@@matthewziemba7526 Apparently, the 'two way' part is referring to the light passing through the medium in both directions, but they interact differently depending on what side you look at the mirror. I've always been confused at the terminology myself too.
You guys should look at a movie called CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, and during the song "Doll on a Music Box", it features an epic mirror shot for a film released in 1968.
I had to find the scene on youtube. That's an old favorite, but I didn't remember anything particularly special about it. It starts with a pretty simple shot of two angled mirrors, neither of which are flat to camera so it's just out of the reflection, no big. BUT THEN IT PULLS OUT FROM ONE OF THE MIRRORS!
Did yall also notice in Borderlands that every gun that fires a round is also missing shell ejections? Not a single shell casing pops out of a chamber in any of those scenes.
Caseless rounds can be a future thing. Remember, this is a world where all your weapons & ammo is digitised or something. Cases are annoying to deal with.
So, literally, zero gun prn in a movie about a gun prn game. 😂 No unique effects, no bloody shot reg on literally half-naked men, no casings, not even unique looking guns.
You can even see her looking down to check where the bar is. I dunno, CGI might have been an improvement here, even if you lose the "can you believe bits of this was practical? That's crazy!" element.
@@essexboy95 The Corridor Crew guys refer to Elliot Page and use he/him at 18:05 It costs us nothing to show a little kindness and respect Elliot Page's wishes to now refer to him how he would prefer. This is new territory for a lot of us, but we should always be open to learning.
@@salmanedy They sure did, but this did not cover the specific hidden camera in the bathroom scene. They covered the fight earlier in the movie. There is a mirror scene between Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike where the scene is shot in the mirror with no camera visible.
Nah , level 4 was John wick 2 end sequence, that’s 20 solid minutes of fast paced camera shaking in full mirror environments , Camera removal, shot tracking in a full mirror lift, motion blur from camera and character movement to be replicated in mirrors, then to top it off, the mirrors deform and crack as they fight in the shot making an almost impossible track even more imposible, That team needs an award! makes inceptions 1-2 shots look like warm up.
First off, John Wick series is cringe, second is that shot is pretty easy for the professionals working on that movie because all that fast paced shaky camera action makes it easier to get away with any mistakes they may have left since your eye won't really catch it that fast, which makes it pretty easy to do
@@isaac6clarke haha, well taste is subjective , all good . Look on UA-cam for some short clips of it (if you can tolerate watching it) and you’ll see what I mean, it’s not “go pro on a race car ‘ nausea endusing footage, where you can hide stuff, it’s clean. It’s completely unforgiving, and it’s not just hall of mirrors lined up with a static person.I mean the lift shot is mirror corners, that ripple as they lean on them, and there’s a good 30+ shots of that done by a small talented vfx team. Each shot has probably 5 different angles of 2 characters doing complex movements close up. Just the matchmoving alone is crazy on that( cause I’m assuming they would of had to rebuild the characters from scratch in some sections) Then after that’s done, animating warped mirrors in time with the footage to render the 3d match moved characters. I swear some of those shots were just put in by the director to mess with the roto team (this is pre magic mask days) “Do it in post they say! Haha let’s give those guys a work out muhaha” (My version of the directors mindset) Like the mirror doors opening and Keanu walking through shot. (Corridor crew did a break down on just that bit somewhere) And as someone who works in the industry, (though more on the full cg side, less nuking footage nowadays) yeah the task is crazy.
@@isaac6clarke I've seen some bad and uninformed takes, but this one...this one was trinking bleach to fight covid and was at January 6th and is not shovelling Lunchly in their mouth
5:52 Sam makes a good point here. In Hard Boiled by John Woo, the opening shootout in the teahouse has very little blood in it, but the environment completely EXPLODES anytime someone fires a gun. It sells the illusion that the bullets are doing a lot of damage without needing to show a bunch of gore. Something like that could have worked if they were REALLY dead-set on keeping a PG-13 rating.
Considering who directed the Borderlands movie... I am flabberghasted how bland and tame it looks. Ok.. I'm not a big fan of his. But he usually does not shy away from gore and nastiness.
It looks to me like they planned to have all the typical blood and squibs stuff during filming, but at some point during Post somebody came and forced them to tone the gore and violence down. I wouldn't be surprised if some producer stuck his nose in and insisted on a more 'tame' presentation.
Trying to analyze so much stuff simultaneously, people often times overlook the obvious. I remember noticing it when I've watched the commercial back in the day. But now I totally missed it, while I was playing the guessing game along with them. I think it's my brain telling me "shut up! I am concentrating".
There was a psych experiment where the test subjects were asked to watch a video of basketball players practicing, and count the number of times they passed the ball. They were so busy counting passes that most of them didn't notice the guy in a gorilla suit who walked right through the group of players and back out again.
I know you guys have cracked the trick on this one in an earlier react & breakdown video but the *mirror shot from the 1997 film Contact is LEGENDARY!!*
The way Christopher Nolan and the crew were just standing there in that image, just makes it look like inception was just some casual over the weekend school project
A great example of a PG13 sci-fi movie still having impactful bullet hits - Fifth Element. Tons of sparks, black squibs, smoke and impact - no blood. Still looked and felt great.
