Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: How I've grown to hate "Destroyed in Seconds"!

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 01-23-2009, 01:46 AM:

Have you seen this show on Discovery, showing camcorder footage of explosions, crashes, and cop car chases? It's a rehash of "Real TV," or YouTube in HD, as you will...

Actually, my gripe is they keep using the same two or three sound effects for every clip that involves spectators. One in particular, you can hear a girl screaming, "aaa-EEEE-iiii!" That's their favorite. I'm not exaggerating... if you watch the show, you'll hear it at least twice per episode (and often more, over different clips). The sound editor should know better, it's just too distinctive to keep using over and over.

It's become too annoying. I'm not watching this show anymore.

[rant off]

Posted by Tyler Potts (Member # 4952) on 01-23-2009, 09:31 AM:

I feel that way about Time Warp. Interesting concept but poor execution. Something look interesting in slow motion... but whole segments of dogs shaking off water, blenders chopping, & pulling a table cloth off a table? How unexciting can you possibly make slow-mo?

It's just 2 guys who have really expensive cameras, nothing to do, and a bad narrator. And the formula of the straight laced partner and edgey partner is unneeded.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 01-23-2009, 10:34 AM:

That's right! I thought the same thing about that show. [sleep]

They're trying to emulate the formula of "Mythbusters," where the personalities drive the show as much as the experiments.

And, like "Destroyed in Seconds," they keep running the video backward on screen, and playing it over and over again. Sheesh! I have to yell at the TV, "We've SEEN it already!"

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 01-23-2009, 12:32 PM:

Word.

The best thing on Discovery besides Mythbusters is Man Vs. Wild. Other than that, yeah. It's tired.

As far as knockoffs go, Prototype This is cooler than Smash Lab however both shows suffer from the fact that they keep trying rediculously complex projects without enough dev time...And often their ideas are just stupid...

Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 01-23-2009, 12:48 PM:

The couple times I saw Destroyed in Seconds, I wondered why they'd show you a clip at the commercial break only to show the same exact one again right afterwards.

Posted by Jason Burroughs (Member # 68) on 01-23-2009, 02:45 PM:

quote: Dominic Espinosa
The best thing on Discovery besides Mythbusters is Man Vs. Wild.

Dirty Jobs is worth watching too.

Posted by Bill Enos (Member # 440) on 01-23-2009, 03:27 PM:

These shows are done because they are very cheap to make and at least initially draw a pretty good audience. Next is the building demolition show.
Didn't somebody have a video of the Man vs Wild guy and crew checking into a motel somewhere when they were supposedly camping under hazardous conditions?

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 01-23-2009, 04:30 PM:

I totally agree that "Destroyed in Seconds" is a POS ***AND*** so is that super hokey/dumbass show "Myth Busters" with their unscientific and "set-up" experiments...what a bunch of asshole and no-talent loser hosts!

Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 01-23-2009, 06:46 PM:

Damn Phil, I was gonna invite you over to watch "Mythbusters" as we snuggle up on the couch. [evil]

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 01-24-2009, 02:51 AM:

(Jesus has saved me once AGAIN from evil!) [beer]

Posted by Louis Bornwasser (Member # 3063) on 01-24-2009, 07:23 AM:

"Destroyed" is a good example of post-production, audio sweetening Class gone amuck. Terrible!

(Game show bloopers music cues is just about as bad!) Louis

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 01-24-2009, 08:10 AM:

quote: Tony Bandiera Jr
Damn Phil, I was gonna invite you over to watch "Mythbusters" as we snuggle up on the couch.

Yea, but just to keep this thread balanced... that one gal on Mythbusters is a hottie!

I have to confess that I watch very little TV and haven't had the opportunity to catch "Destroyed In Seconds"... If I do watch TV its usually documentary or something like Funniest Videos... At least some of them are really funny and their sound effects people don't seem to have that "destroyed In Seconds" problem!

Mark

Posted by Tyler Potts (Member # 4952) on 01-24-2009, 08:19 AM:

I'm going to divulge a little guilty pleasure of mine... when there's nothing on TV I'll usually end up one channel down from Discovery and find myself watching John & Kate Plus 8. Being a 24 yr. old straight male I don't think I'm their target demographic but how can you not like that show?

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 01-24-2009, 11:51 AM:

Tyler, I don't think I've ever seen that show.

quote:
that one gal on Mythbusters is a hottie!

Ohhh, yes, Kari Byron! Ummm...

Posted by Jon Miller (Member # 163) on 01-24-2009, 01:05 PM:

Let's not forget the Diet-Coke-and-Mentos geyser craze made famous by EepyBird and later deconstructed on “Mythbusters” was inspired by Kari...

Regarding “Destroyed in Seconds,” I see it as nothing more than a Discovery Channel copy of the History Channel show “Shockwave,” which predates “Destroyed” by about a year. The same footage on “Destroyed” -- exploding houses, collapsing water towers, crashing aircraft, stolen tanks running amok in suburban San Diego, and so on -- was featured earlier on “Shockwave,” featuring the same theme of surviving the seemingly catastrophic. So much for originality. [Roll Eyes]

Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 01-24-2009, 05:14 PM:

I have to agree with Mark and Tim, Kari is hot. [Smile]

Of course, I prefer Tory..even though he's a big doofus. [Smile]

Phil, you know you want to.. [evil]

[ 01-25-2009, 02:09 AM: Message edited by: Tony Bandiera Jr ]

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 01-24-2009, 05:24 PM:

WOW! Thankss guys for posting those photos! Keep em comming [Smile]

.

Mark

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 01-26-2009, 01:11 PM:

I don't know how I forgot about Dirty Jobs! Love that one too.

Fact: Kari Byron (from Mythbusters) is from Los Gatos. Home of the Camera Cinemas Los Gatos theater and our main office. A cute lil 2 plex keeping it reel in the South Bay [Wink]