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Author Topic: How I've grown to hate "Destroyed in Seconds"! Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-23-2009 01:46 AM                       Have you seen this show on Discovery, showing camcorder footage of explosions, crashes, and cop car chases? It's a rehash of "Real TV," or YouTube in HD, as you will... Actually, my gripe is they keep using the same two or three sound effects for every clip that involves spectators. One in particular, you can hear a girl screaming, "aaa-EEEE-iiii!" That's their favorite. I'm not exaggerating... if you watch the show, you'll hear it at least twice per episode (and often more, over different clips). The sound editor should know better, it's just too distinctive to keep using over and over. It's become too annoying. I'm not watching this show anymore. [rant off]  |  IP: Logged Tyler Potts Expert Film Handler Posts: 159 From: Anderson, SC, USA Registered: Sep 2008 posted 01-23-2009 09:31 AM                       I feel that way about Time Warp. Interesting concept but poor execution. Something look interesting in slow motion... but whole segments of dogs shaking off water, blenders chopping, & pulling a table cloth off a table? How unexciting can you possibly make slow-mo? It's just 2 guys who have really expensive cameras, nothing to do, and a bad narrator. And the formula of the straight laced partner and edgey partner is unneeded.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-23-2009 10:34 AM                       That's right! I thought the same thing about that show. They're trying to emulate the formula of "Mythbusters," where the personalities drive the show as much as the experiments. And, like "Destroyed in Seconds," they keep running the video backward on screen, and playing it over and over again. Sheesh! I have to yell at the TV, "We've SEEN it already!"  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: California, U.S.A. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 01-23-2009 12:32 PM                     Word. The best thing on Discovery besides Mythbusters is Man Vs. Wild. Other than that, yeah. It's tired. As far as knockoffs go, Prototype This is cooler than Smash Lab however both shows suffer from the fact that they keep trying rediculously complex projects without enough dev time...And often their ideas are just stupid...  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 01-23-2009 12:48 PM                     The couple times I saw Destroyed in Seconds, I wondered why they'd show you a clip at the commercial break only to show the same exact one again right afterwards.  |  IP: Logged Jason Burroughs Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 654 From: Allen, TX Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-23-2009 02:45 PM                     quote: Dominic Espinosa The best thing on Discovery besides Mythbusters is Man Vs. Wild. Dirty Jobs is worth watching too.  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 01-23-2009 03:27 PM                     These shows are done because they are very cheap to make and at least initially draw a pretty good audience. Next is the building demolition show. Didn't somebody have a video of the Man vs Wild guy and crew checking into a motel somewhere when they were supposedly camping under hazardous conditions?  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-23-2009 04:30 PM                  I totally agree that "Destroyed in Seconds" is a POS ***AND*** so is that super hokey/dumbass show "Myth Busters" with their unscientific and "set-up" experiments...what a bunch of asshole and no-talent loser hosts!  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 01-23-2009 06:46 PM                     Damn Phil, I was gonna invite you over to watch "Mythbusters" as we snuggle up on the couch.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-24-2009 02:51 AM                  (Jesus has saved me once AGAIN from evil!)  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 01-24-2009 07:23 AM                        "Destroyed" is a good example of post-production, audio sweetening Class gone amuck. Terrible! (Game show bloopers music cues is just about as bad!) Louis  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-24-2009 08:10 AM                     quote: Tony Bandiera Jr Damn Phil, I was gonna invite you over to watch "Mythbusters" as we snuggle up on the couch. Yea, but just to keep this thread balanced... that one gal on Mythbusters is a hottie! I have to confess that I watch very little TV and haven't had the opportunity to catch "Destroyed In Seconds"... If I do watch TV its usually documentary or something like Funniest Videos... At least some of them are really funny and their sound effects people don't seem to have that "destroyed In Seconds" problem! Mark  |  IP: Logged Tyler Potts Expert Film Handler Posts: 159 From: Anderson, SC, USA Registered: Sep 2008 posted 01-24-2009 08:19 AM                       I'm going to divulge a little guilty pleasure of mine... when there's nothing on TV I'll usually end up one channel down from Discovery and find myself watching John & Kate Plus 8. Being a 24 yr. old straight male I don't think I'm their target demographic but how can you not like that show?  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-24-2009 11:51 AM                       Tyler, I don't think I've ever seen that show. quote: that one gal on Mythbusters is a hottie! Ohhh, yes, Kari Byron! Ummm...  |  IP: Logged Jon Miller Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 973 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-24-2009 01:05 PM                     Let's not forget the Diet-Coke-and-Mentos geyser craze made famous by EepyBird and later deconstructed on “Mythbusters” was inspired by Kari... Regarding “Destroyed in Seconds,” I see it as nothing more than a Discovery Channel copy of the History Channel show “Shockwave,” which predates “Destroyed” by about a year. The same footage on “Destroyed” -- exploding houses, collapsing water towers, crashing aircraft, stolen tanks running amok in suburban San Diego, and so on -- was featured earlier on “Shockwave,” featuring the same theme of surviving the seemingly catastrophic. So much for originality.  |  IP: Logged

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