But it was also made by a passionate director who holds no punches Borderlands was by Avi Arad and a director for hire Not to mention that Craig Mazin asked for his own name to be removed from the credits
@@Zombiesnyder13Borderlands was directed by Eli Roth, one of the top horror directors out there. The guy did Hostel. There was no reason for this film to be so weak.
@@DavesChaoticBrain Wait wat? WhyTF did they have Eli Roth direct it? Also, the "cutting the dangling eyeball with a pair of scissors" scene will haunt me forever...
@@DavesChaoticBrain Eli Roth is by no means a top director, even within the horror genre. He has one, maybe two popular films from the early-mid 2000's and has not had a successful film since. Despite many at-bats.
Not sure if you guys have looked at this already, but Disney’s “The Three Caballeros (1944) does a really cool job of blending 2d characters into a 3d world, very impressive for 1944
Amazing Steadicam Shot on Contact. The speed ramp is cool too. There are no mirrors in that shot though. The “reflection” is the original shot composited onto the frame of the cabinet. The second is of the surrounding room and the hand opening the door. The BTS is on UA-cam with Mark O’Kane explaining the shot.
It's a really special feeling when people who are smarter than you about something are deeply and visibly impressed by something where the cool thing would've otherwise gone right over your head
saw yall in VHS beyond just now and had to come here and say congrats! ive loved yall for a while AND loved the VHS franchise for a while so it was a really cool experience seeing you pop up!
Even after all these years in the VFX industry, you guys still gets excited about those VFX shots. Amazing to see you reacting to those old movies which are still incredible. Expressions on your faces are priceless.🥰🥰👌👌💛🖤
At no point did they find a gun on the floor, it would have been so easy to have an enemy drop a gun and it to have some orange sparkle. Just a 30 second moment could have proved anyone working on this film cared about the games at all
Classic "I'm out of ammo in a firefight" moment. Gun nearby, orange aura, and angelic choir. Though some form of AR tech would better allow game elements.
I saw the movie and there were good things in it. The equipment and wardrobes were fine. but the entire movie made me think of a 70's TV show in production value. The actors were mostly fine, but the story sucked, and two actors didn't really work. Tiny Tina was just to normal and Kevin Hart as Roland was just wrong. So very wrong. I could stand Jack Black as the voice of Claptrap. I know the relationship with the person originally making the voice for the games was totally FUBAR so with that blown I think Jack Black was a good alternative. But the big letdown was the story. They threw all the Borderlands history built in five or six games out the window. That's a sad way to make the story for a movie about the game that so many people have played and loved. Sure the story in the game is cheesy but this was worse. And no I didn't even think about the lack of blood. What irked me was the lack of elemental weapons and above all that Lilith only got access to her Siren powers in the last five minutes of the film, and then she goes and destroy a warship using them. Oh and Tannis was personable and humanitarian. That's not the Tannis we know from the games. So sure the effects might have been bad, but even the best effects wouldn't have saved this mess.
Talking about mirror scene, I've just finisched The Boys Season 4 - Episode 3, when homelander talk to himself to a broken mirror with 4 different interation of himself. It would be fun having that scene analized!
i just watched Patriot Games last night and man the action was done so much better in the 80/90s. seeing guns doing environmental damage and seeing squibs will never be replaced by CGI
i love that they ask sam about a a VFX shot in a Nolan Movie and he criticises the editing! Sometimes those simple things get overlooked even for big directors and studios!
Great episode, fellas! One that always trips me up was from the movie Contact, where young Eleanor is running through her entire home and the shot ends with the whole thing being reflected in the medicine cabinet mirror.
I HAVE A SHOT FOR YOU TO LOOK AT 😁. Opening sequence to the fall, jamie dornan looking in a mirror and removes his balaclava which goes over the camera but the rest of the shot is a perfect reflection. Real subtle and well done
My favorite mirror shot is in a Jeeves and Wooster episode where they have all the actors faces on screen while only one is facing the camera using a makeup vanity. Simple, but well positioned.
"Full siege" is such a perfect way to describe those moments where you know the CG is going to take over 🤣. You can't feel the stakes in these because the polygons are going to most of the heavy lifting for the actors. On the contrary, I just watched Jackie Chan's Operation Condor and you can feel every insane moment of that film. I'm not saying action movies need to as dangerous as Jackie Chan movies to be enjoyable, but there's a middle-ground between that and the CGI scraps we're left with today.
i didnt even notice the missing blood in bordelands bc i was watching it on the side while playing a game which lead me to believe that this was the intended viewing experience
So... I was watching VHS beyond. Did not expect you guys to star in it hahaha. Damn, how far you've guys have come huh ? and I'm damn happy for you guys. Soo happy, love and support guys. Keep doing what you're doing cause it's definitely working.
20:44 I always wondered why that bridge seemed so odd and in a weird position when I watched that movie.. its because they changed the dang direction of the way it should have went!
