Most confusing Sci-Fi battle Movie EVER

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2007-04-29 04:50am

I defy anyone online to make ANY sense of the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ue0AlWgau4&NR=1

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2007-04-29 05:00am

Wow, I recognised about..half of those ships.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2007-04-29 05:51am

Even if this is just a show off for nice effects it has some problems.
I think the main problem is the soundtrack. It´s cut together really badly. The differnet themes stop abruptly and another one starts, sometimes there are sound effects, sometimes not.

Lord Zentei · Post by **Lord Zentei** » 2007-04-29 06:25am

salm wrote:Even if this is just a show off for nice effects it has some problems.
I think the main problem is the soundtrack. It´s cut together really badly. The differnet themes stop abruptly and another one starts, sometimes there are sound effects, sometimes not.

That's probably what they were going for. And yes, the cutting is crap; moreover, the ship destructions are often a tad off.

I'd guess it's mainly a 3-d rendering exercise for someone who is learning-by-doing. That, or a tool who just likes seeing things blown up.

And LMAO at the Shadow/Vorlon alliance, incidentally.

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2007-04-29 10:39am

I'm assuming that someone just cut together scenes from half a dozen Spacebattles films. The music, animation style and quality, and "plot" (alliances, what has and has not been destroyed) shift from scene to scene.

I did like the whole Vorlon/Shadow/IA/Dominion vs. Klingon/Vorlon scheme, though.

Wyrm · Post by **Wyrm** » 2007-04-29 11:27am

Really need to work on the physics. Ships don't stop dead when they're shot; they blow up and continue to travel their last vector.

And couldn't they at least match the theme music to their appropriate univeses? ST:DS9 theme for B5 Earth ships.

Also, WTFing at Nebulon B using a B5 gate.

Post by **Kuja** » 2007-04-29 12:49pm

That "Rebel fleet VS Imperial Fleet CUT TO Nebulon-B attacking DS9" moment had to be the biggest WTF of the entire movie for me.

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2007-04-30 11:18am

My mind is hurt. Someone, introduce them all to a Culture ROU to make the hurting stop.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2007-04-30 02:10pm

Wow, a horribly edited mishmash of old lame amateur CGI videos. Spectacular.

Zed Snardbody · Post by **Zed Snardbody** » 2007-04-30 04:08pm

Dilgar ships....thats a bit odd.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2007-04-30 04:19pm

LOL Spacebattles. We can do far better these days. I notice there've been no movies at SB in years despite their being SB's raison d'etre.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2007-04-30 04:47pm

Now there reason seems to be sheltering the shitty debaters booted out of here and covering up or ultra rightwing pricks.

Jim Raynor · Post by **Jim Raynor** » 2007-04-30 06:37pm

Kuja wrote:That "Rebel fleet VS Imperial Fleet CUT TO Nebulon-B attacking DS9" moment had to be the biggest WTF of the entire movie for me.

Me too. The video is a plotless mess, nothing but an excuse to show off animated space battles. That itself wouldn't have been as huge a problem if the video didn't trick you into thinking there was some semblance of a setting and plot, with subtitles like "Aramar, Rebel Alliance Headquarters" and "Rebel Planetary Defence Control Center."

SylasGaunt · Post by **SylasGaunt** » 2007-05-01 03:52pm

It looks like a plotless mess because someone just took a bunch of different videos made by different authors and put them all together with no rhyme or reason.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2007-05-01 05:48pm

Lord Pounder wrote:Now their reason seems to be sheltering the shitty debaters booted out of here and covering up on ultra-rightwing pricks.

I've noticed. I still want Es Arkajae to come here and formally debate me on why gays should be awarded equal rights to straights instead of simply killed outright. House Rules as always.

OmegaGuy · Post by **OmegaGuy** » 2007-05-01 08:02pm

That's not a movie, that's a bunch of movies all stuck together in random order.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2007-05-01 09:08pm

It also has a terrible compression job. So fucking many pixels...

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2007-05-01 11:22pm

darthdavid wrote:It also has a terrible compression job. So fucking many pixels...

Those movies were already pretty low-res to begin with.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2007-05-01 11:41pm

Was that the Federation fighting the Borg to the Klendathu theme from Starship Troopers? Sweet jesus. This is so garbage it makes me sad.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2007-05-01 11:41pm

And for a movie titled Battle of Earth, I still haven't seen our little blue ball.

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2007-05-03 08:52pm

Phantasee wrote:And for a movie titled Battle of Earth, I still haven't seen our little blue ball.

No, it was there at around the 5:00 mark. You know, the part where a bunch of random ships were attacking a bunch of random ships with a random musical score for no apparent reason.

Perhaps it's a nuanced commentary on the meaninglessness of war?