November Favorites
Here are our favorite things from November! Gotta get back to work! Three more videos to edit`!
2017-12-05 22:13:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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How to Ruin an Action Scene (Blue Flame Special Ep 2)
This is the video I was going to make a month ago. Before I decided to do a whole series on action scenes, the plan was to do a video just on geography. I was concerned it wasn't an exciting enough topic, which was probably true, but I think it works nicely reconfigured as the second episode of this...
2017-11-27 22:11:57 +0000 UTC View PostCreating a Monster Protagonist
This is actually last week's video! But due to delayed approval from the sponsor (blame them) it got delayed until now. This one is allllll about monsters. Some Godzilla. A lot of King Kong. And some Shape of Water talk, since I'm very excited about the new GDT joint.
A bunch of cool st...
2017-11-20 20:29:58 +0000 UTC View PostAnnouncing Our New Project
Most of the info is contained in the video, but here's the gist of it:
We're making a big new short film, the latest in the series of "When Your Friends Get Engaged" and "The High School Reunion," and we'll be documenting the whole process in a series of production vlogs leading up to the release ...
2017-11-14 14:29:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe Origin of Baby Driver & Drive
I've wanted to see Walter Hill's film The Driver for years, but it's a difficult movie to track down. Finally, over the summer Edgar Wright curated a series of heist movies at BAM in Brooklyn, and this one kicked it off. So not only did I finally get to see it, I got to see...
2017-11-09 14:35:07 +0000 UTC View PostT-shirt Design Poll!
Hey everyone, unfortunately there's no video this week. I've been frantically trying to keep on schedule over the past month (which has led to a lot of not sleeping, catching a cold, and being very stressed out), and decided it was best to take this week to catch up and get ahead on upcoming stuff.<...
2017-11-01 20:05:52 +0000 UTC View PostPatrick Explains BLADE II (And Why It's Great)
My parents are back for a new entry in what has (to my surprise) become a lot of people's favorite series on this channel.
This one is pretty self-explanatory. BLADE II rules, so I explained why. It seemed appropriate given that Guillermo del Toro has a new movie coming out soon.
I've got th...
2017-10-26 13:33:57 +0000 UTC View PostAnatomy of a Perfect Action Scene (AND THE START OF A NEW SERIES)
I didn't actually have a topic for this week's video until five days ago. I had several different ideas, but couldn't nail one down, and then, sitting in the San Francisco airport as my redeye back to New York got delayed for another hour, I had an idea: make them all into a series.
So here we are...
2017-10-20 15:54:38 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember Favorites
This is a couple weeks late, due to the post production process for last week's video being absolutely insane (PLEASE WATCH IT IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY) and me having to travel to California for a wedding.
These will...
2017-10-17 23:48:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe Best "Getting the Team Together" Montage Ever
This is a big one. It's been in the works since May, we shot it for all of August and some of September, and post production has taken weeks. But it's done.
As I mention in the video, it was inspired by 2017-10-12 18:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Rewards Are Coming!
Hey everyone, just wanted to give you a quick update in case you're one of the many people who have pledged $10 or more monthly in the past, like, year, and are wondering what our deal is and when you're getting those sweet rewards.
Well, the packages are assembled and addressed and are going in t...
2017-10-01 18:42:45 +0000 UTC View PostTHIRTY
Today is my 30th birthday. That's kind of a big deal, or at least it is to me, so I knew I had to make a video about it.
The last time I did this was three years ago when I turned 27: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k...
2017-09-29 21:58:15 +0000 UTC View PostWhy is the Hand So Boring?
I've watched most of the Marvel Netflix stuff, and The Defenders finally kind of broke me. It wasn't terrible (but also not especially good), but it was the culmination of a big problem that's been running through several shows: the Hand as a really dull main antagonist.
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2017-09-22 18:30:33 +0000 UTC View PostGhostbusters: A Movie About Nothing
This one was a lot of fun. I dug deep into a topic I've been thinking about for the past 7 years or so: whether or not Ghostbusters is about anything. Like, if it has ANY theme or subtext.
For the past month I've been asking everyone I know what they think Gho...
2017-09-07 20:29:37 +0000 UTC View PostAugust Favorites
This thing is back! And we listened to the suggestions for how to improve it.
This time around we sat behind a table so Matt's foot isn't so prominent in the foreground, cut back our list of topics, and rotated through our recommendations.
And remember, this is bonus, supplementary stuff. Th...
2017-09-05 13:53:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhat To Do With the X-Men Movies
Back in June I was on a 3-hour bus ride when the news broke about the next X-Men movie, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, apparently being released in the next couple years.
As someone who's not a huge fan of the X-Men movie series (although I like parts of it), I was annoyed about th...
