The Coneheads sandwich clip made me think of a perfect challenge: Unnecessary hidden VFX. The challengers film a short clip of something mundane, like eating a sandwich, but one or a few things in shot are VFX, like the sandwich, replacing the hair of the actor, or a digi double in the background. Then they have everyone guess what wasn't in-camera. Points are given for any elements that sneak by, any real elements that people think are fake, and how ballsy the VFX are to try to hide.
I think this is the "very poor planning" challenge. Where someone really screwed up, and now someone needs to track CGI arms onto Wolverines perfectly good arms.
I like how they are dyeing laughing over the sniper having no kickback but totally missed that Jason is watching the sniper bullet go from the gun to the plane like someone just hit a golfball in the air.
Okay seriously how have these guys not done the disney Narnia movies yet??? They have easily some of the best vfx of that era that still hold up incredibly today. They put a freaking CENTAUR in scenes and made it look grounded and believable.
Was that Digital Domain? Can’t remember if that was the name of the studio, but they also did Life of Pi, and went bankrupt shortly after getting their Oscar.
Zero VFX did the work on the tennis sequence AND the Hardcore Henry driving shots. I was a comp artist at their Venice office shortly after the movie released and those driving shots were on the studio reel. Two of the comp artists on those driving shots were Kurt Lawson and Sean Cox.
Expendables 4 looks like it was video of a 10 year old playing with GI Joe's and fireworks in 1998, fed into an AI, and told to come up with a "cool action scene" based on the footage.
Fun Fact: That van (8:35) was in fact NOT CG, but the fire/smoke was, same as all the other vans getting wrecked in this scene. There is some really cool BTS footage of a giant rig to make this crazy grenade jump possible for those interested. Still really happy Hardcore Henry got featured!
I'm still sad it didn't do better. I just feel it deserves more love. Even the cult following it has is tiny. I mean, it's a shit movie if you ignore the effects. Bad acting and bad writing, but for me, the novelty and stunts overweigh the negatives. I guess it's more of a proof of concept than a movie, but I love it to bits.
TBH for me, Hardcore Henry is hands-down the best action film ever made. This is due to the perspective and pretty much flawless vfx work. It's non-stop. The closest that comes to it for me was Mad Max: Fury Road. This is just considering action so story isn't super important other than the pilot driving the plot forward to get us to the next cool sequence.
Fun fact, still one of the best goddamn movies ever a decade later. Especially the highway sequence haha, that & Kung Fury were such inspiring indie legends
What they should have done for the cone heads scene was completely practical: As per the movie Hello Dolly. Where all the food looked realistic but was made from fairy floss (candy floss). so it literally dissolved in her mouth as she ate!
Hey I worked on Hardcore Henry! that movie was simultaneously an amazingly fun thing to work on, and ultimate suck with the lens distortion and gopro footage. It was also, at some point considered to be done in stereoscopic. This would have made the audience even more seasick while they watched! It ended up giving us a slightly different camera angle to help stitch the edit points together. Most of the time the edit points were rudimentary at best. Much camera override, motion blur and roto to blend things that were occasionally completely different perspectives.
'Hardcore Henry' is an action masterpiece. So many action movies are poorly shot with choppy cameras that make the action unclear. 'Hardcore Henry' is well-shot. I don't consider it shaky cam. Instead, it feels like realistic first person POV. I don't play video games or typically like action movies. You did an awesome job. 🙂
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I hope more people watch Hardcore Henry from this video. That movie is so much fun, you can really tell how much passion the whole crew put behind it. Rare treat
I am so happy they finally talked about Hardcore Henry, that was such an underrated action movie. I always watch it a couple times a year, the mood just hits to watch a good pov action movie. No one else has been able to pull it off as well as they did. I wish they would do a sequel with Henry after he got his memory back. Tim Roth playing his dad, that was awesome, and you have to give a hand to Copley, that guy was amazing playing different versions of himself.
Got a clip for you fellas to look at. At the beginning of red tails with the attack on the train. It’s an amazing movie with even better effects. Thanks guys! Hope to see the clip in a future episode!! Long time fan of the crew!
Another crazy fact about Star Tours is that it was a motion simulator ride BEFORE digital projectors! Every ride vehicle had a huge projector welded to the outside with its own gigantic film reel.
11:27 As always theres actually a film from 1947 called “The Lady in the Lake” which is entirely shot from a first person perspective!!!!! It’s not all in one take and doesn’t try to disguise it as much as hardcore Henry but I’d love to see your guy’s analysis of it and how some of the clever POV shots were done
It's the only SNL movie I like. Which is funny, because the skit was before I started watching SNL, so I wasn't exposed to the Coneheads until the movie. Meanwhile, the movies based on skits I had seen sucked (to me). Loved the Roxbury and Mary Katherine Gallagher skits but thought their movies sucked. Never liked Wayne's World as a skit so definitely couldn't sit through the movies. 😖
Kung Fury, probably the best short film in history, action packed amazing visuals, and an original song by David Hasselhoff that is an absolute banger!
