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boomqueen ([personal profile] boomqueen) wrote2010-01-28 11:39 pm

Festivids recs list

I don't think I quite watched all 74 [livejournal.com profile] festivids vids before my brain gave out but there were a LOT to oooh and aaah over!!! Here are my favorites before the reveals list goes live on Sunday :)

Absolute faves...
Back to the Future - Here it Goes Again - Don't let the goofiness and the hilarity distract you from how BRILLIANTLY this vid is constructed. So many clever visual parallels and kinetic humor.

Leverage - In the Ayer - An absolutely delightful ensemble vid. The whole thing just makes me grin like a maniac.

Much Ado About Nothing - Just a Girl - What a perfect vid for Beatrice! Such great use of all her amazing facial expressions and physical humor. Perfect pacing and so many wonderful lyrical nods (I particularly love her anger/indignation on 'they won't let me drive late at night'). Beatrice is a royal badass :D

So You Think You Can Dance - Feel It - This was SO AMAZING!!! The editing is just stellar and the dance sequences popped like nothing else. Hot like fucking burning.

Wall-E - Mr Blue Sky - Unbelievably charming and adorable with amaaaaaaaazing internal movement. I was grinning like a fool for the whole gorgeous, sweet, pitch-perfect vid.

Watchmen - Afraid of Americans - I didn't even LIKE this movie. But the vid is amazing. Gorgeous gorgeous editing, and a searing look at the vulnerability, pain, corruption and hatred each of the Watchmen wear so close to the surface. WOW.

Other recs...
The Big Bang Theory - The Geeks Get the Girls - Fun and adorable nerds being geeky and awkward and in love! This vid is the very definition of adorkable :)

Dark Angel - Holiday - Kinetic, sexy and fun. I love the sense of humor and pacing in this vid.

Die Hard - Radar - Bringing humor and beatwork (and a lot of adorable smirky baby faced Bruce Willis) to this bloody action-packed movie series.

Facts of Life - Don't Ask Me - It's a bloody Jo/Blair vid ffs! So awesome it can't be described or contained.

Galaxy Quest - Let's go crazy - Cracktastically delightful!
Yesterday's gone - So many great facial expressions. Mega bonus points for catching all of Alan Rickman's physical humor.

Gladiator - Of Monsters and Heroes and Men - This vid made me remember how gorgeous this film was. A slow building emotion and lovely understated editing.

Glee - Sweetspot - I never realized how much Will and Finn touch each other--so much manly affection and UST! A perfect slash vid :D

Legend of the Seeker - Body and Soul - Such gorgeous visuals and perfect internal movement. I've never seen this series (though I've heard of it via the flist) but I think this vid just totally sold me on it.

Little Mosque on the Prairie - All for swinging you around - I've never seen this show before, but what perfect movement and physical humor!!! A completely delightful vid

Lost in Austen - One week - Great timing and humor in this adorable, grin-inducing vid. Poor girl can't get anything right!

Return to Oz - Memory Lane - I love how the vidder tied in Dorothy's fantasy/Oz with the mundanity and fear of her regular life. Heart-breaking and awesome.

Thoroughly Modern Millie - Move Your Feet - This is perfectly dancey and totally delightful for such a cracky musical. [And this song was on my list of possibilities if I had been matched with TMM, so I wholeheartedly approve *g*]

Vampire Diaries - AEIOU - In which Stefan is a tease and Elena is tired of his shit. In other words, hilarious.

White Collar - Let's Misbehave - In which Matt Bomer is hottttttttt, and there are lots of hijinks. I really need to watch this show too!

[identity profile] beerbad.livejournal.com 2010-01-31 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
OMFG you have got to watch Seeker. IT IS THE BEST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO MEEEEEEEEE!!

(Okay, maybe not, but IT SURE FEELS LIKE IT. ;sakjdfoiagsdflhsdlfh)

Watching vid now!

[identity profile] boom-queen.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I have totally added season 1 to my instant view queue on Netflix! (though now that I have recently fallen in love with Doctor Who and Torchwood, it may be a few weeks *g*).

Hope you enjoyed the vid Alice :D

[identity profile] beerbad.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I DID ENJOY IT. That is actually one of my favorite Tori songs, so just everything was a win there. :)

Uh, how are you JUST NOW getting into DW & TW?!?!?! These are very important things, so I'm glad you're watching them.

BUT ALSO. You don't want to miss the crazy Seeker party that has taken over LJ (including, you know, actors tweeting links to LJ picspam), so you should really get on that, just saying. XD