An animated short I created in After Effects, Photoshop. Flash and Premiere.

I just saw THE CONNECTION.

Its a very good movie but NOT the mind-blowing masterpiece everyone else thinks it is.

Yeah its a lot smarter than juvenile c–p like ” fast and furious part __________” but those flicks, as dumb as they are- move move and move! This falls short of other gangster classics like Goodfellas or….. can I say it , “the French Connection”

And I didn’t really feel emotionally engaged with either character until the last quarter of the film

The two lead actors look too much alike, confusing me a lot. yeah you want two leads that compliment each other, maybe even be  two sides of the same coin, but you shouldn’t have to stare and try and guess which is which.

It doesn’t look like two different people. It looks like the same guy turning his dead, doesn’t it?

So much has been said about how well it captures the feel of its time period, the 70s. True, but thats not always a good thing.  Overexposed washed out cinematography, too loosely edited ( needs to be shorter).   It seems like every scene was shot with natural sunlight from the windows.  No Im not saying I want a MTV/ Flashdance barrage of colored lights in every scene but the drab look gets worn out.  Theres even a discotecque scene thats kinda blahhhh.

Think about such “new school” gangster movies that movie at a break neck pace. Simply shot and maybe even SLOPPILY shot such as Layer Cake, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Michael mans HEAT, Donnie Brasco,  and one of my personal all-time favorite movies….. Miller’s Crossing!  (Actually Millers Crossing doesn’t belong in that list of sloppily shot movies, it has some of the most cleverly composed shots and editing I’ve ever seen, rivaling anything by Hitchcock, Spielberg, Tarantino etc…)

In one early scene the main gangster has his rival shot. How could any human being possibly survive THAT MANY point blank bullet shots pumped into him from 2 or 3 feet away?

ONE should have offed him.

I posted this to youtube on May 10th, 2014.

He found a reflective vest somewhere and calls pedicabbers over and claims to be a city pedicab inspector.

At first I found him annoying then just a little eccentric and amusing. A few times he actually went into the Club Summit crowd and got us rides!  It seems hes just a koo koo in search of some attention and sense of importance.

BUT I head a rumor he somehow went too far and got arrested.

watching a bootleg of Goodfellas

HOW is so much ferocious awesomeness packed into one movie?

at 28 minutes Henrys just met Karen

30 mins celebrating the Lufthansa heist

34 mins the pistol beatdown / hide the pistol scene

35.30  the wedding

38 mins  “What kind of married man stays out all night?”

Bad Language! NSFW!

But amazing!

I am SO jealous of this persons amazing skill!

If you are getting married downtown this summer,

think about an ingenious way to make your special day even more unique and memorable!

Take pedicabs from the hotel to the church to the reception!

They are fun safe and very exciting!  And they can maneuver through traffic faster and better than a limo!

Look how much fun the folks in those pictures are having! This should be you!

We can make special arrangements for just the bride and groom, the whole wedding party, or….. believe it or not- EVERYONE involved in your wedding can be pedalled about!

I run my own wedding video company as well as work as work as pedicab driver! I’ve got the inside track on how not only to get one (or several hundred) pedicabs and how to make a memorable video of it!

if you contract with me THIS week I am offering special low rates to have your entire day shot on high def video and have your whole gang pedalled about town.

(Note this would work best if your wedding is near downtown. Pedicabs can go a lot further than most people think but if your event is significantly far away from downtown this entails further planning and costs).

email me today so we can start planning your unique  pedicab wedding and wedding video.