It’s epic that the one gun that the borderlands movie represented was the infinity. The gun which conveniently lets them do the classic movie trope of never reloading.
I think my biggest problem with borderlands ignoring EVERYTHING else is that its just so dark man. Borderlands is a bright and colorful world but I feel like I'm in a grimdark horror show
love it when satoshi kon inspired films get a look at, recreating shots that had only been animated to that point must be an amazing challenge for directors, editors, special effects and digital artists.
Some classic Hollywood mirror scenes! Starting with the greatest, Lady In Shanghai! The OG. Then, perhaps All About Eve? Other awesome ones? Great stuff guys
The mirror shot in the Terminator 2 Special Edition is one of my favorite magic tricks in film. It is a great example of planning ahead and using every tool in the box.
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Wren was like someone invited to a completely different party during the Borderlands reaction!
The mirror shot of inception has an issue ... it's a tricky one ... when the glass break and the shards of mirror fall to the floor the reflections in the mirror are motion blurred, but they should not be, because the reflection does not move at the speed of the mirror shard itself, it's just reflecting a static background. This is why this moment always felt weird to me. Only the edges of the mirror shards should be blurred but not what they are reflecting.
My biggest gripe with the Borderlands movie is the lack of New-U stations, and the concept that our protagonists could have died multiple times on screen, and then played with that concept. Such a waste of potential.
@@aaronsilva1960 Which doesn't even make sense, because Borderlands 2 has a mission where Jack tells you to kill yourself. The main villain of the game literally acknowledges that you died and came back to life.
@@lanceturley7745 I don't think NPCs have access to this though, only the player does. And afaik, in this borderlands movie, there is no players, it's all NPCs, much like the Warcraft movie. Which is why, among many other reasons, I think these types of movies should be done in a more "isekai" style, where the main character is a player that knows they are a player, in the game world.
@@lanceturley7745 Literally everyone pointed this out when he said it, but as far as I know, they never retracted that statement, and New-Us are never referenced in cutscenes or in other borderlands media (Tales, etc.). I think it's dumb, but that's why I dont think they would ever put it in the movie.
I’m sure it’d be a nightmare to do music videos, but as far as mirror shots go: there’s a couple of Dua Lipa videos that are better than they have any right to be, Houdini and Physical come to mind of having interesting shots involving mirrors
3:22 that part about "sexy guns" made me think two things: 1) I'd have never, in a million years, say a phrase like this in my life,; my thoughts would have never go in such a direction, this concept just doesn't have a place to exist in my mind; 2) what an American thing to say.
So glad you guys did Black Swan! I worked at LookFX, who did the movie. We had a TON of reflection shots for this one. My buddy Ulysses I think did that infinity mirror shot. I did a bunch during the dressing room scenes and dance hall scenes. Mirrors everywhere!
They have brought up at least one of them in the last year or two. I remember them showing how a guy had to be buried in the sand while in this giant worm costume, and another of them punching a hole through a basement wall for one of the creature jump scare shots. But also, they have like 7+ years worth of episodes of this series, odds are they've touched on at least one other Tremors movie in at least one more episode.
my favorite "mirror" scene ever is the deleted scene in T2 where Sarah is removing the chip from the T-8oo's head. also, the saddest thing with the pg-13 rating of the "Borderlands" movie is that the director was Eli Roth, known for a lot of gore in his movies like "Hostel".
For those that don't know, the T2 scene is set up as a vanity with no glass. Linda Hamilton and Arnold are opposite camera through the mirror frame so we see their faces, and the foreground actors are Linda's twin sister and Arnold's stunt double for their backs. The doubles had to mirror Linda and Arnold in real time for several minutes.
Okay guys, to put your point in context - remember the scene in 'Predator' when Jesse Ventura's character opened up with the mini-gun in the militia's base? He SHREDDED the men and more than half the scenery, bits flying everywhere, sparks, dust, splinters, blood you name it, best gun effect EVER! I don't know the game you're talking about, don't do gaming but, going on the game footage you have shown, what were the effects guys doing? As you say, if the film is based on an R-rated game, you at least want to show the impact of the weapons, not necessarily the blood, but you could have multiple bullet hits, sparks, debris to sell the scary weapon stuff. This looks like it was made by Disney in the seventies, the guns may as well be firing air!!! Definitely the weirdest visual effects I have seen in a modern film, very odd . . .
Pirates of the Caribbean got it right. Zero Blood but a glorious destruction of the ships
The Matrix too. Very little blood, but lots of dusty bullet hits.
@@PlastoJoe somehow its rated r though
@@JensonTM that's crazy, I've seen it countless times and completely forget it's somehow R
Pirates of the Caribbean has some blood.
The Dark Knight - rated PG-13, extreme violence implied
"the movie somehow forgot what the player experience is"
Bold of you to assume anyone working on it knew what it was in the first place.
Like the rings of power. They didn't care one bit about the loré of Tolkiens world.
Its a fanfiction.
That is all it is.
