Qyot27 wrote:While watching 4, I didn't laugh so hard that I cried, which I did multiple times with 3. However, the lull in 4 isn't nearly as bad as the lull in 3 was, and I was laughing more steadily while watching 4.
That's exactly how I feel about it as well. Nothing in 4 had me laughing as hard as, say, the scary Eva 01 head with auctioneer voice segment in 3 from Sight & Sound Productions, but 4 had me chuckling with more regularity.
And hey -- NO MORE PERSONAL ICONS IN THE LOWER RIGHT CORNER OF EVERY SEGMENT! That really bothered me in 3, especially since certain contributors had huge and kind of distracting icons (and one icon was even animated). I'm all for giving credit where credit is due, but that's what a credits sequence is for. You don't see a translucent "SPIELBERG" or "DREAMWORKS" in the lower right corner of the screen while you're watching a Steven Spielberg film. And yes, I know that TV networks have their logos in the lower right corner of your screen all the time, but AMV Hell 3 was billed as a motion picture. Because of the lack of distracting icons in 4, I submit that 4 has a better flow to it. It feels like a steady stream of funny rather than different segments of funny cobbled together... if that makes any sense.
Overall, I like AMV Hell 4 a little better than 3. The opening and closing sequences in 4 are my favorite parts of the video. They wrap up the series nicely, and I agree with comments about the epic quality of the closing sequence. Major kudos to everybody involved with the production of AMV Hell 4. The end result is really something special.
Time makes all things possible. I can wait.