Parodia Magnifica
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13 Mar 2007, 12:40
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News
13/03/07 - Coincidence? I think not.
Temporal Pictures latest recruits and famed Return to Castle Wolfenstein editors,
Santabot and Drakh have completed the highly anticipated Parodia movie. Showcasing one of the definitive Enemy Territory teams in the games almost four year history, fans will finally be able to see some of their favourite players in action without having to connect to a server.:: The Stars ::
Saintt Raveneye mystic Xpaz jauhis Jafo Drc Santabot and Drakh presentParodia Magnifica
:: Movie Information ::
Codec: x264/XviD
x264 Resolution: 800x448
x264 Size: 481 Mb
XviD Resolution: 640x360
XviD Size: 441 Mb
Length: 19:35 mins
Framerate: 30 Frames Per Second
Project size: Approximately 150 Gb
Project time: 15 months (9 months of working time)
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going to watch it now :D
sfxgaming mirror @ fullspeed for me :>
Okey, lets start with frags, 11/10 of course, I know I can never do things like this, congrats for doing it. I'm sure .img and idle will not like this movie :) Also were a bit less mystic frags, but I know the reason why...
About editing, music and the others: this was the best music selection I have ever seen in a fragmovie, although music is always something personal. I liked the cfg, because it was very clear, maybe a bit less colors, but anyways the sepia effect owned sometimes. Also the dynatimer was a very nice idea, and I liked when you slowed down the smg, and each shots passed to the music. Finally, the intro was one of the bests with those text effects.
+/- few effect
+/- cfg was good but no color correction
-/- no sync with the music
-/- very slow
-/- music
overall 7/10
Nothing special:(
Well I think it's a great movie with some minor flaws, but I can't tangle to the little mistakes, perhaps cuz it holds a little extra emotional value to me.
todella hyvä leffa ja xpaz batteryssa aivan loistavaa
+ music
+ length
- cfg could have been much more colorfull
- 80% slow motions
- no hitsound part(one with mystic would have been so nice :<)
- frags are ordered by the players
- it sucks to look in the left upper corner to see who's been fragged
- no shoutcast parts
with these very nice frags it could have been a much more better movie
+ it good to look in the left upper corner to see who's been fragged
+ Musics
+ Mystic :D
+ Editing (just conveniently, I don't like too much editing)
+ Short enough outro
+ RtCW style
- Colors looked apathetic, but maybe they were meant to be like that
- I was missing the "you killed ..." text
- Slow tempo but it was still interesting enough to watch it all
- Sometimes I didn't notice when the player changed but maybe I was just tired when watching it :P
Overally a magnificent movie with many enjoyable frags. I'll store this in my collection
Surpassed plenty of others...enough to keep me happy anyway.
+ Editing
+ Length
+ Quality
- Music
- Colors
- Slow motion (overused)
- No crosshair :<
music was nice, frags were awesome and i really liked the outro
need more mystic frags, a crosshair and hitsounds though
anyway great work
Hitsounds could have been really nice in some parts - just to make it that little bit better...
...I also felt the slowmotion was way overused, kinda got boring.
Decent frags though, I guess it would make a lot of fanboys happy. Very nice outro too, 7/10.
best scenes:
4:50
7:10
8:30 (lol?)
9:32
11:15
12:45
13:30
14:00
16:20
17:30
<3
jafo > * (what is he doing now btw?)
rofl@saint/tekoa frag xD
n1@raveneye battery frag
unexpected to see myself as opening frag :p
colors are kinda "cold"
no crosshair and no You killed text suck :p
(I'm sure there was more material !)
+quality
EDIT: watched it and enjoyed it. however, like many others I would've liked to hear hitsounds, afterall these guys give more headshots than the whole scene combined (:D)
I liked the overall feeling of the movie: long continuous runs from a single perspective, synched with audio here and there reminded me of the old RtCW-fragmovies. This fits well into the overall theme of the movie. Freecam-rides were really well thought out and didn't seem like useless gimmicks. Also, transitions between different scenes were smooth, not once did they feel jerky.
Technically I noticed a lot of things here and there, but fragmovies, that are under development for a long time, tend to suffer slightly in this perspective. Technology goes forward.
Stylistically I liked the bleak outlook of the clip. Slow motion was over-utilized at times, but it didn't bother me at all: this was one of the few fragmovies that felt shorter than it actually is.
