I still prefer that silly "GI Joe vs. NERV" video, instead. Maybe it's because of the inclusion of dead moms.
This is a trailer for In God We Trust, an obviously Evangelion-inspired fan movie made by childhood friends Alex Gingell, Dan Haigh, Bastiaan Koch, and Alex Westaway as a demo reel/resume. It contains no EVA Units -- it appears to have substituted military soldiers graphically killing each other for rampaging giant robots with dead moms in them -- but there are plenty of nods to the ground-breaking anime. Plus, since a live-action Evangelion movie would likely be the worst fucking thing ever, I'm pretty content with this. Thanks to Terjay for the tip.
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And let's not forget the worst part.
NO REI !!!
Blasphemy!...What? Just because my I need to reorganize my Rei figure collection again does not mean I am biased!http://img696.imageshack.us/im...
It's not really a fan made evangelion movie unless the words "shut the fuck up Shinji" are used.
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It cannot TRULY homage Eva unless you show Shinji fapping to comatose Asuka in the hospital scene, or show Super Giant Naked Stay Puft Marshmallow Rei's Sky-Vagina. NO EXCEPTIONS.
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Or a giant, naked Kaworu trying to hug Eva-01 into the creepiest homosexual, robot-on-boy action preceding the "Real Steel Deleted Scene" FFF.
Not NGE, just references. I can deal with that, but it's not NGE. I'd bet those involved though, can do much better with their talent.
Minus the bullet through the cigaret scene, I thought it look really well done and I would watch a full movie of it.
What utter bullshit.
If you're going to use shit from Evangelion, make it an actual Evangelion fan film. Don't just steal from it, stick in Jesus, and call it your own test film. Do a damn straight up fan film or don't be. Plus the original title was The Human Instrumentality Project. I also read up on it and it's from a UK band that did an Evangelion themed album.
Now this is just a proof of concept to show investors that the studio could make an actual film. So why are they stealing imagery from an anime series, even if there's a slight nod of credit that only fans would get?
Pretty damn lame.
I'd say this is how lame any Hollywood controlled Eva movie would be, but there's not way there would be that much religion allowed in it.
Oh I don't know: ever since "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons" became a Hollywood hit, using the term lightly, it suddenly became okay to specifically rip on Christianity in pop culture. Hell, if anything, they certainly aren't helping what with their attitude in handling priests who had diddled little boys of the altar variations or otherwise.
Did you know that when there was a proposal to kick out any parish leaders who diddled a kid even just once, it was veto-ed? VETO-ED!! Like, "Hey, come on now! Diddle once, it's an accident. Let's be lenient here!"
Well.. that's the Catholic church. Don't forget most of America is Protestant and the rabid conservative Christians think the Pope is some kinda anti-Christ working for the devil or some bullshit. So ripping on the Catholics is fine.
Now the Church itself does deserve to be ripped on, not so much the faithful in the Church, but the asshole old men who allow children to be abused like that and let the fuckers who do walk away. I'm from around Boston. Cardinal Law.. may he burn in hell. Now I know I'm supposed to be a good Christian and be forgiving, I did go to a Catholic high school even though I'm with the Eastern Church myself, but if the Catholic Church promotes people going to hell then it's many people running the Catholic Church who are going there first. I'd see Law there before homosexuals or women who have abortions or even just use condoms or half the people the Church says are committing deadly sins damning them to hell.
Wow.. weird digression of topic.
See.. this is why people need to join the Church of Instrumentality. And clearly the people who made this movie are false prophets.May Rei forgive them. Amen.
Amazing how they managed to pull that off in a cartoon solely made to see thirteen year old girls in bondage suits, isn't it?
I still kind of wish Gainax and WETA got a chance to make their vision of a live action NGE, I remember seeing the concept work WETA was doing in Newtype like a decade ago and thinking if anyone could pull it off it could be them...
Alex Westaway and Dan Haigh were/are also the guitarist and bassist (respectively) for Fightstar, where even their songs included references for stuff like Evangelion.
I'd be satisfied if they did a live-action prequel, maybe a spy drama about a guy who ends up digging too deep and discovering what's going to happen in Antarctica.
It'd have a down ending with Second Impact, but it would be a great way to set up some actual Eva films without needing to exposit everything about the Dead Sea Scrolls and what happened in Second Impact.
