After hearing him talk about not constraining himself to a schedule and just going wherever he wants with the plot, I'm shocked this this ever got finished. There are so many creatives who will work on their "dream project," until the day they die because the scope keeps changing and they don't constrain themselves to any direction or time schedule. Props to Phil for actually finishing a project like that
10 years later and this has FINALLY released! It’s fantastic. Really jaw dropping and beautiful- in a grotesque nightmarish way. Not a conventional ‘movie’ in that the story, if there even is one, is really open to interpretation. There is a narrative shift that is pretty jarring and occurs about half way through and that’s when things get really weird. If I was to glean anything from the film I might take it as Phil’s very dim view of the human condition. The various monsters and hellish environments the assassin(s) travel through are sometimes (but not always) obvious metaphors for the variety of horrors that exist in our own world. Ultimately, this is more about the experience of the visuals (and sound!) and the feelings it provokes. It’s a work of art.
Really a work of art indeed. Also I think this is a kind of film that you can watch every year again, like a Christmas film. But maybe without your grandchildren :)
Cant believe I am seeing this video made 11 years ago after I watched the movie and seeing how Phil talks about what he is going to do and how it panned out. So awesome
14:05 Phil has a portrait of himself, wearing the same clothes he always does. I like these old guys who seem to be boring, but are actually incredibly imaginative and innovative. Kind of a neat paradox, to observe sometimes...
10 years later...I just got back from seeing it at an independent theater and it was amazing! It was bizarre, gross, enthralling, jaw-dropping, stunning...it was a mind-boggling epic!
Wow, crazy! Just scrolling through the comments, and realizing that this video is 10 years old! Just saw the film, and searched for some interviews etc. Really a masterpiece btw!
Watching this, I was curious and looked at the upload date: _2012!_ I'm glad I only just saw this now, _after_ having watched the film. Waiting an entire decade would have driven me nuts...
Who’s here 30 years later & finally we have a trailer !!! I only have been on earth 2 years long than this man has been working on one project … let that sink in. I heard my what at the time I thought was my nerdy cousin, who later I realized was my cool cousin talking about this when we watched empire. Telling me one of the guys who “made the Ton Ton’s” was working on his own movie. I was 5 & never forgot. I actually thought I made it up. Glad it’s finally coming !!!
Part 3 is out soon too. I just finished watching part 2 (about 5 minutes ago). It's pretty expensive for what you get though; part 1 is 10 minutes and part 2 is 15 minutes, which cost $15.
Harryhausen and Tippett are the two titans of stop motion. Any animator would step over their mother to work with him. Interesting to hear that he doesn't feel that it's important to shoot every shot himself. I thought this was a very personal project. Unfettered Tippett. But it's more than that. I guess it started off as a very personal project, but he's opened it up to collaboration. The main question I would ask is, why so nightmarish? From what I know of Tippett, he has been somewhat burnt by Hollywood and is an intelligent and perhaps cynical man. And maybe that explains it. But he seems to be tapping into a level of darkness that I left behind as a teenager. And perhaps I'm poorer without it.
I swear. Every video I watch with Norm in it, at some point he pisses me off by grabbing something out of someone's hands or off something without asking. Man, does that drive me nuts.
Some of those props are the coolest fucking things I've ever seen in my life and hearing him talk about everything makes me excited to go make things. Definitely gonna check this out now that I know about this. Also Norm forever
Oh wow. From when this video was posted they were already talking about its release.... Good to know it's now actually getting that long awaited release lol
Poor Norm just going through the introductions and already ol man Tippetts rolling his eyes and giving him the death glare stinkeye, LOL What a crotchety ol fart.
you know... i was thinking.. you know.. i might actually comment.. you know.. but i figured.. you know.. someone probably beat me to it.. you know.. turns out.. you know.. it was you...
Muchas cosas geniales en este proyecto, ¡Gracias mr. Tipper por darle vida! Las texturas, los líquidos, la opresión que se percibe es agobiante y estremecedora. Aplaudo especialmente la originalidad de sus personajes, en un mundo donde todos los animadores 3D hacen siempre monstruos tipo H.R. Giger, se copian los unos a los otros o simplemente usan todos las mismas texturas, encontrarse con otras bestias salidas de no sé que rincón del inframundo es por decirlo poco, refrescante. También me gustó esa búsqueda personal al tratar de romper la clásica estructura de una cinta comercial. En fin, de nuevo, muchas gracias.
am i the only one who thinks that films should be made with stop motion again because i think stop motion is more artistic and makes me feel more realistic
He mentions that some people seeing him archiving early film footage of the project thought it looked like a “long lost xxxxxx project.” Can anyone tell me the name he said? Sounded like Arrovic or Aravic?
It's about the remnants of mankind being in the last days of an apocalypse caused by some kind of "mad god". What I can't peace together is the assassin descends into the place on some kind of lift yet we see him pass a skyscraper and ruins of cities on the way down. So did he come from some kind of aircraft or is the area he arrives in underground?
My god, I just noticed that this video came out in 2012. We finally see the movie, but 10 years later. I think he changed the design on the "shitmen". In the movie they look more like they're made out of moss.
This man is a fucking artist with his work an I just seen MAD GOD and its beyond beautiful with the strange narrative of what's even really going on an I loved it from the time, the dark horrible realities, from live action peices to stop motion
"Dear Mr Tippett, now that we're just the two of us, would you mind if i just called you Almighty God ??" would have been my reaction. Thanks for my childhood btw.
At 4:10 Phil mentions the name of a filmmaker. Sounds like darevich but I can't make it out and am turning up nothing with google search. Can anyone help me out here?
Just realised the strange distribution policy of pt. 1 and 2. In my opinion, there would be many more people buying, thus watching and enjoying his work on this, if it wold be provided in a more suitable way. Some diversity of payment policy would help a lot. I want to watch badly since hearing about him working on it since years, but I will never ever sport a credit card to buy art.
He looks like the physical fusion of Kyle gas and Jack black... Except you expected the fusion to produce a goofier than life guy but instead it made a super artsy fartsy guy..
