Comments on: Epic Fail: The Movie Coming Summer 2012

By: Rodney

Rodney — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:36:14 +0000

By: The Corrector

The Corrector — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:21:34 +0000

Shouldn’t it read “epice failure” for it to be considered correct English?!

By: Epok

Epok — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:08:05 +0000

Rodney, you made a great job on the post and with your replies to the comments from people who can’t even bother reading the article (brief as it is).

Personally, I feel the movie will succeed. Why? The formula is simple, it’s “obvious”, and it requires a very, very low budget.

The point is not even if 3 hours of FAIL is very stupid, but the fact that it is “stupid” enough it will work. This may very well be the “Blair Witch Project” of 2012: Ultra Low Budget + Moment and Inertia + Great Buzz = Blockbuster.

PS. By the way, you made a typo on the title. The release is scheduled for 2012, 2011.

Congrats on the great blog.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:29:11 +0000

In reply to Matt.

And if you read the website, they are accepting contributions and will offer royalties to those who do.

They are not “making money off other people’s videos” they are only showing these clips as a “test” to see if you can tolerate 3 hours of fail videos.

The movie itself will be made of user contributed content which will get paid for.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:23:51 +0000

Funny how this is making money from other peoples videos.

By: Shane

Shane — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:11:36 +0000

In the famous words of Chev Chelios, “Are you fucking serious?”

By: bernardg

bernardg — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:34:36 +0000

Couldn’t agree more w/ previous replies. Whoever have to sit and endure this so called movie will be epic fail too

By: Jeremy K.

Jeremy K. — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 06:18:49 +0000

I may be mistaken, as I have never been much of a youtube person, but weren’t the CKY videos floating around the internet before youtube was even popular or in existence? And then CKY spawned into jackass with some backing and added cast members? I remember seeing the CKY videos back in the mid 90s. If anything I would say youtube is more of a source for non-elaborate takes of jackass. :) Anyway, this project doesn’t sound that interesting. I like jackass, but I’ve been watching a portion of their crew since CKY1. I think the thing that jackass has is that you get to watch a group of friends(?) just having a good old time with each other, and it is the same people all the time. An attachment to the cast can thus be created. Just a bunch of short clips of random people that have no attachment to anybody else in any other of the clips and may only show up once leaves little to nothing to get attached to which makes it prime youtube video, but poor three hour theatrical release. Anyway, lots of pointless jabbering on my end, but its fun to write up a personal view every now and then. :)

By: mh17m3

mh17m3 — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 04:03:06 +0000

horrible idea

By: Wazabe

Wazabe — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:25:49 +0000

Lol… The movie is a fail in itself.. As you have said, no one’s gonna watch some random clips for 3 hours. Fail moments are best enjoyed in a short manner of time.

I’d rather watch clips from failblog, epicfail or youtube…

By: Rodney

Rodney — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:47:57 +0000

In reply to Ryan3D. It says on the website that they are accepting submissions for the film and likely one of the qualifiers is that you did not previously publish it on Youtube or anything like that. They are even offering profit sharing should they choose to use your footage.

By: Ryan3D

Ryan3D — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:49:00 +0000

dont see how they can make a movie with never before seen content, unless they go out and film them selves, the internet is a big place and if its worth seeing it already has