Lotsa vid recs!

[sarren]

It’s that time of year when Vividcon is over and the fabulous vids premiered there become available online. Most of the vidders I know already and can be pretty confident I'm going to like their vid/s but it's also a chance to see new (to me) vidders. I also tend to backtrack and find the vids they've been making the rest of the year while I wasn't paying attention. Or the whole catalog if it's someone I've somehow missed before.

I haven't had a chance to check them all out, some are on imeem, which for some reason won't play sound for me atm, and some are in fandoms I don't know. Also I have to stop downloading, uh, anything, right now, otherwise I'm gonna get us shaped and Dragonfly will be Cranky.

If you want to check them all out, or keep up with vids generally I recommend checking out vidding.



Live Free and Die Hard

(mamoru22 I thought, I remember Mamoru, did some of the best SGA vids ever. *handwaves* She has lots of excellent SGA vids. Go see. Seriously, too many to list. Go see. I'm sure everyone's already seen 'Holding My Breath' and 'Cartoon Heroes' a million times, but have you seen the David Hewlett one, 'Without Me'? But hey, how about her vids in other fandoms.)


I enjoyed Live Free or Die Hard but I preferred the earlier films when McLane was human and not a Terminator. Die Hard With a Vengeance is one of my comfort films, and in fact was the catalyst for me finally picking up a pen and writing my first slash fic. So when I see DH4 fans trashing it I get all defensive and cranky. I’ve enjoyed several good MacLane/Matt fics but the pairing doesn’t really interest me. Also, vids about action films usually bore me ::cough TheFastandtheFurious cough:: – so when I say: hey, go watch this DH4 vid, it’s pretty cool, this is HIGH PRAISE.

Bad Day


Boston Legal

This is the kind of vid that you can watch having never seen the show and it’ll leave you wondering why the hell you’re not watching it. In fact, I watched a few episodes of Boston Legal on the telly, having heard about the awesomeness of the Denny/Alan relationship, but there was too much actual legal stuff and life is too short, and also, the concept of 70+ year old William Shatner in a serious slash pairing kinda breaks my brain, but having watched this I may have to reconsider, and also maybe watch them on dvd where I can wield the power of the fast forward.

Anyway, even if you don’t slash them, this vid makes the show look like SO MUCH FUN.

A Little Less Conversation


Supernatural

I’m not up to date on Supernatural, but it doesn’t matter. This is the cutest SPN vid ever, completely child and wuss safe, not a monster in sight, just two cute men mucking about and being adorable.

Safety Dance by Barkley and Destina


Heroes/Firefly/Supernatural

I been reading recs and meta for this all about the place but all I have to say is: this is brilliant and intense and it’s NOT happy-making and it's NOT child-safe. It’s about the claustrophobic/incestuous sibling relationships.

Climbing Up the Walls by Nicky (obsessive24)


Firefly

Also recced and meta’d – this Firefly vid with additional footage apparently highlights how Joss Whedon is a racist asshole. *shrug* I have to say, much as I love Firefly I did have issues with a show with an Asian cultural backdrop that didn’t actually include any Asian characters. Anyhow, the vid is gorgeous.

How Much Is That Geisha in the Window? by lierdumoa


Brad is an example of a fucking awesome vidder that I don't always pay enough attention to because his vids are gen or het. This Firefly vid, for example, is just technically fucking amazing, and also disturbing. It comes with warnings. I'll never look at Simon/Kaylee the same way again.

Tear You Apart by bradcpu


Dr Who

Awesome, awesome Ten character study. Also, FUN.

Handlebars by Seah and Margie


Iron Man

I nearly didn't include this because it uses the same song as the Dr Who one, which is just so damn shiny and then I realised that it's not fair to compare them - with a movie the vidder is limited with what they can do with the amount of footage they have. And this vid IS Tony Stark's story.

Handlebars by deejay


Random other vid recs...


Cool Sheppard/Ronon vid.

Red Moon by SE


Just a fun multifandom vid with characters we love…and their clones.

I Think I’m a Clone Now by rhoboat

Comments

[mynxii.livejournal.com]

Your recs are for the win.

Also, if you ARE interested in Boston Legal, you should know that:

a) i have it
b) i would totally watch it all over again with you
c) the first season it's still trying to work out if it's serious - by the middle they've worked out that it's the quirk aspect, the comedy and characters themselves that people are watching and not the legal stuff at all - the legal stuff becomes far more 'melodramatic' for want of a better word, though occasionally there are some great arguments/concepts discussed/argued.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE (stupid enter button) Boston Legal! As much as Doctor Who!!

I also don't find a need to slash Alan/Denny much because their canon relationship is so atypical of the television we're otherwise presented that it's just a delight to appreciate someone doing something like this - and doing it WELL! I love that there is the open acknowledgement and appreciation for the fact that these two middling men, are the most important part of each other's lives. It's beautiful.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

*stares at you incredulously* We can't even manage to eat a meal together.

Okay, how about when we, and by we I mean I, get our act together and I come over for dinner, you show me selected eps, like, your favourites, or the best Denny/Alan ones. Then at some point in the distant future like, maybe during semester break I could borrow some so I can watch the legal scenes on fast forward. *looks winsomely at you*

[mynxii.livejournal.com]

Or we could just get better at catching up :P

But yes, that's a great start mind you - I feel I should warn you that I'm terrible at pimping things.

So I'm worried that I will destroy inadvertently any sense of shiny by my pimpingness... *wibbles*