Hi! I did some of Westworld ‘glitch’ work highlighted here. So cool to see it talked about! Nothing was motion controlled - usually I would stabilize the shot, retime different parts, and then re-apply the match move so the camera was real time. But for the shot with the sink in the front I did have to rebuild the parts of his body the sink hid (all comp - mostly grid warp morphs)
You and the team did amazing work! It's executed with such eye for detail in terms of what exactly gives us that robot feel, how to translate that in a realistic fashion instead of just going for old tropes. I can feel that a lot of thought went into the movement design, and a lot of effort into getting it just right! I admire y'all's dedication and skill!
It's important to consider the context of the explosion in the James Bond film. That explosion was meant to convey a sense of finality. The distance is part of the director saying that we've passed the climax, killed the bad guy, they made it out. In that context it would feel jarring to have an explosion that presented visceral and imminent danger, unless you wanted to play it for a joke - which would feel more Pierce Brosnan than Daniel Craig.
Exactly. I haven't seen the movie (not much of a Bond fan) but it was clear to me that it was never *intended* to "feel dangerous". I got exactly that sense of finality from it that you mentioned. Now that I know when it takes place, it fits perfectly. I can't remember off the top of my head but I've seen more explosions like this, where the characters are far away and not in imminent danger, to convey that sense of finality, both in positive ("we won, it's over") and negative ("we lost, it's over") contexts. I have zero problems with it. The guys' assessment that it doesn't feel dangerous or impactful like Blown Away did is absolutely spot on, but it's supposed to be like that. I was actually a bit peeved, like, not everything needs to be a big dangerous action thing :P
It's still a naff explosion though. Watch the slo-mo at 1:56 - the way the fire swoops across the path to the right, then back across again as it comes forwards. It doesn't feel like an explosion, it feels like something being set on fire.
@@MerelvandenHurk I think introducing it as the “biggest Hollywood fireball” record paints a poor picture of what you’re about to watch if you haven’t seen the movie before
@@Kinitawowi if I'm understanding the context correctly, that is kinda what it is meant to be. It looks like a gas or fuel plant/refinery of some sort. So the "explosion" is a low pressure ignition that's spreading along the pipe ways. Not having seen the movie, that's what it looked like to me. I thought it was good, and suited the moment well. The acting seemed to lend it more of an air of nonchalance, exhaustion, and a sort of element of "cleansing fire". Not every explosion needs to be high speed and high tension.
To me the explosion says that Bond is in control and knows what he’s doing. Why would he destroy the facility before he and Madeline are at a safe distance?!
For The Northman the fight on the volcano Eggers really wanted them to be fully naked and he wanted to show their genitals but the studio wanted to keep them hidden and were not willing to budge on it so I wouldn’t say it’s a lack of commitment it’s another story of studio interference
The Northman was plauged with studio interference. Eggers said its the first and last time he works with a major studio. The whole scene of them dancing at the ritual he wanted them all to be nude and the studio said no. My guess they also pushed for that stupid smoke effect.
I dont know if I’m complitely wrong but I’m pretty sure there was no ”smoke” on the version I saw. Is there a difference in European and U.S version? And even with it’s issues Nothman was epic.
I think it was definitely a regional difference Eggers is not the type of person to pull this kind of a half assed (pun 100% intended) approach. I saw the film in the UK and I don’t remember any gratuitous smoke plumes
Ive absolutely loved him since the witch, one of the best horror movies of the decade, & the lighthouse was so goddamn good I totally understand wanting a bigger budget for northman, and i can see why it didn't grab the average shlub wanting action shlock..i definitely knew it would be his style and not for everyone, even then he didn't go all-in with the historical realism again to make it more approachable, and the berserker raid on the village is still some damn good action but i still loved it haha. I think it's just as good as his first two, but I was a film major, and i think eggers is one of the best new directors out there
I acutally love "The Northman" for what it is. Robert Eggers said in an interview with Deadline, that it sucked that he wasn't allowed to show dicks, so they had to come up with these solutions, to cover them up. But the "reason" why he wasn't allowed to show them was like the stupidest thing ever: "Because it is shown on flights". I am not making this up, this was the reasoning behind this censorship. For the life of me, i never understood why americans in particular think, that is more disturbing for teenagers or kids to accidentally see a naked person, rather than mutilated corpses or an entire village of people getting burned alive. I get that it is more uncontrollable, what a child might see on the headrestscreens of other people on the plane, but if that is your reason to censor a movie you should either don't show movies for adults at all or go the other way and censor the violence, instead of genitals (by the way, there are a bunch of woman who run around completly naked and you can see everything... Just saying). Either way, censorship in adult movies doesen't make sense to me at all - especially not this kind.
@@Werkvuur It's definitely an American thing. There is a weird squeamishness about nudity in all media over there. Not to say the US is the only country that's like that, but it's certainly the most religiously puritanical western country.
Going after the Northman for the village scene is a bit weird to me as I didn’t notice any VFX in it, which is sort of the point. It has some frame transitions, so? Yet the Northman has one of the most incredible crane shots I’ve seen recently….when Viking longboats are going down a river and the camera pushes out over the riverbank pans onto one of the boats and dollies down the boat through the rowers into a close up of Amleth. And that was done in one take without any VFX. As a camera op myself, I was in awe when I watched that in the cinema. I guess cinematic art is lost on some people.
Van Helsing with Hugh Jackman has some great effects moments in it! Some of it has not aged well, but the final werewolf/dracula battle has some beautiful work. When Van Helsing screams while holding Anna and transforms back to a man, it's pretty flawless.
Smoke and torches in that scene might have made it visually more exciting, but I would have been thinking, "why are they running around carrying torches for no reason when they're in a life and death situation-- it makes no sense!" The actor's motions probably could have been more dynamic and weighty, but the commitment to immersion is what made the film work.
yeah I'm not sure why they kept trying to bitch about this movie, because the director chose to use very little CGi and mostly to cover up stuff?! odd take
Very much disagree with sam and niko on The Northman, it was extremely realistic. Actual melee isn't anything like the movies, and the northman portrayed hand-to-hand combat very realistically for that time.
Most of their recommendations tend to be Hollywood cliches. Add more stuff to the screen! Add more VFX layers! Ironically this is the stuff that people don't respond emotionally to anymore. I would rather have clean and clear shots where I can see everything as opposed to fake shots with fire, smoke, embers, lense flare, and dirt layers added.
For it to be historically real, I'd bet there would have to be a metric ton of more background noise and environmental chaos happening... It's too surgically clean atm, like a very precisely choreographed dance 🤷♀️
@@poolkrooni why ? it was just a handful of crazy bastards that just started assaulting a small walled village, where would all the torches, chaos, and background fires come from ? people would just flee while the soldiers try to organize a defense.
@@danilooliveira6580 Because it’s a handful of crazy bastards attacking a small village, it’s unrealistic for someone to just stroll through like they’re moving on a track and “yaw” someone at convenient moments like they’re part of a video game cutscene with QTEs. The scene looks too choreographed to be realistic. It has to be choreographed to get the fake oner look. IRL fights like these should be way more frantic and fast and have way more energy in them, if not VFX. These aren’t coordinated military men attacking other coordinated military men. They’re vikings and their strategy is to fuck you up before you get the chance to fuck them up. They won’t be standing around in power poses or doing all this Last Jedi-style “hovering” waiting for people get into position before attacking. People also react in a variety of ways to their village being attacked. Some people flee, other people run into their homes to grab their valuables, other people would probably look for their loved ones/kids, others would try to fight. There is no uniform reaction to these situations. So having all the villagers uniformly fleeing and all the soldiers attacking one at a time, makes it feel like a video game.
is it tho, I mean it was cool but as they said, the impact is not that much, I felt more impact on the last fight which was more visceral, and the cut also was also not that great, it's a cool idea but was it that necessary to cut when he falls, when you do a one-shot, you need to find the best way to cut it, and honestly if the character of alexander just climbs off-screen, then the camera still follows on the ground, and we see him killing the guy in the horse, it would keep a little more dynamic but also as they said, it felt too empty, just a little more fire and I know people who say it's "not realistic", that's the thing, you are making a movie, not a documentary , I'm probably sure that in few years, what we saw in it, will be easily debunked but still the movie was cool but underwhelming comparing to the lighthouse and the witch
The Northman was amazing. One of my favorite movies of the year. You have to know the context behind everything like this is the first scene where you see him grown up and it’s meant to show more emotion than commotion. Commotion wasn’t the key here. It was just meant to be very brutal and slow placed. Just because it’s one shot doesn’t mean there needs to be a lot of commotion:
@@unknownunknown7769 the problem is that in the effort of trying to make it brutal and slow, that they made it way too slow. The entire scene felt so weightless, and slow, like all the actors were stuck in mud, yet you could still see all the fast paced chaos in the background. It also felt ridiculously weightless, since when one actor gets hit with a weapon they barely react, instead just doing a generic death pose.
