A review of Duality of Retribution

Today I am going to review Duality of Retribution. This is a movie by handicapped entertainment. I, like many others, found this movie because two of the Evil Iguana Productions actors are in this movie. One of which, Allen Murphy, is the star of the film. The second, Craig Deering is on of his victims.

Here is the trailer

WARNING: SPOILER ALERT

Now, there are a few different areas of covering this specific film. Either from a Story Standpoint, an Acting Standpoint, or a Quality of the actual production Standpoint. Each one of these on a very different level than the others.

From a Story Standpoint, this is not what it looks like in the trailer. In the trailer this appears to be a fast-paced action film, when in truth, it is a bit slow and a film that is designed to make you think. It is more Character Driven than Action. If you go watch it thinking that this is going to be like an EIP video, you are going to be disappointed. The story is about a person named Steve who essentially goes on this killing spree across his local neighborhood. Each of the people that he kills in some way or another insulted him, rejected him, or got him in trouble. After the first kill, he clearly feels upset by what he has done, but then goes out and kills again. This continues until he has killed five people and the film then ends. Then, during the credits, some kind of 911 call is placed that, to me, sounds like Steve’s mom coming home and finding that he’s killed himself. You can’t really understand most of this call aside from a few words and phrases including, “So much blood.... He’s not breathing.... He’s dead.... I just came home....” Then a lot of screaming bloody murder at the end. So, in some ways its original, but then in other ways it isn’t. It leaves a lot of open holes and lets you take what you want from it.

From an Acting Standpoint, I really have to say that this movie is fantastic! Especially when talking about Allen Murphy’s performance. He blew me away. I found that I sympathized with him, even though he was going around killing people for minor indiscretions against him. You can tell that this is a very dynamic character, and its one that I would have loved to see him do more wit; To find out if there was something that set this all off, or if he just snapped on his own. A few of his victims I was not impressed with their performance, especially his second victim. I found him to be fake, and he was just going on and on for no apparent reason. Craig’s performance was unfortunately not one of the best I have seen by him. Merely average, where as I have come to expect fantastic performances out of him. (I am an EIP fan because of his acting skills after all) So, all-in-all I thought the acting for the most part was good, or amazing (Or in one case, horrid unfortunately.)

Finally there is the actual Production of the movie. I’m pretty split on this aspect of it. I absolutely adore this score. It fits exactly where it should and definitely enhances the emotion of the movie. But then there are a few major camera issues. I can hear the camera operator moving his hand on the camera a lot. I actually see the camera operator’s shadow or reflection a few times. And then some of the shots are so close that I can barely see whats going on. Now, this might be intentional, but I personally do not like it. Then there are a few other things, like why is there never blood on the knife? And why don’t we ever see him stab anyone? Now I understand that this is a college film, and obviously, they can’t do all the cool stuff all the people in Hollywood can, but it still makes the film hard to focus on when you know he really isn’t stabbing them.

All in all I give this movie a 7.5/10 The acting is mostly superb, the story believable, but somewhat hard to understand, and the production average with a few issues.


So, here is the film as I saw it on google. What do you think?

For some reason I never get past day 3...

I wonder why? Anyways, I am heading to D.C.!!! September 11th through the 15th or 16th. We will be leaving on the 14th as I said, very early in the morning (Like 5 A.M.!!) and arriving about 15 or 16 hours later at my Aunt Sandey's house. On Saturday we're heading into D.C. for a march with Glen Beck (I don't have those details, yet) then on Sunday we'll be going to a few museums, including the smithsonian. I'll have to brush up on my McKay skills for that one. :D Monday we will leave my Aunt's and go to the beach, spend the night at a hotel and then on Tuesday we'll come back home! I promise to have lots of pictures and videos!

Now, I am watching season 7 of 24 right now. Only thing is that the last season I saw was season 5 leaving me kinda confused at certain points. I really like it though! Can't wait for the spoof that Evil Iguana Productions should be releasing eventually.

Speaking of EIP, apparently the music videos are fulling filmed and will come out sometime soon. I have seen pics and it looks insanely epic! They remind me why I love these guys ;-)

And Crash is coming along. I am now on my second notebook! Very exciting for me

Video of the blog post


Charles Trippy rocks! lol, the guy is hilarious when he isn't swearing.

Cheers!
KM

Day 3- hopefully...

Hopefuly this will come out tomorrow. I'm actually writing it today- or your yesterday. Nevermind.

Today I'm busy at my grandparents, so I thought I'd do a little fun blog. What am I talking about? Nothing really. just typing whatever comes to mind. (Hence and and all spelling errors)

Oh, unfortunatly Sparta does have leukemia :-( Very sad. But he should live for a while longer! As long as Mr. Safety doesn't stress him out. Well, Sparta has lived with him for a few years now. I'm sure that he's gotton used to Mr. Safety's Crazyness... then again... Okay, we need to organize a rescue mission right now! Ky- you get the Ninja spy wear. I'll get the plane tickets!

lol, I'm just being wierd. So here is your video of the day by Jaden Nation. One of my personal favorte videos



Jay, not a word.

See ya guys! KM

Day 3- Another new video!

Yey! I was so excited about the new Twi-Con spoof, that I did this video



I had to cut out alot of the fun, but it makes some parts even funnier if you ask me!

Day 2- New Twi-Con EIP spoof!!

It is FINALLY out. After months of waiting (Okay, like two but still it seemed like a really long time) I got to watch it. (Among the first few) Am already stealing it for my ipod. :-) So, here is my review

It was a tad slow, lots of what felt like "downtime" where nothing was really going on. Now, the acting was FANTASTIC. Again Craig blew me away with his performance. I really should be used to it by now, but again I couldn't help thinking- "That's Craig?" This wasn't nearly as bad as when I first saw the Dark Knight spoof and was certain that Craig being the Joker was a typo (No joke. haha no pun intended. Or was the pun intended?)