Fanfiction by non fans
Jamie Lee Curtis did, she's the GOAT
"A two-way mirror is just a window"
TV shows WISH they could write something that makes me laugh as much as that conversation.
That’s like a MCU Thor quote. Like his; “All words are made up” quote.
PEAK humour
@@collaborator541 Anyone who says that is not a serious person.
But aren't all mirrors one-way? If anything, a reciprocal mirror must be 1.5 way...
@@matthewziemba7526 Apparently, the 'two way' part is referring to the light passing through the medium in both directions, but they interact differently depending on what side you look at the mirror. I've always been confused at the terminology myself too.
You guys should look at a movie called CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, and during the song "Doll on a Music Box", it features an epic mirror shot for a film released in 1968.
I had to find the scene on youtube. That's an old favorite, but I didn't remember anything particularly special about it. It starts with a pretty simple shot of two angled mirrors, neither of which are flat to camera so it's just out of the reflection, no big. BUT THEN IT PULLS OUT FROM ONE OF THE MIRRORS!
I believe they covered some of Chitty Chitty bang Bang, I don't know if they covered that scene.
"A movie called"
Ha.. strange wording.
"Check out a movie called Star Wars" about a war in space.
Yes.. we know what it is 😏
Did yall also notice in Borderlands that every gun that fires a round is also missing shell ejections? Not a single shell casing pops out of a chamber in any of those scenes.
I don't remember any shell ejections from the games, i think they just chose most of the guns wouldn't eject as part of worldbuilding
Caseless rounds can be a future thing.
Remember, this is a world where all your weapons & ammo is digitised or something.
Cases are annoying to deal with.
@@Tiro_Chopperthere are casings in the game
Also basically zero recoil
So, literally, zero gun prn in a movie about a gun prn game. 😂
No unique effects, no bloody shot reg on literally half-naked men, no casings, not even unique looking guns.
Sam's uncontrollable laughter at Borderlands is pretty much the world's reaction to the movie
That "if you don't laugh, you cry" type of laugh
More like nobody cares at all.
@@Akkbar21 oh no, people cared. They hated it as soon as the first trailer came out
@Weirdbrit I don't wanna be contrarian but I thought the movie was OK. I found it fun
@@Weirdbrit Fair enough I suppose. I never played the game. Never looked appealing to me personally.
that little "step over" in Inception can now never been unseen.
You can even see her looking down to check where the bar is. I dunno, CGI might have been an improvement here, even if you lose the "can you believe bits of this was practical? That's crazy!" element.
Cinemasin spotted it years ago
*him
@@SLDimarco Female at the time. Also female character.
@@essexboy95 The Corridor Crew guys refer to Elliot Page and use he/him at 18:05
It costs us nothing to show a little kindness and respect Elliot Page's wishes to now refer to him how he would prefer.
This is new territory for a lot of us, but we should always be open to learning.
Corridor has made a few movies R-Rated. I think it would be cool if they could do that with Borderlands AND fix the special effects!
And Venom too
They should definitely do a series of iconic failed movie effects but they make it 10 times better
Yeah, add some fun weapon effects
alot of theeir videos say it hard to fix after
I have a feeling, that they actually capable of doing that, I mean it would take them a while, couple of weeks 😂
The mirror in the bathroom in World's End by Edgar Wright. There is a scene in the bathroom where they use a mirror and it is so perfect.
Last Night in SoHo too, while we’re on Edgar Wright.
They already covered The World's End in an earlier episode.
@@salmanedy They sure did, but this did not cover the specific hidden camera in the bathroom scene. They covered the fight earlier in the movie. There is a mirror scene between Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike where the scene is shot in the mirror with no camera visible.
Nah , level 4 was John wick 2 end sequence, that’s 20 solid minutes of fast paced camera shaking in full mirror environments ,
Camera removal, shot tracking in a full mirror lift, motion blur from camera and character movement to be replicated in mirrors, then to top it off, the mirrors deform and crack as they fight in the shot making an almost impossible track even more imposible,
That team needs an award!
makes inceptions 1-2 shots look like warm up.
First off, John Wick series is cringe, second is that shot is pretty easy for the professionals working on that movie because all that fast paced shaky camera action makes it easier to get away with any mistakes they may have left since your eye won't really catch it that fast, which makes it pretty easy to do
@@isaac6clarke haha, well taste is subjective , all good .
Look on UA-cam for some short clips of it (if you can tolerate watching it) and you’ll see what I mean, it’s not “go pro on a race car ‘ nausea endusing footage, where you can hide stuff, it’s clean.
It’s completely unforgiving, and it’s not just hall of mirrors lined up with a static person.I mean the lift shot is mirror corners, that ripple as they lean on them, and there’s a good 30+ shots of that done by a small talented vfx team.
Each shot has probably 5 different angles of 2 characters doing complex movements close up. Just the matchmoving alone is crazy on that( cause I’m assuming they would of had to rebuild the characters from scratch in some sections)
Then after that’s done, animating warped mirrors in time with the footage to render the 3d match moved characters.