@@anuragneelam8527 it’s all about the story though. It’s a character building scene more than it is a “one shot.” It’s just all about the context behind that scene.
Would love to hear y'alls thoughts on the Green Knight giants. So strange, apparently an addition David Lowery did during Covid when the film was delayed and he recut the film, adding a ton of VFX shots
I loved the shit outta that movie for some reason. I want more movies like that, where a writer/director just has a vision in their head that needs to be executed and unconditionally unobstructed. It was unsettling in a weird, almost alien way, but also felt very natural in contrast to the recent trend of over-produced movies. An instant cult classic
Not gonna lie I skip through more corridor ads than I watch, and this episode's ad was genuinely so fun I watched all the way through. Love how meta it is, great job all around. Also, little boy making an appearance is just wonderful thank you whoever brought him in
In the skyfall shot also the speed of light and the speed of sound seems to be the same. Sure it's not that far away so it would be just a bit delayed but that's what is selling explosions to me. The difference in sound and visuals
that scene would genuinely be so much better if it exploded just 0.1 seconds before the sound and shockwave hits the cop and M and makes them react to it. more real, harder hitting. also would help if the scene darkened a bit to show the camera adjusting to the brightness of the explosion, even if for just half a second at the start of the explosion.
The Northman is certainly flawed, but for some reason everything about it works for me. I love both fights they showed. The movie is just amazing to me.
Yes it was an odd movie to watch for me, on one hand, yes the effects and fights were mostly okay but the story really threw me off, it was so shallow and predictable... it felt like you knew what was going to happen from the first minute not to talk about the huge inaccuracies if you even know the slightest bit of viking religion end tradition... still a fun movie to watch with the boys with more blood and action then a story you have to follow
@@wripiii it's based on the legend of Amleth by Shakespeare one of the most frequently adapted story . That why is predictable and also it not made to be historically accurate.
Would love to see you guys react to clips from Sky High (2005 film)! Some really cool superpower FX throughout the whole thing, would love to see how they hold up in front of professionals.
The explosion in Skyfall had way more of an impact on me in the theater than the one in Spectre and I think that’s due to an element that’s not discussed as much which is sound editing. That blast at mi6 may sounded real enough to sell it, at least for me. You heard the blast but also the sounds of debris, rapid outgassing, twisted metal, etc. it’s that combo of sounds that makes car accidents so sickening to hear in real life. Another example is when joker blows up the hospital in Dark Knight. The sound editing in that scene is crazy and really sells the moment
It's also the camera. We have two characters framed on either side of the frame, which cover up large portions of the explosion. The biggest issue is the zoom. All amazing explosions have one thing in common. Comparison. In Skyfall, the explosion is far away enough that you can compare it to the unaffected areas around it. See how big it is. In Spectre, the explosion takes up the entire frame, so you have no comparison whatsoever to size - the viewer just gets lost in it. The explosion should should have been a wide angle showing the desert around the building, even just a little bit, to give real perspective on the size.
Yea I agree. Can't recall the Skyfall explosion but I distinctly remember the Joker hospital. I saw a mob movie with Ben Affleck (I believe its 'Live By Night') that had car bombs with great sound.
honestly i think the spectre explosion is a masterpeice, the explosion is meant to feel more like an emotional payoff then a physical one like in the second one
Fully recommend a whole video on westworld. There are many scenes that would be cool to breakdown like Dolores putting her skin sleeves on (gross), all the exoskeleton/metal robot scenes, the pausing of the hosts, the practical futuristic vehicles
I agree, there’s a mixture of good and bad vfx in Westworld as well. The ending of season 4 where Hale is down to her mechanical skeleton looked super fake to me and it’d be interesting hearing them breakdown why that is.
That Vessi short in Producers React had me LoL'ing into buying another pair! Even replicated the beats of VFX Artist react - definitely the second little explosion this episode.
@@royalrandomness777 I've been typing this comment every week for the past 57 weeks. I've done this over a year and have received no response and have yet to see it in video.
@@jackychang9148 I love the movie and would agree with you wanting to see the scenes. But chrionicle had like 0 budget and I feel the answers would just be “wires and green screens.”
The best vessi ad / sponsor segment. Now I'm rethinking story telling for ads and sponsored segments. The VFX react always delivers. Thank you corridor crew team
That police officer reacting instantly to the explosion, like sound and shockwaves don’t take time to reach you from that distance is what breaks the london mi6 bomb scene for me.
yeah when they played it back multiple times I kept looking at the dude. I dunno if his Que was off or it was just the way they added the explosion but it felt weird. It was like he almost jumped before the explosion,
Eastern Promises! It was really cool to see you guys talk about that fight, one of the most brutal fights out there. It makes it so much more visceral when you can *see* Viggo taking damage, bleeding more and more. Ranks up there with the knife scene in Saving Private Ryan, in my opinion.
Really didn't like your takes on The Northman. Robert Eggers wanted to show vikings without glorifying them. A long take of a viking raid with minimal distractions and wide angles let's the audience see how brutal and uncaring Vikings were. They were slavers after all. Also keep in mind, Eggers did not have full creative control and dealt with studio interference, but you'd be surprised the kind of weird stuff he was allowed to include. I wish you guys reviewed the draugr fight. It was amazing. Edit: also, putting the Valkyrie in the thumbnail but not showing that scene is a crime. One of the most interesting depictions of Valkyries I've seen. I'm curious why Sam didn't like the story because that was the strongest aspect. It's basically Hamlet. Guess what happens if you rearrange letters? You get Amleth, the protagonist. Shakespeare based Hamlet on this story.
They were pointing out how not "brutal and uncaring Vikings were" due to the camera work, choreography. Telling your story visually is the most important job a director. Aside from that, none of their commpleints were about authenticity. Everyone is aware that Eggers is more than capable of providing that to his films. Also, Sam probably didn't like the story because, like you said, it was basically Hamlet. Instead of making "Viking Hamlet", why not tell a story most audiences haven't heard already as there is probably a ton of reference material in Viking history and lore. Aside from that, the film was longer than it needed to be and had poor character development. That's pretty much the main three complaints people had with this film.
@@jto82jan23 I get what Niko is saying, but he misunderstands Eggers intent. The chaos in the background is as important as the foreground, so he did not want to obscure it. It feels like it was intentionally slow paced so that the audience has time to observe what a real Viking raid would be like if you were in the midst of it. I personally learned a lot about Vikings and their culture from the film. Felt like a very real and unfiltered take on their history and spiritual beliefs. That made the simple revenge story more interesting to me.
I agree with you. As much as I like watching these guys and their takes on CGI, I tend to find myself occasionally annoyed with them mistaking their extensive knowledge on CG for their knowledge on anything filmmaking in general. Sometimes it feels like they put too much emphasis on what they would've done to "make it better" instead of attempting to see the intentionality behind a director's vision. Like I get it, this series is about CG artists critiquing good and bad CG but then sometimes they start bleeding into other territories and talking about more than just the CG and sometimes (not all the time) it comes off as slightly ignorant.
So glad you guys are going to do the Green Knight, such a great, misunderstood movie! Much more of an art house film than a big blockbuster, which caught some people out. The cinematography is epic, especially some of the cutting from one shot to the next.
Northman is my favourite movie of the last 10 years, really wish more people had seen it. Glad you guys are talking about it even if it's not in the most positive light.
Yea its disappointing that they went with such a simplistic story but they nail a very specific vibe and succed in immersing the audience in the world. Great acting and dialogue with well choreographed scenes but the story being so incredibly predictable from the very 1st minutes was what hindered this movie unfortunately for me.
I like you guys and love your content but your way off on The Northman, movie is legendary, so Damm well done and beautiful. Story is simply amazing one of the best films in a LONG time.
Think the issue also is they are looking at it as VFX artists. Like even just watching the movie they would inherently be looking at those aspects, where as I doubt most people were bothered by the VFX.
@@jonnbridges that's a situation called being "Lost in the Funhouse." It's when you understand the details and component parts of something so well that you can never again experience something as a whole, like you did when you were a kid. Actually a pretty interesting concept
Sorry but that action scene is so underwhelming. The visuals are so incredible and realistic, the fighting looks like kids playfighting. Theres just no impact, hard hitting moments. The whole scene looks like the tension raising pre-fight scene just before “the beat drops” and the fighting actually starts. He wasnt complaining about the lack of actions scenes, he was complaining about the lack of action, IN the action scenes. Theyre so slow, non-impactful, and boring.
