The Misadventures of Adnan Hawk

Directed by:
Compcat, Tuna Hematona, Trooper, Red Scorpion/T Racks, Sam Hughes, Eric Burger, Pogo, Cubert & Ben Rice.


Dedicated to Eric Burger.

[Cubert]

could a mod update the director's list please?

[Ben Rice]

FINALLY

[Old Rivers]

haha the first screenshot's certainly got me intrigued. will watch later today!

[Evil Ash]

Paging Supacat

[French Fry]

Holy shit! 7 years?
Gentlemen, this is the longest time a 3DMM movie has ever taken to be made.

[Old Rivers]

eh i didn't really dig this one. tuna's scene was great and there was some cool visual stuff in ben rice and eric burger's parts, but a whole lot of the movie was either 'crazy, chaotic scenes of silly random action' or long, drawn-out exposition and slow, muttered dialogue.

still, considering this movie took almost as long to make as boyhood, i gotta hand you all credit for finishing it.

[Cubert]

Those are fair points; I'll be honest I'm not mad about this one myself, despite having done two parts. There's a point in the middle where like 4 or 5 directors back to back do this madcap, fast-paced insane cartoon-world thing that I really really dug; the latter part of Trooper's 1st bit, Eric, Red, Sam Hughes and Pogo I believe. There, the movie shines, because it's got energy and keeps the pace up.

The rest of the parts, mine included, I feel like have a decent enough number of funny lines and neat ideas to keep this in the 6 or 7 out of 10 ballpark, but it just never really grabs you. This was started right after Skeleton Invasion and I think it suffers from maybe trying to rekindle what that movie was, rather than being it's own thing? "These guys are mad and think everyone is a skeleton" works, it's open enough to have fun with but with a clear sense of direction. "This guy is mad and slips into different realities" leaves you just feeling kinda un-grounded. You're never quite sure what part of the story you're supposed to care about. Haha I think it's the fact that we all tried, too; one or two too many guys came in and tried to be the person who settled "ok THIS is the main narrative though" and it ends up a bit testing and scattershot.

I think this movie when it's full throttle is great, but doesn't hold up whenever it slows down and gives you too much time to think. Not that there aren't great lines and some nice visuals. Pretty good chain movie, as always hindred by that old chain-movie chestnut of a few too many people trying to establish the "main thing".

But, it's out there now, so the animation done was not for nothing!

[Ben Rice]

yeah given the title this was given i took this as something where the character just drifts from one lil story to another seeing as most of the supporting characters introduced except for doctor spastic didn't really play any other part in the story. i even kinda hoped for the whole doctor spastic thing to be done with at the end of my part (or at least have him be used as a sort of anchor to give some exposition to the whole reality slipping thing) seeing as adnan hawk just gets dropped into another setting, cue the next misadventure.

this isn't as epic a chain movie as the chair but it still has it's charm and fun moments i find and i'm glad it's finally been finished. i think trooper's second part is my favourite, his voice acting was just hilarious. fun fact on the finale, i was never given anything specific to record for doctor spastics rants so i just improvised some over the top name calling. pretty sure it was only for one or two lines but i guess cubert liked them all enough to stick them in the movie. only thing bothering me is just some of the text boxes still being there and it really being out of sync in terms of audio, hope supacat can do something about that when it comes to youtubing it. other than that i liked this, compcats intro was fun and imaginative, it was nice to get pogo in the mix for old times sake, eric burger did a decent job, cuberts bits were hilarious and it was fun to continue playing the bad guy. loved the continuation in cuberts and troopers parts of the whole yelling DOCTOR SPASTIC thing. great stuff guys.

overall not the best or most memorable of collaborations we've done but still a great contribution to this age of the chain movie we've got going on.

Originally Posted by Austin French Fry

Holy shit! 7 years?
Gentlemen, this is the longest time a 3DMM movie has ever taken to be made.

not entirely sure about that, the mech chain movie also took about seven years to be released, possibly longer. pretty sure not even brad could remember when he started it when i asked him upon release

[Supacat]

Originally Posted by Ben Rice

hope supacat can do something about that when it comes to youtubing it

It took six recordings but I think I've got it relatively synced up. Hope to have it uploaded tomorrow.

It was a fun watch with some great quality - nobody's part felt like a dud in any way - but like Cubert says, I just never got grounded in the action. The middle part is fun and madcap, but totally inconsequential. The latter part has terrific ideas and dialogue going on, but takes too long setting it up for what little is done with it. And I loved Tuna's bit, but nobody was interested in taking it any further.