I love how I saw a bunch of people losing their minds over the shot in Challengers when it's under the court looking up at the players. The amount of people that were shocked at how they did that when it's just that they're on a piece of glass is hilarious, especially when I saw nobody talking about that tennis ball shot which is actually impresive.
Reminds me of how people online were shocked at the behind the scene from la la land, where the cameraman rotates in place a few times timed to music, filming two characters. And all the professional cameramen were like "uhh yeah thats normal how did you think we did those scenes"
Every other episode of Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul has this "glass trick" in it. How are people surprised by it? To me it feels like an abused gimmick at this point.
It sure did feel like it for VFX team, except that it was the teacher that forgot to assign this, but you had to do it in 2 days anyway and he also said that because of his forgetfulness he's not going to score anything any higher than b+ ;)
Yeah, the problem is that it cost 100 million dollars. In comparison, "The Creator" cost 80 million - and it had much more expensive actors, Hans Zimmer as a composer, and much better visual effects.
Star Tours was amazing. Was there as a kid several times and that part when the space shuttle "dipped", made my stomach turn. The visuals were so good, I forgot everything around me was fake.
star tours, space mountain and big thunder mountain railroad(when it was actually working which was rare in the 90's).. just went back and forth between those all day as a kid.
I vaguely remember Star Tours from back when I went to Disneyland back in the 90s (it is vague enough that it could have been something else along the same lines lol). I also remember some Michael Jackson 3D movie thing as well from the same time.
@@silveredbullet802That is such an American comment. The movie has 100+ people getting killed in gruesome manner, but a few shots of nudity makes it not ok for a family night, lol)
Hardcore Henry is one of the most underrated cinematic gems.... Its a unicorn, made by an actually really good Russian NüPunk band (not Emo, think what System of a Down is to NüMetal but Punk)... Called Biting Elbows, all their music videos look like this, and also Sharlto Copley is in it, that alone is worth your time... and he's fuggin great in this....
There is a movie called "Surrogates" released in 2009, starring Bruce Willis. It has some good vfx shots, old and younger version of Bruce Willis. Damaged Robots, and good makeup to show death. I think it's decent, have fun!
In the Star Tours, when the flying towards the trench, you can see the transition between background matte painting and in-camera model of the Death Star surface, hidden by a laser blast.
Seeing the guys talk about the original Star Tours ride film was awesome. That ride was my favorite growing up going to Disney World and no matter how many times I rode it, it was the most fun ever. Thank you guys for unpacking the ride film, that was amazing!
The funny thing about the lack atmosphere on Death Star is that it makes the Death Star look like it's actually in space, just like the moon. On a side note, some people have said that moon landing photos were faked on a stage because there's no atmospheric scattering on it like how we would expect to see it on Earth.
@@RyTrapp0 totally depends on what you use as mouthpiece. I know another youtuber, that always uses a piece of a snorkel to hold his gopro. it's basically an integrated mouthguard plus a rubber bumper for the camera
9:01 The road bends off to the left as he flies into the air. 9:04 The road bends off to the right now after landing on the bike. It's a completely different road with different trees and everything. lol. They didn't think we'd notice. But we did.
@@coltapodaca I don't know if it's coincidence but in /r/corridor the road chase was specifically mentioned about a month ago in their 'React Suggestions'. Might have been the tipping point.
"Movies nowadays, I feel like, whatever I see, I can contextualize with today's technology and feel pretty confident about how they're doing something. But, the MAGIC STILL LIVES for me with all this OLDER STUFF" SUMS up this whole React to CGI series and I'M ALL FOR IT.
For me as a little kid visiting Disney World in 1993, Star Tours was the epitome of the Star Wars experience. The scenery outside the ride felt like you were on the forest moon of Endor. I remember at the time it captured the feeling of the original films perfectly and made you feel like a part of it
One of my favorite Go Motion uses was in Disney's Dragonslayer from 1981. That practical dragon is still probably my favorite movie dragon of all time... also had a great name: Vermithrax Pejorative. ;-)
Wow I am amazed to actually see Hardcore Henry up on here! It is still to this day one of my favorite action movies! It came out and was in theaters just down the street from my high school around the time I graduated so it was a fun time getting to see that as a group of boys who all recently were able to see movies of that rating.
@@grukoin2789 Plan better. Have another director or simply do not make it. They were thinking like you wrote and that's why they made back only half of their budget. The film stunk already in paper I am sure. As the guys on the couch pointed out, it's lack of care. Like the MCU in the last years (decade?)
Go Motion IS the moving of the puppet suring the exposure - its the process Phil Tippet created specifically to do this. You can sre it working really well on the test footage he did for Jurassic Park. The motion blur on the motion control Star Wars shots (which is present on all OT movies) is just having a long enough exposure on each frame.