I swear some of those shots were just put in by the director to mess with the roto team (this is pre magic mask days)
“Do it in post they say! Haha let’s give those guys a work out muhaha” (My version of the directors mindset)
Like the mirror doors opening and Keanu walking through shot. (Corridor crew did a break down on just that bit somewhere)
And as someone who works in the industry, (though more on the full cg side, less nuking footage nowadays) yeah the task is crazy.
@@isaac6clarketell us you know John Wick without telling us you don't know John Wick.
@@isaac6clarke I've seen some bad and uninformed takes, but this one...this one was trinking bleach to fight covid and was at January 6th and is not shovelling Lunchly in their mouth
@@Weirdbrit make sense next time bud🤙
5:52 Sam makes a good point here. In Hard Boiled by John Woo, the opening shootout in the teahouse has very little blood in it, but the environment completely EXPLODES anytime someone fires a gun. It sells the illusion that the bullets are doing a lot of damage without needing to show a bunch of gore. Something like that could have worked if they were REALLY dead-set on keeping a PG-13 rating.
I think you can still do puffs. It's just typical hollywood lazniness. The actors didn't even try, b/c they knew how bad it was.
@@TheGuruStud Everyone on board knew it was a money grab attempt
Considering who directed the Borderlands movie... I am flabberghasted how bland and tame it looks.
Ok.. I'm not a big fan of his. But he usually does not shy away from gore and nastiness.
I wish I were exaggerating, but even the A-Team - the original '80s show - was better at this.
It looks to me like they planned to have all the typical blood and squibs stuff during filming, but at some point during Post somebody came and forced them to tone the gore and violence down. I wouldn't be surprised if some producer stuck his nose in and insisted on a more 'tame' presentation.
@16:12 Amazed no one noticed the center railing straight up disappear
You're right, the reflection of the center railing is there until her reflection wipes across it, then it's gone.
Good catch
HOLY CRAP!!! Even they didn't notice it, I guess it happens so fast your brain doesn't register it good job!
Trying to analyze so much stuff simultaneously, people often times overlook the obvious. I remember noticing it when I've watched the commercial back in the day. But now I totally missed it, while I was playing the guessing game along with them. I think it's my brain telling me "shut up! I am concentrating".
There was a psych experiment where the test subjects were asked to watch a video of basketball players practicing, and count the number of times they passed the ball.
They were so busy counting passes that most of them didn't notice the guy in a gorilla suit who walked right through the group of players and back out again.
The John Wick 2 mirror room shootout is perhaps the most complex scenes featuring mirrors. Surprised you didn’t include it here
Yup. Came here to say this. I was just waiting for them to bring it up.
I could have sworn they did a video or section of a video on that, but I can't find it.
If not then for sure would like to see that
@@OrionKaelinClips they absolutely did, yeah. They explained it was all CG, there was no actual mirrors besides a few iirc
For those who are wondering, the song playing over the Inception part is Savant - Aneurism
Savant rules
I know you guys have cracked the trick on this one in an earlier react & breakdown video but the *mirror shot from the 1997 film Contact is LEGENDARY!!*
The way Christopher Nolan and the crew were just standing there in that image, just makes it look like inception was just some casual over the weekend school project
A great example of a PG13 sci-fi movie still having impactful bullet hits - Fifth Element. Tons of sparks, black squibs, smoke and impact - no blood. Still looked and felt great.
But it was also made by a passionate director who holds no punches
Borderlands was by Avi Arad and a director for hire
Not to mention that Craig Mazin asked for his own name to be removed from the credits
@@Zombiesnyder13Borderlands was directed by Eli Roth, one of the top horror directors out there. The guy did Hostel. There was no reason for this film to be so weak.
@@DavesChaoticBrain Wait wat? WhyTF did they have Eli Roth direct it?
Also, the "cutting the dangling eyeball with a pair of scissors" scene will haunt me forever...
@@DavesChaoticBrain Hostel came out almost 20 years ago - it was either a fluke, not him that made it good, or he's a one hit wonder
@@DavesChaoticBrain Eli Roth is by no means a top director, even within the horror genre. He has one, maybe two popular films from the early-mid 2000's and has not had a successful film since. Despite many at-bats.
Saturday mornings at age 10: cartoons
Saturday mornings at age 34: Corridor Crew
For some of us also- Toy Federation episodes as well
It's true
It's Saturday evenings for me.
tru
Actually Saturday night because I am from India
A one way mirror also called a two way mirror was the best answer for that debate xD
Not sure if you guys have looked at this already, but Disney’s “The Three Caballeros (1944) does a really cool job of blending 2d characters into a 3d world, very impressive for 1944
The mirror shot in Contact, just a simple idea executed practically being exactly right for a good effect.
They covered that one a long time ago. No idea which ep, tho. I wish there were a way to look that up.
@@jasonblalock4429I just found it, it's episode 4. You were right it was ages ago!
Amazing Steadicam Shot on Contact. The speed ramp is cool too. There are no mirrors in that shot though. The “reflection” is the original shot composited onto the frame of the cabinet. The second is of the surrounding room and the hand opening the door.
