I am so, so over the whole "ironic" '50s educational filmstrip parody thing. We get it: they were simplistic and naive. The Atomic Cafe already made that clear back in the '80s.
But making fun of '70s educational films? Whole new ballgame. Slightly. And I like it.
It's too bad the mandatory rating at the beginning gives the "game" away, so to speak...
h/t SlyDante
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Does the documentary examine the reason why character models' arms look and move like Hitler piloting a Power Loader?
B-doom! Thank you, I'll be here all week!
Zachary makes a great pie filling too.
Is that the secret to what makes his city float? Because that would be awesome.
It must be nice to have an unlimited budget to cook a project for something like 7 years ...
(Keep in mind that Bioshock 2 was done by someone else, so the last thing KL's studio put out was Bioshock 1)
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I'm looking forward to this game. I won't be able to afford it until two years later when it hits the bargain bin or clearanced from another shutting down store around here.
Was enjoying the game clips they were releasing last year. Plus this one looks far enough away from Bioshock not to be another generic sequel but close enough to the material that made it a good game.
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@Someguy personally I'm going to pass - the first one was fine for a console game I suppose - the story was cinematic and interesting for a single run through, but the gameplay was both generic and repetitive with little replayability. I'll just watch the condensed story video once someone posts it online.
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@Someguy on the bright side it's still the same game but all the bugs are worked out - plus us late adapters get all the DLC bundled in at a discount
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...And ironically, a newer trailer with more gameplay was just announced today...Sorry Luke, but I wanted to wait until I got home to see it all with sound. Will send you the link ASAP. ^^;
That being said, this was still an extremely creative & clever teaser that deserved much attention, so we still all win, as we always do with kickass BioShock games...Well, okay, the people in the games don't win, they usually die horrific deaths, but...Look, you get what I'm sayin' here.
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@SlyDante777 The only thing we don't win is an R-rated movie version. Gore Verbinski, who can do any movie he wants at this point, tried and couldn't get the budget approved for the mature content it would have to have.
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@LYT@SlyDante777Well, don't worry about that. Word has it Gore apparently gave up on a BioShock film so he could work on Matter...A video game for the Xbox 360. =P %s
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@LYT @SlyDante777 I think that may have something to do that many studios probably think that all video games are kid-friendly, and in turn the movies based on those games are supposed to be age-suitable, even though a property like BioShock has some pretty gruesome moments and are intended for a mature audience.
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@TheConjurerOfCheapTricks Exactly - it's a cost-benefit analysis. The Resident Evil films come out every year full of nudity and gore and do just fine, but they're made fairly cheaply. Bioshock requires massive world-building - at least as Verbinski conceived it - and it is thought that something that grand scale won't work if you eliminate the under-age audience from the equation.
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Furthermore: Less turnout from kids/teens- lower box office profit---Even though I see many R-rated movies doing well...
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Part of the reason this one works so well is that it's not a parody.
It's like the difference between a mockumentary (Spinal Tap for example) and a psuedo documentary (Stranger than Fiction which is a serious documentary about the fictional assassination of Bill Gates).
It uses the style without making fun of it, and that's why it's so cool. Also, I agree that it's refreshing to see the 70's style instead of the 50's.
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When I saw that trailer, I thought of something more along the lines of an In Search Of... -style documentary series.
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@TheConjurerOfCheapTricks that coral castle was kinda neat - retired airline pilot in Alabama figured out how to do the moving giant blocks by yourself thing with a couple of small smooth stones - he actually built a Stonehenge in his back yard one summer, and yet the archaeological and anthropological community still pretends that it took thousands of people to build all those ancient monuments
