Trailer remixers, stop the Mad(World)ness

I agree 100%. I'm sick of these kids who think they're suddenly "filmmakers" because they can drag an mp3 onto an existing video track.

YOU AREN'T SPECIAL.

Calm down their Kyle... its not like anyone is forcing you to watch it. You dont like it? Just dont click on the video.

But yeah its getting pretty old and it fits perfectly with the halo commercial.

You know, I actually prefer the Mad world version of Halo 3 ad to the original. It matches up perfectly the way the guy cut it in there and has a better "fit" than the gears ad did with the song.

It would have been a better commercial with just the song playing. :-)

I'm currently working on a Joystiq/Mad World mashup. All the game news you love combined with the lyrics to Mad World.

It'll be wunderbar.

I agree that the Halo 3 ad actually got better with the song. I didn't think the original was very good.

I liked it better in Donnie Darko.

Can we stop with the emo reference whenever this song is mentioned with a video game commercial? Last I checked, neither character (Master Chief or Marcus Fenix) look even remotely "emo".

Didn't they removed it from the Directors cut of Donnie Darko? I think that's why I didn't by that version.

If you really want to get the message across, mix the song with footage from Superman on N64. That will get the message across more effectively than hypocritically wasting your blog space to criticize something "wasting YouTube space".

The whole Gears of War trailer re-mix phenomenom may be the largest waste of bandwidth in 2006. I'm not judging here... in fact I've watched quite a few myself. Only human, I suppose.

The assassins creed one is really good.

but i agree it is getting kinda old.

I liked it better when tears for fears did it. Why should this meme stop from being run into the ground? Every other one already has, why spare this one. Suffer like the rest of us.

also, removing mad world and replacing any other tune, often times from linkin park, onto the gears commercial... double Blah!

"just because it's a good song does not mean you can throw it over any video game trailer and suddenly turn that trailer into a work of art."

that's funny, because that's pretty much the crime of which the original ad is guilty.

I don't get it myself. It's a decent commerical but the song has been around for several several years. Gamers should listen to the radio more.

this mad world song ruins the halo 3 ad. It fits with the gears of war ad (even though Im sick of it after hearing the damn song 9999999 times) but the music that goes with halo should never be emo and depressed sounding when hes about to kick some ass.

The song eerily syncs with some of what's happening in the Halo 3 trailer, atleast in 00:17 with MC's helmet and "hide my head" and in 00:47 and "when people run in circles".

Wait a minute, is someone asking the internet to NOT take a qauint idea and repeat it until all appeal is completely lost!? Now that's funny.

I would concur with @11 about doing a Superman64 remix as an insult, but I'm sure that would begin a trend of doing stupid remixes with bad games and thinking it's still funny the 100,000,000th time.

Kyle you do realize that MOST of those mad world remixes existed BEFORE the mad world GOW mash-up..., right?

I think thats why I was utterly under-impressed with it, because I was thinking to myself... "Hey I've seen 14 year olds do this. Great."

So give it a rest that thing will be partnered with square-enix titles till the end of time.

I demand a Viva Pinata Mad World mashup! How awesome would that be!

I like this idea of putting the song to Superman 64 footage. Look:

Donnie Darko was good.
The Gary Jules cover is good.
Gears of War - I bet it's a good game, never played it.
Halo was good.
Counterstrike is good.

Gears of War + Gary Jules = not so good. I never understood why so many people liked the combination in the commercial. The song does not fit the content. The contrast of the song and the content doesn't work either. Showing Fenix walking through the streets, jumping through a window, and getting crushed by an alien mech does not showcase the game. Layering a plodding, soft, depressing piano track over the top does not make it any better, unless I am supposed to feel for Fenix getting crushed, but the ad does not build enough rapport between he and I in 30 seconds to accomplish that effectively. The ad is like something freshmen make in a low level media design class.

As far as I am concerned, the actual Gears of War ad is on par with all these remixes in terms of effectiveness.

That all sounds harsh, but I'm just being honest about the ad. From what I hear, GoW is pretty good stuff.

Ugh... The Tears For Fears original version is so much better than Jules' cover.

...Gary Jules is not emo. At all. For chrissakes, it's not even the same style, let alone the fact that it's a New Wave/Synth Pop cover! Emo? Yeah, and Fall Out Boy is metal.

Anyways, I think the GoW trailer sucked. The song doesn't match at all... it works much better in its original form, used as backing music for the finale to Donnie Darko.

Watch that, then watch the GoW trailer. Um, yeah, you'll see a huge difference. One actually has an emotional intensity (not an emo intensity! :P)

As for the fan-made videos, I call it the Advent Children effect of sorts.

EVERY SONG EVAR has an Advent Children AMV.

And now.. every game evar has a Mad World video.

Bah. I'm going to ignore the tripe of the Halo 3 ad as well.

Thats what you get when you raise a generation of kids on the prospect that copying is good. WAY TO GO SONY!!! now we have a whole generation of uncreative internet nerds.

I so much agree. Kinda like how the "Epic" fad over at YTMND.com is abusing Nightwish's Ghost Love Score. Man I hate people that do this. Add a song because it's in the "current" popular craze. All of you can go and die.

Ugh, that original Gears ad is HORRIBLE. Why are they trying to shoehorn an emotional side into an unabashedly hypermasculine game?

Blame Microsoft's ad team. That version of Mad World should have stayed with Donnie Darko. Using it anywhere else is just an emotional cheap shot; doesn't matter what you slap it on, you get the same response. Reminds me of Mark Cuban pointing out how many videos on YouTube used Daniel Powters' Bad Day http://www.blogmaverick.com/2006/09/17/the-coming-dramatic-decline-of-youtube/2

Fucking A, lol. Thanks Kyle.

Funny how I'm listening to that song right now...

The Raikage