The BTS is on UA-cam with Mark O’Kane explaining the shot.
@@jasonblalock4429episode 4.
@@jasonblalock4429 VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 4 around the 4 minute mark
It's a really special feeling when people who are smarter than you about something are deeply and visibly impressed by something where the cool thing would've otherwise gone right over your head
Man, I forgot how insane that mirror shot in inception was. Chris Nolan movies are a piece of art.
You mean "pieces", no?
Nolan movies are mid
saw yall in VHS beyond just now and had to come here and say congrats! ive loved yall for a while AND loved the VHS franchise for a while so it was a really cool experience seeing you pop up!
The classic mirror shot in Orson Wells' Citizen's Kane
I like how sam is wearing the minimum possible amount of clothing in the office...wish I had that level of confidence lol
isnt he the boss?
He "gave up" a few years ago..
It's just a tank top and shorts lol
"I like all of the ones except for the black ones." ~Wren 8:19
Well, that got political 😂😂😂
@@JerseyQuinnexplain
Same
wrenpilled
@JU5T_ST0NER perhaps I've judged wren too harshly.
the mirror shot of the whole scaffold fight scene in Shang Chi would be a neat breakdown
HOW ARE YOU GUYS NOT TALKING ABOUT BEING IN FREAKING VHS BEYOND WTF. I LOVE YALL SO MUCH
Even after all these years in the VFX industry, you guys still gets excited about those VFX shots. Amazing to see you reacting to those old movies which are still incredible. Expressions on your faces are priceless.🥰🥰👌👌💛🖤
At no point did they find a gun on the floor, it would have been so easy to have an enemy drop a gun and it to have some orange sparkle. Just a 30 second moment could have proved anyone working on this film cared about the games at all
They worked on it with the understanding it was going to be PG-13. No one cared from the get go.
Classic "I'm out of ammo in a firefight" moment. Gun nearby, orange aura, and angelic choir. Though some form of AR tech would better allow game elements.
I saw the movie and there were good things in it. The equipment and wardrobes were fine. but the entire movie made me think of a 70's TV show in production value. The actors were mostly fine, but the story sucked, and two actors didn't really work. Tiny Tina was just to normal and Kevin Hart as Roland was just wrong. So very wrong. I could stand Jack Black as the voice of Claptrap. I know the relationship with the person originally making the voice for the games was totally FUBAR so with that blown I think Jack Black was a good alternative. But the big letdown was the story. They threw all the Borderlands history built in five or six games out the window. That's a sad way to make the story for a movie about the game that so many people have played and loved. Sure the story in the game is cheesy but this was worse. And no I didn't even think about the lack of blood. What irked me was the lack of elemental weapons and above all that Lilith only got access to her Siren powers in the last five minutes of the film, and then she goes and destroy a warship using them. Oh and Tannis was personable and humanitarian. That's not the Tannis we know from the games.
So sure the effects might have been bad, but even the best effects wouldn't have saved this mess.
@@bryanwoods3373 yea like maybe if they had implemented the in universe AR that every vault hunter uses, which is the in-game explanation for your UI.
sam losing it at 8:00 is my fav moment of this video
The mirror shots from 'Last night in Soho' are particularly impressive.
...but the movie is awful ...
@@jocelyndeguise I completely agree.
@@jocelyndeguise I think it’s pretty good. It’s just different movie than the one marketed.
Talking about mirror scene, I've just finisched The Boys Season 4 - Episode 3, when homelander talk to himself to a broken mirror with 4 different interation of himself. It would be fun having that scene analized!
Analized???
@@daudimasinde6280 Yeah, not my first language, I'm so sorry mister.
Triangle (2009) has an amazing mirror shot that actually means something when you try to understand the movie. Best time-loop movie ever imho.
I just saw V/H/S Beyond last night. No idea you guys were gonna show up! The movie was great. Loved your guy's part!
I was like OH YEAAA I need to suggest V/H/S breakdown now lmao, great thing that someone thought of boys and invite them as EXPERTS hehe
Came here to say the same thing.
Likewise
The mirror shot from Contact is amazing.
Yeah, but then you have to watch Contact.
@@wavion2
As if you'd ever need an excuse to watch Contact.
That's in one of the first episodes they did, like single digits
@@einootsporkyes. Episode 4.
i just watched Patriot Games last night and man the action was done so much better in the 80/90s. seeing guns doing environmental damage and seeing squibs will never be replaced by CGI
It was awesome seeing you guys in the new VHS! Good video as always!
Never seen Sam absolutely lose his mind cry laughing before. God bless this golden treasure of a UA-cam channel.
i love that they ask sam about a a VFX shot in a Nolan Movie and he criticises the editing! Sometimes those simple things get overlooked even for big directors and studios!
8:18 new meme template
Yeah those ones freak me out too.
