So far we've had the gravity wells of some big planets acting as "interceptors" for some of the shots taken at us & we've already taken a few smaller hits over time but we're still on the bullseye & we can't dodge them all forever...
Loved it. The deep narrative voice and the operatic background music was a good combination. Dodge ball in space? Who would have thought it? It was worth it just to catch the ending with the scoreboard and Queens 'We will rock you at the end". Welcome to the future sports fans. LMAOH
Classical music hits the stem of our ancestry when heard. I never hear enough of it! It's like the foundation of everything else! I was raised in and brought up in a town/city of 4-5 million, we used to have a classical radio station 24hrs a day, WKLS! When the corporates took over, they destroyed everything, and left not SO level ground! Now a rock station, and then a I-dont-know-what station, so in '98, I quit tv & radio since they were all controlled by the same tasteless people. Lummy Natty! So when ever I hear a true piece of music, I give high acclaims! HIGH ACCLAIMS on the soundtrack! Thank you, also recognised a voice I know... WOODWARDTV! Glad to see quality traveling in the same circles, thanks! To every one!
I have to be honest, I wasn't even listening to the narrator. I just wanted to figure out why they were throwing a ball in space. Then the ending happened...
I will be honest too, I was listening to the narration, watching this space ball game, then I began to think "where is this going?", then by 4:40 I lost interest and stopped watching.
Unless that ball has zero mass, someone wasn't paying attention in physics class regarding conservation of mass, velocity, and momentum go. But hey, it's sci-fi, where physics is set aside!
That makes it Fantasy, not Sci-Fi. Same with all the incountable collection of movies that add absurd sounds to everything in the vaccum of space. In proper Sci Fi physics can be crazy or very unlikely, but at least it must have some plausability
A very good movie with a great double meaning. I asked myself what soft of game it is after the first half of the short ... interessting in germany its called "Völkerball" = which routhly translatet into "Peoples/Tribes-ball"
"[...] composed of *billions* of galaxies, which in turn are composed of *millions* of solar systems composed of *hundreds of thousands* of stars; all in harmony." I'd love to say this is what you get when you let jocks write your SF, but the truth is that most SF writers would have gotten it as wrong as this, if not worse. SF writers have no sense of scale.
Alex Castro ...ehh, see, you say that, but as far as I'm concerned, if you don't make it clear something is supposed to be a parody then I have to treat it like something you said, or recorded as the case may be, in earnest. It's the same way I treat "comedies" if it makes me laugh it's a comedy, if it doesn't then it's not. I still remember when Gray's Anatomy season one came out - they actually used the word drama in the description, when the writers strike ended they had reclassified the show as a dramedy. The author is dead, it's not the makers of short movies, writers or books and graphic novels, developers of games etc., etc. that decide what they're product is, it's the audience and how they react. The first 90% of this short goes too far in the serious direction to be able to claim it was a parody. The punchline, as it were, just isn't funny enough to justify all the budget and feel of the first 90% of the short. And before you say, that that first part was soooo absurd it had to be a parody... yeah, there's a reason "SF writers have no sense of scale" is an extremely well known trope/cliche. When the people that you are parodying say the same things you say, just that they do it in earnest... it becomes rather hard to distinguish parody from earnest ignorance and stupidity.
AlucardNoir Because of how incorrect and joked out everything is, you'd obviously know this is SOME kind of parody... Why did you need to write a college essay, waste your time, and (or) even decide to comment? I'm not trying to be rude or appeal that way, but are you being serious???
We have not been evolving for billions of years. For the first three and a half billion years, there were only bacteria (simple life) until about 700 million years ago when LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor) was born and complex life (us, all plants and animals) was created with Mitochondria. Also, it is greed that drives the Human race, not a thirst for knowledge (if it was knowledge, we would have given up on superstitions and gods). Damn fine short movie though! I loved it! Although the facial expressions kinda gave it away.
I saw your add today on TH-cam about you going to Ruku, will you be closing this channel or removing it's content? Really nice short, thanks for the upload
We'll still be on TH-cam and Facebook putting up new shorts every week. The Roku channel will have extra content that we can't put here like classic sci-fi feature films and TV shows.
