Poll: Vid Watching

[thefourthvine]

This is the counterpart to the poll I posted earlier. (It, uh, had to undergo some revisions after the results of that poll.) And this one is for anyone who has ever seen a vid.

Again, feel totally free to pimp. I'd love to get a range of responses on this one.

After this, there'll be a round of vid meta coming out, but then I swear we'll go back to fan fiction. I'm really starting to miss recommending the written word.

[Poll #800594]

Comments

Re: IBS Vid Rec

[taverymate.livejournal.com]

I thought it odd that you didn't recognize IBS as Margie's vid because I was certain that you knew the wonder that is Margie & Seah's vids. I don't always track vids by their titles, so that was also a possibility. But then I thought maybe - just maybe - somehow you'd not run across Margie & Seah's site. And that was a possibility too dire to contemplate. I didn't consider arachnophobia, though I must agree with you that: It makes the damned things much more spiderlike and real looking than any other vid I've seen.

There's a moment that always gives me pause that I don't know if you saw before you bailed on the vid. It's where the female for whom the replicators were originally built is in a room playing with one. It's the wing movement, I think, that is so effective there in giving the replicators a sense of aliveness.

Given your bug phobia, you probably will want to avoid Jackie Kjono's VVC premiering vid Beep Beep which uses Starship Troopers, a movie about fighting giant alien bugs.

Re: IBS Vid Rec

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Given your bug phobia, you probably will want to avoid Jackie Kjono's VVC premiering vid Beep Beep which uses Starship Troopers, a movie about fighting giant alien bugs.

I approached Beep Beep with some trepidation, but actually, those bugs didn't bother me at all. I do much better with giant bugs than I do with small bugs; the Replicators are almost too big to trigger my phobia, but then they are, as I said before, very very real looking in this vid. (It's an unpredictable phobia; I track bugs in real life better than anyone I know, but on film, it varies. Like, in Minority Report, they use devices called spiders to search houses, and although they should trigger my bug ick - the right size and everything - I actually thought they were adorable - and so, I must note, did my very arachnophobic mother. It's a mystery.)

And, no, I didn't see the part with the woman playing with the Replicator; I bailed fairly early on, earlier than I normally do, because - eeek! Bugs!