For the next episode, they will send a group of space marines in... oh wait...
Remember, in space no one can hear you scream. Where's Ripley whenever you need her?
Classical plot, well done !
Year 2159 and they don’t have robots or probes to send down a planet ravaged by a storm!! Also, warning not to land, LV-426 vibes for sure…
Nice Alien references, cinematics were solid, good opening, acting was direct to VHS. Few things that stuck out to me, when you open a door to a building on an alien planet with wind howling outside and then you have the air inside the building totally calm it ruins the immersion, also BOSH washing machine division wants it's waste water pipes back. Not bad all in all.
Thank you! Yeah, I'm with you that moment could have been a little smoother VFX-wise. Glad you overall enjoyed it though!
What's VHS? Just kidding. I remember Blockbuster.
@@CadenButera I did, very much so. There are many parts that Ridley Scott would have been proud of. Polish is all it really needs, and... like many visually impressive shorts, less talking. ;)
@@foxabilo Fair enough! Thanks!
I like when he stepped on the debris on the floor and the glass went *crunch*.
"Then. Boost. The. Signal." Can you feel the strength? So edgy! So powerful!!!
THE CLIMAX.....AMAZING🤩🤩🤩
That's what she said.
Thanks, my guy! Glad you enjoyed it!
Another Great video 👍👍
Thanks for the watch!
Dude that was sweet. Nice node to Alien but with a time loop paradox.
Thanks, Mr. Sarcasum! Appreciate you taking the time to watch our short! 😃😃😃
@@CadenButera oh course!
The broken fluorescent tubes on the floor -> mercury vapor in the air + heavy breathing... classic
I like how they added the time displacement thing there at the end to tie the story together. :-)
Great visual effects.
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it.
Oh, I love how it leaves questions. Primarily, what causes the time effect? Is it the creature? Is it the storm?
Is that why the storm has been there for so long, but they didn't know about it?
If they just got there, but the structure is man made...who made it and where are they now? Obviously not this crew.
Fantastic.
@Nicholas Klos But the corpse had the same name tag as the second crewman. Which raises even more questions.
Personally I despise time travel plots. They're lmaost always done wrong and are just a cop-out tool for the writers to do whatever they want (exploiting the paradox wrongly).
Very few time travel stories are good or interesting like the movie "Primer" or the book "Thrice Upon a Time".
Babylon 5 skirted the main issues (of time travel) by making it cool and not matter in the actual current plot.
@@Albtraum_TDDC Well the Terminator movies were pretty cool. Until Terminator 3 and all the films that came after. Then everything went downhill right into a plot hole abyss from there. :(
Truely TOP CLASS .. Nice work Guys
Informative. Useful. Calming. Inspiring. Life-changing. Enjoyable. Heart-warming. Other.
Let's see. Well, hmm... It's genuine Science Fiction... Yes! Always nice to see it again on Dust. Space ship..check. Far away planet.. yup. Special effects, props, costumes, lighting, ...all good. And a complete storyline with good acting all in 10 minutes. Woohoo! I like it! Although, I kept yelling at the screen, "Don't go down there, haven't you seen Aliens!"
Loved it!
Wow, what a great intro to what would presumably be a much better movie.
Definite 'Alien' feel to it, but in the original film, some of their VFX were cheesy too. The masks they used in med bay and the tubes from Ash's innards - having been a 902xx in the AF, the items were easily recognizable. BUT, with that said, enjoyed it and very much agree with others - flesh it out more and make a full length movie - I'd pay money to see it.
This was great!
Glad you enjoyed it, man!
That looked like the beginning of a great movie. However, as a short it just left me wondering.
The cast is great. Different ages and styles, refreshing to look at.
None of those characters should be in charge of a taco cart, let alone a billion dollar spaceship. There's the Corporate Guy who doesn't listen to anyone, The Experienced Guy that no one listens to, the Smart Female, who is also ignored, and the two Guys With Rebellious Attitude who could also be Guys Who Are Obvious Fuckups that are given the important mission. Why are they in a hurry to land in obviously dangerous conditions? Then they land and literally stick two poles in the ground, which could have been done from orbit. Somehow they land next to the only building on the planet, the odds of which are astronomically small. They're 20 feet inside the building when they get attacked and somehow the survivor doesn't go out the front door but deeper inside. Its a bunch of tropes wrapped in cliches that fails to do anything beyond waste the viewers time.
Also, where is the original pod?
And they apparently intended to land on top of their own shuttle. And couldn't find ONE spot on an entire planet that wasn't covered in hurricanes.
You didn't like it then ?