I think Jordan got the distortion thing backwards. There are tracking softwares like 3de or pftrack that can deal with distorted plates and you can export the distortion info as a node to help comp the cg elements later on with Nuke or AE. So we as matchmovers use the distortion grid to give the distortion info to the software, but the tracking is done with the distorted plate not the undistorted one. Source: I used to work as a matchmover at Framestore and Rodeo and that was usually the pipeline they used.
On the cone heads sandwich: the image of the sandwich is facing a different direction than the real sandwich😂 look at the tomato sticking it on the real end vs where the toppings are sticking out on the image side.
Corridor! A new episode recommendation! My wife and I just watched Pacific Rim recently, and we are a huge fan of you guys, so throughout the entire movie we were in awe about how it could look so good for being almost a decade old, and were trying to figure out what techniques did they use to make it look so realistic but also so believable in terms of scale! We would love to see you guys do an in depth episode on Pacific Rim!
13:07 I didnt even register the issue with the recoil. I was too distracted by Jason Statham's character having superspeed and being able to track the sniper rifle bullet with his eyes in slowmotion.
i had an annual passport to Disneyland for my of my childhood, you doing Star Tours is SO nostalgic for me. Though I wish you could have gotten some shots of the line itself, some many excellent practical effects you get to see just standing in line.
0:41 holy shh i was in the United States in 1992. On that trip i was in disneyland and the universal studios... the moment i saw that clip of Star Tours all the memories came back.( i was like 6 or 7 yo.)
Holy... are you my twin lol I was also on a trip to Disneyland in 1992 at the tender age of 6 or 7 as well lol Star Tours was the one ride that I wanted to ride back than.
Hey guys, just wanted to mention that the motion control stuff you were calling Go Motion wasn't called that... Go motion was, as far as I have heard, exclusive to the characters being animated. Coneheads had it, yes, and so did Return of the Jedi (the AT-ST's legs). ILM first tested on Empire Strikes Back on the Taun Taun legs, most noticeably as it enters the rebel hanger. Young Sherlock Holmes used it in the Harpy scene, and it was used in the previz for Jurassic Park (initially intended for use in the actual visual effects until CGI proved to be the better tool for the job). Though it was developed by Phil Tippett and ILM the concept was originally used in France back in the early 1920s.
If I remember correctly, GoMotion is when the characters are on motorized rods, like in Dragonslayer. Just moving the camera during exposure to get camera motion-based motion blur, that's just a part of normal Motion control. It's still quite a feat, though. Even though, the synchronisation of the starfield and the movement of the elements in the Star Tours ride is a bit off.
You remember correctly, The guys are using the term incorrectly in this particular video. They were talking about some of the spaceship shots at the beginning and calling those go motion when they are just simply motion control. On another note, all motion control since the original Star Wars would expose the frame when the camera was moving. There was nothing unique about it, ILM did not have a patent on it or anything.
YOu saved me the time to post this. They are mixing up GoMotion (attaching the puppets to motion control rods) and Motion Control (moving the camera only). The towers on the death star are blurred because of motion control. Dragonslayer and the coneheads monster actually moved during the exposure.
Something you guys could look at that has always intrigued me is same actor acting with themselves on the same screen. I think perfect example is Battlestar Galactica season 4 episode 2 when Gaius Baltar is talking with his conscious self in frame and the actual camera angle moves and they both literally look like they're talking to each other with the same background without any "hidden" blue line blue screen effects we've all seen. It looks flawless. Anyways, love your guys content!
The other day when browsing memes learned of a 90s film called Star Kid, and judging from the trailer it really fits the types of movies/effects that usually gets a bit longer segments on these videos
second time asking you guys to look at the Labyrinth scene I suggested last video. The scene I'm talking about is the one where the Goblin King (David Bowie) first appears in Sarah's room. It's when he has a crystal ball in his hand and it turns into a snake and then he throws the snake onto Sarah, for it to turn into a scarf after wrapping around her neck. It's a pretty interesting scene and I want you guys to look at it :)
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Luv'd Hardcore, bought the dvd and I watch it once a year or more. I'm glad you guys finally featured it, having a budget far.... far less than the Expendable (any number) and being the far superior ride.
I was watching this video like "...huh... ...I don't remember that looking that shit the couple dozen other times I've seen this..." lol. Something to be said for just getting the movie as a whole right so those imperfect details don't become the focus. Great movie!
I honestly can't remeber if they looked at it before, but I would recommend the opening credits from the movie "Lord of War", where we follow a single bullet from the assembly line all the way to being actually fired. Yes, the obvious CG on the bullet itself is kinda noticable, but the way it interacts with people picking it up and loading it into a mag is still impressive to me.
Guys, this guy - Ilya Naishuller made an incredible music video for the famous band Leningrad. You should definitely watch it. Band: Leningrad - Kolschik (in Cyrillic Ленинград-Кольщик). Director: Ilya Naishuller There you will have something to discuss!
