Remember Crank?

[thebitterguy]

Or, as eyebeams called it, "the Bus that couldn't slow down"?

Well, Blinky, the guy who did that almost watchable Flash short decided it woudl be funny to mix it with Hourman. And, well, it's a fan film.

They get props for trying to make Hourman's costume not suck. But the villain is just such a horrid actor. Ich. I'm serious. Even for a fan film.

I now strongly endorse Toronto Trek's Fan Film choreography course.

Comments

[athelind.livejournal.com]

They could have at least gone the extra inch and strung an actual hourglass around Mr. Tyler's neck.

No, I didn't watch the whole thing; it was painful.

[tfbretz.livejournal.com]

I gave up at the point he swallowed his fistful of pills and the drumbeat started ramping up.

[thebitterguy]

It kind of went downhill from there. I do like how the bad guy's monologue pretty much explained the whole creative process ("Hey, wouldn't it be cool if Hourman got injected with the stuff from Crank!?") only with poor delivery.

[stop-no-dont.livejournal.com]

I thought the use of his "flash-forward" visions was nice, though.

[thebitterguy]

I didn't even know he had that power.

[stop-no-dont.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's treated as much as a power as a side-effect of the Miraclo fix. The visions, as I've heard him explain, just show up randomly.

[thebitterguy]

That's a hell of a side effect. Thank God my allergy pills don't cause that.

[thothmeister.livejournal.com]

That was an interesting concept for the story... but the actual film itself was incredibly bad.

[thebitterguy]

Fan Films are pretty much there only for enthusiasm and practice. You can't really expect too much from them.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

The villain was the horrid actor? Not any more than anyone else in it?

Great story. Yeah, if you like pointless stories. You know, b/c we had to see the whole thing cycle through to find out what would happen, instead of, y'know, just listening to the badguy spell out what would happen. (And I'm not sure if everything that happened was what Hourman 'saw' happening, and that's why he blocked the needle.. b/c, again, duh, just listen to the guy tell you what he's about to do. I mean, srsly or something.)

Guess that ending was supposed to be ironic. Or witty. Or something.

Now excuse me while I go have some diarrhea; it'll be just as entertaining. ;)

[thebitterguy]

The bad guy just had more lines.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Yeah. And the lines were pretty bad, too.

(I know, I'm a hater.)