QUOTE(Liam @ May 18 2006, 04:04 PM) [snapback]333771[/snapback]
Since this video was so impossibly, shit-eatingly bad, I've decided to pull out all the stops and go for a blow-by-blow review.
We open on to a "studio logo" that looks like someone's had a crack on Microsoft PowerPoint, complete with cheesy fire sound effects. Right away I know I can expect something good from this video.
TEEN JACKASS!
Before I begin, what the fuck is up with that music? That's a legitimate question, I honestly don't know. No one in their right mind would produce a video under the name of Fire Skull then put Gnarls Barkley over it. It's a piss-poor song and completely and utterly fails to go with the video in every single conceivable way. I'm already baffled and angry, and the video has barely begun.
First stunt: snapping polystyrene over their heads. This is hardly a worthy first stop on the "adventure of pain" that we were promised in the blurb.
Then two thumbs up to the camera! Man...I love your girl hair. Tell me how I can look as rawk as you guys.
Next, breaking a flimsy-looking piece of plywood, again over this guy's head. This stunt deserves a slow motion replay so we can experience it twice, and luckily it delivers. "OUCH!!!" proclaim the pink letters on a blue background. Ouch indeed. My eyes and ears are already bleeding, and we're not even a quarter of the way in.
What's that they're flinging themselves on in the next shot? A mattress? Their mum's giant leather underwear hung out to dry? We may never know. But it makes for awesome footage. More head abuse follows, this time with an empty watering can. As you've probably guessed, production values for this video are through the roof. What appears to be the younger fag then headers the watering can, and appears to break down into tears. Or maybe not, I just couldn't see his eyes, or any part of his face for his hair. Sweet, another slow-mo replay so we can catch it again.
Fag 1 is now busting out some amazing stunts on his BMX in an urban bike park. Nah, not really. More like riding into some trolley carrier without even coming off the bike. It's not really possible to put into words how pathically bad this looks. Fag 2 then rides a scooter (which deserves a paragraph to itself, but I won't digress) into a parking barrier, probably the best stunt so far, but then considering what we've seen that isn't really saying much. He falls on his arse and I marvel at the total lack of response this elicits from me.
Scooter and bike into bush...picture the same thing you've seen a million times before, then make it loads worse, take away the good editing and filming and stick a pop/R 'n' B song over the top, to get some idea.
I make no exaggeration when I say the next "stunt" is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Ever. One of the guys approaches one of those old-fashioned corner shop signs, the kind that stand out in the middle of the pavement hanging inside a frame. Well, he gets down on his hands and knees and crawls through it. Then, he stands up.
And that's it. The only reason I didn't immediately hunt these two guys down for wasting precious seconds of my life was because I was laughing too hard to think straight.
The parkour section is a new low, even for this video. The two fags hop over bushes, climb over railings and jump off waist-high walls. After each clip I was begging them to stop because I was actually getting embarassed for them. But still, they go on, running through car parks, then cutting to a fucking amazing jump over a stack of wood.
IDOTS AREN'T WE?
That's probably a rhetorical question, but yes, you are the two fucking biggest "idots" I've ever known.
Tony Hawk, eat your fucking heart out. You've got competition from these guys, who have already learned how to skate three feet across a patio then come to a gentle stop.
Ooh don't throw that tennis ball! That could really hurt somebody...oh! Oh! He threw it! Oh my God that was fantastic! "OUCH IN THE NUTS" the anonymous narrator reports. I never would have thought that reading about a stunt could be far more rewarding than actually seeing it. In future I recommend all groups to do away with footage altogether and simply show blue slides with pink text proclaiming "FIRE BREATHE INTO FACE" or "IDOT HIT WITH TUBE LIGHT OUCH". Much better.
"NOW DONT TRY THIS AT HOME TRY IT OUTSIDE ITS MUCH FUNNER". I could mention their lack of apostrophes where appropriate, and the fact that "funner" is a made-up word, but that would just be pedantic.
Wow, they're pretty high up in the next shot. I actually got my hopes up, thinking that there was gonna be some jump and it would look pretty sweet. I was of course wrong, the cameraman turns around two full circles, catches his mate in shot, then we fade to black. I hit myself in the face for even letting the thought enter my mind that I might see a good stunt in this video. And so our adventure of pain comes to an abrupt end.
Credits roll, spelt mostly incorrectly but at least it's no surprise. What's this? They're not yet sponsored? Surely not. Any major production company would love to attach their names to these guys while sinking money into them. I'm thrilled to see they have an upcoming video "Idiots Are Fun", which I'm guessing will provoke me to gouge out my own eyes with a salad fork.
In conclusion, this was the worst homegrown video I've seen in my entire life, and I've seen the Scum Videos season 1. I hope my review at least entertained you a little, and may God be merciful and let those kids fall on their heads and enter irreversible comas some time in the near future.
Peace out.
I love you Liam.
If you don't email them this review, I will.