WoW Moviewatch: Polystyrene Dream
by Michael Gray 
Sep 2nd 2010 at 12:00PM
The ethereal view still appeals to me, with the various and surreal imagery and wonderfully cadenced music. But then the jarring behavior of the characters is still just a little odd. Probably, no one knows what's really going on except Yume, but I still enjoy the trip into absurdity.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
phorns Sep 2nd 2010 12:17PM
That was so beautiful it got me kind of choked up. (and I really hate blood elves too). What a nice video. :)
Bloodvein Sep 2nd 2010 12:44PM
I find people's hatred of pixels very amusing.
RoseClown Sep 2nd 2010 1:56PM
I find people who think hating something made-up is amusing, amusing.
Unless said person has never hated, loved, or had any emotional attachment to any kind of character in any novel or work of fiction ever.
Then I find it just sad.
Bloodvein Sep 2nd 2010 2:13PM
RoseClown, You do try so very hard. I am amused by your proposition but sadly I do not share this logic of yours. I highly doubt that most of these people hate blood elves because of some deep storyline reason. That is just absurd. Unless you find that hatred of a work of art on the sole premise of it having a blood elf normal, well then I feel sad for you.
Dreyja Sep 2nd 2010 3:40PM
Actually, I really do hate Blood Elves for deep storyline reasons as well as all the surfacy, hateful, arrogant ones. :) Their laugh alone makes me want to puncture my own ear-drums with chopsticks that were used to scratch the backside of a Tauren.
I also don't understand the obsession people have with using their models to tell a story.
All that being said I'm agreeing the first statement. Overall, this was a very interesting vid. and the music choice was a VERY nice change of pace.
Ramco Sep 2nd 2010 12:36PM
Wait, first the Beatles, now Radiohead? When did WoW Moviewatch start starring machinima with actually good music instead of rap/pop?
A welcome change :)
Nice vid too.
Bloodvein Sep 2nd 2010 1:25PM
They have been starring great music for quite some time now. However, Michael Gray tries not to cater to just one genre or one person's liking. Kinda like how there is DJ's that absolutely hate the song they are playing but still do because there are people that like it. Its a selfless approach. The more you know. =]
I did enjoy this video, big props to the creator. Also, I love the song choice. =]
Dreyja Sep 2nd 2010 3:41PM
I really need to go and have a Radiohead fix now.
Tankizgay Sep 2nd 2010 12:39PM
.... What a load of sh*t
nonentity Sep 2nd 2010 12:40PM
Production-wise well done but I agree with Mr Gray, story-wise... what the?
Supposedly this was a dream of the characters? Still seemed pretty weird.
Zendraven Sep 2nd 2010 12:53PM
Watch it reading the lyrics. This is brilliantly done:
Her green plastic watering can
For her fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plans
To get rid of itself
It wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out
She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns
He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins
And it wears him out, it wears him out
It wears him out, it wears...
She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love
But I can't help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run
And it wears me out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out
If I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted
All the time, all the time
---
Symbols all:
green plastic watering can = sword
fake chinese rubber plant = dragon
etc.
Lanuria Sep 2nd 2010 1:01PM
The female blood elf was killing classic outdoor bosses from Classic WoW, the male was killing the bosses from the instances of vanilla wow, ending with KT. After he killed everything, he looks over to see the bosses of TBC.
You could interpret the video as you want, I just may be looking into it a little too much, but it seems to be the end of a story line, the end of a character. When your character has done all it can and you think it's finally over, BAM, there are more bad guys to kill, more things to do, more people to see.
Maybe the video in a response to how people complained that their hard work in Vanilla WoW was going to be wasted time thanks to TBC, but I don't know when it was made or how long it's been out.
Just my ideas, though.
RetPallyJil Sep 2nd 2010 1:02PM
What's so hard to understand? Everyone dreams of being a hero.
Fibblit Sep 2nd 2010 1:48PM
It's a commentary on how World of Warcraft has become nothing more than an epic quest to get better gear. There is an entire world out there with expansive storylines for people to discover, but it seems as if the core message of the game "go adventuring," has been replaced with "go get the next tier set so you can beat up more bosses and get THEIR gear."
Al Sep 2nd 2010 8:56PM
Was that Lord of the Rings or something? All they did was walk in that machinima?
Ithrandil Sep 2nd 2010 1:51PM
I can't remmber the name of it (hopefully someone else will) but it reminds me heavily of a video featured on moviewatch a while back of 2 Nelfs that leveled together, broke up over loot, then eventually realizing friendship was more important than gear and zooming around together through shatrath and terrokar. Very surreal video and music.
SImilar here, very surreal feel to 2 characters thinking gear is more important (I'm assuming) then coming together despite it. Whole thing seamed to be an analogy for leveling and gearing up (they keep discarding weapons to grab new ones off the monster they slay) only to come together despite not having such epic items, and becoming as powerful as they dreamed becuase of that bond.
Lauyia Sep 2nd 2010 3:31PM
Honestly, I'm tired of all the music videos people do for machinima and the lack of more plot driven movies but this one was very well done, it went above and beyond the standard music video and I was very impressed.
Allison-knight Sep 2nd 2010 4:39PM
Maybe it's because I am pms'ing, or maybe it's just the poignentcy (sp?) of Radiohead's music combined with the beautiful imagery, but I got all teary eyed and choked up towards the end of the video. Like I wanted to curl up in a ball and sob for something I'd lost before I was able to appreciate it's full value. I managed to nip the emotion in the bud, but i'm TOTALLY bookmarking this for the next time I need a good cry.
As crazy as that sounds, that's high praise!
I had NO idea what this video was "about", but it just didn't seem to matter, I was entranced.
Brenda Archer Sep 2nd 2010 8:06PM
It seems to me that it was about staying together.
Even broken people can still stay together and it will be okay.
I got teary at the end of it too.
lolikitty Sep 2nd 2010 11:45PM
First thing i thought of when i saw the title was Radiohead :o
(i may or may not have thought of b-side Polyethylene)
Nice vid, randomn acts of randomness, pretty lights and lots of running around in slo-mo, most music videos don't do better anyway.