Brilliant and spot on! Silly monkeys don't know why, so they just keep pitching games as they reach for the sky. Nature doesn't care if you understand what she has put before you, only that you fulfill her commission. Your motivations and diversions are entirely your own problem. Play ball! Meanwhile, they have more or less populated the galaxy with a trillion species, unaware that that alone was the point all along. Big forebrains, opposable thumbs, uncontrolled curiosity, and enough metallurgy to get it done. Stare into the fire, little monkey. The crackling of the embers and the cackling of your enthusiasm is sufficient to the task, if only you listen to your mistress at last. To the stars!
What is the opera song used in this episode. I've greatly increased my opera knowledge which heretofore consisted of ride of the valkyries & william tell Overture & lakme delibes du des fluer. Really hope someone knows!
We better have replicators before we invent that sport, cause every single one of them balls are definitely gonna get thrown to open space at some point
super funny parody.... The pompeous spech and the mimics of the "astronauts" etc... I paused the video when we first see the patch on the space suit (Intergalactic Dodgeball League: WTF ?) so I wasn't too much surprized about the ending.
more true than anyone probly wants to admit. You know there's already an unofficial quidditch league on the ISS... started w/one of them waking the other up with spitballs..
100% silly and a big fat F for the physics. Newton, who is so worshipfully mentioned, would be spinning in his grave (figure out the angular momentum for that one) while laughing hysterically. Much fun, thanks.
The ball bouncers are all around us!...making billions that could be spent on education. But what fun would THAT be?...damned hard to drink beer, wave an outsized foam 'number one' hand, and cheer at a math contest!
Well I'm pretty down on being fans of sports players, but there's a difference between that and not being sedentary bivalve. It's good to get out and challenge your coordination and get exercise. But nevermind, bro, sorry - I thought this was that video where they do personal sports like casual skiing on moon slopes or hang-gliding in low-g below a view of Saturn-esque rings...
This fails to address the effects of equal and opposite reactions. I fully expected some form of propulsion to be used while throwing and catching. This is not SciFi, it is UnsciFi.
solar systems? there’s only one - (our sun is the only one named Sol, for which our system is named) immensurable? not an English word - perhaps you meant immeasurable
First 50 seconds are just pathetic. Billions of galaxies but "millions of solar systems"?? Really? BILLIONS only in the Milk Way, let alone the entire universe. The entire thing is childish, idiot and boring.
The terminology needs correcting. Billions of galaxies - yes. Each one has billions of stars. There is only one solar system (ours). Our star is called Sol. Its system is the solar system. There are many other star (or - stellar) systems, but technically they are not solar systems (although some people will use solar system to refer other star systems anyway). Millions of star systems -- is just wrong. Star systems containing hundreds of thousands of stars -- wrong. A star system can have one or multiple stars, but the current known maximum (as far as I know) is seven.
Sorry....The intro doesn't make sense. If there are billions of galaxies, then the number of solar systems should be MUCH larger on a massive order, and the number of stars should be magnitudes larger than that...I assume that this is some sort of attempt at humor... Ignoring the fact that the act of throwing/catching the ball would've caused them to spin away - we'll assume they had stabilizing equipment on to counter the force - it was completely moronic to call it dodgeball when they couldn't even dodge. Which then begs the question - why stabilizers but no thrusters to dodge with? And, that begs the question, if they COULD dodge, what would become of that rubber ball?
"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball." Patches O'Houlihan
'Nuff said!
Came up from the minors after working in maintenance at L5 Prime.
Life is truly a game of intergalactic dodgeball. A philosophy I have always endeared to my heart. Thanks for creating!
So far we've had the gravity wells of some big planets acting as "interceptors" for some of the shots taken at us & we've already taken a few smaller hits over time but we're still on the bullseye & we can't dodge them all forever...
"Billions of solar systems composed of thousands of stars"? Carl Sagan would be proud of this parody good job :)
I guess they're not allow to say millions...
Global Nomad
Yup! Lol
This was garbage...... you guys are making something from nothing.
