(I can’t think of a decent featured image for this one; someone hit with me some little people!)
Greetings, folks. I write this after having gone out to dinner with some friends who know the owners of the restaurant, (and who I suspect bankrolled at least some of it), and let me tell you, an unexpected friends and family discount appearing on the bill after a good three hours of various wines, beers, appetizers and far too much pasta than is healthy, is a true delight. My stomach is groaning in all kinds of weird but good ways.
Speaking of sound effects…
(You like that segue? Smooth and subtle as hell, unlike this tequila, Grand Mariner, Triple Sec, leftover watermelon juice margarita I’m working through right now)
this week’s mock draft idea comes from the esteemed Rikki-Tikki-Deadly. No doubt inspired by the near constant hum of vacuuming COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE, Rikki has suggested “movie sound effects.” As RTD notes this could be a tough one, but they can’t all be “let’s fuck a cartoon”; at some point we need to put a little work in, and this does lend itself to some interesting choices.
Hopefully that works.
With the second pick I’ll take the alarm guy from Kentucky Fried movie.
The rest of you are on the clock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeKGgzDJZvs
Whatever this is.
This isn’t a movie, but it has a great fart!
https://youtu.be/VoLCtmncbs8?si=zu0ql2fxmngTXxIK
The ‘doink’ as he hits the propellor always cracks me up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz4JSTXuP9E
That’s great value.
The technology equivalent of “walking five miles in a blizzard to get to school”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUj_KHbJDlI&pp=ygURYW9sIGRpYWwgdXAgc291bmQ%3D
uphill, both ways
Drogon, motherfuckers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX3eBgfzKm8
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdqjzEoxYJI
The music playing as she marches out with the troops and dragons was my next pick.
There has to be a GOT-related fan edit of this song out there somewhere:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XfmHyG8y-g
I’ve been away most of the day but did want to break in and say that the sound effect I’d most like to stop is the sound of the power sander being used on my ceilings right now.
On the plus side the ceiling that’s been finished looks great. Three more to go!
How much scaffolding does Lowratio need to get up to the ceilings?
If you think I’d let him use power tools you’re out of your mind.
[tosses Lowratio’s birthday present in the trash]
Olivia Manning’s gonna have a lot of explaining to do when Eli gets into her toy chest.
500 thrusts per minute is almost ten thrusts per second. That seems like too many.
Not when you compare it to a vibrator…
“Hot damn! Party at the Hill Street overpass!”
-Ryan Leaf
this song from Groundhog day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oR79ja1u-o
When Ricky is taking the equipment JRoc bought with the boys’ weed money, the keyboard keeps going, “Jroc Baby!”
Here’s the greatest sound design in motion picture history. It’s from the movie “Which Way Is Up.”
Watch the whole video or just go to 4:30 for the payoff.
I hereby draft the sound of Richard Pryor getting a vibrator shoved up his ass:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ujwKmyZIggg&pp=ygUrUmljaGFyZCBwcnlvciBoaWxSaW91cyBzY2VuZSB3aGljaCB3YXkgaXMgdQ%3D%3D
Ok coming for value–Indiana Jones’s whip crack
He’s got a little brother still in his redshirt year that’s an even better prospect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW1CeAVPhVg
Last one (for now, at least) – The sound of a TIE fighter. Based on the sound of a Stukka dive bomber & created by combining the sounds of an elephant call and a car driving on wet pavement, apparently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD9NapbTeKs
sound cannot travel in a vacuum.
I’ve made my peace with that, and lights pointing at faces inside space helmets. Ex: The Expanse. There’s a lot of details done right, but we still have space noises and lights in helmets. Have to get our attention and have to see the actors’ faces.
[hopes someone got fired for that blunder] – Hunter Renfrow
The rage siren from kill bill
https://youtu.be/cOy6hqzfsAs?si=O7YhH0DOdl1JAUI8
Also the sound some people made when they found out Tomlin got extended
I’ve always wanted to be a foley artist, but have the imagination of, well let’s be honest, an old white suburban IT guy, so that’s gonna limit my ability to do the work.
Maybe this would inspire you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyfH9t8JAuo
the k k k from Friday the 13th movies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfNH3E2u2I0
I thought this movie sucked pretty hard. But I did like the tripod sounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzY099ihULs
I liked that movie.
Pretty much every character in that movie annoyed the fuck out of me.
I was so pissed his son lived.
Nuff said…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTiU8JxROXg
not seeing how R2D2’s sounds weren’t already picked…
Because they are closer to dialogue than sound effects
Hurley staying at UConn.
One of the rare cases where Horatio and I are both happy with a sports outcome.
God, the erection UConn twitter will have could cut diamonds.
4. Pretty much any gunshot from any Michael Mann film would make for a solid pick, but I think I’ll focus in on this one from Collateral. My understanding is that the sound is recorded live; it’s not added in later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEFPcljAXgs
Correction: in the Heat shootout they used the original sound. Not sure if that is true for the Collateral gunshots.
