Gift for cupidsbow by hollywoodgrrl (Alien series)

[fv_poster]

Title of vid: Stayin' Low!
Recipient: cupidsbow
Vidder: hollywoodgrrl
Fandom: Alien series
Music: Stayin' Low! (Bee Gees vs. Lil Jon vs. De La Soul) by Daily Daze
Summary: Hopin' she can sock it to me one mo' time.
Content notes: I prefer not to give content notes (viewer proceeds at their own risk: could be anything)
Signed length: 04:55

Link to signed vid post.

Comments

[leanwellback]

Ahahahaha omg this is the most twistedly awesome thing! The music choice is just brilliant and the editing and musicality are so fantastic. Bravo, Festividder!

ETA: Okay, I just have to edit this to say every time I rewatch this (which is fairly often, ngl) I get new levels of appreciation for it. The use of all the sexual imagery and rape metaphors in these films and how it makes this into a narrative of Ripley as a survivor, and just... god, the symbolism of her pulling out the alien's mouth appendage thing at the end -- especially after the earlier use of it protuding as she's cornered -- is so fucking awesome and then those final shots of her, showing how it all still haunts her and and gah I can't even with how brilliant this is.

[mizz_destiny]

before I watch: YOUR CHOICE OF SONG. YOUR CHOICE OF PASSWORD ♥

[laurashapiro]

That was gorgeous. Epic. Amazing. I may not recover.

[cupidsbow]

OMG, you are the best Festividder!!

Even before watching this, I knew I was going to love it -- the song choice and the fandom were enough, and given what I asked for I knew you'd taken me at my word and given me ALL THE THINGS. Of course, then I couldn't play the vid, and had to reboot by computer (twice) and router, and change browsers. It was like it was teasing me. But then at last, it played.

And my god, it's everything I wanted and more. Unusual and experimental, ironic, kick-ass, and most of all, Ripley. So fucking good. I can tell this must have taken some serious vidding, and I appreciate the hell out of it. Thank you so much. This is going to be a re-watching favourite. <3

[cupidsbow]

I've watched this so many times now, and my appreciation just keeps rising. Your editing and effects are so gorgeous, and are so effective in creating an overall atmosphere. I really do love this vid so much.

[lithiumdoll]

This is the most awesome thing in the world EVER!

[goodbyebird]

eeee so very cool! I don't think I'm supposed to be enjoying this amount of carnage as much as I do, but there you have it; tapping my foot and grinning the whole way through ♥

[redcirce]

WHAT DID I JUST WATCH.

Holy crap, Festividder, that was amazing and awesome. The song, the cuts, the bouncy kinetic-ness of it all, Ripley being a badass, just everything. So much love for this vid. Wow.

[caramarie]

Oh yeah, this is awesome :D I love that you put all the gross bits as well as the badass bits, it's fantastic!

[mresundance]

Holy frakking crapballs this was awesome! You had me at "hello"! But the overall combination of song, source, and the editing was fantastic.

[lyonie17]

This is fantastic! Love it!

[were_duck]

THIS IS BRILLIANT! THIS IS THE ALIEN FRANCHISE VID I HAVE ALWAYS NEEDED IN MY LIFE. YOU ARE SO AWESOME, FESTIVIDDER. The cutting in this vid is SO GREAT, ugh I especially love the clip that moves from the facehuggers to Ripley's fingers, that juxtaposition REALLY strikes me. So many really wonderful moments in this. ALSO, the clip of Ripley bouncing the basketball into the dude's junk is PRICELESS. I'm going to watch this vid about a million times, ugh, AMAZING.

[chagrined]

LOVE THE GORE

[fan_eunice]

What I would like to do right now is leave you a several paragraph comment detailing all the reasons why this is one of the most amazing things to ever happen in my life. Instead I am reduced to flailing without adequate words and can only go with O. M. G.

What. You. That.

[littleheaven]

Holy shit, pardon my French, that was EPIC. Just... Everything. The music choice. The clip choice. The editing. Amazeballs.

[akamine_chan]

<3

[livrelibre]

OMG that was fantaaastic!!