The Coneheads sandwich clip made me think of a perfect challenge: Unnecessary hidden VFX. The challengers film a short clip of something mundane, like eating a sandwich, but one or a few things in shot are VFX, like the sandwich, replacing the hair of the actor, or a digi double in the background. Then they have everyone guess what wasn't in-camera. Points are given for any elements that sneak by, any real elements that people think are fake, and how ballsy the VFX are to try to hide.
That is great! I’d love to see it
This is a perfect Corridor challenge
I think this is the "very poor planning" challenge. Where someone really screwed up, and now someone needs to track CGI arms onto Wolverines perfectly good arms.
Yes please!
I like how they are dyeing laughing over the sniper having no kickback but totally missed that Jason is watching the sniper bullet go from the gun to the plane like someone just hit a golfball in the air.
Or he might have just saw somehow shoot and looked at their expected target. Most movies and shows have this…
also the fact that they guy is shooting the plane with the eye closed that is actually in front of the scope.
@@jkotka Holy crap you are right, he does have the aiming eye closed! 🤣
Okay seriously how have these guys not done the disney Narnia movies yet??? They have easily some of the best vfx of that era that still hold up incredibly today. They put a freaking CENTAUR in scenes and made it look grounded and believable.
I swear they have at least one clips sometime or I might be trippin.
I think they've referred to it when comparing CG fur.
Was that Digital Domain? Can’t remember if that was the name of the studio, but they also did Life of Pi, and went bankrupt shortly after getting their Oscar.
@@MackerelSkyLtd Yes, it was Digital Domain. At least for the first one.
@@RegularCupOfJoe They were pretty much unparalleled on fur.
Zero VFX did the work on the tennis sequence AND the Hardcore Henry driving shots. I was a comp artist at their Venice office shortly after the movie released and those driving shots were on the studio reel. Two of the comp artists on those driving shots were Kurt Lawson and Sean Cox.
Expendables 4 looks like it was video of a 10 year old playing with GI Joe's and fireworks in 1998, fed into an AI, and told to come up with a "cool action scene" based on the footage.
When I saw this, I said my god it’s awful thank you Corridor Crew to talk about it I was waiting for that
It looks good... as long as you pretend it was an indie film instead of a big budget movie 😂
the sniper guy is closing the eye that should be looking down the scope too. im suprised they didnt see that
@@XxZeldaxXXxLinkxX 100 millions for this just remember that 😂
But thanks for the advice
Reminds me of cutscenes in 2010s videogames
Fun Fact: That van (8:35) was in fact NOT CG, but the fire/smoke was, same as all the other vans getting wrecked in this scene. There is some really cool BTS footage of a giant rig to make this crazy grenade jump possible for those interested. Still really happy Hardcore Henry got featured!
Fun Fact: Hardcore Henry was one of the first feature film to use Blender for CG stuff.
I'm still sad it didn't do better. I just feel it deserves more love. Even the cult following it has is tiny.
I mean, it's a shit movie if you ignore the effects. Bad acting and bad writing, but for me, the novelty and stunts overweigh the negatives.
I guess it's more of a proof of concept than a movie, but I love it to bits.
@@VikingTeddy yeah, it's mostly good as a knew experience, than a movie)
TBH for me, Hardcore Henry is hands-down the best action film ever made. This is due to the perspective and pretty much flawless vfx work. It's non-stop. The closest that comes to it for me was Mad Max: Fury Road. This is just considering action so story isn't super important other than the pilot driving the plot forward to get us to the next cool sequence.
Fun fact, still one of the best goddamn movies ever a decade later. Especially the highway sequence haha, that & Kung Fury were such inspiring indie legends
If you said Expend4bles was the first feature film to use Blender, I would have also believed you
What they should have done for the cone heads scene was completely practical: As per the movie Hello Dolly. Where all the food looked realistic but was made from fairy floss (candy floss). so it literally dissolved in her mouth as she ate!
Hey I worked on Hardcore Henry! that movie was simultaneously an amazingly fun thing to work on, and ultimate suck with the lens distortion and gopro footage. It was also, at some point considered to be done in stereoscopic. This would have made the audience even more seasick while they watched! It ended up giving us a slightly different camera angle to help stitch the edit points together. Most of the time the edit points were rudimentary at best. Much camera override, motion blur and roto to blend things that were occasionally completely different perspectives.
'Hardcore Henry' is an action masterpiece. So many action movies are poorly shot with choppy cameras that make the action unclear. 'Hardcore Henry' is well-shot. I don't consider it shaky cam. Instead, it feels like realistic first person POV. I don't play video games or typically like action movies. You did an awesome job. 🙂
VFX Legion in the house! They should get James to sit on the couch.
I really liked Hardcore Henry!
@@Mattison04 Totally
That was a cool movie
I guess the budget for Expendables 4 went to the actors and they had nothing left over for VFX
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Looks a lot like a video game.
@@samholdsworth420I was so mad when the first one had digital squibs
I wandered why it looked so fake when I watched the first 5 minutes
I hope more people watch Hardcore Henry from this video. That movie is so much fun, you can really tell how much passion the whole crew put behind it. Rare treat
thanks for becoming my adult Saturday morning cartoons!
