A Look Back Ep. 1: Library Opening

[simps500]

Wow, you got started early Robert. Unfortunately I don't have any movies I can go back and look at from before my voice dropped (I started when I was 15).  Though I was certainly quite terrible at it.

[WhatTheMaynard]

You should still upload your early stuff!

And by the way, I'm going to upload films that go even further back into my childhood, I started at 5 :P

[simps500]

Haha, I actually already have. "Terrible Driving Movie" (not the original title) is the first movie I edited on the computer and is on my channel somewhere, and "The Terminizer" was my first "blockbuster" as it were (the full version of that is on Google Video, it's just broken up into parts on YouTube).

Maybe someday if I figure out how, I'll upload the first movie I edited ever, with two VCRs, when I was 15.

[WhatTheMaynard]

Oh, those days of using two VCR's hehehehe....it sucked

But yeah, I was watching a bit of your stuff after you posted. That Was Fred STILL cracks me up :P

[UPSbro]

hahaha o ma gosh! this is awesome! u did better than i did wen i first started xP were u guys in middle school around that point?

[WhatTheMaynard]

Yup, 7th grade so....1999? Dunno why the title says 2001, maybe we set it in the near future bc.......well it's definitely fall of 1999.

[Shaggy72]

I think EVERY budding film maker should do a Blair Witch or Zombie movie;

if not only to be able to look back to see the fun they had with the process before the cold, harsh realities of the business side drains their souls of creativity and turns film makers into mindless drones who dish out the brain-dead lowest common denominator mainstream crap. (Wow, i'm in a bad mood after watching 2012!)

[WhatTheMaynard]

You see my review? :P

[Shaggy72]

I need to. My subscribers' uploads thingy is fillin up! (I've spent more time on this comment section tonight than I have on you Tube all week!)

OK, I understand the nature of Popcorn disaster movies r "turn your brain off and enjoy the spectacle".

but, c'mon:

I took flying lessons. And even if I didn't, anyone with the brain of a 2nd grader would know that they could've avoided 99% of the aerial sequences by, oh, I don't know, PULLING BACK ON THE YOKE N NOT FLYING 20' ABOVE THE GROUND!!

[WhatTheMaynard]

You'll enjoy my review then. I also just dropped ALL expectations with "the neutrinos have mutated".......you're kidding right? All those other sound scientific explanation and you start off with mutating electron particles.......wtf Hollywood (makes me slightly ashamed to be in this business)

[RMBennett87]

Wow, I wish I knew Adam when his voice was that octave haha.

[WhatTheMaynard]

It was hilarity every day. I still remember your voice when it was higher, but we all settled into our current voices in high school together

[Shaggy72]

Panico's absolute delight in his obviously fond memories here reminds me of a young Kevin Smith and the joy he couldn't help but convey when HE first started making movies (that is, back when he was a genius, and not a 24/7 stoner that thinks he can only be a genius when stoned)

[Shaggy72]

LAST VIEW AND LAST COMMENT!!

HA! (in my best Cory Haim impression - which 95% of You Tube will not get the reference to)

Thumbs up for the music from "Explorers", although for some reason, now that makes me want to watch the first two seasons of a scifi show called Sliders!

re: 1:40 - one day there will be an avant-garde filmmaker who purposefully includes "mistakes" like stumped toes to have "realistic" characters (a cinematic no-no, I know, but even Lucas included one in Star Wars).

[WhatTheMaynard]

Explorers was my fav movie as a kid, so to amp up the nostalgia I made it the theme to this video.

And MAJOR kudos for recognizing it!!

[Shaggy72]

and THE BEST part, the Explorers music is part of UMG n eCommerce Platform, the amazon com-itunes non-intrusive pop-up that frequently appears on some vids; an idear I had almost from the start! Well, it takes time n negotiations for CEO's 2 catch up with my common sense.

In other words, YOUR VIDEOS SHOULDN'T BE GETTING SILENCED FOR 'COPYRIGHT VIOLATION' FROM THAT MUSIC!! .. (Whew! Dark Knight Out headaches now avoided!! But THAT incident is a whole 'nother rant from me about fair use)

[WhatTheMaynard]

Hahaha, I know right? I'm STILL pissed about DKO. In fact, I may write up WB Music and see if I can get expressed permission to use it. Otherwise, I'm re-scoring or just giving up on the fight.

Either way, I'm extremely relieved one of my top 5 fav film scores isn't musical-bait on YT. By the way, I hope one day they release the full score, I want ALL those damn cues.

[Shaggy72]

I JUST recently started to, um, 'appreciate, the art of original music scores in cinema.. and the sometimes vitality of it in some scenes, regardless of the subtly.

Anywayz, I know 60% of the world thinks Hans Zimmer is the hack-musician equivalent of Michael Bay, but I don't care. Pirates/Caribbean 3 may not have been a 'successful' film, but I dare anyone to listen to the score by itself and say it not a beautiful masterpiece of composition.

[Shaggy72]

(ANd if any1 diagrees w/ me about POTC 3 msuic, this is the 1 time I will uncharacteristically say, STFU! Your opinion is WRONG.)

Oh, and, yeah, being born in the 70s, i'm a product of the 80s, (i've got one decade on ya!)... and, while the original 1986 animated cartoon of Transformers is nostalgic CRAP (painful to admit but so very true),.. THAT was the first time I ever really noticed and became obsessed with a music score. For that ONE score, Vince Dicola shined with the best of 'em!

[WhatTheMaynard]

I've been a film music nut since the early90s (80s born kid) Zimmer's best scores IMO are best when he actually changes style. Sure, I love POTC (especially 3) and Gladiator, but "The Ring" "The Last Samurai" and "Angels & Demons" are absolutely brilliant. A&D is a score I HIGHLY recommend, and if you wanna save money jsut buy the firs track "160 BMP" it's the most pulse-pounding music cue I've heard in years.

[SpecialFxKid]

1st view and 1st comment.

[WhatTheMaynard]

Lol, thanks geeky fan boy :P

[SpecialFxKid]

Don't call me a geeky fan boy.

[WhatTheMaynard]

I'm a hardcore geeky fanboy, it was a compliment :P

[SpecialFxKid]

oh, I see.