New Trailer and Live Stream Info!

9 Responses to “New Trailer and Live Stream Info!”

1. Kyle said: July 8th, 2011 at 8:39 am

   So excited we finally have a release date! Good job man, I hope you feel as releived as I do!

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3. Dinky said: July 11th, 2011 at 6:02 pm

   Sweet

4. Samantha said: August 7th, 2011 at 1:35 am

   I really was honestly very excited about this film, I felt it could be an interesting and informative film to share with friends and family who don’t know what I do in my free time, and enlighten them about exactly what it is.

   My attitude about this after having watched it has gone from excitement to embarrassment and disappointment. I was hoping to see more about the preparation that goes into a raid, how they are organized and explaining more about it as if talking to a non gamer, while they did some of it there is a lot of lingo they didn’t cover. I also think that the guy with the beard needed to be seriously edited or cut out. Yes plenty of gamers have a dirty mouth, it comes with the territory, but his was over the top, I don’t even think I’ve ever had a pug that talked that way in vent. I’m honestly shocked that someone didn’t tell him “suck my effing balls” is not acceptable language for a documentary. Also I seem to remember a lot of footage on youtube for promo purposes that was not in the film at all, what happened to it? I realize there was a limited amount of time, but surely a few more clips could have been squeezed in.

   In all honesty, it could have been a lot better and I’m highly disappointed, I will not be downloading this, buying it OR showing it to anyone I know.

   Though it was disappointing, I will say that I think this guy has broken some ground for more documentaries like this, I know if i was a filmmaker i would be willing to do it. I commend Adam for the hard work and effort he put into the film, time and money did go into this. He deserves some amount of respect for his accomplishment, while it did not deserve the hype around it, for a first production it was beautifully shot and had some great music and ingame footage.

5. Elizabeth said: August 7th, 2011 at 2:04 am

   Very disappointing film, the footage was beautiful as well as the music, however the amount of filthy language was over the top. This is not a film I would choose to share with any of my family or friends. I have been in many raids, both in pugs and with my guild, and have never encountered this amount of dirty language in any of them. I do not feel that this film represents any of my WOW friends or guild mates. I would like to hope that any future films would take into consideration that a huge number of WOW players do not like filthy language, and crude references to private body parts repeated over and over again. An occasional curse word is fine, but screaming out “Suck my F___ing balls” is totally disgusting.

6. Peter said: August 7th, 2011 at 3:12 am

   To these two prudish pinheads who wish to hyperfocus on the words of a real raider that happened to use words that upset their delicate sensibilities, get over yourselves. We’re fortunate to not be governed by your puritanical ideals and exist where we’re still able to say whatever we feel in any way we feel whenever we wish to do so. Sometimes that comes with more consequences than others, but the purpose of the documentary is to show individuals in their raid environment and the raw responses because of it, not to censor it to what you deem people should be like. Your neither the mother of the person who said it, nor the filmmaker, so abandon your instinct to tell people how they should present themselves.

   In fact, your only link, and your only problem is that it casts a negative on being a raider. Thus the reason why you feel like if you were to share this with other people, that they might judge you in the same light you are judging others. So since you’re more concerned about having people think you’re of similar characteristics with someone you so abhor, exercise your freedom of expression and add a disclaimer to say that you aren’t that kind of person, and if the person knows you better than to make such rash assumptions about you, they will accept that as truth while watching it.

   As it so happens, these people were chosen to document the roles of raids and their place in society, loosely used. If you had been chosen, I’m sure someone else would’ve been equally annoyed by the atypical “goshdarns” and “dagnabbits” abounding your vocabulary. Try to focus on the main points of the reason why a documentary was made about the subject and whether those goals were successful, and less because it contains words you wish to pompously shake a finger at.

   For the record, I have no stake in the movie in any way, shape or form. I’m simply passing on through and noticed people looking for reasons to get upset with the hard work of others. If you don’t appreciate the way it was edited, or the message it delivers, by all means pick up a few cameras and do your own version. I would gladly enjoy that experience.

7. Elizabeth said: August 7th, 2011 at 3:30 pm

   Peter, you have a right to your opinion, just as I do, however it does not change the fact that the movie was done in poor taste. Try reading the forums on MMO Champion for yourself, most of the talk is negative. Why wasn’t a rating put on this film? It should have had a Mature rating for the language used. I have better things to do than argue with people like yourself, so I will not be checking back to this post anytime soon. Plain and simple the film cast gamers in general in a crude and tasteless manner, and those of us who feel that way have the right to state our opinion whether you like it or not.

8. Kevin said: August 7th, 2011 at 4:52 pm

   Hey, Kevin, here.

   Just wanted to jump in and speak a bit to some of the comments raised by Samantha and Elizabeth. Please know that I am very receptive to your concerns; in fact, I personally had a lot of similar moral conundrums in my development of this project. However, I decided at the very beginning of my work that I was going to do honest documentary coverage of the specific community I was working with. That means, I did not know what I was getting into, but I was certainly not going to paint a picture that was not accurate to what really transpired in my time with this community.

   I am keenly aware that there are communities of MMO gamers that do not tolerate rough language; I am a part of many. However, that was not true of the community in Months Behind. In fact, I felt the issue of language to be so important that I dedicated an entire section of the film to raise questions about why it is people feel empowered to talk this way in a virtual environment like WoW; most individuals would never talk like that in real life to the same people (Bonnie Nardi, the anthropologists mentions this). There is an interesting cultural anonymity in these spaces that seems to give people courage to express themselves in ways that wouldn’t normally.

   Anyways, thank you for sharing your voice! I am sensitive to it and certainly appreciate it. Thank you so much for your time and your consideration of The Raid.

   Kevin Michael Johnson, Director/Producer

9. PETER said: August 17th, 2011 at 8:24 am

   Elizabeth, this is a documentary covering a guild that is trying to perform the raids as effective as poissible. That include the talk over voice-chat programs. Cursing is way more effective at putting your points through than using a more “sensible” language.
   I don’t now if you even raid, or have any social life, but it is normal to use sentences as “shut the fuck up” or “for fuck sake” is many times more approperiate than the normal counterparts you use in real life.
   That is also true in real life. Atleast in my life, and the rest of the mordern nordic european society.