Anyway back on track, the audio is much different than everything else that I've seen by EIP. It sounds like it was recorded and then put it. No echoes or any background noise at all. Being really auditory, I had an issue with that.

The Jokes were good, although they sounded scripted, which is unusual for EIP. Maybe because they're almost always doing improv.

All in all, I laughed hysterically at some parts, and waited patiently over the others. Its not as insanely epic as some other videos, but it has still earned its place among my favorite Twilight videos.

So here it is, what's you opinion? Good, or Bad?

New video! Everyone say yey!

So, my sister Ryenn and I are planning a new video! And this is going to be something kinda new for me. We are planning on making a music video to the song "Fireflies" by Owl City (Which is the single of the week on Itunes so go get it while its free!) And we are also planning on taking it from a Christian prospective. Now, Owl city isn't exaclty a christian band (The guy who makes the music, Adam, is a Christian, but I wouldn't say that his music is worship music) but I came up with the idea yesterday and we're going to run with it.

The story of the video is that this girl (Ryenn) essentially "Puts God in a box" under her bed. She puts her Bible and Cross Necklace into the box. Then she can't sleep for sometime, and essentially her life doesn't go well. One night she finally gets up and starts to drive, obviously upset somehow. She stops in a random parking lot and puts her head on the wheel. When she looks up she realizes that she has driven to a church and she goes inside. She sits at a pew and after much thinking prays then goes back home, where she pulls the box back out and puts her cross necklace back on then goes to sleep.

So that's the basic story, so far. One of the constants of the video though (And this is the hard part) are the Fireflies. They're everywhere during the video. And my thoughts are that the Fireflies signify God, and how even when we "put him in a box" he's still there, even if we don't acknowledge him.

KM

Preview

So, some of you may know about me writing a book. I case you didn't know that, well then my last sentence just told you that. Over the course of the rest of the year I'm going to be working on it and last night I wrote this scene. I wanted some feedback if possible

But when I got up to move all I could see was the blood. The bodies. They were everywhere. Everywhere I turned there was another one. Someone else I knew. Elijah, Katie, Matt, Jennifer.

After only taking two steps I sat in the middle of the aisle and scrunched into a ball. I squeezed my eyes shut and put my hands over my ears. The silence was maddening. Nobody else made any kind of noise.

I rocked back and forth and began to hum the first tune that came to mind, “Jesus loves me this I know. For the bible tells me so.” My voice came out as a tiny whisper, barely breaking the icy silence. “Little ones to him belong, they are weak but he is strong.” I faltered for a moment, trying to remember the rest, “Yes Jesus loves me, yes Jesus loves me, yes Jesus loves me, the bible tells me so.” My face was wet now.

For a few minutes I just sat there, rocking back and forth. I blocked out the silence with my singing, and covered my eyes. Humming the song over and over until the words no longer meant anything anymore.

It was only a few minutes later, but it might as well of been a lifetime before a sound that wasn’t me broke through my crying.

Music Credits: Music by KalebNation

So,

Operation: Puking Cow is go! We are all meeting up next Sunday to iron some things out. Yey! Now if only I could finish those few scenes in the script. I had an idea, but I'm not sure if A. I can actually film it. B. If the others would think that it was a good idea and C. If I would be allowed to film it. So, more updates on that later.

What are we figuring out next sun? Well, we're going to try and set up a date to do a sit down and go through the script, we need to choreograph the fight scenes, I need to tell everyone about the new opening scene, and we need to pick a date for filming.

LOTS to do. So, I'm off!

EIP Productions

You're bored, what do you do? Well, many of us like to surf youtube looking for fun videos, a few weeks ago I discovered EIP(Evil Iguana Productions). They're a group of college guys who make hilarious videos. Well, there are a lot of youtube groups that makes hilarious videos, what makes these guys stand out? Is it, the hot guys? The randomness of their videos? The brilliance of their acting? Or is it the fact that they are unafraid to do virtually anything. Running around Chicago in a Batman outfit and Joker costume, going to a Polka festival and tell everybody that they’re making a documentary when they’re actually doing a comedy video. Or, (My personal favorite) is it Craig giving Allen the scissors, telling him to cut his hair on camera, and then walking around with half his hair cut of, and marker all-over his face. Here are a few of my favorite EIP videos

Fuzz

Yelling at random people in new york

Characterization

Because we are doing a short comedy, all of the characters are flat, but I am thoroughly enjoying a show called Numb3rs right now, and when asked why I was so into this show, I thought for a bit and gave the answer, "The Character moments" The characters.

Don, Alan, Amita, Larry, Megan, David, Colby, and of course, Charlie. All of these characters seem so real. You can tell that off-camera they really like each other. There's an instant chemistry between the Eppes men especially from episode 1. Every episode, I don't focus on the case, I focus on how Don, and Charlie react to both it, and each other. Then I focus on the case. I don't rewatch it because I want to see them catch the bad guy, I rewatch to see Charlie freeze when his math got his brother shot. And when Don realizes how much he really loves his brother. Or Alan teaching Charlie how to play golf. Amita and Charlie in the car together. Larry and his constant moving around. Megan and her issues with her father. Colby turning out to be a bad guy, and then becoming a triple. David's reaction to being betrayed by Colby. This is why I watch Numb3rs.

Still no luck

Due to my getting tickes to see Cirqu Du Solei, we can't film on out intended date anymore. Sorry guys! But, on the plus side, I finally got my camera! I'm thoroughly enjoying playing around with it, and learning how to use it. So, when we film in a few weeks, or months possible, I will have thorough knowlage of how to use it!