The music and faces they're making make this funny!
salute to that guy who made the sci-fi short film to a parody film... well done... can't stop laughing :v :v
Very fun to watch.
love this - just like the other Dust short where it was so dramatic - and at the end they're flying the paddles in pong
Well, that's six minutes of my life I'll never get back.
Agreed. And how come nobody obeys Newton's Laws of Motion?
By far the best one yet! :)
Loved it. The deep narrative voice and the operatic background music was a good combination. Dodge ball in space? Who would have thought it? It was worth it just to catch the ending with the scoreboard and Queens 'We will rock you at the end". Welcome to the future sports fans. LMAOH
Classical music hits the stem of our ancestry when heard. I never hear enough of it! It's like the foundation of everything else! I was raised in and brought up in a town/city of 4-5 million, we used to have a classical radio station 24hrs a day, WKLS! When the corporates took over, they destroyed everything, and left not SO level ground! Now a rock station, and then a I-dont-know-what station, so in '98, I quit tv & radio since they were all controlled by the same tasteless people. Lummy Natty! So when ever I hear a true piece of music, I give high acclaims!
HIGH ACCLAIMS on the soundtrack! Thank you, also recognised a voice I know... WOODWARDTV! Glad to see quality traveling in the same circles, thanks! To every one!
The Ending Was Pleasantly Unexpected.
I have to be honest, I wasn't even listening to the narrator. I just wanted to figure out why they were throwing a ball in space. Then the ending happened...
I will be honest too, I was listening to the narration, watching this space ball game, then I began to think "where is this going?", then by 4:40 I lost interest and stopped watching.
Not giving up this would have been a great story on your podcast
The ocean maker was the best in my opinion but they are all great in their own way
Amazing video, so true to our nature, it's scary. Thank you Vescio and Gasparini, well done.
SiFi with a smile...and Carmen. 👍👍👍👍👍
That's six minutes of my life that I will never get back.
Amen to that VFX Todd. Really enjoyed this one. Well written. Good job. More like this please😃
Unless that ball has zero mass, someone wasn't paying attention in physics class regarding conservation of mass, velocity, and momentum go. But hey, it's sci-fi, where physics is set aside!
That makes it Fantasy, not Sci-Fi. Same with all the incountable collection of movies that add absurd sounds to everything in the vaccum of space. In proper Sci Fi physics can be crazy or very unlikely, but at least it must have some plausability
I liked that one. Needed a smile this morning. Love to EVERYONE ~ from Alabama 🤠
A very good movie with a great double meaning. I asked myself what soft of game it is after the first half of the short ... interessting in germany its called "Völkerball" = which routhly translatet into "Peoples/Tribes-ball"
Spectacular!
Nice relief from all the dark heavy doom and gloom.
you think that wasn't dark?
"[...] composed of *billions* of galaxies, which in turn are composed of *millions* of solar systems composed of *hundreds of thousands* of stars; all in harmony." I'd love to say this is what you get when you let jocks write your SF, but the truth is that most SF writers would have gotten it as wrong as this, if not worse. SF writers have no sense of scale.
The bitch is they were trying to quote Sagan!
AlucardNoir
It was a parody...
Alex Castro ...ehh, see, you say that, but as far as I'm concerned, if you don't make it clear something is supposed to be a parody then I have to treat it like something you said, or recorded as the case may be, in earnest. It's the same way I treat "comedies" if it makes me laugh it's a comedy, if it doesn't then it's not. I still remember when Gray's Anatomy season one came out - they actually used the word drama in the description, when the writers strike ended they had reclassified the show as a dramedy.
The author is dead, it's not the makers of short movies, writers or books and graphic novels, developers of games etc., etc. that decide what they're product is, it's the audience and how they react. The first 90% of this short goes too far in the serious direction to be able to claim it was a parody. The punchline, as it were, just isn't funny enough to justify all the budget and feel of the first 90% of the short. And before you say, that that first part was soooo absurd it had to be a parody... yeah, there's a reason "SF writers have no sense of scale" is an extremely well known trope/cliche. When the people that you are parodying say the same things you say, just that they do it in earnest... it becomes rather hard to distinguish parody from earnest ignorance and stupidity.
