i might be slapped silly by the bizzle on this
Oh, hell no. I'm not gonna slap you around because you liked their edits. Hell, I wasn't even gonna slap BOON around for his edits. I just didn't like em very much. But when he called out Kary like that, that was the only reason I piped up like I did.
Although I like the "PROUDLY" presented slapback. That made me grin, but still, I think it'll be a travesty if the CBB edits place any higher than 5th. Although I might have judged on different criteria, even with the cards. I took the edit's effectiveness as an overall movie, not just technical skill per edit. For example--I thought ADM's Pearl Harbor Edit was pretty damned good, technically--but it didn't help the movie at all. And so I graded the edit down, because the whole point of these edits aren't to show off technical skill, it's to make the movie more palatable for the audience watching it. Ultimately, that carried the most weight, with me. Although I did appreciate some real skill and forethought and planning when it showed itself. Those factors weren't minimized at all.
I'm getting the feeling I'm going to be "The Russian Judge" in this contest when everything shakes out
That said, I don't think this contest has really gone all that poorly. Maybe expectations were a little too high, but I've been involved in a lot of these type of messageboard contest things, and this one's going about as well as the others. It's just the nature of the beast, here.
Mackey: I dunno--I like that it's not flametastic here all the time. Although that Pepsi flamewar thing in the covers thread--I like Coov's covers, but dude DID sort of have a point, a lot of other covers get buried in that thread. I can see why someone would call foul because everyone really DOES spooge all over Coov's covers. But there's usually a reason for that. Hey, if his stuff is overshadowing other people's covers, it's understandable. But I can see why someone woudl be frustrated by working on a really nice looking cover only to get blown off one page later when Coov sneezes--and still somehow manages to make a cool cover out of it.
