Random Action Videos

[Castor Troy]

For me it's not surprising at all that nobody cares about action videos anymore, because there are no good action AMV creators anymore.

Fluxy being on hiatus is a big loss.

[Ileia]

Ileia

triple rofl


I don't have a problem with a video that would actually show Yoko kicking ass, or Revy, Lucy or Seras tearing shit up. For some reason though, action videos don't seem to need any gore or badass manly shit in them anymore.

[Ingow]

Haven't seen the Elfen Lied one yet, but the rest is definately females with troubled lifes category ;O

[Ingow]

And Sword of the Stranger isn't badass.

[Ileia]

List of female troubles:

Dual-wielding ruins manicure
Uncomfortable footwear leads to stabbings
Jealousy (too many women in one place always ends in a catfight)
Confusing electronics
Feeling classical music is underappreciated (leads to more stabbings)
More confusing machinery (Go-carts, mechs, oil changes)
Feeling objectified (may lead to nose-breaking slaps across the face)
Hair color decisions

[Ingow]

List of female troubles:

Dual-wielding ruins manicure
Uncomfortable footwear leads to stabbings
Jealousy (too many women in one place always ends in a catfight)
Confusing electronics
Feeling classical music is underappreciated (leads to more stabbings)
More confusing machinery (Go-carts, mechs, oil changes)
Feeling objectified (may lead to nose-breaking slaps across the face)
Hair color decisions

None of these animes are badass. Most of them aren't even good. I bet you don't even like most of 'em yourself.

It was a pretty cool post tho sis.

[EvaFan]

Maybe its just that your views on what action is, are just to shallow? This thread wasnt about what action is in the first place. To me girls fighting is considered action regardless of the missing "gore, manly badass shit" you seem to care about. The video I posted wasn't all action though, I'll admitt this. However, it just had enough action in it to select action as a category... You know... You select up to 3 that seem fitting for the amv you create, or atleast thats what it says on the video info page "Please select one that best suites your video but not more then three."

I was gonna respond yesterday but then I looked at your video profile to see if your post and what you choose on action in your vids made any sense... but it doesn't.

[Flame-X]

I rarely see good random action videos here. That's why I make them.

[Pas]

The only good action videos

Spoiler :

Are random action videos.

[outlawed]

Girls unite and prove these naysayers wrong. My suggestion is you create a most badass Queen's Blade action AMV.

I look forward to your endeavors.

^_^

[JudgeHolden]

I thought we all loved Girls Fightn' Dirty Randomly?

[LittleAtari]

Since action videos are more concerned about things like visual flow and cuts, a screw-up there could mean the whole thing will fall apart without some sort of other excuse (such as a concept) to make up for it.

This essentially is my thoughts on action videos. The thing about 'random' action videos is that people think that they can get away with just being random and saying 'Well it's an action video.' Here's the thing, a proper action video that is solely action and no story is hard to make, but you get a lot people coming along, thinking it's easy and slapping random action clip together. When I say random, I literally mean that it's random in that you can tell that not much though has gone into the scene selection except 'I like this action scene, so I'm putting it in there.' What makes an action video hard to make is you have to be able to capture the audience's attention and make it enjoyable on action sequences they've already seen. Many people don't do things to add more value to those action sequences to present them differently in their videos.

There hasn't been an action video that I've liked in a while. Even the finalists in the recent VCAs were for the most part weren't even all that great to me. There aren't too many action videos that have stuck with me. As of now, this is my favorite:

[dokidoki]

even Ranma action videos from 1998 were more serious and had more adrenaline rush in them than these new-age garbage action AMVs.

Sounds familiar

[Elcalavero]

Random action videos are awesome

[Chiikaboom]

Arent action amvs supposed to be random?

An action amv doesnt HAVE to have a point to it, just cause it uses random action scenes doesnt make it a crappy action vid. As far as I know, when you start adding a story or some kind of deep concept to it, the less of an action amv it becomes.