Catapult to the tether ball was cool. Did not care for the cutaways.

Sorta meh-ish..

Headline contained three of my favorite words had to click.

I wonder how many buildings that guy secretly burned down

tjsands1118: Headline contained three of my favorite words had to click.

"If, was, a"?

This entire thing was playing on the TV at a restaurant I was at a few weeks ago. It was fun for the first five minutes, then a biiiit meh.

The ending seemed pointless...the boat crashed into the box and...then what? The flaming tetherball made my giggle though.

Setting a Rube Goldberg device on fire would be an Honest Mistake.

Land Ark: Setting a Rube Goldberg device on fire would be an Honest Mistake.

I lold at the end.

The flaming tetherball was kind of mesmerizing.

I liked the flaming tetherball. Too much reliance on the tires. Edit at the burning hay... 6/10

Now, if the cameraman accidentally set himself on fire and we got to see this on America's Funniest Home Videos...

Hey hosers, this movie is like, 30 years old.

cuts at 37 and 2:40. I call BS.

gunther_bumpass: Hey hosers, this movie is like, 30 years old.

YouTube is 30 years old?

FTFA: Some might argue that this isn't a real Rube Goldberg machine because there are noticeable edits, suggesting the run wasn't completed in one take. However, there's an awesome explanation. This video is a small excerpt from a 30-minute DVD in which "100 feet of physical interactions, chemical reactions, and precisely crafted chaos" self-destructs. The edits are simply in the interests of time, as some of the chemical reactions were very slow (but super effective).

The cuts I saw were both at a point where burning fuel lights a fuse, so apparently that counts as a slow chemical reaction now? Sure thing, guy.

Land Ark: Setting a Rube Goldberg device on fire would be an Honest Mistake.

I have two of their CDs and completely forgot about that video. Much cooler than the linked one. Theres a flaming tetherball though, definitely a nod to the original.

I noticed 3 cuts. All zoomed into the flame to mask the cut. All lighting fuses.

Mrbogey: I noticed 3 cuts. All zoomed into the flame to mask the cut. All lighting fuses.

FTA:

"Some might argue that this isn't a real Rube Goldberg machine because there are noticeable edits, suggesting the run wasn't completed in one take. However, there's an awesome explanation. This video is a small excerpt from a 30-minute DVD in which "100 feet of physical interactions, chemical reactions, and precisely crafted chaos" self-destructs. The edits are simply in the interests of time, as some of the chemical reactions were very slow (but super effective)."

Hey, guys, there's no smoking in this thread.
*clicks on everyone's profile*
OK, you're cool.
None of you are smoking.

Pretty underwhelming. Especially compared to the shiat these guys do on a regular basis:

Survival Research Laboratories

Hey, subby, "if" takes a subjunctive. "If I were," not "If I was."
/Heil grammar!
//Yes, I've had 3 shots of Wild Turkey.

jakrabit: gunther_bumpass: Hey hosers, this movie is like, 30 years old.

YouTube is 30 years old?

Well, 3 years old anyways.

amplexus: Mrbogey: I noticed 3 cuts. All zoomed into the flame to mask the cut. All lighting fuses.

FTA:

"Some might argue that this isn't a real Rube Goldberg machine because there are noticeable edits, suggesting the run wasn't completed in one take. However, there's an awesome explanation. This video is a small excerpt from a 30-minute DVD in which "100 feet of physical interactions, chemical reactions, and precisely crafted chaos" self-destructs. The edits are simply in the interests of time, as some of the chemical reactions were very slow (but super effective)."

No. Some of those cuts were not on slow reactions. Also, pretty sure i noticed a couple "auto lights", and as pointed out earlier, it ended for no reason.

Subby: If Rube Goldberg was a pyromaniac

tjsands1118: Headline contained three of my favorite words had to click.


I wish one were, "were."

My grand kids were brought up on "The Way Things Go"

/again, again....
//all three of you obsessing over the "cuts" fark you it's art.

jakrabit: gunther_bumpass: Hey hosers, this movie is like, 30 years old.

YouTube is 30 years old?

You do realize that video existed BEFORE YouTube don't you? Film too.
Otherwise we couldn't enjoy this.

Did they get the mouse?

ArcadianRefugee: tjsands1118: Headline contained three of my favorite words had to click.

"If, was, a"?

Sadly, my first thoughts as well.

Johnson: My grand kids were brought up on "The Way Things Go"

/again, again....
//all three of you obsessing over the "cuts" fark you it's art.



Art? Sure it's pretty, but I think these are genuine complaints as there are those who truly bust their arses to create completely self-automated chain reaction Rube Goldberg machines and completely self-automated this isn't.

At around :52 (turn up your volume) you can actually hear someone shaking flammable powder onto the floor so the flame meets the fuse. Powder that wasn't there before the deceptive 'ooo, pretty flames' zoom-in.

And the cut at :32 only to be explained as a "for the sake of time" edit in the description as Amplexus points out? What's that, a quarter-second of time to take one step over? "We should really cut this specific 1/4 second out of this 30 minute film for, you know, the sake of time." That's an insulting lie to true Rube Goldberg-ians.

Yes, it's pretty, but it's claiming to be something that simply isn't. They just didn't pull it off.

A Sal Goldberg machine if you will. Rube's whorish, lying step-sister.

/wow, I really cared about that for a minute
//1986? You honor us with your presence =)

What's with errant flame to the right @ 2:14?

the full video of this is nearly 35 minutes long and with NO climax at all.

we have a public access channel that shows weird videos and they showed this one...it was soooooo long.

was so pissed after the end when there wasn't a climax of any kind, it just fizzles out...so lame..

And this is the point at which I realized that pretty much everyone born after 1982 is a farking retard.

PluckYew: jakrabit: gunther_bumpass: Hey hosers, this movie is like, 30 years old.

YouTube is 30 years old?

You do realize that video existed BEFORE YouTube don't you? Film too.
Otherwise we couldn't enjoy this.

Did they get the mouse?

Woot! My first fish on the hook!

^Touche^