Accurate comment!
This is accurate...but unfortunately here in Aus it's a Sunday morning tradition.
Same 😂 when I get back from my Saturday morning workout it’s the thing I always watch while I eat
wren has always got the brandon sanderson shirts and i'm here for it! 😂
I am so happy they finally talked about Hardcore Henry, that was such an underrated action movie. I always watch it a couple times a year, the mood just hits to watch a good pov action movie. No one else has been able to pull it off as well as they did. I wish they would do a sequel with Henry after he got his memory back. Tim Roth playing his dad, that was awesome, and you have to give a hand to Copley, that guy was amazing playing different versions of himself.
Honestly they could/should do an entire episode on that movie, it’s groundbreaking VFX in a very DIY TH-cam way!
It's a truly stunning movie.
Got a clip for you fellas to look at. At the beginning of red tails with the attack on the train. It’s an amazing movie with even better effects. Thanks guys! Hope to see the clip in a future episode!! Long time fan of the crew!
Another crazy fact about Star Tours is that it was a motion simulator ride BEFORE digital projectors! Every ride vehicle had a huge projector welded to the outside with its own gigantic film reel.
Wow I did not know ow that. But it makes sense.
Thanks
12:25 i like how the bullets from these massive mounted LMGs are just tinking off of the front of the protags LMG like they are made of sparklers.
11:27 As always theres actually a film from 1947 called “The Lady in the Lake” which is entirely shot from a first person perspective!!!!! It’s not all in one take and doesn’t try to disguise it as much as hardcore Henry but I’d love to see your guy’s analysis of it and how some of the clever POV shots were done
I was also going to recommend that movie 👍
Great suggestion!
Yes! Coneheads! One of my all-time favorite movies. It's so underrated
It's the only SNL movie I like. Which is funny, because the skit was before I started watching SNL, so I wasn't exposed to the Coneheads until the movie. Meanwhile, the movies based on skits I had seen sucked (to me). Loved the Roxbury and Mary Katherine Gallagher skits but thought their movies sucked. Never liked Wayne's World as a skit so definitely couldn't sit through the movies. 😖
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Fant4stic has a trillion times better VFX that Expendables 4. No competition at all. I guess you could compare it to Kalki though haha
I just can't wait to see what the next stupidly named movie will be, and will it be as fun to say as Fan 4 Stik and Expend 4 Bulls.
@@brewskiproductionslasvegas It could be about cats, called Expell-fur-ballz.
@@brewskiproductionslasvegas We’ll have to wait and see if EXPENDABLE5 is greenlit after this bomb.
Kung Fury, probably the best short film in history, action packed amazing visuals, and an original song by David Hasselhoff that is an absolute banger!
I love how I saw a bunch of people losing their minds over the shot in Challengers when it's under the court looking up at the players. The amount of people that were shocked at how they did that when it's just that they're on a piece of glass is hilarious, especially when I saw nobody talking about that tennis ball shot which is actually impresive.
the masses arent used to it anymore smh
The Immortals with Henry Cavil did a similar shot too that was like 13 years ago. So it's nothing new. The tennis pov was way cooler forsure.
Reminds me of how people online were shocked at the behind the scene from la la land, where the cameraman rotates in place a few times timed to music, filming two characters. And all the professional cameramen were like "uhh yeah thats normal how did you think we did those scenes"
Every other episode of Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul has this "glass trick" in it. How are people surprised by it? To me it feels like an abused gimmick at this point.
Just because it has a simple explanation doesn’t make it any less of a great and interesting shot
jungle cruise fight between the jungle curse people and lily and frank would be a great one
Expendables 4 felt like a school project that was due after winter break but you forgot about it untill 2 days before school started again.
*Expend4bles
It sure did feel like it for VFX team, except that it was the teacher that forgot to assign this, but you had to do it in 2 days anyway and he also said that because of his forgetfulness he's not going to score anything any higher than b+ ;)
Yeah, the problem is that it cost 100 million dollars. In comparison, "The Creator" cost 80 million - and it had much more expensive actors, Hans Zimmer as a composer, and much better visual effects.
Coneheads is such a comfort movie for me. One of a few movies I can throw on and nap
Star Tours was amazing. Was there as a kid several times and that part when the space shuttle "dipped", made my stomach turn. The visuals were so good, I forgot everything around me was fake.
star tours, space mountain and big thunder mountain railroad(when it was actually working which was rare in the 90's).. just went back and forth between those all day as a kid.
My favorite part of the original Star Tours was going through the ice crystals. Such an amazing visual. Wish they talked about it.
I remember seeing that as a kid
No ride has ever made me quite as sick to my stomach as the original Star Tours.
I vaguely remember Star Tours from back when I went to Disneyland back in the 90s (it is vague enough that it could have been something else along the same lines lol). I also remember some Michael Jackson 3D movie thing as well from the same time.
