This is our little no budget- scifi short film we shot here in Finland in 2014, out in the open. Hope you guys enjoy. "For others it was a dead world, for her it was a land of opportunity."
This reminds me of an early D&D game. The players enter a bar just on the edge of the wastelands. They don't know each other. For some reason, a fight breaks out, and they end up helping each other out. Afterward, they head out together to start their life of adventures together.
I appreciated it, i think it's not for everyone, i didn't understand really the whole context, but it seems that the important point was the new relationship they were building each other.
Pyhät tulipallot! 2014 ?! Toivon, että olet työskennellyt jatko-osan parissa, koska TÄMÄ on kuuma ominaisuus ja ansaitsee sarjan ja / tai pitkäkestoisen elokuvan. PARAS lyhyt mitä olen nähnyt kuukausina. Bravo! ************************* Holy fireballs! 2014?! I hope you've been working on a "sequel", because THIS is a hot property and deserves a series and/or a feature-length movie. BEST short I've seen in months. Bravo!
Positive side - Big effort to get the audience into a known story line. Negative - No background information leading into the scene nor characters. Fighting scene, could have been either longer and more fist fighting or shorter if everybody has guns. or fists and as soon as any side begin to lose, then the gun start to pull out. or a hand granade and everybody dies. Positive again - characters are played by good looking actors or not so depending on what side of the line they are. Anyways. even though it is not a great short clip, i vote for a like for keeping the sci-fi short film movement alive. Note, put a bit of science or factual in the clip, that makes SciFi movies great, like a plain drama as First Signal
Wonderful! I kept thinking to myself "there's something about their voices - was it dubbed?" Then I see you're from Finland. Its just the way they speak English. Its a pity the first one wasn't longer. I find myself wondering what Fray and her partner will get up to next. Thank you so much for sharing, and here's to your continued work.
Thank you for putting this out. It was a lot of work from the crew and the actors. You did really well, considering it was no/low budget, and that it was 7 years ago... The ADR... I, personally would have preferred the dialog be natural, native, with subtitles. Cut out some of stuff that doesn't add to the story, like the glass looking and booze sloshing at 6:02. Add some diegetic sounds, even if you have to use on-set microphones.
I think the showdown scene would have been more convincing if the heroine actress had been directed to act just a bit uptight or a tad worried instead of just matter of fact as if no risk was involved, but overall I could feel myself getting sucked into it all. A worthy effort to be sure. Wish I could have been a part of it. Thanks for sharing it.
This has real potential, but also needs a lot of work. I hope you produce more episodes and make each one better than the last. You know what needs to be improved.
Bwahaha just watched this again for the first time in a couple of years. Being involved in this project is one of my favorites memories from my time in Finland. Could the acting have been better? Sure. Dialogue? Most def! But this is an amazing project, with a great crew. And I mean, c'mon, set design, editing, overall production value! Thanks so much @hmcindie for everything! PS- I'm one of the actors with the charisma of a wet paper bag, as one of the haters below described us. Lol. That shit is funny!!!
Good movie. I loved the way his gun blew up on him. Well they got thrown out of the bar with nothing for their efforts. Love the way she just gets up the spunk to go on and try something else. I wonder if she will ever get her money?
Nice. I'd say more on the sci-fi side than steampunk, but nothing wrong with that. It'd be a good pilot for a series or teaser for a feature. An interesting world. If there was more, I'd watch it.
Well it's some of the worst dialogue I've heard in a while. The acting I think suffered because of the horrible dialogue. The rest, directing, cinematography, action, editing, etc. was fine. I would say Mikko Lopponen (who wore many hats in this short film) should try directing some things he did not write. Good films start with good stories and good writing, and that is where this one went bad. Otherwise I think it could have been good with a better blueprint to work from. I say this because I think I see potential in Lopponen's directing abilities (and even the other hats he wore), just not as a writer. Not trying to be mean, but I watch a LOT of films my whole life and tons of shorts since RU-vid explosion, and am very detailed so I try to separate what's being done. I see a short film that suffered because of writing...fix the blueprint and I think you end up with something much better!!
Worst dialog...Really? Compared to what may I ask? I suppose predator 1 (w/Arnold) was some kind of language masterpiece??? This SciFi short is amazing and values the unspoken meaning of a thing. Old-school. OG. Timeless.