@@demivideos8887 yeah most "realistic" real life fights are like that. You don't scream avemgers and run head first into a knife or a gun fight. Smh🤦♂️
That viking one was excellent :) It didn't look like a film, perhaps people fell off/over too easily, but otherwise it came across as really putting you in the place, and being really real and plausible. The layout, the lighting, the use of more than one muscle to move (even boxers don't just move the arms when punching), the lack of petroleum explosions. Had kind of the "real place" feel of a computer game rather than a film.
Same. I think looking at it out of context gives a different feel vs when you're watching the movie and there's all the build up prior to the raid. Also I loved the story. It's simple, but classic.
great episode as always, but I would like to comment on the sponsored segment: so much fun! great idea and interaction between Jake, Jordan and the clips!
Big disagree on yalls initial take on The Northman. Robert Eggers isn't going for big viking epic, he goes for small, claustrophobic, personal dramas. There's a reason 75% of this film takes place on a single farm. I think you guys misinterpreted what this movie is supposed to be.
If I'm not mistaken I recall reading about the Blown Away explosion and how they got in shit for it cause the shockwave that you see shake the camera evidently also broke windows in some near-by buildings
You are referring to the gas station explosion in Robocop, which I think was shot in Detroit. Paul Verhoven the director, kept wanting bigger explosions and the stunt team gave him a big explosion which caused windows of homes to be shattered for several blocks around it. There’s a crazy documentary about the making of Robocop.
I'm curious as to how the stuntmen didn't get pulverized. Looks a bit too good to be early 90's composting. I think it might have been a bit of forced perspective with their section of dock farther out from the big explosion. Wikipedia mentions them blowing out 8000 windows in Boston.
@@toaster917 It's not compositing. They usually film these types of shots with long lenses, giving the impression that the stuntmen are much closer than they actually are. Even still, though, this looks very dangerous and likely was.
@@ladolcevita6645nah happened for Blow Away too, the damage done to the surrounding buildings was much more than they anticipated. I don’t remember if the residents sued and won/settled or if they production company was just paying them off but i do remember reading that the production was paying residents of east Boston for years after the films release..
The Northman is near perfect. I didn't need Sam's take on the story, which is essentially Hamlet. If Andrei Tarkovsky directed a viking movie, that's The Northman. It's amazing. It's unfortunate that general audiences are unable to appreciate what that means. Not a big deal, just a bit of a bummer. Both of those fight sequences look great and serve the story. I agree that the cg smoke over the genitals was pointless, but knowing Eggers as a filmmaker, I doubt that would have been his choice. I would imagine he was pressured in some way to do that. Or the actors were unwilling, but I can't know for certain.
When it comes to "real" explosions, I find it interesting that the Behind The Scenes footage always seems more impactful than the final shot. I reacted much more to the James Bond explosion from the BTS camera, which is a shame because it really is an incredible display of pyrotechnics.
They entirely missed to point of The Northman being a Norse Saga. The main characters in these stories are being driven by the gods who have every obstacle cleared for the so the can address a broken oath. In the village scene it is completely correct for him to be one shotting everyone because the character has a destiny that Odin is driving him toward.
@@eggetcool Well, in the Poetic Edda, Odin was well known for his love of avoiding unnecessary cuts in his cinematography, Northman simply took that principle taken to its logical conclusion.
Totally agree on the pillow fight comment. Glad you covered the Westworld bit. I love that scene "Producers React" I think it could be hilarious and highly informative to actually have a Producers react.The mind set is truly different when you have to apply budget and number of shots and production time. It is fun to pick on that one bad shot. But now look at the Gig's calender and number of fx due versus man hour costs and crew size. It quickly becomes a resource strategy of what can we get away with? If the studio or client is not paying enough where do you draw the line. It is a business. It could lead to an interesting couch session.
Turned down by your take on The Northman. It's 100% animalistic and I loved the choices Eggers made to express it cinematically. It's not the epic hollywood final battle, it's an ugly massacre played by sheer force. Viking goes brrr
I think to me the Northman is a masterpiece in movie making.....I didn't even notice they were naked in the last fight because i was so immersed in the fight .....I think being too much analytical really stops you from enjoying these kinds of movies.....
They were wearing leather thongs, Alexander Skarsgård got to keep his after they finished shooting. Guess the studio still thought it was too much peen.
Yeah Robert Eggars is one of the most unique directors today. I absolutely love all of his films, the Northman included, but I will say that he is definitely better at writing horror stories, and I hope he sticks to the horror/thriller side of things in future.
crazy how different experiences can be. I normally enjoy low budget or out of the box movies, but I hated this movie. I thought it was way to long for what was happening.
what would have been a great scene in that naked Viking fighting scene is if one guy had used his frank & beans as a weapon to slap the other guy in the face...
honing in on the camera in some of the explosion breakdown reminded me of a scene from Kenobi where obi wan is riding his horse thing and there's shaky cam for literally no reason... that made me feel compelled to request a Kenobi episode :)
9:24 Not surprised to see the Stealth explosion make it into this episode! I almost expected to see it earlier when Niko said “Wanna see what a REAL explosion in film looks like?” 😂
Rewatching the classic 90's action flick, True Lies recently and thought it would be a great recommendation for you guys to review! Specifically need to check out the expert level miniature work done for the bridge explosion near the end of movie. Also should check out Paul E.T. awesome video essay "True Action" breaking the how the cast & crew pulled it off, super dope!
Talking of explosions, you should watch Jeremy Stenberg beaking down his insane jump on XXX its on his channel TwitchThis1 - The Craziest Motorcycle Stunt! (sorry it wont let me post links 👍)
@@eliazergonzalez671 I forgot it had a different title back then 'Sword of the Valiant' but the story is the same one. When the Green Knight trailer dropped it was a bit of deja vu.
It's been a while since I've seen it, so it's hard to put into words, but I remember being very disappointed with it. It was easily Egger's weakest film imo.
@@EricThePooh Honestly I went with my brother and he hated it. I can see why it would not be liked by a wider audience. But personally yeah I think it's better then The Witch but second to The Lighthouse.
@@ggthewhale Literally not even close. I was expecting something more thought provoking like the director's other 2 movies. I thought the pacing was bad, and the narrative shallow.
Also the timing was a bit off in "Skyfall". There's no way the cop would react so fast to that explosion since sound travels slower irl. In that shot, it appears that the explosion is a bit far from them.
Also, about the Spectre "explosion", there is very little actual explosion in it. It is basically just a bunch of barrels of gasoline being lit in sequence. There is no explosive force pushing anything around. And the way it is shot you don't see the edges of the smoke it just kind of fills the screen and lingers and you don't get the full scale of the fire.
basically it's a controlled fire, not an explosion. entirely different kind of pyrotechnics presumably meant to give a different visual compared to normal.
Yeah, "pillow fight" is a perfect description for that Spectre exlosion. It's all fuel burning up in big fluffy fireballs but with next to no shockwaves, debris, pressure release. It's feels like a limp punch with a broken wrist. That Blown Away explosion, however! BAM! The Stealth one is pretty good too!
It would be neat if you would look at Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, specifically about 6:20 into the film. I think the red flailing things the juggler is using are the same cg as the grindylows later in the film, just shiny and red.
Little Boy (IMDB) 8:17 Little Boy began his career in acting after graduating with BFA in expansion from the University of Minnesota in 1983. Due to his stunted height he was passed over by every major production for decades. In 2021 he got his big break and took the role of "Gas Can Explosion 02" in the film "Black Widow". He hoped his career would explode following the release of the film, and it did, but sadly in the worst way. He was ridiculed by audiences world wide, and filed a lawsuit against Marvel for emotional damage, and gas-lighting. He joined the Corridor Crew as "himself" for episode of VFX Artists React you are currently watching, hoping to start a new chapter for himself. Now in his late 40's he is no longer seeking a career on screen, but instead behind it- with dreams of directing his own Hollywood blockbuster, and he's assured us, he's not just blowing smoke.
I think the "BFA in expansion from the University of Minnesota" is a reference to their recent podcast episode where Niko talks about going to a seminar in college where they learned about different types of explosions and the differences between them while actually exploding things.
It would be awesome if y’all did some Star Trek shots, especially a look at the effects in the most recent discovery season or something like it. Or even take a look at the massive effects of the DS9 dominion war ship fight scenes
You should take a look at Tora Tora Tora if you like practical explosions... That movie has some terrifying (and actually a little bit dangerous) practical destruction scenes that just kind of have this realism I have yet to see replicated elsewhere.