Been requesting Hardcore Henry for nearly a year now, happy to see so many other people have been requesting it as well.
I'm 100% watching Hardcore Henry after that clip!
It's so good
I recommend it
Very well worth your time
A little care that it has nudity in some parts of the film. So if it's family night, better be playing the sfw one
@@silveredbullet802That is such an American comment. The movie has 100+ people getting killed in gruesome manner, but a few shots of nudity makes it not ok for a family night, lol)
Hardcore Henry is one of the most underrated cinematic gems.... Its a unicorn, made by an actually really good Russian NüPunk band (not Emo, think what System of a Down is to NüMetal but Punk)... Called Biting Elbows, all their music videos look like this, and also Sharlto Copley is in it, that alone is worth your time... and he's fuggin great in this....
There is a movie called "Surrogates" released in 2009, starring Bruce Willis. It has some good vfx shots, old and younger version of Bruce Willis. Damaged Robots, and good makeup to show death. I think it's decent, have fun!
That was the first movie I ever watched with my free trial of Netflix on my Xbox 360...I was like "well Blockbuster is dead"
In the Star Tours, when the flying towards the trench, you can see the transition between background matte painting and in-camera model of the Death Star surface, hidden by a laser blast.
So glad to see Hardcore Henry getting its praise, what a magnificent blast of a movie!
Seeing the guys talk about the original Star Tours ride film was awesome. That ride was my favorite growing up going to Disney World and no matter how many times I rode it, it was the most fun ever. Thank you guys for unpacking the ride film, that was amazing!
It's wild how much work goes into the tiniest of details
Not for the Expendfourbles
Not really.
In addition to just reacting to these CGI, you guys are completely teaching and exploring the vfx techniques to us.🤩
The funny thing about the lack atmosphere on Death Star is that it makes the Death Star look like it's actually in space, just like the moon. On a side note, some people have said that moon landing photos were faked on a stage because there's no atmospheric scattering on it like how we would expect to see it on Earth.
I mean, that's understandable, the Moon has a miniscule amount of atmosphere compared to Eartglh...
Oh my God, that Star Tours experience unlocked some deep seated memories
guys, more hardcore henry! we finally got a look and we need more
This was only the CGI...we need the stunts/fights!
thanks for doing Hardcore Henry. You guys really care. 🤘🤘
in the music video that hardcore henry was based on, the camera man literally held the go pro in his mouth with a special mouth piece they made lol
Seems like a great way to accidentally knock your own teeth out lol
@@RyTrapp0 totally depends on what you use as mouthpiece. I know another youtuber, that always uses a piece of a snorkel to hold his gopro. it's basically an integrated mouthguard plus a rubber bumper for the camera
Hardcore Henry is one of my favorite movies ever, there is something so old school about how wild and fun and unpredictable, it's a helluva movie
hardcore Henry is a hidden gem it's so underrated
I was totally expecting them to just look at that one scene with the grenade launcher and I'm glad they didn't
I can't believe it came out in 2015. It feels like it was in 2021. Time flies real fast.
Hardcore Henry and upgrade, both are underrated movies
So is Kill Switch from 2017. Another film done half in POV that more people should watch.
9:01 The road bends off to the left as he flies into the air.
9:04 The road bends off to the right now after landing on the bike.
It's a completely different road with different trees and everything. lol. They didn't think we'd notice. But we did.
I loved hardcore Henry. Wish they did more like that
Check out Kill Switch from 2017.
I swear in 2005 when I visited Disney I say star tours still running, that opening shot oft hat ground shuttle sent me way back with nostalgia.
Jordan Allen is like a human party bus.. I can't explain it
I get what you mean but i can't explain it either.
lets all stop to appreciate that challengers was written by the potion seller dude. another vfx masterpiece.
Thank you soo much I have been waiting for a Hardcore Henry breakdown.
Same! I used to write it in the comments all the time haha I wonder what had them decide to look at it?
@@coltapodaca I don't know if it's coincidence but in /r/corridor the road chase was specifically mentioned about a month ago in their 'React Suggestions'. Might have been the tipping point.
Captain EO was one of my favorite movies/rides in the history of Disneyland, and this ride was always next on the list!
I love Hardcore Henry. It's one of my favorite movies. A consistent wild ride the whole time. It's just a lot of fun.
"Movies nowadays, I feel like, whatever I see, I can contextualize with today's technology and feel pretty confident about how they're doing something. But, the MAGIC STILL LIVES for me with all this OLDER STUFF" SUMS up this whole React to CGI series and I'M ALL FOR IT.
For me as a little kid visiting Disney World in 1993, Star Tours was the epitome of the Star Wars experience. The scenery outside the ride felt like you were on the forest moon of Endor. I remember at the time it captured the feeling of the original films perfectly and made you feel like a part of it
Hardcore Henry is so insane. Loved watching it in the theater and it is definitely one of my favorite movies.
