Comments on: Amateur Russian low-budg Transformers short out-bad-asses Hollywood film

By: dhalgren

dhalgren — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Looks more like a television spot for ACT UP.

By: Exquire

Exquire — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Cool effects. I have one of those cameras and recently made something similarish, feels great to have something with that kind of creative power!

But TBH I was hoping the bike would transform and kick ass from the moment I saw the handlebars.

By: UltraSmashaTron

UltraSmashaTron — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Is anyone else clamoring for a “Who framed Roger Rabbit style” big budget film with the robots from the 80′s cartoon?

By: theawesomerobot

theawesomerobot — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Do people in Russia ever wear shirts?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nice tribute. Beautifully shot & CGI’d. Love the flip-flops! @gillyarcht

By: bill streeter

bill streeter — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

From the end credits it looks like they used about 20 grand worth of software too. So it wasn’t really as low budget as one might think. But I guess it could have all been pirated so maybe it really was that cheap.

By: Boba Fett Diop

Boba Fett Diop — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well, yes, provided you replace the oil, plugs, filters, rings, alternator and carburetor every week or so.

They key to fighting a Ladabot is to stand very still about 20 meters away. What’s it going to do, lock its transmission at you?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hollywood should pay attention. When 2 kids can make a movie with a few cameras and a computer that is more entertaining than a movie with a 200 million dollar budget Hollywood is quickly becoming obsolete. Best movies I have recently seen were from Sweden and Spain.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

No.

By: George_R

George_R — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

THAT is frickin’ awesome. Love fan-made stuff like this that kicks the original’s ass. :)

By: Moienmarkt

Moienmarkt — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The slippers are somewhat disturbing :D

By: magneticwheels

magneticwheels — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

so many jock jams! there is no more MALE a moment in music than the solo-guitar-before-the-drums-come-in moment.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks Rob. – Sean

By: S2

S2 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Props for his animal-wrangling, too! How’d he convince the Red-tailed Hawk at 0:47 to fly all the way over from North America? Maybe a Beastmaster short is next up….

By: Mr. Sleepy

Mr. Sleepy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What’s all the big to-do about this? Big whoop @_@ Two gay guys without shirts playing with little toys then a big “Transformer” comes outta the car and chases one of them. Wow, how great is that?? You people are to easily thrilled thats’ for sure. Anyways, this has copyright infringement written all over it, the poor bastards.

By: Lester

Lester — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That was the Russian Red tailed hawk. Flies shirtless.

I have red tailed hawks all over my neighborhood, and I never hear them make that noise. I think they just save it for dramatic tension.

By: oxrs

oxrs — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@magneticwheels
Yeah… Not at all. I’ve known quite a few female guitarists who love a little guitar solo time. I got the impression you were trying to point out gender inequalities, but it’s sexist to claim something is only for a specific gender, whichever position you take. There are plenty of men who dislike guitar solos and plenty of women who enjoy them.

@OP
The video was ok. I got a very pokemon vibe from it and the only thing that made me smile was when the third transformer appeared. I’m not sure how transformer pokemon is badass, but it WAS more badass than the films.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

its very amazing

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

seems more like pokemon than transformers.

By: knoxblox

knoxblox — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It was funny to see a Lada transform, though. The Siberian makes are almost indestructible. They’d make a great Transformer.
I wonder how a Ural sidecar motorcycle would look?

@theawesomerobot: Well, they are experiencing a very bad heat wave, what with the forest and peat bog fires adding to their troubles. They’re beginning to say it’s the longest they’ve had in a thousand years of Russian weather extremes, based on calculations made from the data from lake deposits.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100809/160128496.html

By: Tensegrity

Tensegrity — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Gay? I can’t imagine something less gay than this–two bros with terrible haircuts, baggy shorts, and sandals is about as straight boy as you can get. (FWIW, I thought the video was quite nice for what it is.)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The sequel should have Die Antwoord show up with their pc computer, next level beats, and Pink Floyd trunks

By: edwinx2

edwinx2 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t think I have the right to complain that a treasured childhood memory is
being shoehorned into a PokÃ©mon style– doing that might just save the
franchise. The two Transformers feature films were horrible beyond belief: the
CGI was poorly integrated with the live footage to the point of distraction and
the story seemed to wander in search of a point. A fatal mistake would seem to
be that the studio was pandering to what they thought I wanted, a late-thirties
American male who grew up watching the cartoon and buying the toys, when they
should have been speaking to the kids that made this short. Tech-savvy kids that
grew up in the Global Village with battle monsters (and, sadly, the implied
“gotta catch them all” accumulation orgy of the form) as a staple in
entertainment. Paradoxically, to keep the Transformers around, us fan-boys need
to let them go.

The overt sensuality of the piece suggests to me that the auteur is well versed
in the form of the Action Movie. The way the perfect machines of young
masculinity at its apex mirror their little killing machines, the question of
final domination becoming that most masculine of obsessions– size. The whole
short is very double-coded, very post-modern (is that still a thing?), maybe a
bit rough in the narrative, but really more promising than any studio trailer
I’ve seen in a long time.

I have a big problem with the assumption that “looking kinda gay” is a flaw.
Action movies are supposed to be homoerotic, so why not vamp it up
without camping it up? Burroughs’s “Wild Boys” fighting with switchblade robots
in a dust bowl Russia? Count me in! Hasbro would never allow this to happen, but
if you can re-brand, scale up the budget and make a feature along those lines,
there’s no way you could lose money. For example, ” The 300“.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Awesome!

I just made this with a Canon 7D and $2000.

http://www.vimeo.com/13762496
Making Of:
http://www.vimeo.com/13774835

Visual FX, vintage style, and sexy girls… what’s not to love?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

A little disappointed that they didn’t shoot the transformation all the way, they seemed to be set up for it. Also, no kee-ker-ker-ker-ker? Other than that, really awesome :)

By: mdh

mdh — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Clearly, you’ve never met my girl, and with that attitude, you never will.

By: mdh

mdh — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

for some reason this reminds me of the short story Dogfight, by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson.

also, a cell phone commercial.

also, it is better than the movies and less seizure inducing as well.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@Mr. Sleepy: Really? That’s all you can say? I don’t know what your impression of gay people is, but if not wearing a shirt is all it takes, you must have the worst gaydar. It’s extremely impressive for a piece of student work by a 20 year old. You try creating this captivating of a scene with no dialogue in under four minutes…then maybe you’ll have something constructive (or even interesting) to say.

By: jfoobar

jfoobar — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

FYI, the song over the credits is “Pretty Handsome Awkward” by The Used. If it was credited in the credits, I missed it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Who knows the last song in this video?