Steve Mould just posted a video of the Rings of Power title sequence and tried to recreate it with physics. Apparently it was actually done with a blend of practical elements and CG. Would love to see your take on that!
There’s a scene from the land of the lost with Will Ferrell where they are running away from a dinosaur @25:15 where one of the cg characters disappears for a frame or 2
@@rolandmata6395 they had one of the artists on previously. There is a giant battle scene at the end of season 2 with a thousand time travel agents that was shot in the winter and they had to make it look like summer, and remove everyone's breath, and it was just remarkable, given what they had to work with. Stunning work.
Great Episode! For 'The Green Knight', couple interesting things would be Sir Gaiwin's head on fire in the opening, The Green Knight's decapitation, and the Extra Wide shot in King Arthur's Christmas speech (for that one, check out Vanity Fair's video on David Lowery breaking down a scene)
I would love to see you guys react the the CGi in the netflix show Dark, how they were able to create most of their effect on a small budget German show that were completely top tier for Netflix. They have a new show coming soon called 1899 which has the same writer and director duo! Please!
@@Spiqaro it starts off being about some kids going missing in a town but time travel gets involved quickly. I won't say more than that to avoid spoiling it but it's very good. You can watch it dubbed but I prefer to watch it with the original German audio and subtitles
For the VFX series you gotta react to the *last agni kai fight from ATLA.* It's so stunning! And *Aslan from the Chronicles of Narnia!* Also at the end of second one there's a big water creature, so it might be cool to see what you think about that. And for stuntmen react It would be cool to see you react to the duel from "Potop", it's really good sword fight (tho technically it's sabers i think)
Movie suggestion! Have you guys ever done Interview With the Vampire? I’m rewatching the movie from 1994 wondering how they did the scene where the guy dances up the ceiling and also how they had a camera panning over Claudia as she transforms from sickly to healthy in one shot. Was it all computers or practical or a mix, considering this came out a year after Jurassic Park? Feels like there’s some great FX in this movie probably some terrible ones as well! Maybe something to do just in time for Halloween! And maybe some other horror movies, like the classic and new movie monsters.
Literally just watched a video by Matt Baume about the history of the book and movies. I think that’s a sign! Anyone a fan of queer history and humor can check it out.
the add integration was really funny guys, im pretty bad about skipping though them usually, but you hit a note that really resonated with me this time, good job
13:02 How to make a pretty unique (by 21 century standards) movie look like every other movie that came up in recent memory. These guys would complain about The name of the rose or The seventh seal for lacking lens flare.
Guys for your next animation episode can you do Cyberpunk: Edgerunner? Not for any particular VFX, but for the work flow. Cyberpunk 2077 has a full modeled city with very vivid graphics. I wonder if that's gonna help the animators for stuff like references.
whoever did the little hand explosion CG did a much better job than they needed to. And it is appreciated.
Okay, now I want a "little boy" explosion I can carry around in my pocket! 😆
That was fucking hilarious 😂
@@jedironin380 wha- what do you mean by that😵💫😵💫
And the IMDb summary, suing marvel for emotional damage and gas lighting. Ha.
So good.
Hi! I did some of Westworld ‘glitch’ work highlighted here. So cool to see it talked about! Nothing was motion controlled - usually I would stabilize the shot, retime different parts, and then re-apply the match move so the camera was real time. But for the shot with the sink in the front I did have to rebuild the parts of his body the sink hid (all comp - mostly grid warp morphs)
You and the team did amazing work! It's executed with such eye for detail in terms of what exactly gives us that robot feel, how to translate that in a realistic fashion instead of just going for old tropes. I can feel that a lot of thought went into the movement design, and a lot of effort into getting it just right! I admire y'all's dedication and skill!
BRING HER TO THE COUCH! Would be so cool having a dedicated WestWorld episode with someone like Jessica sitting with them
@@Acerdmen Yeeeessssss! :D
@@Acerdmen "Bring her to the couch" Ah. The ol' Harvey Weinstein catchphrase! 😅
nice job!
It's important to consider the context of the explosion in the James Bond film. That explosion was meant to convey a sense of finality. The distance is part of the director saying that we've passed the climax, killed the bad guy, they made it out. In that context it would feel jarring to have an explosion that presented visceral and imminent danger, unless you wanted to play it for a joke - which would feel more Pierce Brosnan than Daniel Craig.
Exactly. I haven't seen the movie (not much of a Bond fan) but it was clear to me that it was never *intended* to "feel dangerous". I got exactly that sense of finality from it that you mentioned. Now that I know when it takes place, it fits perfectly. I can't remember off the top of my head but I've seen more explosions like this, where the characters are far away and not in imminent danger, to convey that sense of finality, both in positive ("we won, it's over") and negative ("we lost, it's over") contexts. I have zero problems with it.
The guys' assessment that it doesn't feel dangerous or impactful like Blown Away did is absolutely spot on, but it's supposed to be like that. I was actually a bit peeved, like, not everything needs to be a big dangerous action thing :P
It's still a naff explosion though. Watch the slo-mo at 1:56 - the way the fire swoops across the path to the right, then back across again as it comes forwards. It doesn't feel like an explosion, it feels like something being set on fire.
@@MerelvandenHurk I think introducing it as the “biggest Hollywood fireball” record paints a poor picture of what you’re about to watch if you haven’t seen the movie before
@@Kinitawowi if I'm understanding the context correctly, that is kinda what it is meant to be.
It looks like a gas or fuel plant/refinery of some sort. So the "explosion" is a low pressure ignition that's spreading along the pipe ways.
Not having seen the movie, that's what it looked like to me.
I thought it was good, and suited the moment well.
The acting seemed to lend it more of an air of nonchalance, exhaustion, and a sort of element of "cleansing fire". Not every explosion needs to be high speed and high tension.
To me the explosion says that Bond is in control and knows what he’s doing. Why would he destroy the facility before he and Madeline are at a safe distance?!
For The Northman the fight on the volcano Eggers really wanted them to be fully naked and he wanted to show their genitals but the studio wanted to keep them hidden and were not willing to budge on it so I wouldn’t say it’s a lack of commitment it’s another story of studio interference
well, it kinda is a lack of commitment, but not from the crew nor the director
Any hope for a director's cut of the movie?
The scene in the movie Eastern Promises. It has Viggo Mortisen doing a naked fight in a gym. It really adds a brutality to it.
Northman was amazing. So close to perfect
So they wouldn't bulge on it.
The Northman was plauged with studio interference. Eggers said its the first and last time he works with a major studio. The whole scene of them dancing at the ritual he wanted them all to be nude and the studio said no. My guess they also pushed for that stupid smoke effect.
I dont know if I’m complitely wrong but I’m pretty sure there was no ”smoke” on the version I saw. Is there a difference in European and U.S version? And even with it’s issues Nothman was epic.
I think it was definitely a regional difference Eggers is not the type of person to pull this kind of a half assed (pun 100% intended) approach. I saw the film in the UK and I don’t remember any gratuitous smoke plumes
I really did not notice any flaws with the movie until i saw this but it's still my favorite of the year
Ive absolutely loved him since the witch, one of the best horror movies of the decade, & the lighthouse was so goddamn good
I totally understand wanting a bigger budget for northman, and i can see why it didn't grab the average shlub wanting action shlock..i definitely knew it would be his style and not for everyone, even then he didn't go all-in with the historical realism again to make it more approachable, and the berserker raid on the village is still some damn good action
but i still loved it haha.
I think it's just as good as his first two, but I was a film major, and i think eggers is one of the best new directors out there
Yaah
I acutally love "The Northman" for what it is. Robert Eggers said in an interview with Deadline, that it sucked that he wasn't allowed to show dicks, so they had to come up with these solutions, to cover them up. But the "reason" why he wasn't allowed to show them was like the stupidest thing ever: "Because it is shown on flights". I am not making this up, this was the reasoning behind this censorship. For the life of me, i never understood why americans in particular think, that is more disturbing for teenagers or kids to accidentally see a naked person, rather than mutilated corpses or an entire village of people getting burned alive. I get that it is more uncontrollable, what a child might see on the headrestscreens of other people on the plane, but if that is your reason to censor a movie you should either don't show movies for adults at all or go the other way and censor the violence, instead of genitals (by the way, there are a bunch of woman who run around completly naked and you can see everything... Just saying). Either way, censorship in adult movies doesen't make sense to me at all - especially not this kind.
Indian censorship was even more shitty than this
America has a very weird concept of censorship
Very weird. There were all kinds of genitalia in the Blade Runner 2049, but they just blurred them on the version meant for planes.