One of my favorite Go Motion uses was in Disney's Dragonslayer from 1981. That practical dragon is still probably my favorite movie dragon of all time... also had a great name: Vermithrax Pejorative. ;-)
@@KabukiKid Such a great dragon VFX/SFX mix.
Wow I am amazed to actually see Hardcore Henry up on here! It is still to this day one of my favorite action movies! It came out and was in theaters just down the street from my high school around the time I graduated so it was a fun time getting to see that as a group of boys who all recently were able to see movies of that rating.
Hardcore Henry is such a silly but superfun movie, loved every minute of it.
I frickin love Hardcore Henry. I was a 16 year old with a dream of being a stuntman when it came out and I watched it over and over.
6:57 the music made it even better tbh
When I saw Coneheads on the thumbnail I was hoping it would be that monster battle scene. Such a bizarre but kinda charming movie.
Didn't that start as an SNL skit like Night at the Roxbury?
@@enviritas9498 yep!
I seriously remember them as a tv series not a movie
@@EvripidouM It wasn't a series. It originated as a skit on SNL and had a movie based on said skit made. It really is an enjoyable movie.
It's bizarre to you? You haven't seen Howard the Duck I take it? Now that movie is bizarre. 😂 I personally love the Coneheads movie.
You guys gotta do odd squad, the amount of VFX casually used there is insane, and when the vfx is good, ITS GOOD
Expend4balls looks like a TV movie back when CGI started to be a thing. Whoever that gave his thumb up to those scenes should be lashed for it
It's just budget. I'm sure they knew how it looked, but if that's the best it's gonna get with the money they have... what're ya gonna do
@@grukoin2789 Plan better. Have another director or simply do not make it. They were thinking like you wrote and that's why they made back only half of their budget. The film stunk already in paper I am sure. As the guys on the couch pointed out, it's lack of care. Like the MCU in the last years (decade?)
Love how you breakdown everything broadly it is nice like we are in the same thought process
Go Motion IS the moving of the puppet suring the exposure - its the process Phil Tippet created specifically to do this. You can sre it working really well on the test footage he did for Jurassic Park.
The motion blur on the motion control Star Wars shots (which is present on all OT movies) is just having a long enough exposure on each frame.
Thank you-I was annoyed they got this wrong
I think Jordan got the distortion thing backwards. There are tracking softwares like 3de or pftrack that can deal with distorted plates and you can export the distortion info as a node to help comp the cg elements later on with Nuke or AE.
So we as matchmovers use the distortion grid to give the distortion info to the software, but the tracking is done with the distorted plate not the undistorted one.
Source: I used to work as a matchmover at Framestore and Rodeo and that was usually the pipeline they used.
On the cone heads sandwich: the image of the sandwich is facing a different direction than the real sandwich😂 look at the tomato sticking it on the real end vs where the toppings are sticking out on the image side.
Corridor! A new episode recommendation!
My wife and I just watched Pacific Rim recently, and we are a huge fan of you guys, so throughout the entire movie we were in awe about how it could look so good for being almost a decade old, and were trying to figure out what techniques did they use to make it look so realistic but also so believable in terms of scale!
We would love to see you guys do an in depth episode on Pacific Rim!
Please react to Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow one of these days!
LET'S GOOOO! Thank you for checking out Hardcore Henry. It's such an underappreciated gem of a movie.
13:07 I didnt even register the issue with the recoil. I was too distracted by Jason Statham's character having superspeed and being able to track the sniper rifle bullet with his eyes in slowmotion.
I was trying to figure out how a guy *looking through a sniper scope* is going to be able to lead a plane with a single shot.
I was trying to figure out how he's seeing what he's shooting at, when the eye he is looking down the sight with... is closed.
i had an annual passport to Disneyland for my of my childhood, you doing Star Tours is SO nostalgic for me. Though I wish you could have gotten some shots of the line itself, some many excellent practical effects you get to see just standing in line.
Everybody: PLEASE TALK ABOUT HARDCORE HENRY!
Corridor Crew: So Hardcore Henry is a thing... moving on.
Yeah, i agree. Way too short. There is SO much more to it....
For the sandwich in Coneheads, you can see the frame where the sandwich goes from a picture to the real final bite.
"That has got to be the gayest jacket I've ever seen" - Best moment in Hardcore Henry
Let's be honest, the entirety of scenes with Sharlto is the best moment in it, no offense to the rest of the crew and production.
i cannot believe you guys didnt mention the helicopter at the end of the movie... pure gold
0:41 holy shh i was in the United States in 1992. On that trip i was in disneyland and the universal studios... the moment i saw that clip of Star Tours all the memories came back.( i was like 6 or 7 yo.)
Holy... are you my twin lol I was also on a trip to Disneyland in 1992 at the tender age of 6 or 7 as well lol Star Tours was the one ride that I wanted to ride back than.
