5 Second Films

Reviewed by The North Star

Last summer Living Destiny and I were extremely bored and had absolutely nothing to do.  We went to YouTube and there was nothing interesting there so we decided to check out Vimeo (the cooler version of YouTube).  On the home screen of Vimeo the staff picks their favorite videos off of the site and features them.  We noticed this video called "You Got Mail" and so we thought what the heck and click on it.  The whole film was 8 seconds long and the first 3 seconds was a title card.  At the end of the 5 seconds I was both confused and disturbed but I was also laughing so hard that my sides hurt.  After doing some more hunting we found that there was a whole channel on Vimeo where these people posted a new video every weekday and every video is 5 seconds long.  That day Living Destiny and I literally wasted 2 hours watching all of the films over and over and over again and laughing.  After she left I continued watching them and I couldn't stop until I watch almost all of their films.  These films at points can be a little inappropriate so be warned before you watch them that some of the shorts are...interesting.  The great thing about these films are that if you don't like it then you only have to wait about 3 more seconds and then it will be over and you can go onto the next film.  The other good about the shorts are that there is at least one that is your personal favorite but it is almost never the favorite of someone else.  I would have to say my favorite is "Crabwalkin'" where Living Destiny likes "Planking" and Dream likes "Late For Work".  I enjoy all of these and so do they but we all have the different favorites and can relate to them in different way which, is what makes them awesome.  They used to post all of their videos on Vimeo.com but they have now switched to posting their videos on their website 5secondfilms.com.  To go on their website you can just click on the picture in this post as well.  In short, if you have nothing better to do check them out because you will probably find yourself laughing as hard as I did, if not harder.

Real Teen Rating ~ Ingenious