"You don't throw
a raptor at someone's fucking face!"
Bill Whirity and Bill Palmer who directed the pretty good "Broke," and the great short film "Zombie Island,"
now takes another dip with his crew in the world of online series.
The pitch? Whirity and his crew are attempting to create a
dinosaur movie. They really want to make this movie. And yet
have a zero budget. How do you make an epic dinosaur movie
without any money? Most of all, how do you create a dinosaur
film when you don't even know what the plot is? Well, that's the
conundrum the crew of "Raptor Quest" are trying to explore.
The online series is
very much in the vein of Christopher Guest films, except told in
small video blogs where Whirity and his crew are not only
attempting to make the film, but get through a shoot without
arguing and fighting for attention on the camera. I mean, what
type of movie will we be getting from a crew who can't even film
a "Making-Of"?
It's without a doubt
that Whirity and crew are creating their own "Man of La Mancha"
a film that's filled with large
ambitions, yet there's obviously no hope of it ever being made.
Whirity and crew have wonderful chemistry together, and Whirity
is ridiculously funny to the point where I literally had to
pause the videos to control my laughter.
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Whirity, and Bill and have a knack for dead pan improv, and
they
manage to deliver lines that could have been flat with the
wrong host, and hits it out of the park. I couldn't believe I
was in hysterics at the line: "This is not called Rafter Quest,
for the last time, there are no Rafters in this movie. It's
Raptor Quest."
At one point, in the
third episode, the camera man insists Bill turn his shirt
that he was wearing in the previous
episode inside out just to make it look like they were actually
making progress. It's clear they're really going nowhere
with this film, but you can't help but watch and watch these
dolts turn on one another.
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"Raptor Quest" is
sure to form a cult following if promoted well enough, because
the formula is mastered from episode
one. These guys are hysterical, and there are so many lines
audiences will be able to quote for months. At one point
when Bill confuses the liquid metal T-1000 from "T2," with the
cyborg, and the other Bill explains, "No that's the cyborg man, you're
talking about the Capri Sun one."
There are some great
celebrity cameos in the series from Conan O'Brien, Rainn Wilson
from "The Office," and many
more, as well as some priceless scenes involving cheap flyers,
ordering postcards, and an utterly embarrassing
confrontation at Sundance. The guys just put themselves up for
scrutiny and harassment, and you just have to appreciate their
guts in actually filming these blogs among all these elitist
pricks in episode six.
I'm personally
excited to see where this is all heading, and I hope Whirity and
crew see this till the end. "Raptor Quest" is a hilarious comedy
worth your time, and by the end, you'll wish there was an actual
film being made.
Now... can we have a better website for the series?
-
Felix Vasquez Jr.