To be honest, minus a few things here and there I personally would like to see a full length with a decent budget and enough time of course. Plus Fray hot as hell and kicked some ass.
Loved it! Main characters have chemistry and liked the guys and girls acting even though it was short. I really liked the action scenes and bet if it had a great script it could be really great! I’d love to see something else made
This is the future? Doesn't seem to have shifted from the days when Tina Turner was leaping from a jeep togged up in leather ammo belts and a furry bikini.,Thunderdrome , Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark. etc..Least to us older people it doesn't.
Great job guys, if this had been a full lenght film I would have watched the whole thing. The voice dubbing was a little bad, but the cinematography more than made up for it. Keep it up, I want more!
Very funny in a delightfully gritty, ultra camp sort of way! Sergio Leone would be proud. Well, hey, my opinion. 'The Good, The Bad, and the Really, Really Ugly' in space with a female lead. Could be a success on the big screen if promoted correctly. A potential cult favorite. Try Kickstarter!
That'll be $5, please. [ : - Q ] Seriously, I look forward to the future adventures of... I can't see how others missed the humor. Black humor is hard for people to catch sometimes, but when one sees someone drinking out of a bottle with a skull and crossbones on it, a knock-em-down, drag-em-out fight where everyone's none the worse at the end (OK, minor contusions - you gotta show something), a co-lead's casual attitude of "I'll rescue the female just as soon as I finish my drink...oh, all right, what the hell..."), a bad guy with a pet snake, and so on. I hope it finds its true audience soon. I've subscribed to your RU-vid channel so as to keep up.
Is this a "proof of concept" or a pilot for something potentially bigger? Previous comments on the cardboard acting are spot on, but if it got commissioned, a good director would kick them into touch. The setting, and writing are pretty good though, straight out of a comic. It left me wanting to see the next episode(s)!
Hey, sorry for taking a while to answer. It was originally thought of as a "proof of concept" but just became a too-long-short. Proof-of-concepts are usually really short, like one minute and just mostly show shots.
This was brilliant. It reminded me of comics I read growing up like Strontium Dog, and other 2000 AD sci-fi steampunk comics. The acting was better than some of the people here moan about, I mean if you want bad acting go watch Arrow, some of the actors in Arrow that play the villains need acting classes.
This was so lit! Y'all should put that outro track on soundcloud or something. Would've liked to see a few vampires getting dusted but loved your style nonetheless. :) Thank you for coming through when LURK didn't -_-
This has a Blade runner type feel and tone that I really like. I could see this as the opening for a longer film. Too bad your other film is so much darker, so much more violently graphic. Often what is left to the imagination is far more poignant.
Let's see. The female did work for the guy with the snake. He wouldn't pay her money owed. Beats her up. She eats a worm, 'Stranger' sits down and says he'll help her get her money. She goes to 'another guy' and gets him to protect her if things go bad... again. 'Another guy' won''t help 'stranger' or, apparently, help her get her money? Why not? He didn't have her back the first time. Why not?"Stranger' smuggles a firearm into the bar. Great surprise! "Another guy' has a Blaster and no one says anything. Bartender says "No fights!" Well, they just had one earlier and what does he do when this one breaks out? Nada. Did the actor portraying the bartender pay the director for a speaking part? 'Another guy' blows someone into next week. 'Another guy' already 1/5th of the way there. Why stop now? Just kill the'stranger' the 'snake guy' and his minions with that toaster oven of a gravity beam projector he has. Less mess for the bartender, the woman gets her money and maybe 'another guy' gets laid down the road.
Crowdfunding is illegal in Finland. They will need to get a foreign agent to handle the funding and then cotract with them for production to move funds, legacy laws and paranoia rule in Finland. I liked the short and would gladly watch more. Redubbing it with better flow would ramp it up a lot.
Kalle Pihlajasaari. Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware that was the case in Finland. Please excuse my ignorance. Might it be possible to register a Finnish production company outside of Finland, perhaps?
Hey Kalle! Crowdfunding is not illegal IF you sell a product. So if we basically sell a dvd or a downloadable link (for a future download) then it's legal. Just giving money without anything in return is illegal (for example a lot of crowdfunding projects have these "one dollar for special thanks" parts that are illegal here). It's a pretty weird law. There's a finish crowdfunding site Mesenaatti that seems to still be up properly. P.S Hei, toinen suomalainen!