[isis]

This is a work of mad genius!

[vaznetti]

I love this! I love the way it shows Ripley at the center of everyhting -- Ripley and the monsters.

[echan]

I have no idea what I just watched, I've never seen any of the Aliens movies, but this was amazing. My favorite sequence was the part around two minutes in with "stop", and I loved all the shot of feet (I dunno why, just every time there was one it felt very creative and interesting).

[transcendancing]

Here by cupidsbow's rec, and wow - what an amazing vid! So inspired and detailed, brilliant depiction of Ripley and the Aliens series... Can't flail adoringly enough about this!

[jetpack_monkey]

Gah. Just.... I don't even understand how you made this vid. How you made the multitude of choices, the structuring, the clip layouts, the movements and speed effects... this is such a work of genius I feel like it must have just.... become.

Which is probably testament to the hours and hours of work and planning that went into it.

I cannot even begin to express how amazing this is. *hugs it tight*

[franzeska]

Well, obviously, I'm incredibly impressed with your editing overall, but what I especially noticed here was the visual matching in a lot of your fast transitions, especially between faces, and the way the musicality made it clear why only this mashup could work for this vid, and neither Stayin' Alive nor Get Low alone was sufficient.

Also! Basket!

[colls]

Holy Shit

This is amazing.

[velocitygrass]

This is just amazing. It pulled me in and didn't let me go. The editing to the music was perfect. It packed an enormous punch. I'm actually still a bit incoherent.

[tarlanx]

That was excellent :)

[talumin]

That. Was. FANTASTIC!

[thraceadams]

This was fantastic! LOLL Left me with a huge smile on my face :D

[sabaceanbabe]

This is just about the most amazing thing I've ever seen! Such crisp, clean, and INSPIRED editing and song choice! And Ripley! ♥

[kabal42]

OMG! I can't even! *hands* That was amazing! The cutting is sooooo tight here, just fantastic. Great choice of clips, flowing together so well and creating such a coherence across the entire quadrology. And then there are details like the facehugger TAPPING THE RHYTHM OF THE SYNTH DRUMS! and the alien "singing" - and clips that makes moves into a dance. Wow… Totally floored here. The juxtaposition of the mood of song vs. movies really works for it as well, excellent choices!

(Now I want to watch all the Alien movies again.)

[splash_the_cat]

Holy crap this is FANTASTIC.

[sasha_feather]

This is so amazing! I loved every gory second of it. Hilarious and bad ass and awesome.

[kassidy62]

I'm an enthusiastic viewer not especially versed in the making of vids, and there's a point for me when I look at a vid and think, "magic," without exactly being able to tell you why (beyond the general). So, the general: the vid is long and yet totally sustains my interest; there's these wonderful snappy, snappy cuts and a unexpected blend of music and footage that works together so well. I love it, and I love that someone's brain knew it could work, because I seriously wouldn't have thought it would.

[recrudescence]

I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANY OF THESE MOVIES AND I DON'T EVEN CARE. This was amazing and makes me want to marathon them all right now. Kudos for making it last almost five minutes without faltering once!

[exitsign]

You blew my mind away and the song choice was so inspire. LOVE!

[oracne]

This rocks!

[copracat]

Hi, I'm having trouble seeing the vid. I type in the password - impractical undies with a space, though I've tried it without a space as well, just in case - and vimeo just makes the password box go away and does nothing else. Help?

[fv_poster]

That's a problem with your browser. Some people have add ons, like ad blocks, that don't play well with Vimeo. You can try disabling your add ons or try a different browser. (The password should be typed exactly as it appears, i.e., with a space, by the way)

[copracat]

I have allowed every single script on the page including vimeo and vcdn. Oh well. Too bad.

[par_avion]

FYI - I had to watch all the password vids in Safari, nothing I disallowed could make it work in Chrome.

[laura47]

Wow, that was really impressive!

[ladysorka]

Holy crap, that was amazing.

[theleaveswant]

This is awesome and messy and relentless and holy fuck is it well edited. You deserve awards for this.

RIPLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY.