Some of the tricks and skills in it were good (fairly high-level) and I guess the filming was allright, but they really should have edited it tighter, in my opinion. It reminded me of when I played back all of my un-edited footage for my movie. A LOT! The songs were kinda “whack” like I think there were some with drugs references in them, which I don’t mind at all, but they just totally don’t match or fit in with the demographic of the riders. Even the Kris Holm short segment was definitely not a good as I had expected. It looked quite dark when he was riding and so he prolly didn’t want to try anything too extreme.
Does anyone know why unicycle.com sponsored this movie? just curious, they might sponsor mine, One-Wheeled Women.
What do YOU think is the lamest unicycle movie, video, clip, or picture you have ever seen? Let’s see if there are any that really stand out as being horrible…
I would have to say the video by tyler cox, 3 minutes of something of him riding and idling like 5 times once. I wouldn’t of disliked it so much if he hadn’t said that it was really awesome when he told everyone about it on this site.
This is Robbie, telling you that Tyler Sucks Cox.
Did I just say that? Oh that was a bit rude.
People need to learn how to take criticism Andrew, it’s all part of life. It can also help to improve something, for example I told Tyler not to make his movie sound like it was so awesome, but in harsher words.
constructive critisicm is fine. But just telling someone their video is crap gets you nowhere. just because your videos might be to a higher standard, doesn’t mean that it wasn’t an achievement for someone else to put one together.
Tyler is 10 years old. Judging from your comments, I’d say you’re somewhat older, but clearly not old enough to understand the need to give children some slack if they overstate matters or the encouragement they deserve and which will help turn them into optimistic young adults.
If you’re in your teens, we can cut you some slack and write it off to the self obsessed/absorbed state of the adolescent. If you’re into adulthood, well, you should be ashamed of yourself for treating a child so mean-spiritedly.
I am in my teens but I’m just saying that’s what life is gonna throw at him.
But I never said my movies were of a higher standard, the movie I’m trying to put together right now I havn’t been finishing because it’s not very good. I just didn’t like the way he made it out to be something it wasn’t.
“Life” won’t throw critisicms like that at him. People who don’t think before they speak will.
he’s a 10 year old kid. Were you seriously expecting awesome as in Dan-Heaton-awesome? producing and riding in a movie at all is pretty impressive, especially at 10.
Here is my favorite quote from the movie Contact (a wonderful film if you haven’t seen it by the way):
David Drumlin: I know you must think this is all very unfair. Maybe that’s an understatement. What you don’t know is I agree. I wish the world was a place where fair was the bottom line, where the kind of idealism you showed at the hearing was rewarded, not taken advantage of. Unfortunately, we don’t live in that world. Ellie Arroway: Funny, I’ve always believed that the world is what we make of it.
In essence Arroway is saying that it is our job to make the world a better not worser place. I don’t think you do a 10 year old a service by dashing his enthusiasm. Just something to think about.
Also, try to remember, concerning Tyler’s enthusiasm, that for him, as it should be, the movie is exactly what he made it out to be. Trust that as Tyler matures he will be able to recognize quality from an adult perspective, but for now he deserves encouragement and praise for his excellent efforts. If I critiqued every drawing my 10 year old daughter brought to me from the point of view of an art critic, I’d be setting her up for a life of depression, low-self esteem, and joylessness.
I dnno seen a few bad ones, I normally download ones that i know are gonna be good such as ryan atkins ones.I understand what robbie means but it was a bit harsh the kids ten i hope your movie is crap to so we can all laugh at u.That one that started it was boring from what i saw on the trailer some bits were ok tho.
I think people should also put good videos as well to much negativness
Ben
Whatever Tyler’s video was, at only a few minutes long it couldn’t be very bad. Go Tyler! Make some more.
I’m surprised nobody here has even gotten into the super-boring videos yet. What am I talking about?
Basically, every unicycle convention video that has ever been made. They are all to-tears boring, because they’ve all been produced with “got to show everyone so everyone will buy it” in mind. That makes for a great home movie, but a really unwatchable convention video.
Even the one Alan Plotkin (of IJA videos fame) did was almost as bad. Same need to cater to as many competitors as possible.
Better than all of them was Unicycle, made by Cory Riback in 1980-81. It shows scenes from the 1980 USA Convention in Kokomo, Indiana, and the only video footage of Bill Jenack I’m aware of. It was made for a non-unicycling TV audience, but never made it to TV to my knowledge.
I’m still waiting for someone to do a convention video and edit it together so that it will actually be entertaining to watch…
