Everyone that says anything negative about shorts have to realize that Hollywood actors and producers have millions of dollars at their disposal, the person/'s that made this probably did not. Great Job and keep it up, who knows this might end up on the movie screen someday.
I wouldn't be surprised if this type of scenario "Have your enemies build your own army" has been done before, maybe just so sparsely I can't recall myself, but it's a good concept, and the movie looks like it could be fun at the least.
It has been done before - I'm digging through my classic sci-fi collection to see which author it was - Asimov, Clarke, Niven, Poul, someone of that generation, I seem to recall.
So why did they even bother making up this elaborate plan with mechs if they had giant Independence Day/Mass Effect lasers that they scorched the planet with?
Well they probably thought that the humans might have an equal amount of firepower than them, so they told them to build mechs that were clearly a more advanced technology that would be there only main defense.
Seriously? I think it's absurd to make your enemy build an army, when all it takes for you is to come with your armada and nuke everything from orbit. Something that they seem to have done anyway.
This is pretty much the most complete concept trailer I've seen. Hard to believe it took three days to shoot and with only $150. Insane! With a polished script/screenplay, actors and effects, I hope to see an epic on the big screen! :D
if this is done properly with big budget and everything, it could be an instant classic. Imagine how many minds would be exploded with this plot twist, half first of the movie is all building the 'army' to defend earth from the 3rd wheel then BAAM in your face human! Then the insectoid aliens turn out to be the guardians of galaxy trying to save other races from robotic threats then turns out it has always been the masterplan of Earth government to weaponize every of its inhabitants to conquer other dimensions and they have been secretly plotting the invasion for millenniums and we discovered 'God' was a gigantic super ancient galactic super computer floating at the edge of the universe that we know and everything turns out to be just a computer simulation= video games of a teenage boy living in his parents house somewhere on Uranus! BAAM!!
respect Uranus man. I know it's far away and there is not much inside of it to desire for, but it's important to the universe. Without Uranus there life on Earth would be so drastically different than what we are having now. Not saying it's a bad thing, I just really like the way my life is now. Be pround of Uranus bro
Aaron Richards You know, I don't give a shit no more. Who knows how big are the lies they are telling us...and hell, I sure as hell can't change what they are doing. I'd rather live without fear then let the news tell me who to fear most today.
What about a movie to start and introduce the series? You know? The movie if done right with lets say a 50 Million Dollar Budget, could be the stepping stone to something truly amazing and epic. Then if the movie did well with sales and the public, they could make it a series, and/or maybe even a movie Trilogy (Part 1, 2 , and 3.).
I was very moved by this trailer and the soundtrack you had behind it. While at first, I thought it was a movie with those cheesy Sci-Fi channel movie graphics, I read that this is a small group making this and not some rich Hollywood fellas. That makes this more impressive and the plot was what really drew me in.
At first I was surprised that an american movie gave credit to another country (Russia) for something as simple as deciphering the code, then I kept watching...... Reminds me of "Independence Day": Brit on the comms: "The Americans have a plan" Other Brit Soldier: "Well it's about bloody time! What do they want us to do?"
You did an AMAZING job! This trailer is the best one-man project I've seen. Beside your obvious visual and technical talent, the concept is very fresh and original, which is a rarity in the current bombardment of studio and indie film. I hope to see this on the big screen!
if trailer is 5 minutes then film must be 5 hours. and i think i already saw everything that may happen in it from that trailer, which ended like it was preface of some sort of game
Cool concept....bad acting and cheesy graphics though. With the right director it could be epic. U'd love to see Zach Synder direct this with a great screenwriter who develps the script.
Frank White : No, a films quality can not be measured just in how much it makes at the box office. Some truly wondrous movies flopped at the box office, yet they were masterpieces in their own rights. Shawshank Redemption, Blade Runner, Citizen Kane, to name a few, failed at the box office. Zack Snyder's work is decent enough, but he tends to stick to the tried and true formula when it comes to the plot instead of creating something new.
