I dont know how to describe this, but it feels like every single person in your office fits in perfectly. It doesnt matter who is on screen, everytime they go off, I'll be like "Dang I wish this person was on here more".. Sam and Niko, I hope you are very proud of the team you've put together over these years!
I agree, but remember they are playing characters on screen. Themselves, but outsized. The Bon Appetit channel was like until one day the story broke that it was a terrible place to work. (Enough people have moved on from Corridor, however, that if there were issues we'd probably have heard about it by now.)
Hi, I'm a muppet performer (I play Dr. Teeth’s dad Gerald Teeth Sr.) and NY Henson shop builder. Marionette puppeteers performed Kermit’s and Piggy’s bikes. The bikes and puppets were rigged to a controller connected to a crane. The wide of all the bikes was done by connecting all the bikes. You can see the connections if you look closely enough. We still do a lot of practical puppetry FX in our films and TV shows. However, since everyone expects there to be CG, it gets looked over as a digital effect. A great example is the show Donkey Hodie. In it, a puppet juggles. There is no VFX. All practical and in camera. I started my professional career as a VFX artist, so I can say that in TV/Film puppetry, the same saying exists. If you didn't see the effect, then we have done our job right.
That second half was so delightful - to think that a 97 year old movie could confuse you guys after 134 episodes of doing this is the wildest compliment to the makers of Metropolis and their craft! :D
Then they didn't even get to the electric arc effect or the rings around the robot transformation. This 3 hour movie is wild for its time(And had cost more than the whole lotr trilogy combined in today's money) . I believe it is shot at 16 or 24 FPS or so. But the restoration team made is play at 30?, so it looks weird to watch now. Strangely sped up. I have it in my collection, I should watch it again.
They do it all the time and it's very fascinating to see how they did vfx stuff all those years ago. Unfortunately there's only so much old movies with mind blowing vfx.
You guys should make a video where you do "VFX" shots, without CGI. The 45 degree mirror, forced perspective, etcc etcc. Not just to see it in action, but to see what goes into it and how easy, or difficult, it actually is. Edit: my brain suffered a minor case of sudden flatulence and i wrote VFX instead of CGI. It has now been corrected.
A superb idea! Like when Coppola did his version of Dracula in 1992 - he only used techniques that would have been available when the original movie came out (in the 30s).
You might have mentioned that the reflective glass technique was known as the Schüftan process. One of of the earliest, in-camera compositing techniques in Cinema history. It actually had its roots in the world of stage magic (as did many other early effects). Georges Méliès, known as the Cinemagician, started out as a stage magician and brought a lot of his illusions to his films. Metropolis still stands as one of the most astounding works of cinema ever.
Thank you for mentioning the Schüftan process. While watching the video I was thinking that they should've at least acknowledged the process name of the, for its time, incredibly Innovative technique. You would think the guys, especially Niko who is very thorough and knowledgeable, at the Crew would have done some extra credit research and mentioned it.
"A Trip to the Moon" by Georges Méliès from 1902 is widely considered the official real first sci-fi movie. I don't really understand why they claimed it's Metropolis. If the movies were close together in age, I would not make much difference, but Trip to the Moon is 25 years older!
@@zlobzor They begin the segment with implying "we saw modern sci-fi, now let's go back to the first " and secondly, costumes, animation, simple explosions & smoke and moving backgrounds was the VFX of that time.
Looked up the ferrari crash, it actually mostly happened that crazily. Tire blew, lost control, flew into a telephone pole, jumped a brook, hit spectators, bounced back on the road, hit more spectators slidding and spinning over the road ending up in a brook on the other side of the road, driver was found split in half. (1957 Mille Miglia)
I think Andor, with its phenomenal effects across all 12 episodes, would make great content for a VFX artists react video - especially as it makes for great comparison with the lacklustre and cheap-looking VFX from the other Star Wars TV shows.
