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I'd be pretty bummed out. I've always enjoyed E3 as an event to watch with friends, and there's something about having one huge event centered around new games that really excites me. Sure, there may be better ways to announce and show games, but I'm not just watching for the announcements. I'm watching for the spectacle, entertainment and everything around the announcements in addition to the new games. I like talking with my friends about how a conference totally bombed just as much as the games that were shown.

@dudeglove: Yeah you are right, some color correction wouldn't hurt. Appreciate the feedback!

@humanity: The movie needed reactions that only an up-and-coming youtube personality could provide. Rumor has it that he locked himself in a hotel room for several days practicing reactions for the role. Truly a master method reactor of modern times.

@dgtlty: Alien Isolation, there's some footage of him playing it in a booth aswell and getting scared

Hey ya'll!

I made a fake trailer for a fake "comedy gone dark" movie about an E3 trip gone bad.

It turned out less trailer-y than I'd like, but that's life. Hope you like it!

EDIT: Turns out Kanye did not enjoy my trailer using his song, which is why the youtube version doesn't have any audio. The video above is a mirror and should have audio working.

@hermes: Huh, that might be correct. It was a long time since I read the book, so I might mix it up some memories with the movie.

@instantryan: Yeah that's the one. I can imagine it feeling weird in the movie, the kiss comes from nowhere in the movie and suddenly she's having a baby in the epilogue (also for the record, the epilogue does not exist in the book, which was a nice surprise watching the movie). The romance in the book is pretty subdued, it's more that the other crew joke around about it and nudge them towards each other, it's well handled and it ends with the kiss that's in the movie, which was appropriate for how its built up.

@instantryan: In the specific situation with the boxes, it's established in the book that he goes through their shit, and when he's done with one box he moves on to the next. There's more flavor text there explaining the interests and personalities of the other crew members. Overall there's more characterization of the other crew members, there's a whole romance subplot that the movie skipped (which was a good decision for pacing). The book focus more on NASA than the other crew though and the other crew members don't really come into play until the later stages of the book, so I don't think you missed too much.

I personally think that the movie did the right decisions, and it's the best book to film adaption I've seen yet. I think it was a smart move to for the movie to focus more on the "NASA trying to get Mark home" parts, than "Mark surviving", it makes for a more compelling and faster movie narrative. At the end of the day, the book's strongest theme were "people working together to solve a problem", which meant that the NASA parts took priority over the Mars parts, and why most of the NASA parts were intact from the books, while most of the cutting happened in the Mars parts. While I agree that it's a bit disappointing that they cut some stuff from Mars that I also was hoping to see, I think it's the best compromise for the what the movie went for.

Counter to your point, overall I feel that my enjoyment for the movie was enhanced by reading the book. Since it did such a good job following the book (for the most part), I found it really fun to have it visualized and compressed in a really well paced and fun, but also emotional way. Except that I really didn't like how they changed the ending, that was too much, and it shouldn't have been Lewis who did the EVA. I did really enjoy the epilogue though, especially seeing some of the minor characters from the book and what happened to them.

@citizencoffeecake: Thank you! This was done in Adobe After Effects. I managed to create around 20-30 seconds of footage a day.

@crommi: Yeah that was a conscious decision. I thought it would look more clean to not have any black (in this case the shadow on earth) on the foreground.