Vogel Well I never said a films quality was measured at the box office, but it’s the loudest measure of the public’s interest. People who really like a movie tend to vote with their wallets and if the movie “sucks” it doesn’t go on to make close to a billion dollars. Whether a movie is great or sucks is subjective, just like the films you mentioned above. Mixed bag of opinions on all three. There’s just as many people who consider them great as people who think they’re overrated or just didn’t like them at all. Shawshank actually made a few million more at the box office than it’s production budget and went on to make an additional $30 million overseas and another $80 million in video rental sales. Citizen Kane made double its budget and Blade Runner flopped at the box office because it opened the same the same time as The Thing, Star Trek II and E.T which made close to a billion dollars. It most likely made its money back though rentals though so it’s not like those movies were turds either.
That is a great spin on an alien invasion!!! They act as though they are the good guys and get us to build weapons to fight the bad aliens just to find out they were the bad aliens in the first place!!! AWESOME idea!!! Go with it, MAKE THIS MOVIE!!! I have never seen this spin before!!! GREAT IDEA!!
Looks like a Robotech/Mechwarrior version of Falling Skies. Aliens invade, and use integrated humans to help fight the war. Interesting concept, but really nothing new here.
its not an actual trailer, its a concept for a movie, and its actually really good, it wasn't directed or made on a huge budget, and they still managed to pull some amazing CGI
More like a 'proof of concept' for potential investors than a trailer. There ARE a lot of good ideas here, so it would be nice to see fully developed and out there.
This film should be made with some of the biggest names in movie making history and amazing plot twists with breath taking animations and sets make it happen and get the big names to listen
Not a lie, My wife works for the airline, so i flew for free, plus i have family living in AK so stay and transportation was free, all of the actors are family and friends donated thair time on the weekends, same with most of props, i borrowed what ever i could, so, on the whole production i spent about $150 out of my pocket, that's it!
its about time I've seen a trailer that shows a concept to a movie i would gladly pay to go see! I too am working on a project myself and watching this proves to me that it is possible! no matter how much i struggle i will persevere! thanks man! after all they say the best ones start of small and grow incredibly powerful! good luck dood! you got my support!
This "movie" just changed plots 6 different times. First it was about alien messages, then about friendly aliens helping, then those aliens using us, then a war, then only 2 men, then about those two men who get in a robot and do something stupid.
I think the idea that they of getting us to build weapons for them to use in an invasion is a good idea, however when you show the ships coming and blowing the crap out of everything with death rays or whatever it kind of defeats the purpose of having us build machines. soldiers behind enemy lines is also a nice touch. I've always wanted to see an alien invasion movie in which we don't miraculously win, lets face it if aliens did invade we would have no chance.
People, please, a bit of perspective, read the footnotes. This is the work of one VFX wizard and a few friends. I hope Mr. Popov gets lots of money to play with this, or whatever other stories he has up his sleeves. Best of luck Alex.
they should hire you in hollywood. 150$ is a really small budget and you made a great concept trailer with this. Haters gonna hate but i do appreciate your skill and I wish you the very best. Cheers from Poland bro!
The first Chinese investment occurred in October 2010 with the state-owned Chinese energy giant CNOOC buying a multibillion-dollar stake in 600,000 acres of South Texas oil and gas fields. CNOOC announced that it would pay up to $2.2 billion for a one-third stake in Chesapeake Energy assets.
I agree about the rest of it, but as a former grunt myself (with a 179 IQ), I'd like to point out that the stereotype of "dumb grunts" is often completely off. My company commander back in Ft. Polk was a nuclear physicist who just happened to carry an M-16, and there were more than a few of us who maxed out the US military's ASVAB or came really close to doing so. Granted, there's a few who couldn't qualify for anything else, but I wouldn't automatically discount the grunts.
Good job! This is great! I didn't know people made trailers for movies that don't exist, but I think it's a cool-ass idea. I've now seen a couple here on UA-cam. Like the "Aquaman" one. But yours is the coolest by far. $150 budget and you did a spectacular job! Well done my friend! ♥
This actually does look like it would make a pretty cool film, and probably an even better video game actually! acting does seem a little wooden but it kind of suits the story in this. In any case it certainly deserves to get made- though frankly I doubt it will, Hollywood's got it's own ideas of what makes good sci-fi and isn't interested in other's opinions on the matter I'm afraid.
