https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YkWvIkED0s
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Note to aspiring douchebag filmmakers: Filming a group of dudes walking down the street does not make you Quentin Tarantino.
Note to groups of dudes walking down the street: walking down the street in a group does not make you cool.
Both of these statements go double for any group of dudes that includes Davis Aurini, Matt Forney, Aaron Clarey and/or whoever those other dudes in the video are.
If you don’t feel like watching the whole video, this screengrab captures some of the excitement:
Here for purposes of comparison, is the original Reservoir Dogs title sequence.
And here, for somewhat less direct comparison purposes, is a capybara eating celery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFE8TRamOy8
Also, Alt-Right dudes, in case you’re thinking of making any more homages to Quentin Tarantino, please keep in mind that Quentin Tarantino HATES NAZIS.
Uuuhhhh Tarantino rallied for BLM and is known for casting black actors in roles originally cast for white people. He also LOVES badass women…
Do these idiots know this? Are they really that stupid??? The last director to approve of anything they say would be Tarantino….
Am i the only one who thought matt forney was walking awkward like he was injured or something?
Losers. Couldn’t even scrape together a full cast. This is the kinda thing a group of teenagers do to make themselves look cool and regret later in life (and by later, I mean like six months).
In unrelated horrible news, the re-trial of the vile Ched Evans has started today. As a result the rabid rape apologists are slinking slavering from under their bridges.
If you play both videos at once, the capybara crunches along to Little Green Bag quite rhythmically!
I have no problem with alt-right weirdos copying movies to be ‘cool’ as long as they don’t hurt anyone.
I DO have a problem with them not only ripping off one of the best movies of one of my favourite directors, but also a director who has demonstrated himself as counter to pretty much all of the alt-right’s racist, sexist, semi-fascist rhetoric.
Tough guys, how do they walk?? *tilts chin up menacingly towards the camera*
Reservoir gone to the Dogs
wait,re-trial? WTF? what supposedly went wrong the first time to warren a re-trial?
I thought Toronto was a magical place of kung-fu fights and indie rock bands.
Instead, I discover it’s a place where Matt Forney and Davis Aurini(in a flasher trenchcoat) film themselves walking down the street attempting to look tough.
Scott Pilgrim lied to me.
They’re all man child losers, but I think Aaron Clarey is the worst looking of the bunch. You can tell he perceives himself as a total “motorcycle bad boy” but he looks like a low buck, Sears off-the-rack cast off from Wild Hogs. The tucked in t-shirt, and blappy jeans, and that puffy leather jacket? The is the man behind Asshole Consulting. People pay him for advice. For real. Too funny.
If Scott Pilgrim were to defeat that bunch in a fight all they would turn into would be a hand full of pennies which are no longer in circulation in Canada.
@Steven Lawt
Mustard? Goldenrod? 1970’s appliance?
(interior desecrator color names are fun.)
I guess that guy on the far right didn’t get the ‘goatee mandatory’ memo?
The best guys-walking-next-to-each-other thing that’s happened recently is this:
I’ve heard it described as looking like a promo for a new gender-swapped, racially diverse ‘Sex and the City.’
I love celery. I eat it raw with PB or tahini. :3
The noise of the celery-eating capy attracted my dog, perhaps she thought a hare had gotten inside.
There are good things in the world.
Poor MRAs… they have exactly zero hope of nailing down that badass powerwalk look.
Or should I say that those hopes are actually down to negatives?
Alt-Who Ate All The Pies
All hail the master race
[Sees the chance]
[Deep breath]
They’re ALL on the far right! 😀
[Runs, laughing maniacally, into the night]
– dlouwe
Lol, do you think they took more than one take? I’ll bet this is pretty much all the footage they recorded. I doubt they even considered a re-take, after all, they think this trailer is good enough to represent their project. Besides which, I can’t imagine them walking aaaall the way back down the street to do it again. 😛
I immediately noticed Forney looking into the camera – a couple of them do it, but Forney then tilts his chin up a little self-consciously, and it throws the whole “cool” vibe literally within 10 seconds of the camera rolling.
What are Karl and Aaron holding in their hands? It looks like they wore baseball hats, and were told to take them off, and are just left awkwarly carrying them around.
Bwahahaha, Aurini gets to have a well-lit staged shot of himself instead of a blurry still from the video (is it even from the same city?). “And Davis”, making himself the centre of attention.
Did anyone else notice that the portraits all have different margins around them, like someone’s poorly-alligned Powerpoint slide?
There’s so much fail here, it makes me wonder why they bothered trying to rip off Tarantino in the first place. I mean, why invite comparison that’s going to throw your incompetence into sharp relief?
And I have no idea what parallel they are trying to draw thematically between their film and Reservoir Dogs, other than “this’ll make us look cool”.
The audio doesn’t really match up to the video sequences, or provide any contextual information for the trailer.
For one thing, they left in some of the audio leading into the first scene of RD, which seems messy and makes it look even more like plagiarism than homage.
Oh how I love that capybara eating celery. Reminds me of the child-minder that looked after our first child when she was tiny. There were two other littlies there on most days. For “afternoon tea”, the carer often gave them a banana each. She had this arrangement of three small child car seats lined up against a wall.
So, she straps in three little gorgeous ones. Hands each a banana. The ones on each end of this row just eat it the way you’d expect. The middle one? She put one end of the banana in her mouth, put one hand flat against the other end, then pushed and munched steadily until the whole thing had been consumed in one smooth process.
Apparently the carer knew enough not to laugh at small children, but she had to exert a fair control on her reactions.
@ mildlymagnificent
Re: banana eating
I was once working with someone who had occasion to eat a banana.
She held it by the stalk and peeled the other end and started from there. When she saw me raise a quizzical eyebrow she stated (and I just wish I could convey the seriousness of the tone in which she did so).
“That’s the proper way. That’s the monkeys’ way.”
(She had a point though and now I eat bananas like that)
@ Alan Robertshaw
An Argentinian man once told me that’s how they eat bananas in Argentina. Have not confirmed. However, I started opening them that way, and it really is easier! No more of that “twist the stem and mash the top third of the fruit” mess.
@ bill
I know; isn’t it just?
With hindsight, the monkeys were the obvious people to ask.
@ alan and bill stickers: i use my nail to cut a little slit in the top of the banana, and don’t get a mushed top. I keep my nails pretty short, so this is totally possible to do with short nails.
Re: toronto
Is that toronto? Those green garbage cans look right, as do the cement posts when they are inexplicably caught in a loop walking down a path, but someone said this was Cincinnati.