22 Comments

Call me pedantic but I've seen enough Vietnam movies to know that if the little lever hasn't popped up the grenade isn't armed. Or are jam grenades different?
Steve
2009-12-07 12:10:46

Steve's right, but it doesn't prevent this being a great bit of film.
Richard
2009-12-07 13:02:28

That curiously reminds me Elektrobank (Chemical Brothers - Spike Jonze) and it was better. Well done anyway, but... is there something new ?
LWDR
2009-12-07 13:20:42

she just blew up? thats not how grenades work. no shrapnel ?

a very old idea..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kh52o-C8H4
feetus
2009-12-07 14:07:56

That's the most tense video I've ever seen
Richard Michie
2009-12-07 16:51:33

Good idea and execution, unfortunately wasted on appalling music.
Bruno
2009-12-07 17:00:28

Karmarama beware...
adam Smith
2009-12-07 17:05:06

New Olympic sport in time for 2012?

I agree with Richard, the tension had me chewing through my keyboard.
Great track an' all.
Alan
2009-12-08 11:32:54

Great video. Great track. Great work with the performances.
spencer
2009-12-08 13:24:55

Battle Royale? cough cough.
Flash
2009-12-08 13:36:44

reminds me of Mike Mills video for Air

http://www.mikemillsweb.com/filmandvideo_air02.html
Owen
2009-12-08 13:50:42

Sick! Is this really entertainment for the new Millennium?
paul Mattock
2009-12-08 14:03:53

I was waiting for the miss hit when it bounces over the screen and into the crowd and blows all the suits to bits. That would have been a better twist! Never liked suites myself!

FYI: When you throw a grenade its the handle flying off that releases the detonator!

Got me to watch to the end though.
Paul Phillips
2009-12-08 14:37:13

Oh, yeah - right - how very entertaining, how clever, how ironic, how very 'design'.

It's like, sooooo cutting edge, It matches my gun shaped vase and really suits my lifestyle now that I dress like a gangsta rapper even though I went to public school. That red is exactly the shade I want for the lining of my next Boateng suit

Does anyone know where I can get streaming video of suicide bombers from Kabul, you know - as a background for my dinner parties??
Richard de Pesando
2009-12-08 15:09:01

I was definitely rooting for the one in blue! I thought that was very cool, not for everyone though.
Benedict Stevenson
2009-12-08 17:12:53

very slick but utterly sick
deserved a far better twist to the ending than a load of jam being hurled around
Jeremy Webb
2009-12-09 12:18:35

I liked it. Was intense
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Aly
2009-12-09 22:13:12

Gota say though that grenade thing is a rookie mistake. I mean, do the research.
Aly
2009-12-09 22:16:55

did its job tho, nobody really switches off before little lady goes byebye!...
alexander
2009-12-10 14:54:40

I liked it! a bit long for me i know its meant to be building up tension but i think it had done that half way through! the filming is very good, clean and well shot! I was also half expecting it to fly into the crowd i don't know which would have been better.
Naomi Whiteside
2009-12-10 19:45:57

If we want to get really nerdy about the grenade.
Not all grenades have a fly off handle. It depends on the model and where it's from.
The MK1 U.S grenades had a lever that stayed attached and just the internal trigger
was spring loaded. Not until Mk2 grenades where the handles spring loaded. Some french, Russian and japanese grenades didn't have a fly off lever either. Some didn't even have levers. Depends if you are going for a graphic hand grenade look or 100% accuracy. Depending on the grenade they have used as a model this could be more than accurate. Don't always trust what you see in the movies.
Rob
2009-12-11 00:03:56

Nice idea, great actors play but it should end up different. There is no idea behind it. There is much more to explore than just to make explosion in the end (duh, it's a grenade). It could end up in some interesting way and then it would make perfect combination of TENSE video but also with some clever graphic idea.
I like amateur-HD-slowmo' quality of the video as well as the audience play.
Jan
2009-12-13 12:03:08

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