AlucardNoir Because of how incorrect and joked out everything is, you'd obviously know this is SOME kind of parody... Why did you need to write a college essay, waste your time, and (or) even decide to comment? I'm not trying to be rude or appeal that way, but are you being serious???
There is only one scale : justice.
Brilliant
But you can't....
Tune a FISH!
(-8D
J.C.
Excellent work"⚛
very original ... probably the highest tooth count ever.
great ending
The text looks like it was written under strong influence of Leonard Nimoy.
Throwing the ball would have made them spin backwards.
Maybe its very light
IE why they call it Sci-Fi...
except for the inertial dampeners. takes fine calibration.
The music was the best part of the video
"If you can catch a wrench, you can catch a ball!"
Electro ... *dodge*
@@Matthewsala he did say that didn't he? Dang it!
Electro I was scrolling through the comments to find that quote, and yours was the closest. So you get that. ;)
@@Matthewsala thanks man!
It's called sarcasm people. Also, why wouldn't dodgeball in zero-g be 3D?
Well done, very amusing
Great ending. Well worth it.
"Yes Cotton, we are here on the Ocho to bring the viewers the greatest of all sporting events!"
AWESOME! ... Is it wrong that my wheelchair got a hardon?
LOL……That was the last thing I thought it would be…. Hahahaha… Good Video 😂
We have not been evolving for billions of years. For the first three and a half billion years, there were only bacteria (simple life) until about 700 million years ago when LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor) was born and complex life (us, all plants and animals) was created with Mitochondria.
Also, it is greed that drives the Human race, not a thirst for knowledge (if it was knowledge, we would have given up on superstitions and gods).
Damn fine short movie though! I loved it! Although the facial expressions kinda gave it away.
I saw your add today on TH-cam about you going to Ruku, will you be closing this channel or removing it's content? Really nice short, thanks for the upload
We'll still be on TH-cam and Facebook putting up new shorts every week. The Roku channel will have extra content that we can't put here like classic sci-fi feature films and TV shows.
Very boring, and the physics laws are completely flouted.
music is just this!!! awsome
Brilliant and spot on! Silly monkeys don't know why, so they just keep pitching games as they reach for the sky. Nature doesn't care if you understand what she has put before you, only that you fulfill her commission. Your motivations and diversions are entirely your own problem. Play ball!
Meanwhile, they have more or less populated the galaxy with a trillion species, unaware that that alone was the point all along. Big forebrains, opposable thumbs, uncontrolled curiosity, and enough metallurgy to get it done. Stare into the fire, little monkey. The crackling of the embers and the cackling of your enthusiasm is sufficient to the task, if only you listen to your mistress at last. To the stars!
This is beautiful, and hilarious
I could see the ending coming o but it was totally worth it.
Unfortunately, everything this video says about the cosmos and evolution is incorrect!
well, it was a sports announcer ...
Questions of children. Very elementery
Very amusing . .
Keeping covid distance from each other won't be a problem in space.
Who else thought the sun had eyes for a second haha
We are not on a dome this is a globe.
Jajaja..little different..thanks!😄
As we all want sumthing new....sumthin different...here it is .......wit old ass music.......jus entertaining!.. .....😮
Well that was interesting.
These poor earthlings, the only thing they really into is a ball game...
Lol 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
What is the opera song used in this episode. I've greatly increased my opera knowledge which heretofore consisted of ride of the valkyries & william tell Overture & lakme delibes du des fluer. Really hope someone knows!
What is the name of the music playing in the background?
We better have replicators before we invent that sport, cause every single one of them balls are definitely gonna get thrown to open space at some point
Strange diphthongs in the narrative.
super funny parody....
The pompeous spech and the mimics of the "astronauts" etc...
I paused the video when we first see the patch on the space suit (Intergalactic Dodgeball League: WTF ?) so I wasn't too much surprized about the ending.
whats the music?
Is there a form to fill out to get those 6 minutes back?
I am sure everyone noticed that the Newtonian laws of motion were apparently not in effect here.
its all abput the dilithium crystals.
And that's why we need SPACE FORCE!!!!!
that was Space Force vs Tottenham.
harmony? where is it again?
I must say they all had great teeth!