This looks like it could work as a TV series, for grade 5 kids - after school, target audience - mainly boys... with the appropriate GI Joe, Halo 3, kind of commercial tie-ins... For it is too silly for high school, and adult audiences .... Transformers worked, because it had Megan Fox.... hence, the university crowd would go see that, too... but this, is for boys... "hate bullies".... the "fight back", "MMA is cool", "I read Maxim Magazine" crowd.... Surprised you have not found financial banking, yet.
Everyone that says anything negative about shorts have to realize that Hollywood actors and producers have millions of dollars at their disposal, the person/'s that made this probably did not. Great Job and keep it up, who knows this might end up on the movie screen someday.
Which college produced this?
By looks of it, it was more likely a high school
I wouldn't be surprised if this type of scenario "Have your enemies build your own army" has been done before, maybe just so sparsely I can't recall myself, but it's a good concept, and the movie looks like it could be fun at the least.
Yeah, just take a look at the American foreign policy in the Middle East, and read between the lines...
manofTao Tell me, why did you turn my comment about movie plots into a political statement?
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It has been done before - I'm digging through my classic sci-fi collection to see which author it was - Asimov, Clarke, Niven, Poul, someone of that generation, I seem to recall.
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OK, I have to admit, the tactic the aliens used was actually pretty clever...
To me I think the "non-hostile" aliens were the invaders, telling the humans to build there own enemies.
Connor Dunning
DUH...they said that in the trailer..weren't you listening?
So why did they even bother making up this elaborate plan with mechs if they had giant Independence Day/Mass Effect lasers that they scorched the planet with?
Well they probably thought that the humans might have an equal amount of firepower than them, so they told them to build mechs that were clearly a more advanced technology that would be there only main defense.
Seriously?
I think it's absurd to make your enemy build an army, when all it takes for you is to come with your armada and nuke everything from orbit. Something that they seem to have done anyway.
This is pretty much the most complete concept trailer I've seen. Hard to believe it took three days to shoot and with only $150. Insane!
With a polished script/screenplay, actors and effects, I hope to see an epic on the big screen! :D
if this is done properly with big budget and everything, it could be an instant classic. Imagine how many minds would be exploded with this plot twist, half first of the movie is all building the 'army' to defend earth from the 3rd wheel then BAAM in your face human! Then the insectoid aliens turn out to be the guardians of galaxy trying to save other races from robotic threats then turns out it has always been the masterplan of Earth government to weaponize every of its inhabitants to conquer other dimensions and they have been secretly plotting the invasion for millenniums and we discovered 'God' was a gigantic super ancient galactic super computer floating at the edge of the universe that we know and everything turns out to be just a computer simulation= video games of a teenage boy living in his parents house somewhere on Uranus! BAAM!!
Wat.
Wow, that escalated quickly
Half life 3 confirmed
respect Uranus man. I know it's far away and there is not much inside of it to desire for, but it's important to the universe. Without Uranus there life on Earth would be so drastically different than what we are having now. Not saying it's a bad thing, I just really like the way my life is now. Be pround of Uranus bro
quuanngg
Tell me more about Uranus.
WOW, so aliens are the thread, but they somehow made Russians the enemy again?
Classic...
Aaron Richards wut? 0-o
Aaron Richards You know, I don't give a shit no more. Who knows how big are the lies they are telling us...and hell, I sure as hell can't change what they are doing. I'd rather live without fear then let the news tell me who to fear most today.
jusk Russians always make Americans the enemy and by the way this is a low budget b movie
Can you name a few movies?
And no shit, this looks like it's all made on a phone.
This would be better as a tv series, a movie saga would not be enough to sufficiently tell the story.
What about a movie to start and introduce the series? You know? The movie if done right with lets say a 50 Million Dollar Budget, could be the stepping stone to something truly amazing and epic. Then if the movie did well with sales and the public, they could make it a series, and/or maybe even a movie Trilogy (Part 1, 2 , and 3.).
This would make an epic video game.....
This was the first thing that went thru my mind as well.
I was very moved by this trailer and the soundtrack you had behind it. While at first, I thought it was a movie with those cheesy Sci-Fi channel movie graphics, I read that this is a small group making this and not some rich Hollywood fellas. That makes this more impressive and the plot was what really drew me in.