It's good to see it get finished though. Overall product's a bit shaky but the components are pretty sterling.

[Tuna Hematoma]

Ugghh, I kinda wish this movie never saw the light of day. My part is atrocious.

I'll watch it when there is a youtube.

[Trooper]

Haha this can't be 7 years old. I've not even been a member for that long have I?

Edit: Shit

[Red Scorpion]

I'm really disappointed with my part, but Cubert was right, the start is fast paced and fun then it slows down a lot. New chain movie anyone? Just watched the Mech Chain Movie again, something like that would be great, especially with v3dmm and some good directors.

[Supacat]

[Trooper]

Thank Supacat. Love how you ended it Cubert. Really sorry I never sent you those lines. I actually recorded most of them except a few of the minor characters in the epilogue bit you'd written but I genuinely prefer this ending. Much quicker and simpler but equally funny. Great punchline at the end there. I can't believe this took as long as it did. There must be about 4-5 years separating my two parts.

[Compcat]

Damn, bandwidth exceeded already.

Anyways, I watched the youtube, and I thought this was awesome. I'd seen everything up until the end of Ben Rice's scene, which was really well-done, but Trooper and Cuberts second scenes really killed it and somehow brought the madness together. Quboid is such a hilarious character, too bad he wasn't there from the start. "Where are all the horses?" is genius. And I love Cubert's bit the moment Adnan takes the weird drug stuff, very trippy return to the non-reality.

[Tuna Hematoma]

This was a little too random for me. There was no real direction. Cuberts parts probably made me laugh the most. I ruined everything.

3 fish

[Cubert]

Haha you didn't man, don't beat yourself up so much! I think it's a shame nobody really ran with the jury thing. Plus, you reined it in a bit from just vague universe-hopping to more usable "his condition is he slips in and out of a weird alternative reality with gustave anatagonists".

fun fact: the alternative ending Troop talked about (which, btw, don't worry about the voices Troop i agree that this ending was actually cleaner than what i'd written at first) was going to be adnan going back in time with the 'reality changer 2014' machine i put him and dr.spastic's final fight next to, to tell himself not to kill the jury in the 2nd courtroom hallucination bit;

the last scene was gonna be one shot where they'd all walk him past him saying variants on "thanks for saving us!" that fit their described characterstics from your part. i cut it because i'm lazy & this current ending achieved the same effect in like a fraction of the time, but also because different realities that were/weren't hallucinations and a man who can control reality and a machine he THEN uses to time travel to fix this reality just seemed like it was snowballing out of control as a means of wrapping up a narrative.

plus i realized it was only really one moment from my first section that was manking me want to make all that narrative effort to go back and retcon; the headshotting the lawyer at the end of the courtroom scene. my joke in my first bit was obviously like "haha what if while he's hallucinating a silly punchup in gustave land in reality he's doing some horrific grizzly killing spree in real life". i think that part worked out, but the fact that 20 year old or however-year-old-me then took the time to animate and voice the lawyer in the corner going "no no no!" and adnan headcapping him just wasn't at all necessary and kinda jarring tonally. the rest of the gunplay in the courtroom you could just about say is self defense, if still a bit grim, but shooting that lawyer like that... i know it's a 2 second shot but it's not suggested anywhere else that adnan is the kind of psychopath who'd just execute someone because they're a witnesses, so why'd i have to include that shot in there? every time i rewatch this that one moment just bugs me. not sure why it annoys me so much.

obviously i'm overanalysing an,d that's gonna be the most anticlimctic spoiler tag ever but yeah, that's one bit i think would definitely have been better if i'd done it a different way

[Dominator Dan]

is it more than just coincidence that adnan hawk is an anagram of "a hand wank"

or more likely it's an anagram of something else, i ask cause adnan hawk sounds like one of those "anagram names"

[Cubert]

we need clinton in here STAT

[Trooper]

I went to school with an Adnan

[Old Rivers]

adnan hawk is actually a backronym.

[Trooper]

I was sitting at the kitchen table today and that damn "When A School Bus Rusts" was going round and round in my head.

[Tuna Hematoma]

Adnan Hawk = ad hoc

gay

[Cubert]

I'm on my phone right now so can't rewatch this, but I've got to say that in my head I seem to remember this a lot more fondly than my comments in this thread suggest I should. Anyone rewatched this recently- is it still strongly in the "meh good not great" category?