Remember how people talked about the Star Wars prequels like they were the worst movies ever made, when really, come on, they weren't THAT bad? The Clone Wars actually IS that bad. - Film critic, Eric D. Snider[49] Entertainment Weekly listed Star Wars: The Clone Wars as one of the five worst films of 2008[39] with critic Owen Gleiberman saying, It's hard to tell the droids from the Jedi drones in this robotic animated dud, in which the George Lucas Empire Strikes Back-at the audience. What wears you out is Lucas' immersion in a Star Wars cosmology that has grown so obsessive-compulsively cluttered yet trivial that it's no longer escapism; Because this movie has bad lightsaber duels and the lack of the original cast, it's something you want to escape from.[39]
Star Wars Clone Wars film The only Star Wars Razzie On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 19% based on 172 reviews, with an average rating of 4.2/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Mechanical animation and a less-than stellar script make The Clone Wars a pale shadow of George Lucas' once great franchise."[35] This constituted the lowest Rotten Tomatoes rating of any Star Wars film; all nine theatrical films ranged from 51% to 95% and the made-for-television Ewok films and the Star Wars Holiday Special garnered higher ratings, although their averages encompassed far fewer reviews.[36]
I remember the first time I watched Metropolis, I was properly blown away by the effects, especially when I looked up the date it came out, insanely good work.
THE PAGEMASTER! THATS THE NAME! I've been looking for this movie for YEARS but I had nothing to go on except foggy memories I though I had made up after a while. You guys do incredible work, and from your videos I have always walked away with more knowledge and new appreciation for the art. Thank you all for what you do. You're inspiring not just me to learn more but millions of others I'm sure. I hope you all at CC have a great day, as well as to anyone who is reading this. Everyone, keep pushing forward and doing the best you can, you got this!
SAME the scene in this clip just triggered 25 year old memories I haven't thought about since I saw this movie as a kid. If you'd told me the name with no context I would've sworn up and down I'd never seen it before
There's a version of Metropolis on RU-vid that redoes the soundtrack with a modern band and modern music and it's freaking amazing. It's absolutely gorgeous and transfixing. The modern soundtrack transforms the movie into something absolutely incredible.
Those Metropolis shots are actually insane. It's so cool to see how the principles of hand-drawn animation itself was being used for the digital effects of computers nowadays.
Have you ever thought of how they operated Kermit in the swamp in the first muppet movie and the muppets in the pond in great muppet caper…I wish there were a behind the scenes for those shots.
I think this has been my favourite episode so far, laughed super hard, blown away by the reveals behind these effects. I know we're not sitting on the couch with you guys but it feels like we are. Thank you all for sharing your passion and knowledge with us!
Great episode! I'm SO GLAD you guys covered a few scenes from Metropolis. I love that movie. And now I'm even more impressed by it because I know how they did some of those effects and it's just mind blowing. Thank you!
Dude I’ve been waiting for yall to look at metropolis since I watched it for a film class a few years ago. So glad yall got to break down some of the crazy effects in it
Guys the shot of him running on the dune and the dune collapsing under him was real! There construsted a real sand dune with semi trucks under it and drove out on cue to create the collapse. And they had a stunt double run on top and fall in the sand. Denis V broke it down in a video.
I frickin loved the Pagemaster as a kid. Loved it so much my parents bought it for me on VHS, if you haven’t seen it then it’s definitely worth a watch
also, even aside from their lack of reaction, it all looks kind of.... silly? the rag-dolling, the car bouncing; it looks like a live action cartoon more than what should be a horrifying event.
Think about how fast it's happening though. They wouldn't have time to react. The car was going 150 mph when it lost control. I actually think that aspect is fairly realistic.
That's physically accurate in theory. The energy needed to move the car is way more than that needed to move a human body, so it's entirely possible for enough energy to be transferred to make the body move faster than the car. Like when a bowling ball hits the pins.
@@TheAshenvictor It is mostly the spin that makes that happen. The surface of the bowling ball has a speed on top of the speed of the ball itself, and the pins are accelerated to that combined speed. The first spectator who is thrown up by the car looks wrong because the car is spinning the wrong way for him to shoot upwards.