. . . nice graphics, but if they are going to steal from NGE. They could at least add them in there.
We've been hashing this out over on the EVAGeeks forums. The general consensus seems like "meh, some of those designs are cool." I love the look of the SEELE monoliths. Also: one of our number has submitted this to FOX News to see how they react.
"submitted this to FOX News"
Oh dear. I hope this doesn't blow up into anything. I've done my best to conceal what Evangelion was really about from my borderline-radical Christian parents for a few years now. Neither watch Fox anymore, but if it expands beyond that...
I have watched eva so many times and i couldnt explain it in a short novel. If you know what its really about please inform me. no, really.
Whoops! Sorry! Didn't mean to spoil "the game." Whatever. We're all gonna be tang here in three years...
The smoking guy who got shot in the cig?
I actually thought that was pretty dumb, unless they go into detail about how their bullets are not regular bullets, a face wouldn't actually melt that way. The back of the guys head would blow off, but not the front...
He would have had a small whole in his lips, and his teeth would have been shattered. The would would have grown as the bullet went deeper into the persons face. hydrostatic shock would knock around the soft material, and the back of the persons head would have exploded as the bullet, now no longer as aerodynamic (FMJ will deform slightly, hollow points will deform greatly) or possibly even moving sideways, hits the skull and shatters it outward.
Take a look at Kennedy, entry wound is a small hole, but on the other side where the bullet exited, half of his skull is gone.
Either way, in an area such as the mouth, where there is very little soft tissue and a bit of open space, I don't see any way that a bullet would actually make someone's cheeks just explode like that.
Rifle entry wounds typically look like they were made by a hole punch.The scene in the trailer was clearly intended for shock/gross effect and has no bearing on reality.
I thought the faster than light explosion was more annoying actually Same problem I had with Undiscovered Country where a moon explodes with enough force to damage starships lightyears away but only manages to "pollute the atmosphere" of the planet it was orbiting.In the reboot the explosion is in the Hobus system and instantly takes out the Romulus system ignoring pretty much everything else... of course fans reconned it into being an Iconian plot using superscience but nobody in the film needed an explanation - nope - all perfectly normal faster than light explosions here.
Large bullet hits matter (teeth). Things are going to be destroyed. Maybe the effect was bad, but if you think the front of someone's face will still be intact after being slammed into by a large bullet, you might want to re-think your sources of ballistic trauma.
I don't mind the ability to create a black hole using red matter or what ever it was, its just that they don't act that way once they are formed.
like I said, I love the rest of the movie, there is just like 15 minutes of nerd rage with the black hole.
I also don't mind cgi, as long as the effect looks good.
You just reminded me that in a recent survey done during the 100 year anniversary of the Titanic sinking 68% didn't know the movie Titanic was based on a real event. I think those people would be happy with the explosion. Explains a lot really.
I disagree about Star Trek. It was wonky goofy physics from the start... so long as it exists to advance the plot I never minded. What we see in the above trailer is something put in a movie A) because someone thought it looked cool and B) because the new standard for padding a movie is CGI.
I can't help it if poor writing will kill a scene for me.
Let's try it this way. You are watching Titanic, the iceberg hits the ship, and it just explodes in a way that would make Michael Bay and George Lucas orgasm. It's completely ridiculous, it wouldn't actually happen that way, and for me, it would kill the end of the movie. But you wouldn't care?
Or hey, how about a real world example, what about the infamous scene from NCIS where two people are typing on the same keyboard to stop a hacker. Probably the dumbest use of a computer in a TV show, and to me.
It's the same reason that my girlfriend, who works in a hospital, doesn't watch Bones or House.
When something stupid happens in an otherwise good movie or show, it makes the whole thing seem stupid.
to you perhaps. Maybe you know nothing about guns. Maybe you don't care that the guy with the single shot gun is able to fire off 15 rounds without having to reload. But to people who know what's going on, it's like watching someone who had elbows that bend the wrong way for no reason what so ever. It's not natural, and it takes away from what is happening.
I had the same problem with the new Star Trek movie, as it appears that someone with no knowledge of physics and black holes wrote what happens when one is created. It's a great movie, right up until they start talking about black holes...
