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Starscream wrote:You have GOT to be **** kidding me, that crappy imovie family home video is the winner of the Botcon filmfest? Seriously, no one should even bother entering.

People and their kids... keep it to yourself! The other videos showed seriously TALENT and VISION. I call for a ban on the filmfest next year. No wonder I don't waste my time at botcon in that room.

I thought it was cute! I wished I had thought of using my cutest kids!

Using his son for his own gain..... how despicable. I think he's my hero. But the problem with that video is now Hasbro are going to think they're right to whore out Bumblebee and Optimus toys every way they can.

I loved jON3.0's videos. They really made me laugh. Nothing funnier than taking characters away from their usual type of behaviour and I think he nailed it. Seeing Ravage's paws in the stop-motion got me giggling, and his general down-and-out attitude was brilliant. His jealousy over Laserbeak in PRIME was genious. Bumblebee and Soundwave's hug was really creepy. Reminded me of slash fiction.

I have to say that I don't agree with the results though. When a home-movie montage comes ahead of two videos that have clearly had so much work go into them I have to question whether the judges are taking their roles seriously or whether they're being objective.

Anywho, they're great videos dude, and congratulations on the two podium positions. Bravo!

I thought the point was that his kid was less interested in Bumblebee than the other characters even though he pulled out the fancy Bay-bees. Was that not the joke? There were no judges. They use a decibel reader and let the audience yell for their favorite. Fair and square. Although I think whomeever gets the majority of the female vote eventually wins because their higher-putched screams register louder than male screams do on the decibel reader. And I have TWO younger children of my four and one is a girl! I should've used puppies and kittens too. Haha!

I loved Green energon it made me laugh out loud!
The best bit was Shockwave "Your all idiots" This should have won!

Starscream wrote:You have GOT to be **** kidding me, that crappy imovie family home video is the winner of the Botcon filmfest? Seriously, no one should even bother entering.

People and their kids... keep it to yourself! The other videos showed seriously TALENT and VISION. I call for a ban on the filmfest next year. No wonder I don't waste my time at botcon in that room.

I hope your being sarcastic.

I loved the Green Energy movie.

Honestly, for anyone who has been to a few of these film fests, it's not about production values (although they do matter) as much as being entertaining. It's a FAN filmfest, we're not talking about needing super duper high tech production here.

Ben consistently makes entertaining videos and has been doing this for a long time (I think at least since 2008) so I am glad he finally broke through and won.

It would be interesting to see how Jon would have fared had he just had one video and not has his fans have to choose between the two.

Personally, I liked the Ravage vid a lot more than Green Energy, mainly because I'm not the kind of guy who laughs a lot at stoner jokes. I also liked how Jon even took a shot at himself and his Prime Reviews in his own video, I wasn't expecting that.

In all fairness, Ben placed in 2009 or 2010 but yeah, I've thought his videos were better than some that placed in years past. I don't have any problems with him beating me out for first place. I personally don't have anything to do with weed or drugs and until I was hanging out with a producer who used it legally from a prescription bottle while I was in LA, I had never even been around the stuff. I just got the idea after watching the G1 episode "Microbots." And the reason why I had two entries is becase last year they said "and we're allowing two entries per person" so I made a second one and just slapped together a bunch of videos I already had made minus a few clips. Oh, and to be fair, the Ravage doing a bad review bit was a parody of 2011's 1st place winner "How to do bad Transformers reviews" but it was kinda ripping on myself as well... actually Ravage trying to do an impression of Optimus Prime during the CG scene was supposed to be making fun of myself.

jON3.0 wrote:Oh, and to be fair, the Ravage doing a bad review bit was a parody of 2011's 1st place winner "How to do bad Transformers reviews" but it was kinda ripping on myself as well... actually Ravage trying to do an impression of Optimus Prime during the CG scene was supposed to be making fun of myself.

Right, that's what made that so funny. You could have done Ravage doing any kind of "bad Transformers Review" but doing it the way you did was classic. That was probably the single thing I laughed at the most during the film fest.

I'm amazed at the winner. I don't understand it at all, I didn't even watch the whole thing. As for the other two videos: excellent stuff, well made, well scripted. They should have placed better than the awful winner.