Pandora's Box CS Movie

[GareGast]

Hehe, you're the first one (I heard of) to notice that. Yeah, I used a few screenshots to copy/paste the wall without the words "terrorists win" in it.



Thnx for all the comments (and to The_Family_God for putting in a good word). The camera work & sound was a jerky at times, yes,, but that's something we'll have to pay more attention to next time. It's almost certain that there will be a Part 2, but it will take some time. We'll plan this alot sooner and try to make sure we don't make the same "mistakes" again.

[abel]

omg, the cheezy goodness, i loved it and you're right about it starting off slow and gets interesting fast

[wckd]

did u need to put low gravity on the one scene where they broke the window and jumped into? b/c the height of the hole was too high to jump into?

[cheetarah654]

i wish there would have been more sounds, like for the gunfire and grenades, cause it seemed too placid i guess. sound = good.



good work though

[farmer brown]

The accents needed to be more consistent. Someone would be speaking in their accent and then they would lose it somewhere in the middle of their dialogue. I liked the scene where it showed the 3 CTs charging into the hallway with the camera in back of them. Very nice camera work there.

[Registered]

the characters seem to move around a lot in the same place

[rizzuh]

That was a great ending and a pretty cool movie. Keep it up!

[Acid_Rain]

just saw that Militia2 (prolly spelt wrong oh well) omg... hella good ... i thought it was a movie of a new map but.. omg... : plz make more.. those wehre kick ass =D!!!!! cool way of getting the helicopter and tank in :)... made me go woah! and the graphics and stuff.. omg woo... anyways... Good movie.. PLEASE KEEP IT UP!



Ac!d_Ra!n =D

[Serious Sam]

Good movie.



I also recommend ; http://www.fileplanet.com/files/120000/129008.shtml

[sushi]

My review of Pandoras box (saw it last night before this was posted).



pros:

-story is decent, characters are of different nationality which is interesting (reminds me of basically any Clancy book)



-the choreography is good, the men move as though they are

on an actual operation and not a CS map



-the long CT entrance shot where the camera follows a squad all the way through the building is very well done, if a little jerky.



-the several around-the-corner shots are also well filmed and acted



-Disturbed at the end



Cons:



-jerky camera work, camerman clearly doesnt know how to change camera speed. this becomes painfully apparent about 3:50 into the film where a slow pass through that fence would have worked perfectly as a shot. for this reason the film's still shots work better, especially the perspective view from a security camera at about 4:50 in. almost every moving shot could have been made better through slower, smoother motions.



-dialogue is sometimes hard to hear over music or ambient noise.



-sound is occasionally simply missing from the scenes alltogether (more time could have been spent on dubbing of sound effects).



-in terms of realism, this movie takes a few liberties but is mostly acceptable, all except for the "terrorists hiding in closet" number. Would real terrorists hide from someone in their own closet, especially if they were there to murder the guy? another thing about that scene is just a small detail that could have improved the film: why not have, if a terrorist is being overheard from inside a closet, his voice sound muffled and slightly distant (ever overher a conversation from behind a door? in this movie it sounds as if the guy is in the closet with them!)



-the closet shot is another that could have benefitted from a slower camera movement speed, it simply moves too fast and is too jerky.



Overall verdict: Everything about this film could have been improved from a technical standpoint. Especially the fact that nobody on the movie seemed to know about the console commands one can input for better shots.

[GareGast]

wckd wrote..

did u need to put low gravity on the one scene where they broke the window and jumped into? b/c the height of the hole was too high to jump into?

No, we never changed the gravity. It was just low enough for us to jump in.



Yeah, the camera work was the worst thing, we know. This is something we'll have to work on - check out what more is possible, how we can arrange better shots for a follow-up, etc. Thanks for pointing out what we should improve, it really helps us make a better one next time.

[#fonzie | Domi]

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Yeah we'll take alot more time for the next time. It will not be released real soon, though

[wckd]

GareGast wrote..

No, we never changed the gravity. It was just low enough for us to jump in.

weird. cuz it seemed very high, when person is level the hole was at their heads. thats around 70h off the ground. a player model can jump around 48 while crouched. i guess im wrong.

[Chaser]

thought the movie was nothing even closely comparable to milita 1 or 2

[Solid Snake 88]

Why does everyone compare everything to Militia 1/2? Yes, they are both very good movies, better than most everything else out there at the moment, but can't you just rate something for what it is?



"Um.... the voice acting wasn't as good as Militia 2. 0/10 larf larf"

(we need smileys)