@@jaapsch2 Cool, I didn't think of that. I also didn't rewatch the clip or consider the angle, I'm just saying a big thing moving can hit and accelerate a smaller thing to a higher speed.
Thanks for reviewing Metropolis!! It is a marvel of a movie with a tie back to the loss of history. The movie was longer than what we now have. The destruction of art leading up to and through WW2 lost lots of hard work and beauty 😢
@@PorcineHero93what I find funny, and why quite a few people are commenting about it, is that they misspelled not once, not twice... but three times.😅
Hey, making fun of how Paul mounts the Sandworm is straight from the book. The paddle opens the soft insides of the worm and it turns to get it far from the irritating sand.
Metropolis has been one of my favorite films since I saw it as a kid 15 years ago. Genuinely a powerful film in message and the contributions it made to film, VFX, and the sci-fi genre can NOT be understated. Love that you guys finally talked about it!
I'm so happy you reacted to Metropolis! That's one of my favorite silent films and I always wondered how they did everything in that film being nearly a hundred years old. It blows my mind the techniques they used back then to create scenes and get the shots they wanted. I'd love to see you guys react to Nosferatu next; that's my absolute favorite silent film
16:56 I’d ask Adam Savage. But if I remember it’s pretty simple. There’s two puppets, the sitting one, and the free one. The sitting one has the feet just attach to the peddles, the steering and balance is operated up top, with the puppeteer operating the puppet. The hands are either attached or not depending on the shot. The bikes can just work as they get pulled around. The free puppet is used for the closeups with some fake handles. Now the bit where both the bikes are interacting is.. maybe a rig up top that rotates in a way they can repeat it. But at the same time I’m not sure. A few years prior to that movie there were a few people showing off self balancing bikes robots that just plugged onto the bike seats and put pull the handle bars and peddle and balance. I’m wondering if they were just those. Because they are going rather slow and jerky. But who knows riggers for puppet mechanism are on another level sometimes
Dune '84 effects were great! I think they did an awesome job on filming some hard to imagine scenes with the limited tech available to them at the time. Plus the soundtrack made even the "silly" looking stuff feel epic. The movie definitely has a charm that still holds up well in my opinion.
About that bit at 7:42, don't forget that the filmmakers in the early 80s weren't really planning on their films being seen on the small screen. The matting on little Kyle MacLachlan wouldn't have stuck out so much on the big screen, but 4 feet in front of you it becomes pretty obvious.
I love it when you guys look at old skool effects. The creativity in these older movies amazes me and the effects for Metropolis! Wow! Someone needs to make a documentary on how the effects were done on that film
Since you looked at Fritz Lang's Metropolis, I'd also recommend checking out the rocket launch sequence in his Frau Im Mond/Woman in the Moon. Made in 1929 and features a pretty well researched idea of what a manned mission to the moon would actually look like (until they get there and can breathe the air and use dowsing rods to find water). 1929 was even before the earliest stages of cruise missiles (which the Soviets started experimenting with in 1932 and the Germans in 1943), yet they nail a lot of smaller details.
2:24 So no one is questioning the real world physics of a wooden telephone pole deflecting an entire explosive motion car instead of pole breaking and car continues the trajectory
Wooden poles are trees. And trees are pretty dang hard to break.... but that car did go damm fast. I dont know. Acordong to a poster above the car did bounce of a pole
I mean it has the tension of the wires as well, you can definitely see it getting dislodged. It wasn't a head on impact with it so it's very probable that it would have ricocheted like that, someone mentioned higher up in the comments that the scene was based on a real crash.
I can certainly believe it bounced off the pole. What I can't believe is that it was that high up on the pole or that it would bounce that far off of it.
