>> Speaker 1: [SOUND] Hi, I'm Dustin, and
welcome to this special episode of Homemade Movies, Fantastic Fails,
Fantastic Fails, Fantastic Fails.
[SOUND] Each week we bring you
a homemade recreation of a movie scene or trailer,
but not everything always goes according to plan.
So we're gonna take a look back on some of the biggest failures,
or things that were just really difficult to pull off.
The way we made the iron man suit meant that you couldn't actually see out of
the mask.
It looks really cool, but trying to perform the actions is really tricky,
especially when trying to skateboard through the house, or
pull off a carefully timed shot on the bed with Pepper Pots.
When we were gonna blow up Tony Stark's mansion,
we had the idea to actually use little model rocket engines.
>> Speaker 2: This is the lowest grade.
This is what science teachers use.
It's on a little bit of a guide wire, so when we light it,
ideally, this will be on the trajectory to blow up Tony's mansion.
>> Speaker 1: First of all, it was difficult to get them to light.
You're supposed to have a proper ignition, kinda charge thing.
And we're just trying light it with a lighter, doesn't work that way.
So we got a nine volt battery, and tried to get the thing to spark.
And eventually, it just shot off across the yard, and knocked over the camera,
knocked over the wire and it is a big mess.
You just ended up abandoning that idea entirely.
And just use little pieces of card board on the end of a stick, lighting Instead.
Even our fake rockets had their own issues.
The cardboard would just fall off and I think, I burnt a hole in my air mattress
that was standing in as the ocean and the whole thing was a wreck.
When we did our big Matrix bullet time shot,
we wanted to add in the trails of the bullets too, so we decided to use Slinkys.
It was a really cool idea, it looks great on camera but
they were really really difficult to work with.
Well, when you pull them, they twist and unwind that they tighten.
And so the string ends up wrapping around the wire and then get stuck.
It totally stops, you can't pull it anymore.
Every single time you want to do this shot, for
each take we had to untangle these things, reset them, unhook the wire,
hook it back up again, get it straight, try and get it to not twist too much.
And sometimes they would just snap halfway through a take,
so that was a challenging one.
>> Speaker 2: Woah.
>> Speaker 1: One shot that was really tricky to get right was the alien running
across the table, it was tough to get it to follow the path.
And we just did that one over and
over, and none of them were even close to being right.
It was so far off.
It just like, it would spin this way, or the fake blood would cause it to stick to
this thing, and then it would spin, and it was one of those takes where,
it didn't even seem like we were even in the range of getting it right yet,
and then magically, finally, one of them was just perfect.
Our Jurassic Park scene takes place mostly inside of a moving car.
So rather than driving while we're shooting it and
we thought well why don't we just make a little backdrop that just moves behind
the car and give it the illusion of motion.
We built this long strip of fake cardboard foliage, and we set it up on a 2 by 4.
And we figured okay, we will just slide this thing back and forth, no big deal.
But when it came time to shoot, this background just wouldn't stay in place.
It's really long, so how do we get it to stay up?
And in some of the final shots even you can see it kinda gets
hung up sometimes on little cracks in the wood or whatever.
It'll like stop and then get going again, and it's kinda part of the homemade charm,
and I like that, but it was supposed to be a really simple part of the process, and
it became a huge pain the whole day.
Our one direction trailer was really fun to make because we use all sock
puppets for it, which meant also like little miniature sets and
little silly props, and things that we made.
But one shot that goes by really fast, the end being really difficult to get right
was, this quick shot where one of them kicks like a soccer ball.
So, we made a little table and a little soccer ball, head on puppets line up but,
you had to kick it the right way.
So, one of the shots that you don't expect spend a lot of time on but
you're gonna be doing 100 times.
>> Speaker 2: That's going.
Stop didn't distract.
Oops, shit.
>> Speaker 1: In our Fast and Furious scene,
we're making it looked like the cars are moving very fast.
Most important of it's miniatures but
all the interiors is just us sitting in the car.
Something that we failed on was, we figured, well,
you're not gonna be looking out the window.
It'll cut together with the miniatures, it'll look cool.
But looking back on it, it's like okay,
yeah, we're clearly just sitting in cars not moving.
And there's some shots of the speedometer, where we revved the engine.
But a lot of fans have noticed the speed is at zero.
Because a lot of people commented on that,
when it came time to do our Back to The Future hitting 88 miles per hour.
We made sure to go out and get 88 miles per hour.
>> Speaker 2: When this baby hits 88 miles per hour,
you're gonna see some serious [BLEEP] >> Speaker 1: For
our Star Trek Into Darkness trailer, we needed to have some sweet hair for
Captain Kirk, and, I just took a ladies wig.
And it's actually like a costume wig, and tried to cut it and
make Captain Kirk hair and that really failed miserably.
I was not happy with it at that time.
Once we embraced how ridiculous it looked, we kinda had fun with it,
and now we love it.
Sometimes we only have one chance to get a shot right, and
it's because we're burning the logo that I just spent three hours making.
Once something's on fire and it's go go go, it's hard to get all the beasts right.
>> Speaker 2: And now do another burst.
A short burst, short.
Short, short, short.
[BLEEP] I think we've [BLEEP] >> Speaker 1: We got some
good bursts in there.
I'm pretty obsessed with the attention to detail and
every single shot no matter how big or how small.
But something I'll totally missed and got wrong and
didn't even notice until later on the process was in our Back to
the Future scene, after building the clock tower, getting dark in there,
getting lighting, getting wind, getting everything.
I didn't even realize that the time that we were shooting,
that the hour hand was at the 11 o'clock hour instead of the 10 o'clock hour.
Gh my gosh.
Of all the things to get wrong, it's the hour hand and
some commentators have noticed too.
So that was just a full on fail.
In our Ender's Game trailer, there's a shot of a space ship exploding,
and we had a heck of a time trying to get the sparklers to light properly.
We started by cutting them into little strips,
poking them into the side of the space ship.
We figured like light them all real quick and
we'll get a bunch of cool sparks going, then we'll do the blast of fire.
Well, they wouldn't light because it turns out they have a little ignition
piece at the end.
So you can't just start halfway through and
then we decided okay, let's put full strips on.
Camera's rolling and for some reason these things would not light.
Finally, one of them lights.
Okay, now quickly, we gotta light the other one.
Not light, not lighting, meanwhile this one's burning out.
By the time the other one lit, we still didn't get the shot.
And that is a good example of one of those things that we spent forever on, and
then it just goes by in half a second in the trailer.
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