The Killers: "Spaceman"
Fresh off the success of his videos for MGMT, Saul Williams, and the Cool Kids, Ray Tintori '06 got a huge budget for directing the new Killers video, most of which probably went to the costume department:
Spaceman
January 27, 2009
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is Tintori's jumping of the shark.
God, this is horrible.
Me again, no, seriously, I went back and watched this again.
This is crap.
Like if you're just going to throw out the meaning of the song, don't have the singer pantomime (e.g. 4:40, "cut me open").
He looks frikkin' uncomfortable playing to a vision that is so fucking horribly contrived--like the entire westco-->eclectic identity.
Wait hang on. Someone did something that would be fundamentally uninteresting and irrelevant, but it happens that they also went to Wesleyan?
In that case, it's news! Put it on Wesleying! Make sure you put his class year next to his name though, to clue people in as to why they should care.
I love hearing about alums, even with absolute shit like this.
pretty dumb
max goldblatt did choreography
this is terrible.
i actually thought this was fucking awesome. way to not be completely generic.
you guys can spit all the hate you want at Ray (as well as this 'westco-->eclectic identity'), but its a pretty significant accomplishment to direct this video, and I thought it was thoroughly interesting and well shot.
-anonymous hatin'!!!
the singer looks horribly uncomfortable with the get-up/ set-up in the first half of the video.
i don't think it was "well shot" at all. if your whole concept is krazy costumes at least give us a clear look at them.
Also, on the final zoom out 'copter shot, get rid of the fucking crew and the crane cam.
I like this. It seems to be half-mocking the song throughout, with all the garish nonsense, but then the shots of the weird bright structure against the night introduce a real sense of awe. (For me at least.) The awkwardness of the lead singer (who acts increasingly silly as it goes on but stays appropriately deadpan) and the exposing of the camera crew in the final pull-back (in the proud tradition of Holy Mountain) seem pretty clearly intentional. If you think that approach is annoyingly artificial, fine. I guess it is, a little. But it's not a "mistake."
it's not the director's fault that this dude is the weirdest/awkwardest lead singer ever
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