http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxEXbsgWYss
I'm watching this and I'm mildly impressed by the complexity of it all, and it's even using a source that I really enjoy, and yet... I don't feel a single thing but complete and utter indifference from start to finish. It's technically impressive and even "works" with the source material pretty well. But it just bores me in a way that even a truly bad AMV has yet to do.
I don't edit like this myself, and -- even as I learn basic effects little by little -- don't know if I'll ever be at the level where I could actually make something like this. And even if I did... well, watching this, I have to ask myself: would it even be worth my time to do so? When someone (who obviously has some level of talent) makes something as impressive-looking as this, something so completely out of my league, and it just doesn't move me at all... then what hope do I have of making a video that would move anyone else? I guess that's the issue that I'm trying to get at.
Obviously, here's where someone comes in and tells me to man up and to "make a better AMV then" or something. I don't know. It's not like I'm not trying. Like anyone wants to watch "simple" AMVs anymore, anyway.
I'll probably regret starting this thread by the end of the night. Oh well.