He also said the "dome" of the earth... he knows... or mayb he doesn't he's just reading the script.
Excellent film. But Κόσμος - Cosmos in modern and ancient Greek is not "order". It means universe and wold and (all) people
more true than anyone probly wants to admit.
You know there's already an unofficial quidditch league on the ISS... started w/one of them waking the other up with spitballs..
its like sex in space .. NASA supresses all info about it ;)
they can't all be winners
💚
100% silly and a big fat F for the physics. Newton, who is so worshipfully mentioned, would be spinning in his grave (figure out the angular momentum for that one) while laughing hysterically. Much fun, thanks.
Predictable. Yet still amusing if you can momentarily disregard certain laws of motion.
with so much tooth display, i thought that teeth would have a role.
they do.
Its this sports minded bullshit that makes me yearn for space. Don't tell me it'll be up there too!
The ball bouncers are all around us!...making billions that could be spent on education. But what fun would THAT be?...damned hard to drink beer, wave an outsized foam 'number one' hand, and cheer at a math contest!
Well I'm pretty down on being fans of sports players, but there's a difference between that and not being sedentary bivalve. It's good to get out and challenge your coordination and get exercise. But nevermind, bro, sorry - I thought this was that video where they do personal sports like casual skiing on moon slopes or hang-gliding in low-g below a view of Saturn-esque rings...
O yeah! I'm sure if we ever colonize Mars they'll come up with a sport of some kind, lol! Just can't get away from it.
The second half was unnecessarily stretched.
Made me laugh.
You trying to be like Rod Sterling?
Dustin Bess - We know to whom you are referring, but his name was actually Rod Serling. Just saying.
Well... that just happened.
Playing ball in space without Newton?
That's a bold move Cotton, let's see how it plays out for her erm him.
This fails to address the effects of equal and opposite reactions. I fully expected some form of propulsion to be used while throwing and catching. This is not SciFi, it is UnsciFi.
just because you don't see or understand it, doesn't make it Un-so.
Was clearly tooooo less time for a short-film to include ANY sense....
RIGHT?????
Hahahahahahahaha well done LoL
The intro for Carmen was WAY too long, and I couldn't focus on anything else.
😕
solar systems? there’s only one - (our sun is the only one named Sol, for which our system is named)
immensurable? not an English word - perhaps you meant immeasurable
but what was the score?
Narrator is or gotta be dude from ODD TV. 😃
First 50 seconds are just pathetic. Billions of galaxies but "millions of solar systems"?? Really? BILLIONS only in the Milk Way, let alone the entire universe.
The entire thing is childish, idiot and boring.
The terminology needs correcting. Billions of galaxies - yes. Each one has billions of stars. There is only one solar system (ours). Our star is called Sol. Its system is the solar system. There are many other star (or - stellar) systems, but technically they are not solar systems (although some people will use solar system to refer other star systems anyway). Millions of star systems -- is just wrong. Star systems containing hundreds of thousands of stars -- wrong. A star system can have one or multiple stars, but the current known maximum (as far as I know) is seven.
"LLLLLIFE."
Can’t get the science right in the Intro Narrative. What was this? A liberal arts Cinematography 101 project?
Uhm, yeah, there's that..
Seriously? When you know they are playing dodgeball less than half way through, the speech an slowmo seem waaay to drawn out.
Uh...............o.k..........just gonna stand over here by the door..........
Sorry....The intro doesn't make sense. If there are billions of galaxies, then the number of solar systems should be MUCH larger on a massive order, and the number of stars should be magnitudes larger than that...I assume that this is some sort of attempt at humor...
Ignoring the fact that the act of throwing/catching the ball would've caused them to spin away - we'll assume they had stabilizing equipment on to counter the force - it was completely moronic to call it dodgeball when they couldn't even dodge. Which then begs the question - why stabilizers but no thrusters to dodge with? And, that begs the question, if they COULD dodge, what would become of that rubber ball?
I wasted 6 minutes and 4 seconds of my life for this? I'm just a little dumber now than i was 6 minutes and 4 seconds ago. Bummer.
Holy shit.
Not sure why but it simply didn't work for me.