WoW Moviewatch: The Achiever - Rapid Defense
by Michael Gray 
Feb 17th 2009 at 12:00PM
I wasn't originally going to cover The Achiever - Rapid Defense by Origano because it had a fundamental flaw. (I'll touch on that in a second.) However, the machinima kept coming up in the suggestion box and elsewhere, so I thought I would go ahead and put it out there for our readers to comment upon. This review will touch on the video's sound and video separately, for an obvious reason.
The movie is about a chap who enters a kind of reality-TV show. He competes for fabulous prizes by completing objectives. The thing is, though, I mostly gleaned that from the video's description and guessing from what happened in the video. The voice track was almost impossible for me to understand, even cranking the volume all the way up. I tried it on a couple different computers, and just had a hell of a time making anything out.
It's a shame, because the video looks pretty good. I like the framing and the basic premise of what I saw. But I did have to rely on what I saw. Grading the imagery alone, I'd give the machinima high marks. It's only when the audio is accounted for that I think the movie got derailed.
So, that being said, I hope Origano revisits with a cleaner voice track. The Achiever looks like it could be awesome, but we've got to be able to hear what people are saying.
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