Hey guys, just wanted to mention that the motion control stuff you were calling Go Motion wasn't called that... Go motion was, as far as I have heard, exclusive to the characters being animated. Coneheads had it, yes, and so did Return of the Jedi (the AT-ST's legs). ILM first tested on Empire Strikes Back on the Taun Taun legs, most noticeably as it enters the rebel hanger. Young Sherlock Holmes used it in the Harpy scene, and it was used in the previz for Jurassic Park (initially intended for use in the actual visual effects until CGI proved to be the better tool for the job). Though it was developed by Phil Tippett and ILM the concept was originally used in France back in the early 1920s.
I have a film recommendation for y'all. "Life" from 2017 opens with a oner going through multiple modules of the ISS that's like 8 minutes long.
Took most of the episode for me to notice Wren's RAFO shirt. Loved his video with Sanderson recently
If I remember correctly, GoMotion is when the characters are on motorized rods, like in Dragonslayer. Just moving the camera during exposure to get camera motion-based motion blur, that's just a part of normal Motion control. It's still quite a feat, though. Even though, the synchronisation of the starfield and the movement of the elements in the Star Tours ride is a bit off.
You remember correctly, The guys are using the term incorrectly in this particular video. They were talking about some of the spaceship shots at the beginning and calling those go motion when they are just simply motion control.
On another note, all motion control since the original Star Wars would expose the frame when the camera was moving. There was nothing unique about it, ILM did not have a patent on it or anything.
YOu saved me the time to post this. They are mixing up GoMotion (attaching the puppets to motion control rods) and Motion Control (moving the camera only). The towers on the death star are blurred because of motion control. Dragonslayer and the coneheads monster actually moved during the exposure.
Even waiting in line for Star Tours as a kid was pretty amazing. Very detailed.
finally hardcore henry! i've been commenting this since the beginning of the series!
Something you guys could look at that has always intrigued me is same actor acting with themselves on the same screen. I think perfect example is Battlestar Galactica season 4 episode 2 when Gaius Baltar is talking with his conscious self in frame and the actual camera angle moves and they both literally look like they're talking to each other with the same background without any "hidden" blue line blue screen effects we've all seen. It looks flawless. Anyways, love your guys content!
That Hardcore Henry looks crazy!
it's a blast
It is INSANE
It is HARDCORE.
The Conehead sandwich reminds of the hotdog scene in Meet Dave! Love to see them chat about that film, actually some really good tiny person VFX
What happened to stuntmen react?
That was dope.
The other day when browsing memes learned of a 90s film called Star Kid, and judging from the trailer it really fits the types of movies/effects that usually gets a bit longer segments on these videos
second time asking you guys to look at the Labyrinth scene I suggested last video. The scene I'm talking about is the one where the Goblin King (David Bowie) first appears in Sarah's room. It's when he has a crystal ball in his hand and it turns into a snake and then he throws the snake onto Sarah, for it to turn into a scarf after wrapping around her neck. It's a pretty interesting scene and I want you guys to look at it :)
Expendfourballs looks so much like circa 2000 fmv footage it made me nostalgic for Mechwarrior 4's intro movie
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Watching The acolyte final episode and it looks like the lightsabers have a black edge to them. Idk if it’s a stylistic choice or error but thought it might be interesting. Starts around the 17:50 mark
Hardcore Henry finally getting recognition.
KALKI - The one whole movie 🎥 is literally a combination of ( Dune , Wall-E , Mad Max , Avengers , doctor strange , guardians of the galaxy )
don't forget Star Wars. Not sure about Wall-E. The main baddie is literally a 1 to 1 chinese knockoff version of Snoke
@@Mionwang yeah you're damnn right!!
A bit from the movie ‘time’ too.
Luv'd Hardcore, bought the dvd and I watch it once a year or more. I'm glad you guys finally featured it, having a budget far.... far less than the Expendable (any number) and being the far superior ride.
I watched conehead last year and didn’t realize it was a fake sandwich…. Just flew right over my head and I’ve seen this movie tons of times
I was watching this video like "...huh... ...I don't remember that looking that shit the couple dozen other times I've seen this..." lol. Something to be said for just getting the movie as a whole right so those imperfect details don't become the focus. Great movie!
I honestly can't remeber if they looked at it before, but I would recommend the opening credits from the movie "Lord of War", where we follow a single bullet from the assembly line all the way to being actually fired. Yes, the obvious CG on the bullet itself is kinda noticable, but the way it interacts with people picking it up and loading it into a mag is still impressive to me.
We Need A whole animators react episode just for demon slayer!!!!
Always nice to see more Hardcore Henry
When is the react coming for Kalki 2898 AD?
Guys, this guy - Ilya Naishuller made an incredible music video for the famous band Leningrad.
You should definitely watch it. Band: Leningrad - Kolschik (in Cyrillic Ленинград-Кольщик). Director: Ilya Naishuller
There you will have something to discuss!
Did they get Copyright strike at 14:57?
Laika studios created stop-motion models with built-in motion blur to achieve the same effect. Amazing stuff.