Looks like a mash up of Destiny and Titanfall !
Martina Vazquez ~ more like a cheap ripoff of starcraft, it even has goliaths!
At first I was surprised that an american movie gave credit to another country (Russia) for something as simple as deciphering the code, then I kept watching......
Reminds me of "Independence Day":
Brit on the comms: "The Americans have a plan"
Other Brit Soldier: "Well it's about bloody time! What do they want us to do?"
I like the concept. The naysayers don't know how to dream.
You did an AMAZING job! This trailer is the best one-man project I've seen. Beside your obvious visual and technical talent, the concept is very fresh and original, which is a rarity in the current bombardment of studio and indie film. I hope to see this on the big screen!
if trailer is 5 minutes then film must be 5 hours. and i think i already saw everything that may happen in it from that trailer, which ended like it was preface of some sort of game
***** This is more like test footage used to get someone to promote the idea and make a full scale movie with funding out of it.
At the rate we are polluting the planet, no "intelligent beings" will want it. I mean, you don't want to invade the junk yard do you?
I would.....lol
Depends on what they want. Fissile material? Iron and other metals? Rare earth elements? Slaves?
Haha xD
Josh Porter if they are looking for organic material we are screwed xD
The junk yard can make a tank out of parts like that mad max movie
Thanks man, appreciate your support!
Oh i tought you're using elites xD
Me 2 and the guns they were holding looked like halo 3 BRs
Did we just watch the entire movie?
Started like the movie "Contact", ended like the movie "Pacific Rim" spiced with a little "Independence day"
i like how on all short films the staple for plot development assistance are "News Reports and Footage"
Better than "Instagram and Hearsay"
Cool concept....bad acting and cheesy graphics though. With the right director it could be epic. U'd love to see Zach Synder direct this with a great screenwriter who develps the script.
all of zach synder's film's suck, sorry pick somebody better.
LOL...well 300 and Man of Steel looked great and made about a billion combined if they truly sucked they would've flopped.
Frank White :
No, a films quality can not be measured just in how much it makes at the box office. Some truly wondrous movies flopped at the box office, yet they were masterpieces in their own rights. Shawshank Redemption, Blade Runner, Citizen Kane, to name a few, failed at the box office.
Zack Snyder's work is decent enough, but he tends to stick to the tried and true formula when it comes to the plot instead of creating something new.
Vogel Well I never said a films quality was measured at the box office, but it’s the loudest measure of the public’s interest. People who really like a movie tend to vote with their wallets and if the movie “sucks” it doesn’t go on to make close to a billion dollars. Whether a movie is great or sucks is subjective, just like the films you mentioned above. Mixed bag of opinions on all three. There’s just as many people who consider them great as people who think they’re overrated or just didn’t like them at all.
Shawshank actually made a few million more at the box office than it’s production budget and went on to make an additional $30 million overseas and another $80 million in video rental sales. Citizen Kane made double its budget and Blade Runner flopped at the box office because it opened the same the same time as The Thing, Star Trek II and E.T which made close to a billion dollars. It most likely made its money back though rentals though so it’s not like those movies were turds either.
captain pinky your wrong.... Nothing else to say.
I see they went for the Avatar route of giving away the whole story in the trailer! I know its only a concept trailer, good job though :)
Great stuff. I have nothing but admiration for people who have the imagination and ambition to put something like this together.
That is a great spin on an alien invasion!!! They act as though they are the good guys and get us to build weapons to fight the bad aliens just to find out they were the bad aliens in the first place!!! AWESOME idea!!! Go with it, MAKE THIS MOVIE!!! I have never seen this spin before!!! GREAT IDEA!!
lol good thing the US saved the day again...phew. i was beginning to think the story was original
great story but the graghics
SUCKS
great comment, but the spelling
that's my tarded kid for ya
GMackzy Great comment, but the grammar.
GMackzy Great rebuttal, but the missing period.
This is a really great imaginitive original concept! Love to see further development!
the bio-soldier look exactly like elites from Halo. Not complaining, they look friggin awesome.
wow that cg looks like it is running on the original xbox o_O
You know what this film needs? More lens flare.
The music i'am referring to starts around 2:42 till they find Goliath. Thank You. I love what you directed. totally good.
That is a lot for just one movie, maybe a miniseries, or a trilogy. I hope to see it one day.
Enough already with the fucking 'Inception' trailer music!!!
Can I make a financial investment into this project.
+Honey Ryder I might do a kickstarter for it this year :)
Yes you may if you are serious about it
Good thing we had this mech lying around that no one bothered to use the 1st time they attacked us.
Now Hollywood, this is the kind of movie we wanna see.
is hard to believe that bullets will do much agains those things.......
Looks like a Robotech/Mechwarrior version of Falling Skies.
Aliens invade, and use integrated humans to help fight the war.
Interesting concept, but really nothing new here.
its not an actual trailer, its a concept for a movie, and its actually really good, it wasn't directed or made on a huge budget, and they still managed to pull some amazing CGI
Wow! This movie would make "Independence Day" and "Battlefield Earth" look like Oscar contenders.
''trailer''? feels like i don't need to watch the movie since this trailer already told all that is gonna happen. nice plottwist tho
Those are supposed to be Elites from the Halo Universe ?
great job!!! truly and impressive feat, I can see you moving up very quickly. Best of luck.
Looks pretty good considering, looks like it would've been so much fun to play in this movie.
This would be a much better trailer if it was way shorter. You're telling way too much of the story.
Mediocre at best until they broke out the mech. I guess that settles it, mechs make ANYTHING better.
More like a 'proof of concept' for potential investors than a trailer. There ARE a lot of good ideas here, so it would be nice to see fully developed and out there.
That was a cool plot - get the enemy to build the army for you..
cool idea, too bad they had a three-year-old animate it.
Same idea in all new US cinema, "Russians will invate to US to destroy nation" Does you not tired of this drivel?
This film should be made with some of the biggest names in movie making history and amazing plot twists with breath taking animations and sets make it happen and get the big names to listen
Not a lie, My wife works for the airline, so i flew for free, plus i have family living in AK so stay and transportation was free, all of the actors are family and friends donated thair time on the weekends, same with most of props, i borrowed what ever i could, so, on the whole production i spent about $150 out of my pocket, that's it!
This is a rip off from Robotech, from the second series the Robotech masters, bio-roids, with Zor Prime and Dana sterling.
bio-roids? there's a cream for that
i love robotech.
its about time I've seen a trailer that shows a concept to a movie i would gladly pay to go see! I too am working on a project myself and watching this proves to me that it is possible! no matter how much i struggle i will persevere! thanks man! after all they say the best ones start of small and grow incredibly powerful! good luck dood! you got my support!
Looks cool !
This "movie" just changed plots 6 different times. First it was about alien messages, then about friendly aliens helping, then those aliens using us, then a war, then only 2 men, then about those two men who get in a robot and do something stupid.
this needs to be turned into a video game. and then have the all the actors do cut scenes like read alert, command and conquer.
This is a concept trailer for a proposed feature film called "GOLIATH"
A CONCEPT TRAILER
Better stay that way.
Love the covenant elite look. Wish I can find a armor like this lol
Having Adagio in your sci-fi is like having godmode enabled on your vidya game
looks like a great concept movie to bring Battletech to the big screen!
I think the idea that they of getting us to build weapons for them to use in an invasion is a good idea, however when you show the ships coming and blowing the crap out of everything with death rays or whatever it kind of defeats the purpose of having us build machines. soldiers behind enemy lines is also a nice touch. I've always wanted to see an alien invasion movie in which we don't miraculously win, lets face it if aliens did invade we would have no chance.
So, Halo aliens in Iron Man suits are battling the Call of Duty army, and it all boils down to the heros finding Gurren Lagann. Seen it.
Those red bots looked like sangheli from halo
84 seconds in and I see where this is headed. Already my credulity is strained.
To all who dont like the graphics etc
- shot in 3 days in Alaska and 3 days in San Diego. Total budget: $150 This project was a one man effort
People, please, a bit of perspective, read the footnotes. This is the work of one VFX wizard and a few friends. I hope Mr. Popov gets lots of money to play with this, or whatever other stories he has up his sleeves. Best of luck Alex.
grahammichaelburns Link to your show reel in the footnotes, Alex, they´ll wet themselves with your Alien/Predator
grahammichaelburns Absolute feckin genius
I think the movie would be way better if instead of the secret weapon being a mech, its actually an army of terminators riding on T-Rex's
they should hire you in hollywood. 150$ is a really small budget and you made a great concept trailer with this. Haters gonna hate but i do appreciate your skill and I wish you the very best. Cheers from Poland bro!
The first Chinese investment occurred in October 2010 with the state-owned Chinese energy giant CNOOC buying a multibillion-dollar stake in 600,000 acres of South Texas oil and gas fields. CNOOC announced that it would pay up to $2.2 billion for a one-third stake in Chesapeake Energy assets.
I agree about the rest of it, but as a former grunt myself (with a 179 IQ), I'd like to point out that the stereotype of "dumb grunts" is often completely off. My company commander back in Ft. Polk was a nuclear physicist who just happened to carry an M-16, and there were more than a few of us who maxed out the US military's ASVAB or came really close to doing so. Granted, there's a few who couldn't qualify for anything else, but I wouldn't automatically discount the grunts.
Loved the premise. They should really think about making this into a movie with a huge budget.
i couldnt help but laugh at the vfx, but i have to admit the plot was pretty good
You say that like everything sci-fi from the past 5 years hasn't ripped off everything sci-fi for the past 50 years.
Good job! This is great! I didn't know people made trailers for movies that don't exist, but I think it's a cool-ass idea. I've now seen a couple here on UA-cam. Like the "Aquaman" one. But yours is the coolest by far. $150 budget and you did a spectacular job! Well done my friend! ♥
Something good in this trailer is that we all can see the movie in 5 minutes
one of the truly greatest stories i've seen for a #1 movie box office smash! Hope Lucas picks up on it and does it with you. Dont change a thing!!!!
Great job on this! I would go see this in the theater.
Thanks man, this concept short is just a setup, the movie takes place mostly after the Aliens got most of the population of the planet under control
I don't recall these scenes from 'Sunshine', but strangely enough the same music is being used. Must be the deleted scenes!
If we could scrounge up a couple hundred million dollars this would make one hell of a movie
"Goliath online."
Okay, now that is one Starcraft pun off of my chest. XD
Man I hope you get to make this a feature one day! Im all fired up to see it now.
This it is 100 times better than the second Starship Trooper movie. I'd watch it, with this special effects and acting and everything.
This actually does look like it would make a pretty cool film, and probably an even better video game actually! acting does seem a little wooden but it kind of suits the story in this. In any case it certainly deserves to get made- though frankly I doubt it will, Hollywood's got it's own ideas of what makes good sci-fi and isn't interested in other's opinions on the matter I'm afraid.
Loving the Sunshine soundtrack.
This looks like it could work as a TV series, for grade 5 kids - after school,
target audience - mainly boys... with the appropriate GI Joe, Halo 3, kind of
commercial tie-ins...
For it is too silly for high school, and adult audiences .... Transformers worked,
because it had Megan Fox.... hence, the university crowd would go see that, too...
but this, is for boys... "hate bullies".... the "fight back", "MMA is cool", "I read
Maxim Magazine" crowd.... Surprised you have not found financial banking, yet.
it's always a good idea to send in regular infantry against giant robots...
Starcraft+Halo+Star Wars+Transformers=GOLIATH.
As either a movie or tv series, I would watch this
This ain't no trailer this is the whole movie. holy shit long as fuck trailer giving the whole plot!
This is going to make a lot of thirteen year old happy.
Oh please! If there was a signal coming from outerspace you would NEVER hear about it on the news!
if this was done on a higher budget it's be quite an enjoyable film
Beans,beans
the musical fruit.
A bowl-full of those
and all the aliens
back to the sky they rose!
That Inception Trailer Music...
It's from the movie sunshine
A complete movie in 5 minutes!
As an anime and manga fan i find it realy interesting,why you ask? because it's almost identical to a manga i read and love Gantz.
Interesting concept, hopefully if this is made the trailer doesn't give away the plot twist like this did.
Amazing for a one man show, I guess you need to assemble a team. keep up the good work.