Frags were great, as expected. Couple important scenes didn't make it into the movie, but you can't have it all. Santabot's understanding of the game could be seen through editing: jafo's needle frenzy -scene in Braundorf was quite refreshing, for example. And I'm still smiling about the TeKoa getting nailed by Saintt's MG42. :)
My favourite part of the clip was around 11:10, where Jauhis is drilling his way through IDKFA in the stairs of Goldrush, while Corazon of Mine reaches the chorus: "When I say / it's forever / don't remind me"... Made me realize, that these times are gone and not coming back. All that remains are the memories and the friends made along the way.
And this movie.
anyway im downloading movie since 2 hours and still 2 hours left :)
but the rest is just simply amazing!
plz continue to do movies santabot !
"you killed " text and crosshair is missing there.
one big plus for making an xvid version.
no hitsounds/shoutcast parts? :\
total: 8/10
oh wait, it's dignitas being so aggressiv and parodia was so defensive ... yeah, parodia took apart every aggressiv team as it seems .. but then again, where there more defense scenes in this movie than offense scenes ?
parodia will stay the best et team ever, for me ..
jauhis, as usual @ glance !! ..
xpaz bringing in the rtcw rampage
and the rest of the gang also darn kick ass !! ..
also saintt :>
oh yeah
the movie
9/10
somehow the colors seemed abit flat .. or is it just me?
but the rest, awesome job for an ET movie! ..
i just commented alot of others from the scene, they thought parodia were very defensive, which they actually werent.
For those of you who doesnt seem to rate it very highly, plz name a better fragmovie for ET
Edit: There is actually one movie I would say is better but thats just cause the frag content is overwhealming
My list of better fragmovies:
one4one.Decimated
Winghaven out of the way 2 expect the unexpected
And I can go on.
nice movie btw :)
senji busted in a fragmovie. gg
just seemed like intro+frags+outro. Nothing else. Dissappointed to say the least, but frags were awesome though and saintt's scenes were funny :)
Most ppl are prolly saying its awesome simply because its parodia, although i have to agree with gaso here, it does leave a nostalgic feeling :)
soz xpaz and co but 7/10 maximum for me :(
It looks like im watching black/white television.
First song im in a arabic country and then the second song im in a techno club where from the song has allready been used 3x.
Music was well selected and synched.
Lack of 'you killed ..'-text and crosshair actually made it more enjoyable to watch, I tend to find text and objects in the middle of my screen while watching men die rather annoying.
Slowmotion worked for me, movie didn't bore me at all even with it (and the fact that this is remarkably long for fragmovie was uncanny since it felt kind of short).
Frags & scenes were ofc parodiaquality and I agree with Gaso that it was very smart to bring in some alternative scenes (medicing, hipmg) amongst massacre.
I also give props for NOT using hitsounds as they usually sound absurd (imo those sounds sound like gunshots to armor from 70's scifi anyways) with music and spoil the atmosphere quite effectively.
Bleak colors were effective as well.
There were some minor glitches but hey, I'm not the one complaining since I enjoyed watching this nostalgic and very credible movie.
10-/10
imo parodia best et team ever.
Guess I expected more frags from matches against big names ;).
Must have been the fourth fragmovie I've ever watched. As a whole, the material depicted seemed slightly "standard" highskilled action (undeniably enjoyable, certainly) overall, but there were a few nifty runs thrown in there, albeit mostly against healing opponents, but then again that's how lengthy fraggingsprees are usually made in 6on6 matches. Good stuff.
editing very average
;[
fracs were great, music was awesome. especially I loved the part where Disco Ensemble's - We Might Fall Apart was playing. the scene where mystic was pwning u96d in supply, grass turns brown and there is this very cool part of this song, slowmotion = perfect!
like Xpaz and Gaso said, beside the fact that there were minor mistakes, you cant deny that there wasn't great emotional atmosphere in this movie. I still remeber the old good times when ettv matches were exciting and parodia (FINLAND!) was playing against rest of the world, mostly against idle/u96d
I hope we could turn back time and still see those guys playing together and enjoying it :) <3
- xpaz
9/10
Otherwise it was very enjoyable, music was great, especially the prodigy song. Nice atmosphere too and yes, nostalgic feeling to want Parodia back in action. Miss Saintt alot.
Music was a little crappy.
Would have been greater with hit sounds and cross hair.
Overall an enjoyable watch!
+effect
+frags
+team
-quality
-viruS and jauhis gay's.
damn ,because of this i want to play again , much :D
thx.