We're all dinos here. Everyone drifts all the time, it's impossible to drive straight.

August 7, 2007 1:43 AM

Overdrift. A five-minute YouTube video, with dinosaurs and drifting.
posted by tumult (32 comments total)

Apparently from these guys, available in the "failed pilots" section. I've never heard of them before, but I'm going to watch everything else on there now.
posted by tumult at 1:45 AM on August 7, 2007

Wow! That was actually pretty awesome. I think the editing may have been my favorite part...
posted by Sticherbeast at 1:52 AM on August 7, 2007

Drifting is that going round corners thing that Jeremy Clarkson seems to think is cool?
posted by A189Nut at 1:52 AM on August 7, 2007

Wow, dinosaurs, cars, interdemensional travel, self-consciously campy writing and acting, and energy drinks. It doesn't get any better.
posted by hwestiii at 3:21 AM on August 7, 2007

Yeah, I can't say anything more constructive than:
oh. my. god. soawesome.
posted by Stunt at 3:23 AM on August 7, 2007

All the plot holes and cliches of a regular movie, but compressed to save time. I foresee a big market for this.

There are so many things I love I can't even mention them all. The lack of a name for "brother". The way "Cockamurra" (lol) decodes the "dinoglyphs" instantly. Hernandez.
posted by DU at 4:36 AM on August 7, 2007

Loved it.
posted by malaprohibita at 4:37 AM on August 7, 2007

EPIC. LULZ.
posted by beaucoupkevin at 5:00 AM on August 7, 2007

Campy cool. Almost as good as French Toast Sticks.
posted by BrotherCaine at 5:10 AM on August 7, 2007

Michael Bay, you genius.

But... this isn't a viral for that energy drink, is it? Cuz that would kill the whole thing.
posted by fungible at 6:40 AM on August 7, 2007

Im glad I didn't notice the energy drink just in case it was a viral. Im also glad you mentioned Dinosaurs, I wouldn't have watched it otherwise. Less dinos than I expected but it was totally okay.
posted by Brainy at 7:26 AM on August 7, 2007

Very impressive direction.
posted by JPowers at 9:00 AM on August 7, 2007

Yes. This is good.
posted by gcbv at 9:28 AM on August 7, 2007

Awesome.
posted by boo_radley at 9:29 AM on August 7, 2007

I saw this at the Channel 101 screening last month and was surprised that it didn't get voted back. People loved it! Myself included. I hope they make another episode.
posted by TheClonusHorror at 10:28 AM on August 7, 2007

Also, I think they filmed at the Batcave.
posted by TheClonusHorror at 10:35 AM on August 7, 2007

Haha... I loved it. I'll second the viral ad though, as it looks like "Rip It Energy Fuel" targets the racing folks.
posted by spiderskull at 10:37 AM on August 7, 2007

haha The subject title is my favorite line :)
posted by spec80 at 10:40 AM on August 7, 2007

roffelmow.
posted by cavalier at 10:45 AM on August 7, 2007

spiderskull: "Haha... I loved it. I'll second the viral ad though, as it looks like "Rip It Energy Fuel" targets the racing folks."

That makes me frown. Deeply. On the other hand, The can in the video only registered as completely indistinguishable from any other flashy, shiny drinks can - I thought it was a beer.

On the other other hand, here we are now, discussing this stupid company and their rebranded sugarwater, so...

... fuck you, viral-makers!
posted by Drexen at 11:06 AM on August 7, 2007

I don't think it's intentially a viral marketing video since I had no idea what brand of drink that was. But it's sad that viral marketers can make us question the sincerity of videos about dinosaurs and drifting.
posted by lovetragedy at 11:46 AM on August 7, 2007

I thought the energy drink part was amazingly non-sequitur and hilarious in a parody of product-placement sort of way.

It's bizarre what fails and what succeeds on Channel 101 and Channel 102, it's like the voting is totally random.
posted by signalnine at 12:11 PM on August 7, 2007

Loved it!
posted by soundofsuburbia at 1:03 PM on August 7, 2007

Incredible!

I'm gonna drift!!!! (Roll credits)
posted by bullitt 5 at 1:51 PM on August 7, 2007

Yeah I also took the energy drink moment to be a cheeky joke about product placement. None of the other "failed pilots" are ads.
posted by churl at 2:05 PM on August 7, 2007

One of the new rules of the internet should be that you can't call "viral marketing" unless you have some kind of research to back it up.
posted by pokermonk at 2:11 PM on August 7, 2007

From the Rip-It Energy Fuel website...

"When pomegranate meets Taurine, the possibilities are endless."
posted by humannaire at 2:29 PM on August 7, 2007

that was better than sex
posted by joelf at 3:37 PM on August 7, 2007

that was better than sex

You're doing it wrong.
posted by arruns at 7:37 PM on August 7, 2007

You're doing it wrong.

Obviously, he's not heel-toe shifting when drifting around the curves towards the clitoris.
posted by Eideteker at 8:35 PM on August 7, 2007

that was much funnier than expected. the absurd energy product placement made me laugh-- i figured they were making fun of product placements in general.
posted by jcruelty at 9:17 PM on August 7, 2007

If it was product placement, it sould only be for their own energy drink, DinoMAX
posted by joelf at 11:35 PM on August 9, 2007