'JiGetus 2' review

By Duncan 'Thorin' Shields

Up and coming Finn JiGetus shows off his skills in this new movie centered around the wooSai player's explosive online play style. Plenty of AWP noscopes and USP/deagle headshots to be found within.

Introduction

Jirka "JiGetus" Ryhti is one of the up and coming Finnish players who
has seemed for the past year to be poised on the brink of getting a
shot in one of the top teams. This hasn't entirely worked out though as
joining astralis (previously known as Crack-Clan) when naSu and lurppis
departed didn't yield any worthwhile fruit due to the team's lack of
sponsors, tournaments to attend and failure to win the Finnish WCG
qualifier. He is now a member of Elukkaveljekset Gaming Club (EGC) who
recently became wooSai. Despite some of his kills being used in Kajis'
'JiGetus 2 BETA' this new movie looks to show off what this young Finn
can do with his individual skillset in Counter-Strike.

Name: JiGetus
Editor: aba

Technical

The technical side of this movie was in fitting with the movie itself:
too much of a blur at times and in too much of a hurry to find the
right pace or focus on the key element at the time. This isn't a movie
where the editing ruins it or actively annoys me but rather it's one
where scenes go by where I wish things had been done a little
differently as the impact of the scene was lessened because of the
choices the movie-maker made. This is especially pertinent since this
movie features kills which were released in the unfinited "JiGetus 2
BETA" by Kajis, who is a much better movie-maker. As a result the mind
instinctively compares certain scenes which are lacking to those same
scenes in the Kajis movie.

One of the key problems with this movie is over-editing in the respect
of not allowing kills or sequences enough time to breathe and be taken
in by the viewer and circulate in his mind for a moment. When a
movie-maker has seen kills a hundred times while editing he can too
easily take for granted that a short cut directly into a kill looks
fine to a viewer, what he is not taking into account is that he has the
frag sequence seered into his brain at that point. For the viewer who
is coming in fresh such a sequence goes by too fast or can be mildly
confusing as his brain tries to figure out what happened but due to
that style is then being immediately bombarded with the next kills.

There
are just way too many scenes which are end up like that too, you are
watching the end of one sequence and all of a sudden the first kill of
the next is slammed right into your face so you have no time to
assimilate what is coming at you. A perfect example would be when the
movie cuts into JiGetus quickscoping a guy behind the boxes inside B on
inferno. This sequence begins literally a fraction of a second before
the kill. There is no flow to it and when you combine this style of
very fast cuts with no breathing room between the clips it really
removes some of the impact the kills can have, especially in that all
important first viewing. The first AWPing sequence where JiGetus is
shooting Ts who are moving down the stairs on train is way too quickly
cut together. This should be a really nice sequence but each kill is
cut and pasted directly into your face despite the fact this scene
seemed like one which required little to no editing to be fully enjoyed.

The 3rd person camera swings in this movie are not done well. Firstly
the purpose they serve is not a useful one, they are often used to
connect different sequences within the same round which actually
disrupts the flow of the action. Also due to the angles picked these
swings can be disorientating at times which is a little irritating
since the viewer wants his eyes to be enjoying the frags, not
struggling to keep up with this kind of unnecessary movement. Again
it's not that these things are all done terribly on their own, it's
that when the negative effects of all of them are combined the overall
effect is to bring the movie down a little. It seems a crime to waste
good frags with poor editing decisions.

Likewise use of motion blur is mildly annoying and brings certain
scenes down in enjoyment level. Using motion blur too much means the
viewer's sense of surprise can be completely hijacked as he is aware,
even in a very basic intuitive level, that when the blur effect is
applied there will be no kill and when it is then suddenly removed that
a kill is imminent. For that vital first viewing of a frag movie the
element of surprise is huge and can really elevate a movie and excite
the viewer. This effect seems to really work against that aspect which
should be a plus for most movies which aren't HLTV frags we've all seen
from big tournaments.

A less important but worth mentioning side point concerns the AWPing
scenes where there is no dot on the crosshair when the AWP is scoped
in. This is often the result of overusing the viewdemo command and a
fairly standard bug. Assuming the movie-maker didn't intend this
effect, I can't imagine why he would choose it, this is a wicked
annoying bug. All it takes is a couple of minutes extra to reload the
demo and move to that sequence to capture it with the crosshair as it
should be. This may seem minor to some but it is unnecessarily annoying
when watching the movie and always seems to me like the movie-maker
didn't apply enough rudimentary effort to the fundamentals of capturing
his footage.