I would have agreed to the point of poles being as trees, but the strength of the pole would be highest at the base as it has earth for stability and the poles become weaker in strength at the tip where wires are. The wires that are attached are just attached with bolts and not soldered or wrapped around the pole for grip and provide elasticity The car - Ferrari 335 s is about 880 kg curb weight. Not being a scientist here but I definitely believe the car weight + the added momentum with explosion could have easily overcome the structural integrity of that point of crash on pole breaking it down. I mean I am also speculating this based on the movie shot(which seems to be exaggerated from what I read in other media) May be the Corridor Crew guys can work out the mathematics and physics using their simulator 🤩
if you love scifi Metropolis is a must watch movie my personal favourite cut of the movie is the Giorgio Moroder 1980's release, they added back in some of the original colour tinting and gave it a good soundtrack
Week 6 of asking the guys to look at the original 1999 Walking with Dinosaurs TV series from the BBC. Not only does it have a great blend of practical and cg elements, it was also the very first attempt to show dinosaurs as living animals in a documentary rather than as movie monsters. Plus if you can catch them, there are definitely a few shots where the dinosaur models clip through themselves. 😂 Definitely worth a look!
Yes! Prehistoric Park and the Walking With series all have super cool CGI work for all the animals. Sea Monsters A Prehistoric Adventure has it too, with an awesome timelapse at the end showing the geological changes of millions of years
already mentioned this. not those films, but specifically visual nasties with horror legends explaining the craft/method behind the effects. 1 off episode, or series, but i expect the episode to garner attention and then a year or so before a series is released/made. because.... some visuals aren't youtube compliant.... these days.
Have they done John carpenter's The Thing? I know there was a really comprehensive making of on the Dvd, plus I'm not sure if there is that much mystery in how it was done (like, it's models covered in goo)
Just found an awesome clip from an old Tom and Jerry movie where they composed the mouse into a full dance sequence matching Gene Kelly's dance moves. What I found super weird is they composed the mouse into the frame and even had the 2d animated character's reflection show up on the glossy floor. Would love to see you break down this effect and how they did it so early in VFX and cinema history. Love the videos!
3:23 not a single one of the people tried to run away from the flying Ferrari. That's what completely ruined the shot for me. They looked like video game npc's.
When their mind is blowing by the Metropolis logo. Because as he says that would be like a 5-minute job for an intern on a computer. 😆 But then to realize someone had to painstakingly make that frame by frame.
I just watched The Great Muppet Caper the other day! It's one of my faves. That bicycle scene is so great. I didn't realize how much work went into Metropolis, I need to watch it.
In the distant shots of the Muppets it was actually a young Brian Henson and his friend towing the puppets. THANK YOU FOR FINALLY SHOWING PAGEMASTER!!!!!
Absolutely brilliant. Old techniques get me every time. It's actually insane how much we rely on CG nowadays, to the point where I can't even imagine how they would do it without CG!
Pagemaster was one of my favorite movies as a kid. Getting to see this scene again all these years later makes me appreciate the movie even more and how the incorporated cgi.
is that me or the crashing scene of the Ferrari in the public doesn't look good at all? it is missing realism, the public have a reaction time of more than 3 sec
Yup. Watched this in the theatre, the moment the car hits the bump in the road, the audio cut out, and you could hear the audience gasp but then kind of mutter and chuckle a bit because of how weird and awkward and silly it looked, also right after this was a shot of just excessive CGI gore and mutilated bodies that felt insanely out of place. Ferrari is an extremely strange film, very melodramatic, very cheap-looking, horrible audio
Mann wanted the bulk of the crash to occur in one unbroken shot so that viewers could really see the destruction. He and his team looked at BBC footage of a famous 1955 disaster at Le Mans when a car flew into the crowd and killed 83 people. “You see this car coming, seemingly benign, until you realize what’s happening-that it’s mowing down these people,” Mann says. “It’s a hot, flaming metallic scythe cutting through human bodies. And that very much influenced how I shot them.”
The Ferrari vfx shot, looks like the vfx artist accidentally raised it up during development somehow and the rest of the development team didn't see it as a mistake and worked around it
The Pagemaster is such a blast from the past. I forgot about that movie but seeing it now made me remember I must have watched it at least a dozen times as a kid.