It's really not an American thing, I'm not sure where that comes from. It's the same in 90% of the world.
@@Werkvuur It's definitely an American thing. There is a weird squeamishness about nudity in all media over there. Not to say the US is the only country that's like that, but it's certainly the most religiously puritanical western country.
The Jake and Jordan React collab is my new favorite cinematic crossover.
Yes Lol 😂
Literally came to comment the same thing
I didn't noticed it was a ''one shot'' in The Northman. I actually enjoyed the movie a lot!
Yeah it's a great film :)
death by hyaa!
Going after the Northman for the village scene is a bit weird to me as I didn’t notice any VFX in it, which is sort of the point. It has some frame transitions, so? Yet the Northman has one of the most incredible crane shots I’ve seen recently….when Viking longboats are going down a river and the camera pushes out over the riverbank pans onto one of the boats and dollies down the boat through the rowers into a close up of Amleth. And that was done in one take without any VFX. As a camera op myself, I was in awe when I watched that in the cinema. I guess cinematic art is lost on some people.
@@matth2471 That's exactly why I liked it! Because of the historic lore and reality!
@@matth2471 Except that basically nothing like how "vikings" looked
Van Helsing with Hugh Jackman has some great effects moments in it! Some of it has not aged well, but the final werewolf/dracula battle has some beautiful work. When Van Helsing screams while holding Anna and transforms back to a man, it's pretty flawless.
i do love the northman. it felt way more grounded, the combat in the village. than most fantasy war scenes.
Smoke and torches in that scene might have made it visually more exciting, but I would have been thinking,
"why are they running around carrying torches for no reason when they're in a life and death situation-- it makes no sense!"
The actor's motions probably could have been more dynamic and weighty, but the commitment to immersion is what made the film work.
yeah I'm not sure why they kept trying to bitch about this movie, because the director chose to use very little CGi and mostly to cover up stuff?! odd take
@@myklxo yeah it's a bit sad, but they probably didn't actually watch the movie, just skipped trough it on the couch.
Very much disagree with sam and niko on The Northman, it was extremely realistic. Actual melee isn't anything like the movies, and the northman portrayed hand-to-hand combat very realistically for that time.
Absolute trash
Northman one take fight had that feeling of historical realness, if you would add even more background noise, fires etc it would lose that feeling.
Most of their recommendations tend to be Hollywood cliches. Add more stuff to the screen! Add more VFX layers! Ironically this is the stuff that people don't respond emotionally to anymore.
I would rather have clean and clear shots where I can see everything as opposed to fake shots with fire, smoke, embers, lense flare, and dirt layers added.
For it to be historically real, I'd bet there would have to be a metric ton of more background noise and environmental chaos happening... It's too surgically clean atm, like a very precisely choreographed dance 🤷♀️
@@poolkrooni why ? it was just a handful of crazy bastards that just started assaulting a small walled village, where would all the torches, chaos, and background fires come from ? people would just flee while the soldiers try to organize a defense.
@@danilooliveira6580 Because it’s a handful of crazy bastards attacking a small village, it’s unrealistic for someone to just stroll through like they’re moving on a track and “yaw” someone at convenient moments like they’re part of a video game cutscene with QTEs. The scene looks too choreographed to be realistic.
It has to be choreographed to get the fake oner look.
IRL fights like these should be way more frantic and fast and have way more energy in them, if not VFX. These aren’t coordinated military men attacking other coordinated military men. They’re vikings and their strategy is to fuck you up before you get the chance to fuck them up. They won’t be standing around in power poses or doing all this Last Jedi-style “hovering” waiting for people get into position before attacking.
People also react in a variety of ways to their village being attacked. Some people flee, other people run into their homes to grab their valuables, other people would probably look for their loved ones/kids, others would try to fight. There is no uniform reaction to these situations. So having all the villagers uniformly fleeing and all the soldiers attacking one at a time, makes it feel like a video game.
I loved that scene from The Northman. It felt brutal and slow, yet so much terror was happening. I don't know why they thought it was funny lol
is it tho, I mean it was cool but as they said, the impact is not that much, I felt more impact on the last fight which was more visceral, and the cut also was also not that great, it's a cool idea but was it that necessary to cut when he falls, when you do a one-shot, you need to find the best way to cut it, and honestly if the character of alexander just climbs off-screen, then the camera still follows on the ground, and we see him killing the guy in the horse, it would keep a little more dynamic but also as they said, it felt too empty, just a little more fire and I know people who say it's "not realistic", that's the thing, you are making a movie, not a documentary , I'm probably sure that in few years, what we saw in it, will be easily debunked but still the movie was cool but underwhelming comparing to the lighthouse and the witch
The Northman was amazing. One of my favorite movies of the year. You have to know the context behind everything like this is the first scene where you see him grown up and it’s meant to show more emotion than commotion. Commotion wasn’t the key here. It was just meant to be very brutal and slow placed. Just because it’s one shot doesn’t mean there needs to be a lot of commotion:
@@unknownunknown7769 You fkn nailed it bro!!!
@@unknownunknown7769 the problem is that in the effort of trying to make it brutal and slow, that they made it way too slow. The entire scene felt so weightless, and slow, like all the actors were stuck in mud, yet you could still see all the fast paced chaos in the background. It also felt ridiculously weightless, since when one actor gets hit with a weapon they barely react, instead just doing a generic death pose.
@@anuragneelam8527 it’s all about the story though. It’s a character building scene more than it is a “one shot.” It’s just all about the context behind that scene.
I want to see more interactions between Jordon and Jake doing sponsor segments
I didn't know anyone actually watched the sponsorship sections.
@@ForeverTraitor Do you not know about the fight for lady squarespace?
Would love to hear y'alls thoughts on the Green Knight giants. So strange, apparently an addition David Lowery did during Covid when the film was delayed and he recut the film, adding a ton of VFX shots
The VFX are strange? In what way? Haven't seen it yet.
@@evangray8001 They're kinda unnatural, otherworldly. But they're supposed to be. Just watch the movie.
I loved the shit outta that movie for some reason. I want more movies like that, where a writer/director just has a vision in their head that needs to be executed and unconditionally unobstructed. It was unsettling in a weird, almost alien way, but also felt very natural in contrast to the recent trend of over-produced movies. An instant cult classic
the red fox is the worse
I absolutely loved that shot, felt like some kind of fever dream. I haven’t analysed it or anything like that, but first impression, loved it.
Not gonna lie I skip through more corridor ads than I watch, and this episode's ad was genuinely so fun I watched all the way through. Love how meta it is, great job all around. Also, little boy making an appearance is just wonderful thank you whoever brought him in
In the skyfall shot also the speed of light and the speed of sound seems to be the same. Sure it's not that far away so it would be just a bit delayed but that's what is selling explosions to me. The difference in sound and visuals
that scene would genuinely be so much better if it exploded just 0.1 seconds before the sound and shockwave hits the cop and M and makes them react to it. more real, harder hitting. also would help if the scene darkened a bit to show the camera adjusting to the brightness of the explosion, even if for just half a second at the start of the explosion.
Even worse, the sound hits BEFORE you see it, and the sound... Honestly it sounds more like someone crushing a half-full bag of sun chips.
The Northman is certainly flawed, but for some reason everything about it works for me. I love both fights they showed. The movie is just amazing to me.
Yes it was an odd movie to watch for me, on one hand, yes the effects and fights were mostly okay but the story really threw me off, it was so shallow and predictable... it felt like you knew what was going to happen from the first minute not to talk about the huge inaccuracies if you even know the slightest bit of viking religion end tradition... still a fun movie to watch with the boys with more blood and action then a story you have to follow
@@wripiii it's based on the legend of Amleth by Shakespeare one of the most frequently adapted story . That why is predictable and also it not made to be historically accurate.
to me it was just a solid experience! i loved it
I fucking love that film
@@wripiii I don't think there's anything wrong with a straightforward story every now and again. The Northman had some twisted takes on it anyway.
Would love to see you guys react to clips from Sky High (2005 film)! Some really cool superpower FX throughout the whole thing, would love to see how they hold up in front of professionals.
I think it’s a great example of using their budget wisely. Would love to see that too!
YES! Especially with the literal floorboards moving.
SONIC BOOM!? Try GYM TEACHER MAN! 😂💀
The explosion in Skyfall had way more of an impact on me in the theater than the one in Spectre and I think that’s due to an element that’s not discussed as much which is sound editing. That blast at mi6 may sounded real enough to sell it, at least for me. You heard the blast but also the sounds of debris, rapid outgassing, twisted metal, etc. it’s that combo of sounds that makes car accidents so sickening to hear in real life. Another example is when joker blows up the hospital in Dark Knight. The sound editing in that scene is crazy and really sells the moment
It's also the camera. We have two characters framed on either side of the frame, which cover up large portions of the explosion. The biggest issue is the zoom.
