Lazy Teenage Superheroes

January 22, 2011 10:19 PM

Lazy Teenage Superheroes - Short Film [nsfw]. A fun 12:49 minute superhero movie created by Michael Ashton.
posted by nickyskye (7 comments total)

Nice effects and editing. Interesting potential. Dumb as hell plot.
posted by aeschenkarnos at 12:19 AM on January 23, 2011

That was pretty fun, even if the story (such as it is) was mostly a loose justification for an FX demo reel. With the ninja fight, Super Scope bong, and the surprisingly well-done bullet-time walkthrough at the end, this was totally worth the 13-minute time investment. I just wish they'd used some of their budget (such as it probably was) to get a decent boom mike, or at least record some ADR to fix the dodgy audio.

If they do a followup to this, I'd like to see them team up with Kate Beaton's Mystery Solving Teens.
posted by Strange Interlude at 12:56 AM on January 23, 2011

Liked it a lot, while seconding the issues with the sound.
posted by Samizdata at 1:26 AM on January 23, 2011

Like so many things, it comes down to details.

LIKE FIXING THE SPACING IN YOUR TITLES GAH IT'S ALL I CAN SEE.
posted by The Whelk at 9:53 AM on January 23, 2011

That being said - impressive demo reel.
posted by The Whelk at 9:53 AM on January 23, 2011

Impressive special FX, although there's a bit about two minutes in where the bug-robot lands on a roof and makes the glass in the building's windows bust out--but you can see the intact glass still in the windows. The concept? Not much of a much--James Kochalka's Super Fuckers treads much the same ground to much better effect. But this is a pretty decent student/portfolio film.
posted by Halloween Jack at 3:31 PM on January 23, 2011

Still, it's better than Heroes.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 5:48 PM on January 23, 2011