The Awesome Videos Thread (with Extra Sauce!)

Sweet!

I don't believe the claim that it is all rendered in real time, in fairly certain they cheat that. Though, if true, my question would be... Why?
It's possible, even on previous-generation hardware, but yes there are plenty of tricks they could be using to make it happen.

--Patrick
 
The nice thing about teaching dogs to do things like this, hopefully it was done with love and lots of treats.[DOUBLEPOST=1473461988,1473461701][/DOUBLEPOST]
Are you ready to feel SUPER DUPER OLD?!

Kids React to Metallica.

No old School Metallica from when they were \m/ Metal!! \m/ All opinions are invalid!

INVALID!

P.S. just watched the last half of the video. I am ashamed and somewhat wrong.
 

GasBandit

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When you replace every texture in Doom with Tim Allen, and every sound with the "Tim is confused" noise from Home Improvement.

 

fade

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Whoa. I was just having this very conversation with my brother. How very few movies have memorable themes. It's not just a new thing, though, it's all of movie history. But what makes a theme memorable?
 

GasBandit

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Putting it plainly, none of their songs have a "hook," an easy to remember, oft repeated distinct musical phrase that sticks out. The closest they came was this part of the Avengers theme (they often used it as a leitmotif for when somebody had just done something triumphant), but they didn't quite seal the deal with it.



Most of the memorable movie themes also like to put their "hook" right up at the start of the piece, instead of halfway through it.
 

GasBandit

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Whoa. I was just having this very conversation with my brother. How very few movies have memorable themes. It's not just a new thing, though, it's all of movie history.
Fade is also correct here - There are hundreds of movies every year, and dozens of Oscar contenders, but how memorable would we say that the theme from, say, Schindler's List is? I can't recall it from memory. I remember the stirring russian chorale part of Hunt for Red October's theme, but for the life of me I can't remember any music from any other Jack Ryan movie - not even the ones with Harrison Ford. But you do know what theme always comes back to me? A tawdry little Michael Bay-directed Connery/Cage action vehicle from the mid 90s called The Rock.



This theme was so striking they used it, unaltered, in a half dozen other movies and movie previews in the following 10 years. The movie itself was an entertaining flick that otherwise failed to endure long in the cultural zeitgeist, but I still catch myself humming the above-cued section. That, and the part that begins at 3:37.
 
An easily-remembered, catchy bit that's repeated a few times and, preferably, has an actual emotional resonance with the scenes used. Harry Potter, LotR, obviously Star Wars and Indiana Jones, Jaws,...
 

fade

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Hans Zimmer is usually pretty memorable. You can probably recall the Pirates of the Caribbean theme (even though it got him sued by the Holst estate). Or probably "Time" from Inception.

(EDIT: Ninja'd by @stienman )
 

GasBandit

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Hans Zimmer is usually pretty memorable. You can probably recall the Pirates of the Caribbean theme (even though it got him sued by the Holst estate). Or probably "Time" from Inception.

(EDIT: Ninja'd by @steinman )
It was Gladiator that got him sued, not Pirates, IIRC

 
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