4th rounder: Ghostbusters Proton Pack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHBmNE-G2E4
Also, since I’m late I’ll go ahead and Minnesota Viking my second pick:
The horses
https://youtu.be/A-JyXC_pmew?
i mean come on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXHkFZ-nG4Y&ab_channel=TimVogelaar
Bwahaha
Blazing Saddles. The Farts. CHAMPIONSHIP LATE PICK
https://youtu.be/R6dm9rN6oTs?
DAMMIT
Great minds
I always liked the sound effects of the worrt and it’s prey outside of Jabba’s palace. The satisfied belch at the end is the cherry on top…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vcmodGAOk4
3. How can we forget the simple delight of Ferris Bueller’s coughing, sneezing, and farting keyboard?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvE15bbMU68
The inspiration for Gene Belcher, I’m sure!
https://youtu.be/vtwHXyW3hD4?si=DnV6P4D6cWNXiJKm
https://youtu.be/pSoXZ_lFVj0?si=aOcRbBtXAvl35vvn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXQWn4umYAE&pp=ygUVbWFyaW8gbG9zdCBsaWZlIHNvdW5k
The music of your childhood that plays in your head when you do something stupid in real life.
Crap like this is why we have so many Blair witch situations
https://youtu.be/ti6qQ_3WgvA?si=y7NLPjUEJNlg6DRv
Your fault for mentioning wanting to have sex with cartoon characters
The screech owl from my cousin Vinny
https://youtu.be/5Oiy5RcDf40?si=z_LgWqaO4jK6VRMF
2. Transformers…uh, whatever number, they’re basically all the same movie.
The sound of the 105 shells firing absolutely blew me away when I saw this in the theater. Felt like the whole building was shaking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R88eYN0OBJ8
Modern day weaponry makes Michael Bay’s dick hard.
IIRC, the wet, squishy sound of Dr. Beeper sitting in a puddle of Spaulding’s barf was disturbingly realistic.
The sound the weapons in the Flash Gordon movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAept6xa1Zg
Right up there with the door and turbolift sounds in Star Trek.
Flash!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Pick #3: a little BRRrrrrrttttttttt from Ol’ Painless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWq2QvvPw68
are we’s allowed to pick from limited series or other non-movie thingys but not shows?
I think RTD was specific to movies.
the dun-dun-dun from Jaws
fucking up peeps swimming and being badly played on pianos since the 70’s/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX3bN5YeiQs
Great pick!
Aliens motion tracker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VancAKcmO6s
The sad sounding horn on the Price is Right.
The sound of Obi Wan turning off the tractor beam. (also the same sound your brain makes after taking Valium)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAhj_WTlbXc
Excellent choice!
The predator homing beacon
https://youtu.be/9R5YDyO6Au0?si=vcyWoOMtQmNRqysC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX58B4Mez3I
So many thrown contollers…
My favorite sound effect and one of the very TOP running gags of all time (IMHO)
https://youtu.be/a3n6dQsAMNk
Obligatory:
https://youtu.be/cF44OPOEfYY?si=WZ59kkr1vCmBRtdv
The gongs in 16 Candles whenever Long Duck Dong is mentioned:
https://youtu.be/9m623RDxgMA?si=iTYRjWr1pkngHKZQ
The sound of Shapiro’s wife having an orgasm.
https://youtu.be/4fWyzwo1xg0?si=YXLig10oaRr5Ng1n
Ain’t no law of physics that says he has to be there.
Ben is angry that microphone is broken.
Ben’s Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlHf1Fc0OSg
Legendary and/or fictional sounds don’t count.
I don’t see you complaining about the godzilla roar!
Suspension of disbelief can only so far, even by Ben’s own admission.
Godzilla roars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHa8kDsoTqM
I just watched Godzilla Minus One a couple days ago and it was pretty good. A solid 8 on the Matt Ryan scale.
Iron Man’s repulsor (2nd pick)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxKR_wnkZpU
My next pick:
that one noise from jurassic park that is either the shaving can or newman’s laugh
https://youtu.be/JTmOPftLpfs?si=fUrAASl-_narQv1x
Unrelated to the draft, some pretty rad celebrity birthdays today:
Happy birthday you subtle person you!
I try.
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday! Nice tits!
¡Muchas felicidades! #obligatorio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZqd_9sTP3c
I’m not 100% sure, but I think it might be Brocky’s birthday!
Vader’s lightsaber ignition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL8bVJhXCM
I’ll take the pissing scene from Austin Powers
https://youtu.be/PgFDo6G-EO8?si=BcZ6tykJ-8oTg5AP
The Wilhelm Scream should have been #1 off the board
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6JK-gRELI0
Jango fett’s seismic charges
https://youtu.be/erFcYsC6JaY?si=p-sDwnv0JGA8xKBN
goddammit