2017-08-29 22:34:59 +0000 UTC View PostPatrick Explains CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (And Why It's Great)
This series is back! And since this is the third one I guess it's officially a series now. And yes, my parents are back, too.
I actually had no immediate plans for more of these videos. I was going to visit my parents this past weekend, and a week before that my mom texted me and asked if we would...
2017-08-17 16:39:36 +0000 UTC View PostA Tribute to Punching in Movies (video essay)
It's a new video essay! All about punching! Which I realize might seem like a weird topic.
A few months back I watched Rian Johnson's Brick for the first time in over a decade (spoilers: it's great) and was struck by the way punches were visualized in the movie. Each one ...
2017-08-10 17:53:12 +0000 UTC View PostJuly Favorites (new feature)
Here's the first in what will probably be a monthly thing. You know how beauty vloggers (and a lot of female vloggers in general) do monthly favorites videos where they share (usually) their favorite makeup or cosmetic products from the past month? Well this is kinda like that, but focused on the me...
2017-08-09 00:39:22 +0000 UTC View PostDeath Bidet (trailer)
So this one time Matt, Jake, and I got a hotel room for a night so we could shoot a fake trailer for a horror movie called DEATH BIDET.
There's also a behind the scenes video so you can see what it was like on set: htt...
2017-08-03 19:57:08 +0000 UTC View PostComic-Con Was Pretty Crazy
Last week was Comic-Con, and as always it was complete madness. So I covered the whole thing in a video. Features appearances by Big Boi from Outkast plus the actual Josie and the Pussycats from Riverdale.
Honestly I'm relieved this is done since Comic-Con kind of derailed the video schedule, and ...
2017-07-29 02:46:50 +0000 UTC View PostSam Raimi - How Does Horror Comedy Work?
Sorry this is so late. I've been in the middle of non-stop Comic-Con madness since Wednesday morning and it totally slipped my mind to write this post.
(Comic-Con is over and went well, btw. You'll hear more about it soon)
Also you probably all saw the video already since if you pledge to th...
2017-07-24 02:21:07 +0000 UTC View PostNo Video This Week (Well...Kind of)
Since November 3rd of last year, we've released a video every single week. That's 36 weekly videos. Plus some bonus ones thrown in occasionally.
So it was time for a bit of a break.
(Honestly, I co-wrote a whole feature-length screenplay last weekend and am working on a video essay for next ...
2017-07-12 21:36:48 +0000 UTC View PostA WEEK OF WRITING
This is not the most exciting video, but it was a necessary one.
As much as the YouTube videos are great and I love making them and they pay my rent and lead to fun opportunities, I know that if I want to have the opportunities to direct bigger things, I need some sort of "calling card," like a we...
2017-07-07 14:33:55 +0000 UTC View PostKraven's Big Day: A Spider-Man Story
If you started watching this channel in the past six months, you might watch this and think, "What IS this garbage?" If you've been watching since before last November, you're probably thinking, "Hey, it's a video like the old days!"
Before the end of last year, this channel was almost entirely wa...
2017-07-01 02:16:47 +0000 UTC View PostHow Wonder Woman Uses Color
This is not the official video for this week. This one is kind of a mini video essay. Like most of us, I really liked Wonder Woman (there's finally a good DC movie!), and I really appreciated the smart, deliberate way it uses color as a storytelling device. So I made a vide...
2017-06-27 14:56:17 +0000 UTC View PostTONIGHT'S LIVE STREAM ACTUALLY AT 7:30
Slight mistake on my end on the last post.
Tonight.
7:30 EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbwDCAKshwU
See you there!
2017-06-22 16:30:12 +0000 UTC View PostHow Edgar Wright Saved My Filmmaking Career
This is a story about a lot of things: how I launched the YouTube channel, how I almost went to grad school, and (as you can see from the title) how Edgar Wright saved my filmmaking career.
I've been thinking of doing a video on this for a while, but waited until now because Edgar Wright's new mov...
2017-06-22 15:22:22 +0000 UTC View PostAN ACTUAL LIVE STREAM ON THURSDAY
So for all you $4+ patrons, we're FINALLY doing a live stream this week.
THURSDAY
7:30 PM (EST)
UNTIL...8:30? (we'll see)
We're going to be doing these semi-regularly, and they might take different forms. Some will be public, but this is going to be a small,...
2017-06-21 00:39:58 +0000 UTC View PostRealism: How Much Does It Really Matter?
This one's a new video essay.
If you follow me on Twitter you might have seen me complain about a repeated line of commenting on the Marvel color grading video essay: that the flat coloring is more "realistic," and therefore better.
I've been thinking about this for months, and decided to do...
2017-06-16 11:20:13 +0000 UTC View Post