All amazing explosions have one thing in common. Comparison. In Skyfall, the explosion is far away enough that you can compare it to the unaffected areas around it. See how big it is. In Spectre, the explosion takes up the entire frame, so you have no comparison whatsoever to size - the viewer just gets lost in it. The explosion should should have been a wide angle showing the desert around the building, even just a little bit, to give real perspective on the size.
It could have used a delayed audio sample there. It looked far enough away…
Yea I agree. Can't recall the Skyfall explosion but I distinctly remember the Joker hospital. I saw a mob movie with Ben Affleck (I believe its 'Live By Night') that had car bombs with great sound.
An entire episode of just stuff from The Green Knight would be fantastic. LOVE that movie.
Especially since the movie only cost $15 mil!!
YES PLEASE
Also loved the movie, apart from woke cast and blackwashing original legend....
@@hater5940 lol woke cast? WTF does that even mean?
The cast was great.
@@hater5940Do you... think black people weren't in Europe?
honestly i think the spectre explosion is a masterpeice, the explosion is meant to feel more like an emotional payoff then a physical one like in the second one
Same feeling
I want an entire episode dedicated for the Westworld Series, there's so much great stuff in there
Same!
For sure.
This most recent season was a strange-o finale.
But stuff like season 1&2 had serious highlights and an inimitable VIBE.
Fully recommend a whole video on westworld. There are many scenes that would be cool to breakdown like Dolores putting her skin sleeves on (gross), all the exoskeleton/metal robot scenes, the pausing of the hosts, the practical futuristic vehicles
I agree, there’s a mixture of good and bad vfx in Westworld as well. The ending of season 4 where Hale is down to her mechanical skeleton looked super fake to me and it’d be interesting hearing them breakdown why that is.
That Vessi short in Producers React had me LoL'ing into buying another pair! Even replicated the beats of VFX Artist react - definitely the second little explosion this episode.
Attempt 57 Chronicle Telekinesis Scenes.
YESSSS
1 would be enough
@@royalrandomness777 I've been typing this comment every week for the past 57 weeks. I've done this over a year and have received no response and have yet to see it in video.
@@jackychang9148 ah, i thought you meant they should attempt 57 scenes from chronicle telekineses 🤷🏻♂️
@@jackychang9148 I love the movie and would agree with you wanting to see the scenes. But chrionicle had like 0 budget and I feel the answers would just be “wires and green screens.”
7:40 “ you blink and they grow up”
I was *aching* from laughing from that
honestly would love to see more westworld. there's a great scene where dolores puts her "skin" on like a glove and it's just so real looking.
what season was this again? 3?
westworld was sooooo close to greatness. Some of the stuff was excellent
Overall, much better than most, for sure.
So happy you said Green Knight! My suggestions are looking at the CGI fox, and the rotating shot when he’s tied up in the forest
The train explosion from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid is hands down the best practical explosion I've seen caught on camera
Yes and don´t forget Saving Private Ryan. I also love every explosion in Starship Troopers.
Classic! "Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?" I heard it was actually a bit TOO close for the actors!
Mad Max Fury Road has that tanker explosion too. That’s pretty wild.
@@lgerback34 Have they even looked at Fury Road yet? Totally worth it. Especially the fight on those giant swinging pipes!
Mythbusters' final explosion
The best vessi ad / sponsor segment. Now I'm rethinking story telling for ads and sponsored segments.
The VFX react always delivers. Thank you corridor crew team
The Jake/Jordan react is actually a great idea.
You should do an entire episode with producers react.
Yeah I normally don’t watch the sponsored segment but this was pretty funny
That police officer reacting instantly to the explosion, like sound and shockwaves don’t take time to reach you from that distance is what breaks the london mi6 bomb scene for me.
yeah when they played it back multiple times I kept looking at the dude. I dunno if his Que was off or it was just the way they added the explosion but it felt weird. It was like he almost jumped before the explosion,
@@LucefieD it’s like he *knew* :)
@@Zbenesch The plot thickens!
Just what I came here to say!
Was just coming in here to make the same comment. It's behind him.. he can't react to the visible explosion, only to the shockwave.
Eastern Promises! It was really cool to see you guys talk about that fight, one of the most brutal fights out there. It makes it so much more visceral when you can *see* Viggo taking damage, bleeding more and more. Ranks up there with the knife scene in Saving Private Ryan, in my opinion.
I wait for these every Saturday like a traditional tv show.
Same here lol
Really didn't like your takes on The Northman. Robert Eggers wanted to show vikings without glorifying them. A long take of a viking raid with minimal distractions and wide angles let's the audience see how brutal and uncaring Vikings were. They were slavers after all. Also keep in mind, Eggers did not have full creative control and dealt with studio interference, but you'd be surprised the kind of weird stuff he was allowed to include.
I wish you guys reviewed the draugr fight. It was amazing.
Edit: also, putting the Valkyrie in the thumbnail but not showing that scene is a crime. One of the most interesting depictions of Valkyries I've seen. I'm curious why Sam didn't like the story because that was the strongest aspect. It's basically Hamlet. Guess what happens if you rearrange letters? You get Amleth, the protagonist. Shakespeare based Hamlet on this story.
Right like what the hell would adding all of that shit in the background add to that scene?
They were pointing out how not "brutal and uncaring Vikings were" due to the camera work, choreography. Telling your story visually is the most important job a director. Aside from that, none of their commpleints were about authenticity. Everyone is aware that Eggers is more than capable of providing that to his films.
Also, Sam probably didn't like the story because, like you said, it was basically Hamlet. Instead of making "Viking Hamlet", why not tell a story most audiences haven't heard already as there is probably a ton of reference material in Viking history and lore.
Aside from that, the film was longer than it needed to be and had poor character development. That's pretty much the main three complaints people had with this film.
@@jto82jan23 I get what Niko is saying, but he misunderstands Eggers intent. The chaos in the background is as important as the foreground, so he did not want to obscure it. It feels like it was intentionally slow paced so that the audience has time to observe what a real Viking raid would be like if you were in the midst of it.
I personally learned a lot about Vikings and their culture from the film. Felt like a very real and unfiltered take on their history and spiritual beliefs. That made the simple revenge story more interesting to me.
Well, not on this story. The story in the movie is actually very different from the Amleth legend. It's just loosely based on it.
I agree with you. As much as I like watching these guys and their takes on CGI, I tend to find myself occasionally annoyed with them mistaking their extensive knowledge on CG for their knowledge on anything filmmaking in general. Sometimes it feels like they put too much emphasis on what they would've done to "make it better" instead of attempting to see the intentionality behind a director's vision.
Like I get it, this series is about CG artists critiquing good and bad CG but then sometimes they start bleeding into other territories and talking about more than just the CG and sometimes (not all the time) it comes off as slightly ignorant.
So glad you guys are going to do the Green Knight, such a great, misunderstood movie! Much more of an art house film than a big blockbuster, which caught some people out. The cinematography is epic, especially some of the cutting from one shot to the next.
You guys should react to some of the more energetic events from SpaceX in Boca Chica
That's RUDe ;)
New episode this September! It'll be up by September for sure!
Collab with Corridor when?
The best explosions! And the Starship landings look like CG!
Fly safe.
Northman is my favourite movie of the last 10 years, really wish more people had seen it. Glad you guys are talking about it even if it's not in the most positive light.
one of the better films to come out in years tbh. It's not perfect, but its damn good.
Yea its disappointing that they went with such a simplistic story but they nail a very specific vibe and succed in immersing the audience in the world. Great acting and dialogue with well choreographed scenes but the story being so incredibly predictable from the very 1st minutes was what hindered this movie unfortunately for me.
It's my favorite movie this year
@@svenskhund3603 It's not about the story, but about the way it's told
The story is Hamlet, so of course it's predicatable
That IMdB write up for Little Boy was great. Whoever took the time to write that did a good job.😂
I like you guys and love your content but your way off on The Northman, movie is legendary, so Damm well done and beautiful. Story is simply amazing one of the best films in a LONG time.
Yeah I don't understand what the yaw criticism means. Or their problem with the hidden cuts
@@PHAWB3O same
Sam wanted Northman to be a marvel movie
Think the issue also is they are looking at it as VFX artists. Like even just watching the movie they would inherently be looking at those aspects, where as I doubt most people were bothered by the VFX.
