Redcon-1

Watch it here! I'm one of the zombies around the 80 minutes point. Pretty cool, eh?

https://vimeo.com/289642104

The video embed isn't working, not sure why, so I changed the link to a standard url. But when I go to the website, it says the video is private.

Video is still marked as private.

But I caught some of it on TV last night. Not bad. My only peeve is the actors didn't display trigger discipline at times, such as right after Captain Stanton is cut down while captured by the biker group when he immediately puts his finger inside the trigger guard of his Glock upon picking it up.

It's actually on archive.org, and you can find it by typing in the name of the film.

I was in the scene where Frank Perez dies. I don't own the Vimeo account.

I've seen the whole thing now. You can really tell this was made by someone who plays a lot of video games, because these guys do so much that no actual spec ops soldiers would actually do like dual wielding pistols, carrying swords (*cringes*), and casually pointing their weapons at each other. I have to wonder if they even had any technical advisors on set. Seriously, just study the combat sequences in Act of Valor and glean from them. Those guys were actual SEALs. I've been the military/tactical guru here ever since I first joined and even I learned so much just from my first viewing.

Moreover, the composition of Stanton's team makes no sense. A couple SAS operators, a few Royal Marine Commandos, and for some strange reason two US Army Rangers. Generally, real world SOF do not like operating as part of inter-unit/branch/service teams like this because training methods can be very different and thus one doesn't necessarily know what someone from outside his unit will be capable of. I've been told this by an actual former DEVGRU (SEAL Team Six) guy. What the hell were the two Americans even doing there to begin with? The movie's events seemed like a localized UK thing. It would have made a lot more sense for them to all be SAS or RMCs.

Please don't take it as me being overly critical, those things just stand out to me more than they do the average viewer. Putting them aside, I honestly liked the movie.

Frank Perez, he was the asswipe who callously murdered those two uninfected people and wrote it off as "every war has casualties", then betrayed Stanton at their extraction, wasn't he?

What did you think of the film? Would you like to be in a zombie film as a background extra?

As I said in my above post, I honestly liked it despite the actors' cringe-worthy depiction of SOF soldiers.

I'd consider it, but I'd only be able to do it if production is taking place in my local area, which is presently the Sacramento area of central California although I'm moving next month.

My dad was an extra in Into the Wild.

Cool!

I probably won't get into mainstream movies, because I have convictions for annoying former support workers. I got mad after they were removed from my rota, amid "concerns" that I was hitting on them. The people in charge lied to me, and it was a disaster. I wasn't really doing what they assumed I was. But anyway, it was quite a disaster. And as a reminder, doing work as a background extra doesn't discover anybody for bigger roles. You are basically there just to wait around until the camera starts rolling, and the working conditions can be pretty miserable, and often, you're not on screen for as long as you think you will be.

I was a German soldier in a film called Dick Dynamite, and this was a fairly important role. I was basically in a scene talking to the main character, and I was supposed to be a parody of the villain in the first movie about Indiana Jones. Well, I messed up at the end before I get gunned down. For a joke, I'm meant to put out my hand, as the villain does have a symbol on his hand in the film that I was meant to imitate. Only I forgot what hand to stick out before I die, so I kind of messed it up. But it wasn't my fault. It had been years since I saw the movie, and I was not playing the same guy anyway, so maybe it hardly matters.

Meh, it wasn't that good of a movie, TBH (Into the Wild, that is). I only watched it because my dad wanted me to. It's not really my cup of tea. All those dramatic biopics about supposed "interesting" people are pretty boring, IMO. I'll take Demolition Man and Rambo instead any day.

Oh, I've no desire to go into acting as a career, so not being "discovered" isn't an issue. Not interested in a line of work where uttering the wrong word online one time even by pure accident will make the world hate me. And some of my political views, like my stance on gun rights, aren't compatible with liberal Hollywood.

Frankly, it sounds like acting is something you're walking on eggshells at all times while doing, making it even more unappealing to me.