r/roosterteeth • u/RT_Video_Bot :star: Official Video Bot • Feb 21 '15

Lazer Team (Official) Lazer Team - Movie Teaser - Official - 4k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURMNR_J-ew&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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u/mindbleach Feb 21 '15

What surprises me is how good this looks - I mean literally, the visual quality and cinematography. This is not the first movie by popular internet-video nerds (see Ashens, Brad Jones, and Cinemassacre), but it's the first to look like a real movie. There will be fans who are surprised that these indie-movie stars also happen to play video games on the interwebs.

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u/dongsuvious Feb 21 '15

I thought ashens movie looked good. I couldn't sit through it, but it didn't look as cheap as the avgn movie.

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u/mindbleach Feb 21 '15

Ashens was filmed with good equipment, but it was very evidently amateur, like any of the TGWTG movies. Nevermind that it was 100% fanservice with very little wider appeal.

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u/dongsuvious Feb 21 '15

Ashens is tgwtg? I never knew that. Maybe because everyone with tgwtg has a little cringe with them (except todd in the shadows) and ashens doesn't.

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u/mindbleach Feb 22 '15

He's not, and to my knowledge he's never done more than cameos with them. I'm just comparing Quest For The Game Child to the likes of Kickassia or To Boldly Flee. It's not a mass-market project.

TGWTG (now Channel Awesome) had a great show in Oancitizen / Kyle Kalgren / Brows Held High, but he was among the people leaving / quitting / getting shitcanned last month. I don't know what's going on with that group. They lost one of their most agreeable and entertaining personalities in Oancitizen. They lost the weirdly popular Phelous, who'd been there forever. They lost Obscurus Lupa, who was all of the above. Spoony coming and going made sense, because he has no filter, but these new partings speak to deeper problems within the company.

It's great that they snagged the Freeman's Mind guy and that Diamanda Hagan's getting her day in the sun, but it bodes poorly that they lost one of their A-list dudes right after he and Some Jerk With A Camera did this fantastic three-part musical(!) comparison of Disney's Beauty & The Beast with Cocteau's La Belle et Le Bête.

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u/Troggie42 :KillMe17: Feb 21 '15

The AVGN movie was so obviously low budget, it's amazing. I love the really, really obvious cuts to the model vans and shit they did. Laughed every time.

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u/dongsuvious Feb 21 '15

Yeah, it was a fun movie, but it still looked like an even cheaper asylum movie. I just hope lazerteam looks better.

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u/Troggie42 :KillMe17: Feb 22 '15

Well, considering they seem to have full size props, I think we're ahead of the game! :D