Huge thanks for making the difference between the shots so clear to see, and without me having to skip back and forth 👌
Great episode, fellas! One that always trips me up was from the movie Contact, where young Eleanor is running through her entire home and the shot ends with the whole thing being reflected in the medicine cabinet mirror.
I HAVE A SHOT FOR YOU TO LOOK AT 😁. Opening sequence to the fall, jamie dornan looking in a mirror and removes his balaclava which goes over the camera but the rest of the shot is a perfect reflection. Real subtle and well done
My favorite mirror shot is in a Jeeves and Wooster episode where they have all the actors faces on screen while only one is facing the camera using a makeup vanity. Simple, but well positioned.
Which episode is that in? I need to know which of my DVDs to put in :)
@@C.I... S02 E2:The Bassetts' Fancy Dress Ball. The scene where Stiffy tells them about steeling the policeman's helmet. 😉
"Full siege" is such a perfect way to describe those moments where you know the CG is going to take over 🤣. You can't feel the stakes in these because the polygons are going to most of the heavy lifting for the actors. On the contrary, I just watched Jackie Chan's Operation Condor and you can feel every insane moment of that film. I'm not saying action movies need to as dangerous as Jackie Chan movies to be enjoyable, but there's a middle-ground between that and the CGI scraps we're left with today.
i didnt even notice the missing blood in bordelands bc i was watching it on the side while playing a game which lead me to believe that this was the intended viewing experience
So... I was watching VHS beyond. Did not expect you guys to star in it hahaha. Damn, how far you've guys have come huh ? and I'm damn happy for you guys. Soo happy, love and support guys. Keep doing what you're doing cause it's definitely working.
Dudes, the fingers-in-head effects from Deadpool And Wolverine have GOT to be reviewed on the couch. SO DISGUSTINGLY GOOD
Some rather good comp work. Done. :p
I'm glad we're finally getting longer episodes.
One of my favorite series on YT, absolutely love this .
20:44 I always wondered why that bridge seemed so odd and in a weird position when I watched that movie.. its because they changed the dang direction of the way it should have went!
The contagious laughter is always a highlight of these videos.
I JUST WATCHED VHS BEYOND! I WAS EXCITED AND SURPRISED YOU WERE IN THIS MOVIE.
It’s epic that the one gun that the borderlands movie represented was the infinity. The gun which conveniently lets them do the classic movie trope of never reloading.
I think my biggest problem with borderlands ignoring EVERYTHING else is that its just so dark man. Borderlands is a bright and colorful world but I feel like I'm in a grimdark horror show
Yo Corrider Crew!! Just want to say "awesome, badass" for appearing in VHS Beyond!! That was totally unexpected! Congrats to guys!!
love it when satoshi kon inspired films get a look at, recreating shots that had only been animated to that point must be an amazing challenge for directors, editors, special effects and digital artists.
Neil Breen’s Twisted Pair is long overdue a reaction vid
Buddy scratched his shoulder and called it an elbow 11:08 😂😂😂
I fully expect you to make Borderlands better by giving us the blood & guts version we deserve.
The game Black is a perfect example of bloodless hits. Sparks and debris flying in all directions but they also have impacts on enemies.
8:23 "it lets me see myself..." is such a impactful statement
On sundays I recommend “Bedknobs and broomsticks” for VFX Reacts🗣️
Everyone's favorite part of Saturday!! -->>
There is nothing better than coffee on Saturday with a new VFX react video!
Agreed!
lol me with my coffee in hand rn
Some classic Hollywood mirror scenes! Starting with the greatest, Lady In Shanghai! The OG. Then, perhaps All About Eve? Other awesome ones? Great stuff guys
Can't imaging working on that inception mirror shot. I probably would have laughed in the that first pitch meeting.
Alright Guys, I didn´t expect to see you guys in the new V/H/S film.
Yh that was so jarring but also cool lol they finally made it 😅
YOU GUYS WERE SO GOOD IN V/H/S/BEYOND 📼
The more I see of Borderlands, the more it looks like a 00's era webseries.
The mirror shot in the Terminator 2 Special Edition is one of my favorite magic tricks in film. It is a great example of planning ahead and using every tool in the box.
Wren was like someone invited to a completely different party during the Borderlands reaction!
"Zombies dusty breath" was very poetic and descriptive. Accurate description of that bullet hit on the crate.
Borderlands? More like I'm Bored-erlands
I blame Avi Arad
i truly hate this, well done.
Heyoooooo
Ok Norm 😂
The mirror shot of inception has an issue ... it's a tricky one ... when the glass break and the shards of mirror fall to the floor the reflections in the mirror are motion blurred, but they should not be, because the reflection does not move at the speed of the mirror shard itself, it's just reflecting a static background. This is why this moment always felt weird to me. Only the edges of the mirror shards should be blurred but not what they are reflecting.
@stefceretti Sssshhhhh. Blame the ray tracing.
@@andy_lockley Blame post-render motion blur :) Hey Andy long time no see !!!
@@stefceretti been a loooong time. Hope you're well/busy in these strange times!
@@andy_lockley I am !! too busy ... but yeh sad and strange times ..