I think what made Metropolis so groundbreaking is you have a generation of people who grew up only with stage production (live performance plays) and now with this new format called cinema, you can record the production and manipulate what the audience sees through the camera lens. You don't have to put everything on a single stage, live, and the camera not only allowed you to manipulating what the audience (the camera) catches but also how much preparation you can make between each scene.
I love Wrens reactions! Would be great if somebody made a compilation video of every time Wren was confused and bewildered saying "WHAT?" "Or wait..... what?!"😅
Had the chance to see Metropolis at a local theater with live music early this year, impressive how it inspired so many other movies and how the message/theme of it is still relevant today. Nice to see how some of the effects were made.
I love what the original Dune achieved with its effects- apparently the dust used for the sand in the sand worm scene had to be so fine to look right slowed down in order to simulate the scale that it was extremely unhealthy to use and is no longer allowed to be utilized in special effects because of it. Old school techniques were so wild And Metropolis- approaching a century old and still impressive to me. The fact they made something like that back then is unreal
Thank you so much for looking into The Pagemaster. I requested it a few Reacts ago to know how that scene was done and I'm happy to see some love aimed at one of my favorite childhood movies. Plus it just so happens to be the 30th anniversary of it. You guys are the best!
The Metropolis segment was immense, it's so cool how stuff we take for granted and a dedicated 13 year old could do took so much inventiveness to do for the first time
The most egregious part of the Ferrari clip is the inexplicable take-off. There is nothing that would launch that car 30 feet into the air. I could handle 10 feet or so, and the subsequent shot with the crowd would still be doable.
@@GuineaPigEveryday Yes - in Guidizzolo. I don't doubt a car of that kind could achieve some height, but there's nothing to suggest it did so, and certainly nothing in that recreation to cause it. The physics depicted are laughable. In reality, the car bounced off an embankment and hit a telephone pole at ground level, before colliding with spectators and coming to rest in a ditch. I'm all for dramatic license, but that just looked silly.
@19:33 I absolutely love when Wren snaps into serious mode and explains something super fundamental that all creators should know. It always punches me in the gut (in a good way).
The feeling I just had when they showed that Pagemaster clip... I have thought about that paint flood scene forever and I literally have never been able to remember the movie name. oh my god nostalgia
i will NEVER get tired of intellectually inclined people talking about THE dune money shot... and i will never get tired of watching it. fucking unbelievable cinematography to drool over..... theeeeeen theres the 80s version 💀
Denis Villeneuve and Roger Deakins is a fucking match made in heaven, they have produced some outstanding frames together. I knew they had done a few but I didn't realise Prisoners was one, holy shit no wonder it's so good.
I remember my mom showing me Metropolis as a kid, right after The Fellowship of the Ring came out. She loves fantasy and scifi. And she lives LoTRs, but when i was so obsessed with LoTRs at a young age she wanted to show me that people have been making cool stuff for a long time, and she chose Metropolis to be that example. Since then, I've had an appreciation for early movie making "tricks". Its so impressive what those guys did in the early days of film. Not to mention how Metropolis is actually just a good movie. It has a great story that is very thought-provoking. For any who hasnt seen Metropolis, do so. It is life improving to have seen that movie.
Love that you covered Page Master! One of my absolute favorite movies growing up! Would love to hear more about these 2d/real life movies such as page master, Roger rabbit, cool world.
1:41 in all honesty, the effects of this one were well done, but the physics were well off. First, The stone that was hit would barely create any airtime on its own, if any at all, and it certainly wouldn’t have flung the car to the other side of the road, nor that high. Second, When the car hit the pole, it will have changed direction slightly, but more than anything, the pole would have just snapped or been ripped out of the ground. That car would have hit the pole with a tremendous amount of force, even if the car wasn’t particularly heavy, it still had a lot of speed.
This episode was a blast! 1. Need waaayy more Peter on this show 2. Once the couch dies maybe get a sectional and just have 5+ people each episode 👀 3. Love Jake, but Jordan’s ad spots are 🤌 4. I never realize how loud RU-vidr voice is until I heard your voices echoining back into the mics and it had me chuckling. Love you guys, glad this show is still around after getting me through college and beyond!