Man, I'm sorry I wasted your time...!
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Nice work. Decent suspense, and competent sfx. The acting was the only weak spot really. I was also particularly amused by teh football helmet face grill on the back of that cockpit chair :-)
Story was intriguing, acting wasn't horrible , however the costume designs took you right out to the experience from the jump. Motorcycle helmets with open ended vacuum hoses sticking out was ridiculous. You can't buy a story if you look like your 12 years old playing space man with you best buddy when you was a kid from parts from the garage.
Well shot, fast paced and competently acted; you can't find much of that on paid TV anymore, the praise is well deserved. Also, as a former USAF 304XX, I do appreciate seeing the AFCC patch early on (I was in when it was upgraded to a command and it still is, by Gawd!), though I couldn't remember what Army unit the rest of the patches were; that gave me a bit of a throw-off since I recognized them, realized I'm probably one of the few who actually recognized them and that's why you used them. A very minor peccadillo.
Thanks! And great catch!
I was more thrown by the odd combination of a very specific Oatey/Harvey washing machine waste water support hook (UPC 00009326409016) paired with a generic 19/21mm corrugate waste pipe on their helments.
@@maxximumb Actually it’s the Everbilt brand discharge hose
@@CadenButera You don't know how long I searched online for the hook with the raised line on it, just for the joke.
Great film though.
Set in 22nd century, super advance tech (kinda), cryo sleep, interstellar travel, yet the same tropes of stupid and incompetent crews like guys in Prometheus or Covenant. But I love it! Same like horror/slasher tropes, it just doesn't get old, at least for me.
Yes, it totally makes sense for people to volunteer to land into the the storm where they don't even see where they are landing. I guess it's normal practice to crew spaceships with suicidal halfwits.
Well, Ridley Scott seems to think so 😅
@@ElJohnerino He's not the best role model these days.
@@dimanetov1807 Sadly true. 😆
Need more like this one and the beacon !!
How am I going to finish connecting up my new washing machine if the sci-fi film makers use up all the plumbing accessories at my local DIY hardware store!? No, seriously a very good short film and I liked the litle time travel twist at the end. PS: I would argue as well with the Captaine that the coffee machine IS an essential piece of ship equipment!
The helmet equipment is cool, the side tubes and the pipe bends are original from a washing machine
Actually, Atropa is still the best, so I can't tell that I like this one because I prefer more starships, more anomalies etc..not hunter alien species or space horror movies..
I like that they are including older men in movie's see lot's of older woman stars but no just your normal older joe
This was visually beautiful. Top class lighting and camera work, great set dressing, sound spot on too. Could you forgive one whinge? Long/mid/close shots on a subject can't be from different sides. Threw me on the bridge with cup-holding guy especially, I thought there were two very similar guys on opposite sides til I figured it out. Hope that's constructive, and again, great job on the quality. More please! 😁
Loved this!
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
Get an old abandoned warehouse, out dated equipment, $200 at the Army/Navy store and actors from the coffee shop around the corner boom- you got a movie. The patches are upside down USArmy unit patches.
😀 @ coffee shop
hahaha the washing machine plastic pipes they have around the helmets xD im sorry it killed it for me :)
Well done! Wish it was longer to explore the implied space-time element.
Pretty great man. The time thing got me wonderin 🤔
This was really good, suspenseful and a sci-fi horror show, could make for a great movie. There's nothing wrong with the acting, they played their roles well. They did great with the CGI work, the ship looks believable. I really enjoyed this short show, wish it was longer really.
If I had to make one critique, it would be in the beginning where we saw the planet. We're told there's a massive storm on the planet but, when they show the planet and ship, the planet doesn't look like there's a massive storm rolling over the planet. Maybe no one else really noticed but, that's really all I can say for a critique, I did enjoy this and do want more.
Great job to the team who made 'Recursion'.
Thank you! Yeah I'm with you, the planet's atmosphere doesn't look as "stormy" as it should. But overall I'm glad you enjoyed it!
@@CadenButera I liked very much this movie. I just did not understand the reason why they get on the planet again.
@@CadenButera thank you for making it, it was a great show and I really do want to see more. Great work.
@@raffaelevalente7811 I'm pretty sure it's just the basic reasoning of resources on the planet and it was supposed to be uninhabited. I kind of thought the other guy would explain that.
A cautionary tale. When you get a message saying "Don't land here", don't land there. :)
That was nice, yes one can see they had a tight budget but lets be fair, we all have seen movies with more budget that looked less good and way much more worse. Sweet movie i enjoyed it.
Keep this going