@@jonnbridges that's a situation called being "Lost in the Funhouse." It's when you understand the details and component parts of something so well that you can never again experience something as a whole, like you did when you were a kid. Actually a pretty interesting concept
Yeah. Pretty excited when Sam says he's passionate about the movie but then he says he's passionate about not liking it😐
Sorry but that action scene is so underwhelming. The visuals are so incredible and realistic, the fighting looks like kids playfighting. Theres just no impact, hard hitting moments. The whole scene looks like the tension raising pre-fight scene just before “the beat drops” and the fighting actually starts. He wasnt complaining about the lack of actions scenes, he was complaining about the lack of action, IN the action scenes. Theyre so slow, non-impactful, and boring.
@@demivideos8887 yeah most "realistic" real life fights are like that. You don't scream avemgers and run head first into a knife or a gun fight. Smh🤦♂️
That viking one was excellent :) It didn't look like a film, perhaps people fell off/over too easily, but otherwise it came across as really putting you in the place, and being really real and plausible. The layout, the lighting, the use of more than one muscle to move (even boxers don't just move the arms when punching), the lack of petroleum explosions. Had kind of the "real place" feel of a computer game rather than a film.
The Northman is a great movie and in my opinion super refreshing. I thought the raid was really well done.
Same. I think looking at it out of context gives a different feel vs when you're watching the movie and there's all the build up prior to the raid.
Also I loved the story. It's simple, but classic.
Indeed I was not disappointed by the raid scene, but storywise the movie is really lacking
It was a truly cringeworthy film from the very first, made for TV, shot.
Fan of the marvel “cinema” I presume?
Yeah theese guys are like trying to teach film-making to freaking Robert eggers, one of the most talented directors of our time.
great episode as always, but I would like to comment on the sponsored segment: so much fun! great idea and interaction between Jake, Jordan and the clips!
Big disagree on yalls initial take on The Northman. Robert Eggers isn't going for big viking epic, he goes for small, claustrophobic, personal dramas. There's a reason 75% of this film takes place on a single farm.
I think you guys misinterpreted what this movie is supposed to be.
If I'm not mistaken I recall reading about the Blown Away explosion and how they got in shit for it cause the shockwave that you see shake the camera evidently also broke windows in some near-by buildings
You are referring to the gas station explosion in Robocop, which I think was shot in Detroit. Paul Verhoven the director, kept wanting bigger explosions and the stunt team gave him a big explosion which caused windows of homes to be shattered for several blocks around it. There’s a crazy documentary about the making of Robocop.
@@ladolcevita6645 I heard the same about Blown Away when it came out in theatres.
I'm curious as to how the stuntmen didn't get pulverized. Looks a bit too good to be early 90's composting. I think it might have been a bit of forced perspective with their section of dock farther out from the big explosion. Wikipedia mentions them blowing out 8000 windows in Boston.
@@toaster917 It's not compositing. They usually film these types of shots with long lenses, giving the impression that the stuntmen are much closer than they actually are. Even still, though, this looks very dangerous and likely was.
@@ladolcevita6645nah happened for Blow Away too, the damage done to the surrounding buildings was much more than they anticipated. I don’t remember if the residents sued and won/settled or if they production company was just paying them off but i do remember reading that the production was paying residents of east Boston for years after the films release..
The Northman is near perfect. I didn't need Sam's take on the story, which is essentially Hamlet. If Andrei Tarkovsky directed a viking movie, that's The Northman. It's amazing. It's unfortunate that general audiences are unable to appreciate what that means. Not a big deal, just a bit of a bummer. Both of those fight sequences look great and serve the story. I agree that the cg smoke over the genitals was pointless, but knowing Eggers as a filmmaker, I doubt that would have been his choice. I would imagine he was pressured in some way to do that. Or the actors were unwilling, but I can't know for certain.
Studio forced the genitals to be hidden, so you're right.
I wish I liked Northman more than I do - it just felt kinda lackluster but I'm more of an epic fantasy/battle guy vs grungy dark brutal.
@@cbjewelz I'm all about that as well, but I think expectations are what ruin the visions of other people sometimes.
I actually thought this was the worst movie I've ever watched
@@niklaswerthner1349 Sounds like you need to watch more movies.
About the Northman One-Take, Director Robert Eggers wanted the Movie to fell, except the Magic, as real and historrical acurat as possible
When it comes to "real" explosions, I find it interesting that the Behind The Scenes footage always seems more impactful than the final shot. I reacted much more to the James Bond explosion from the BTS camera, which is a shame because it really is an incredible display of pyrotechnics.
Completely agree.
The Northman was great. And if you want commitment there are some scenes in “Men” you might want to look at.
I want to see Men. What are those scenes you're referring to?
What exactly was great about it?
You can't really talk about the scene I think he means without spoiling the ending, but rest assured it's some freaky gross weird-out shit.
@@django0973 That question requires an answer that’s longer than I feel like writing. Everything?
Yes, freaky gross weird-out shit that’ll spoil the ending. 100%. There’s also some janky de-aging they could look at.
They entirely missed to point of The Northman being a Norse Saga. The main characters in these stories are being driven by the gods who have every obstacle cleared for the so the can address a broken oath. In the village scene it is completely correct for him to be one shotting everyone because the character has a destiny that Odin is driving him toward.
they are talking about a camera "one shot"
@@eggetcool Well, in the Poetic Edda, Odin was well known for his love of avoiding unnecessary cuts in his cinematography, Northman simply took that principle taken to its logical conclusion.
They don’t care about the story just the effects
8:00 absolutely lost it when you pulled out a mini explosion and hand tracked it 😂
I would never want to go to the theaters with Sam lmao
Those scenes from The Northman are badass, I don't know what you guys are talking about.
Totally agree on the pillow fight comment. Glad you covered the Westworld bit. I love that scene
"Producers React" I think it could be hilarious and highly informative to actually have a Producers react.The mind set is truly different when you have to apply budget and number of shots and production time. It is fun to pick on that one bad shot. But now look at the Gig's calender and number of fx due versus man hour costs and crew size. It quickly becomes a resource strategy of what can we get away with? If the studio or client is not paying enough where do you draw the line. It is a business. It could lead to an interesting couch session.
The pocket explosion gag got me good.
Turned down by your take on The Northman. It's 100% animalistic and I loved the choices Eggers made to express it cinematically. It's not the epic hollywood final battle, it's an ugly massacre played by sheer force. Viking goes brrr
They probably didn't understood the Northman . It has become my favourite movie of this year. Already watched it thrice.
I think to me the Northman is a masterpiece in movie making.....I didn't even notice they were naked in the last fight because i was so immersed in the fight .....I think being too much analytical really stops you from enjoying these kinds of movies.....
They were wearing leather thongs, Alexander Skarsgård got to keep his after they finished shooting. Guess the studio still thought it was too much peen.
Yeah Robert Eggars is one of the most unique directors today. I absolutely love all of his films, the Northman included, but I will say that he is definitely better at writing horror stories, and I hope he sticks to the horror/thriller side of things in future.
The Northman was amazing! I'm really disagreeing with Sam on that one
crazy how different experiences can be. I normally enjoy low budget or out of the box movies, but I hated this movie. I thought it was way to long for what was happening.
@@AwfulWeather5684 He didn't write this script.
what would have been a great scene in that naked Viking fighting scene is if one guy had used his frank & beans as a weapon to slap the other guy in the face...
The northman is a fantastic movie overall...
The story is based in a mythological story and it stays faithful to the source material
Actually it doesn’t really, they’ve added/changed things
Oh my God, Jordan is on the couch! Glad to see him, and him giving so much creative input!
Actually, both Jordans were on the couch in this episode... 🙂
I'm excited to see more of these A24 VFX breakdowns 😅
The amount of effort put in for the little boy IMDb page is incredible. So inspired at 8:17
more effort than the explosion in the movie
While there’s not much VFX in it (to my knowledge) but I would love to see you look at Robert Eggers’ previous film The Lighthouse
Yeah, the cinematography on that movie is AMAZING
honing in on the camera in some of the explosion breakdown reminded me of a scene from Kenobi where obi wan is riding his horse thing and there's shaky cam for literally no reason... that made me feel compelled to request a Kenobi episode :)
9:24 Not surprised to see the Stealth explosion make it into this episode! I almost expected to see it earlier when Niko said “Wanna see what a REAL explosion in film looks like?” 😂
Rewatching the classic 90's action flick, True Lies recently and thought it would be a great recommendation for you guys to review! Specifically need to check out the expert level miniature work done for the bridge explosion near the end of movie. Also should check out Paul E.T. awesome video essay "True Action" breaking the how the cast & crew pulled it off, super dope!