Visual

This movie is all about the frags, make no mistake. This is what we
came to see and this is what we see. That we've seen some of the kills
in the Kajis beta already is mildly brings down the buzz of
anticipation once you view this movie but all the same there are some
great sequences. Some of the deagle sequences in particular are very
very good and up there with anything you've seen in other movies,
especially since this is a good player performing them and not some
random internet hero. There are a few AWP sequences which are nice and
have that relentless feel that a great AWP sequence has where it's one
kill after another with noscopes thrown in there to make it even more
impressive.

The
eco killing situation has to be addressed with this movie though my
stance on it may surprise some. While in most movies I am the harshest
critic of eco killing, usually because the rounds aren't even that
impressive and the enemies are clearly helpless ruining any kind of
tension. This movie is a little different though. For the most part
every eco killing sequence on its own is actually pretty good in this
movie and occasionally some of them are spectacular. A good example of
some excellent ones would be JiGetus killing enemies rushing out of the
stairs at inner on train or when he is at the CT arch on inferno at A
and they are moving up from T mid past the corner he is sat at. In both
of these sequences we see precise USP headshots directly onto opponents
who are moving past quickly and one after another. Regardless of what
gun they hold these are satisfying scenes to observe.

There are, however, a couple of sequences which maybe should have hit
the cutting room floor because in comparison to the other footage they
aren't that great and the actions of the enemies means we are all too
aware of the eco frag nature of them. One of these is where JiGetus is
outside what the Americans call 'mini' on nuke, basically the small
entrance building to upper. Here JiGetus is killing ecoing terrorists
but for the last one, who is crouching, JiGetus seems to have forever
to aim and then kill him while the enemy futilely shoots glock bullets
at JiGetus. This sequence doesn't really belong in the same movie as
the more spectacular scenes. There is also too much eco footage in
terms of the movie as a high. The actual standard of raw fragging is
pretty high in practically every scene and yet at the end one has the
uneasy feeling that there have been way too many eco fragging
sequences, especially if one considers what kind of score such a movie
deserves. The sheer number of eco scenes means some of the great
non-eco scenes get a little lost in that wash of glock-powered
helplessness.

This is a movie which delivers frags regardless of its downsides. The
Virtus.Pro scenes are a fine example of what it has to offer during its
better moments. People will say that there are a lot of scenes which
come from playing bad players but with 5 ping and I'd certainly agree,
but all the same there are some great sequences and a lot of good
scenes overall.

Audio

The
intro track seemed nice enough and did its job though when the movie
then cuts into the next track I found it a little lacking in
transition. The two don't mesh together well. The second track is ok, I
don't particularly like it but I don't dislike it either. It's the
Marky & Bungle remix of Snow Patrol's 'Open your eyes'. I'm quite
an enthusiast of the modern drum and bass genre so the bassline of this
song and the beat structure is nice enough, especially for a frag
movie. The Evol Intent track which follows it is a better track to my
tastes but again is nothing amazing. These tracks basically provide a
soundtrack with a decent to occasionally good vibe to them, certainly
I'll take them over the crap that's been in the vast majority of CS
movies but all the same they're not having the effect great songs have
in CS movies over me which is to fully engage the epic or emotional
context of scenes and push the movie up to a higher level.

Nothing really seems to have been done with the songs either, they're
just there in the background. That's not a problem really but it's
noticeable since every other aspect of the movie seems to have had
editing elements thrown at it.

Overall

While some of the scenes were done better in Kajis' 'JiGetus 2 BETA'
that movie was way too unfinished to be considered a real movie, so
this is a better movie overall. There are noticeable downsides to the
movie and areas where one wishes different decisions or directions had
been taken but still the frags which make up the meat of the movie do
deliver and have a positive effect on the viewer. Oscillating between
above average and good this movie was worth a watch and likely will get
another in the future from this reviewer. It's also always nice to see
movies of up and coming players who may potentially break out in the
upcoming years but for now must show us what they can do in private or
against lesser opponents to earn our interest.

Thorin Rating: 7/10

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