Today is 4/20, meaning probably 40% of the people reading this are super high right now. With that in mind, I give you this video of what 1000 frames per second looks like, courtesy of David Coiffier and the I-Movix SprintCam.  All together now: Whooooaaaaaaaa.  Personally, I could’ve used more cheerleaders-jumping-up-and-down footage, but if the jello bouncing at the 2:00 mark doesn’t make you demand another b load, I don’t know what will.  In related news, Zack Snyder just came.  He plans to shoot the birth of his next child with this camera.

[engadget via yesbutnobutyes]

A new clip from Watchmen just hit the web, and yes, I mean like an actual clip from the actual movie, not a viral marketing clip of a kid with 80s hair eating Watchmen cereal.  Check out the clip here, and see if you can spot the completely unnecessary slow motion.  Waaaaait for it…  See, that’s why Zack Snyder is such a “visionary director.”  Because one time the producers were all, “Zack, it doesn’t really make sense to use slow motion here.”  But then Zack Snyder was all like, “Whatever, bro, you just have no vision.”

Max Payne director John Moore (Behind Enemy Lines) showed off some new Max Payne footage at Comic-Con, and explained that the slow-motion scenes in the movie will be shot at 1000 frames per second using a hard drive called Phantom.  The technology will allow the film to recreate the "bullet time" effect that was a major component of the video game.

Star Mark Wahlberg explained, "Shooting at 1000 frames allows the audience to experience every flavor, texture, and nuance of a scene.  It’s amazing, you can literally feel the vibration.  Feel it, feel it."

Yes, I made up that entire quote.  In all seriousness, I’m not that interested in applying this technology to a crappy adaptation of a video game that was basically an adaptation of a movie in the first place.  But can you imagine if they’d applied it to the bear-punching scene in Wicker Man?  Sweet mother of shit that would’ve been awesome.