Comments by "" (@MarvinPowell1) on "Rogue Elements - TV Series Proof Of Concept" video.

  1. I didn't think this was a bad mini-movie for an amateur, but my own review is: The audio mixing is horrible, the beginning torture scene with Anya is redundant because we see it later at the end and it has a better impact there, the first half had too much talking and nothing important was really said besides the pre-mission brief, the first half's pacing was also too slow and boring, the main antagonist either can't act or has a horrible accent, and the protagonist is a bit too generic. Good points for the cinematography, most of the actors, and the action scenes. Anya seemed like the most engaging character because she was mysterious but also seemed to have the most training, while Keira and her non-stop cursing was the most annoying character. This was a decent effort, but some tighter editing and sound mixing is definitely needed.
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  2. Weird syntax there. "This proved that the concept doesn't work." That sounds a hell of a lot better.
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  3. @dantederi5062 You don't need to be a chef to know when your meal is burnt. I get your point about Drinker's arrogance though, so maybe this will humble him a bit, even if he is just "playing a character." I didn't think this was mini-movie/TV episode was all that bad, though. Some tighter editing and audio mixing would fix most of the issues here, as it's the first half that's the bad part.
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  4.  @alexmaverick6647  You guys are haters just to be haters. You bring in politics here, which shows you have no argument. I didn't think this project was all that bad, and I don't even watch CD's videos and not subbed to him. (Used to be a while ago, but his content is so stale now.) You guys are hating him for the sake of who he is, not what he actually made.
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  5. The cinematography and action scenes weren't bad. Most of the problems of this was with the slow pace of the first half, the exposition-dump dialogue, and the awful sound mixing. A tight edit would improve this by a lot and if people have problems with the acting (I didn't mind most of it, except for the villain,) then dialogue scenes can be cut, too. The basic project here isn't bad; it has potential.
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  6. @synonys That may be true, but at least he was willing to actually go ahead and make something of his own, and hopefully learns from it and gets better. I get "you don't need to be a chef to know when your meal is burnt" but this is him actually trying to be a chef. This is also kind of an unfair comparison, because Hollywood has professionals and big budgets, while he's making an indy movie on his own with less experience and a far smaller budget. Hollywood sucks because of sheer arrogance and laziness, while C.D is a novice trying his best. It's an unfair comparison, but at least he was willing to take a risk and make something on his own than just complain on the internet like most. And before anyone says anything, I'm not even subbed to CD or watch most of his content.
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  7. The sound work could be much better, as the music is often too loud compared to the dialogue. One issue with the plot is that we're thrown right into an action scene in a parking lot before knowing who these people are, thus have no reason to care about who gets hurt or not. We don't know these people yet; why would we care if the chick fails her mission, or who the soft-spoken Russian is? A tighter pace would make this scene better, since we're not going to be invested in anyone right now, so you don't need to waste too much time on this one section. The beginning prison torture scene with Anya isn't needed. We can figure out what happened to Anya from the ending flashbacks and it'd better explain why she was on a sniper mission, so the opening scenes are redundant and ruin audience investment in her. Let her remain a little more mysterious if we're not going to get to know her name before the end. Currently, you show too much of her torture scenes, but it's not enough for us to care about her, so in this case, Less Is More. By the 13 minute mark, there's way too much dialogue and exposition dumps. It gets boring. Not every scene needs to be action, but if something isn't moving the plot along, audiences will get bored easily. In other words, way too many talking scenes! The main extraction scene is fine, but some tighter editing could've been used, and far less cliché one-liners. Just cut those out. The bad guy also talks too damn much. Overall, I'd say this was a B- effort. Not too bad, but a slow start and very boring for the first 15 minutes. The cinematography is excellent and the acting is good from most, except the bad guy. The characters are mostly fine, except for Kiera, who's excessive cursing is annoying. I wanted to know more about Anya as she seemed like the most engaging character, but if we're not going to get flashback dialogue of her to get to know her like with Ryan and Kiera's scenes, the next best thing is to just let he be mysterious. The audio mixing is terrible in this and too many scenes had the music drowning out the dialogue completely especially that climax scene where you could barely hear the bad guy speak. Some tighter editing, better pacing for the first act, and improved audio mixing would make this a much better piece overall, but the end had me hooked better than the first half. A decent effort.
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  8.  @Twentyand1  He had the 100 pound woman struggle to beat the guy twice his size, even when Keira had the advantage on him. That's one thing he did better than Hollywood.
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