Loved yalls work on V/H/S/Beyond, i think its their best movie so far
I kinda like the Cate B wave shoot. 🤷♀️🤷♀️ I also love that the zombie bullet dust lives along side “look at that neck!”
I really like how in these videos, these guys act like magicians trying to figure out how somebody did a magic trick
Coz some of these VFX are Magic
The react videos do remind me of Penn and Teller's "Fool Us."
My biggest gripe with the Borderlands movie is the lack of New-U stations, and the concept that our protagonists could have died multiple times on screen, and then played with that concept. Such a waste of potential.
According to Randy Pitchford, New-Us aren't canon in the Borderlands universe... Somehow :/
@@aaronsilva1960 Which doesn't even make sense, because Borderlands 2 has a mission where Jack tells you to kill yourself. The main villain of the game literally acknowledges that you died and came back to life.
@@lanceturley7745 I don't think NPCs have access to this though, only the player does. And afaik, in this borderlands movie, there is no players, it's all NPCs, much like the Warcraft movie. Which is why, among many other reasons, I think these types of movies should be done in a more "isekai" style, where the main character is a player that knows they are a player, in the game world.
@@lanceturley7745 Literally everyone pointed this out when he said it, but as far as I know, they never retracted that statement, and New-Us are never referenced in cutscenes or in other borderlands media (Tales, etc.). I think it's dumb, but that's why I dont think they would ever put it in the movie.
Almost every video game movie throws out the game mechanics of the player dieing and coming back to life
As a 80s kid, I'd LOVE for you guys to check out The Last Starfighter !
Love that idea.
I’m sure it’d be a nightmare to do music videos, but as far as mirror shots go: there’s a couple of Dua Lipa videos that are better than they have any right to be, Houdini and Physical come to mind of having interesting shots involving mirrors
Love these weekly uploads. Watch every Sunday morning while doing laundry 😂
That look upon Wren's face when he remembers looking into the mirror, to his soul...
3:22 that part about "sexy guns" made me think two things:
1) I'd have never, in a million years, say a phrase like this in my life,; my thoughts would have never go in such a direction, this concept just doesn't have a place to exist in my mind;
2) what an American thing to say.
INCEPTION MIRROR SHOT FOR VFX HALL OF FAME
Honorable mention here to The Matrix and that door knob shot of Neo and Morpheus.
Mirror shot: Carlito's way.
When Carlito meets Sasso for the first time in the movie.
Don't be surprised Borderlands forgot the games are about cool guns, they also forgot the main characters aren't supposed to be elderly
8:47 underrated vfx shot
I'm guessing it's not a mirror at all.
@@spaghettiyos3130absolutely.
8:26 WREN NOOOOO SOMEONE GIVE HIM A HUG
This one of the best UA-cam channels out there
So glad you guys did Black Swan! I worked at LookFX, who did the movie. We had a TON of reflection shots for this one. My buddy Ulysses I think did that infinity mirror shot. I did a bunch during the dressing room scenes and dance hall scenes. Mirrors everywhere!
There are 7 Tremors movies and you haven't mentioned them. Their effects have improved through the years. Practical and digital.
I could've sworn they've looked at the first one
They have brought up at least one of them in the last year or two. I remember them showing how a guy had to be buried in the sand while in this giant worm costume, and another of them punching a hole through a basement wall for one of the creature jump scare shots.
But also, they have like 7+ years worth of episodes of this series, odds are they've touched on at least one other Tremors movie in at least one more episode.
They did the first or second one with Kevin Bacon
Zombie's dusty whisper of a bullet hit? 🤣
my favorite "mirror" scene ever is the deleted scene in T2 where Sarah is removing the chip from the T-8oo's head.
also, the saddest thing with the pg-13 rating of the "Borderlands" movie is that the director was Eli Roth, known for a lot of gore in his movies like "Hostel".
For those that don't know, the T2 scene is set up as a vanity with no glass. Linda Hamilton and Arnold are opposite camera through the mirror frame so we see their faces, and the foreground actors are Linda's twin sister and Arnold's stunt double for their backs. The doubles had to mirror Linda and Arnold in real time for several minutes.
"I love them all but the black ones." "Yeah, those scare me too"
That was a risky way to arrange those words. 😂
Okay guys, to put your point in context - remember the scene in 'Predator' when Jesse Ventura's character opened up with the mini-gun in the militia's base? He SHREDDED the men and more than half the scenery, bits flying everywhere, sparks, dust, splinters, blood you name it, best gun effect EVER! I don't know the game you're talking about, don't do gaming but, going on the game footage you have shown, what were the effects guys doing? As you say, if the film is based on an R-rated game, you at least want to show the impact of the weapons, not necessarily the blood, but you could have multiple bullet hits, sparks, debris to sell the scary weapon stuff. This looks like it was made by Disney in the seventies, the guns may as well be firing air!!! Definitely the weirdest visual effects I have seen in a modern film, very odd . . .
3:08, well I know this sparks effects must be a footage from Video Copilot Action Essentials pack... 🗿😂