Miniature? You know they actually blew up the old bridge and you can drive right by it on the way to Key West, right?
Talking of explosions, you should watch Jeremy Stenberg beaking down his insane jump on XXX
its on his channel TwitchThis1 - The Craziest Motorcycle Stunt! (sorry it wont let me post links 👍)
"aint seeing no ramp kid hitting that jump" that was nuts! twitch is a legend!
If you do do the green knight I'd love to see a comparison between the latest one and the original with sean conery
Thank you for making me aware there was a version with Sean Connery! This is my first hearing about it and I will check it out
@@eliazergonzalez671 I forgot it had a different title back then 'Sword of the Valiant' but the story is the same one. When the Green Knight trailer dropped it was a bit of deja vu.
Northman is honestly almost a perfect movie.
It's been a while since I've seen it, so it's hard to put into words, but I remember being very disappointed with it. It was easily Egger's weakest film imo.
@@EricThePooh Honestly I went with my brother and he hated it. I can see why it would not be liked by a wider audience. But personally yeah I think it's better then The Witch but second to The Lighthouse.
People who got disappointed expected some michael bay ass peepeepoopoo medieval marvel film
@@ggthewhale Literally not even close. I was expecting something more thought provoking like the director's other 2 movies. I thought the pacing was bad, and the narrative shallow.
It had a good beginning but afterwards it was just dragging.
I was really hyped for this but it disappointed me
Also the timing was a bit off in "Skyfall". There's no way the cop would react so fast to that explosion since sound travels slower irl. In that shot, it appears that the explosion is a bit far from them.
At half a kilometer away the sound would take about two seconds to arrive.
Props to Jake and Jordon for the Sponsored React 😂
VFX Artists React to Past Sponsored Segments
Also, about the Spectre "explosion", there is very little actual explosion in it. It is basically just a bunch of barrels of gasoline being lit in sequence. There is no explosive force pushing anything around. And the way it is shot you don't see the edges of the smoke it just kind of fills the screen and lingers and you don't get the full scale of the fire.
basically it's a controlled fire, not an explosion. entirely different kind of pyrotechnics presumably meant to give a different visual compared to normal.
Yeah, "pillow fight" is a perfect description for that Spectre exlosion. It's all fuel burning up in big fluffy fireballs but with next to no shockwaves, debris, pressure release. It's feels like a limp punch with a broken wrist. That Blown Away explosion, however! BAM! The Stealth one is pretty good too!
You guys should make a compilation video of Hugh Jackman flexing and being intimidating as Wolverine, but with a dad bod. That would make me laugh.
No, we get enough of that with "Fat Thor" already. 🙄
It would be neat if you would look at Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, specifically about 6:20 into the film. I think the red flailing things the juggler is using are the same cg as the grindylows later in the film, just shiny and red.
17:28 Another good touch when he freezes is that his drink doesn't freeze with him. You can see it wobble in the glass a bit which adds to the effect.
Little Boy (IMDB) 8:17
Little Boy began his career in acting after graduating with BFA in expansion from the University of Minnesota in 1983. Due to his stunted height he was passed over by every major production for decades. In 2021 he got his big break and took the role of "Gas Can Explosion 02" in the film "Black Widow". He hoped his career would explode following the release of the film, and it did, but sadly in the worst way. He was ridiculed by audiences world wide, and filed a lawsuit against Marvel for emotional damage, and gas-lighting. He joined the Corridor Crew as "himself" for episode of VFX Artists React you are currently watching, hoping to start a new chapter for himself. Now in his late 40's he is no longer seeking a career on screen, but instead behind it- with dreams of directing his own Hollywood blockbuster, and he's assured us, he's not just blowing smoke.
I think the "BFA in expansion from the University of Minnesota" is a reference to their recent podcast episode where Niko talks about going to a seminar in college where they learned about different types of explosions and the differences between them while actually exploding things.
The gas-lighting pun is gold
Welcome to the couch, Jordan! I like Jordan as a new couch member, great work!
It would be awesome if y’all did some Star Trek shots, especially a look at the effects in the most recent discovery season or something like it. Or even take a look at the massive effects of the DS9 dominion war ship fight scenes
A comparison of the battle in Way of the Warrior that's mostly miniatures and the one in Sacrifice of Angels that's CG would be interesting.
Yes that would be awesome to see
Sam was either totally nonplussed by the Westworld footage or was so in awe that he was rendered speechless
“Rendered” speechless
You should take a look at Tora Tora Tora if you like practical explosions... That movie has some terrifying (and actually a little bit dangerous) practical destruction scenes that just kind of have this realism I have yet to see replicated elsewhere.
One of my favourite explosions is from episode 5 of Gangs Of London. After my first viewing I had to rewatch it.
Steve Mould just posted a video of the Rings of Power title sequence and tried to recreate it with physics. Apparently it was actually done with a blend of practical elements and CG. Would love to see your take on that!
There’s a scene from the land of the lost with Will Ferrell where they are running away from a dinosaur @25:15 where one of the cg characters disappears for a frame or 2
I would love to see you check out The Umbrella Academy, it has some impressive effects for TV
It also has absolutely atrocious special effects
@@rolandmata6395 and writing...and acting....
and just sucks
yeah I second this. it's very good.
@@rolandmata6395 they had one of the artists on previously. There is a giant battle scene at the end of season 2 with a thousand time travel agents that was shot in the winter and they had to make it look like summer, and remove everyone's breath, and it was just remarkable, given what they had to work with. Stunning work.
I can't wait for the Halloween FX videos!
Great Episode! For 'The Green Knight', couple interesting things would be Sir Gaiwin's head on fire in the opening, The Green Knight's decapitation, and the Extra Wide shot in King Arthur's Christmas speech (for that one, check out Vanity Fair's video on David Lowery breaking down a scene)
I would love to see you guys react the the CGi in the netflix show Dark, how they were able to create most of their effect on a small budget German show that were completely top tier for Netflix. They have a new show coming soon called 1899 which has the same writer and director duo! Please!
Dark was a big show, though. Not low budget for sure.
IMO the CGi wasn't amazing, it didn't matter though because the show as a whole is so fucking good
@@jbritain Yes you're right. Extremely good show.
What's the Dark about?
@@Spiqaro it starts off being about some kids going missing in a town but time travel gets involved quickly. I won't say more than that to avoid spoiling it but it's very good.
You can watch it dubbed but I prefer to watch it with the original German audio and subtitles
For the VFX series you gotta react to the *last agni kai fight from ATLA.* It's so stunning! And *Aslan from the Chronicles of Narnia!*
Also at the end of second one there's a big water creature, so it might be cool to see what you think about that.
And for stuntmen react It would be cool to see you react to the duel from "Potop", it's really good sword fight (tho technically it's sabers i think)
That would be Animators not VFX but I agree.
Movie suggestion! Have you guys ever done Interview With the Vampire? I’m rewatching the movie from 1994 wondering how they did the scene where the guy dances up the ceiling and also how they had a camera panning over Claudia as she transforms from sickly to healthy in one shot.
Was it all computers or practical or a mix, considering this came out a year after Jurassic Park? Feels like there’s some great FX in this movie probably some terrible ones as well!
Maybe something to do just in time for Halloween! And maybe some other horror movies, like the classic and new movie monsters.
Literally just watched a video by Matt Baume about the history of the book and movies. I think that’s a sign!
Anyone a fan of queer history and humor can check it out.
the add integration was really funny guys, im pretty bad about skipping though them usually, but you hit a note that really resonated with me this time, good job
this made me stick around to watch it and i'm glad i did
Jordan is so funny! Love seeing him in react!
Hey, just realized that I’m watching this exactly two years after it was posted.
Neat.
I think for animators react you should check out cyberpunk edgrerunners. Incredible visuals and would love to learn more about it.
they should also check out Star Wars Visions and The Boys Diabolical
The employee got humbled by the two CEOs real quick in the first clip they watched 😭
Yeah, I got embarrassed.
13:02 How to make a pretty unique (by 21 century standards) movie look like every other movie that came up in recent memory. These guys would complain about The name of the rose or The seventh seal for lacking lens flare.
You guys having industry expert guests is great but your dunking videos are the best. More please
Guys for your next animation episode can you do Cyberpunk: Edgerunner? Not for any particular VFX, but for the work flow. Cyberpunk 2077 has a full modeled city with very vivid graphics. I wonder if that's gonna help the animators for stuff like references.
Cyberpunk:Edgerunner is also unapologetic about nudity without it being lewd - unlike the Viking thing they review here.
Shouldn't that be instead on Animators React, since an animator would have better understanding of what goes on behind the scenes.