As stated, many people have their opinions on Forrestfire, and that's just fine. I myself am kind of split, in some aspects I respect how he built such a large fan base over the years with his Lego videos, how he has been able to sustain himself and further propel himself to make bigger, better and greater quality videos, and how he has inspired others to do brickfilming too. I admire the techniques and the overall quality (as in picture and animation quality, not to get it confused...) of his videos.
But then on the other hand, I feel that his real fame and the start of his success was due to the traumatic happening of the Duck Song. While I admire his techniques, Forrest's knack for creating plotless, violent and excessively rude videos undermine the positives. There is a lack of character development (and overall plot) within his videos, often using ready-made characters from movies (Batman, Captain America), and that, I don't particularly enjoy. The humour is a bit immature, but it has done it's job, along with the wham-bam action violence, for Forrestfire101 has accumulated probably the largest fan base of any Brickfilmer on Youtube. These fans seem to comprise mostly of what seems to be (excuse my judgement) twelve year olds. But these fans will prosecute anything that has a minor infringement on what Forrest has already done, for example, making an Lego action video with Captain America is a big no-go zone, unless you appreciate torrents of, "you so copeed forrestfire101" comments. Even with the loyalest fans begging for a simple response on his Facebook page, Forrest never notices. So with that I feel Forrestfire101 is entrenched among a select group of Brickfilmers that tend to separate themselves from the everybody else, and happen to ignore anything other than their own content, unless it is something really amazing, or up to their 'standard'. I suppose this is understandable with Forrest's amount of subscribers and watchers, but a little effort would help.
So I really am split with this, I admire him, yet in some ways I despise him. But to answer the original question, no, I don't particularly like Forrestfire101 and his content, but I do respect what he has done and his achievements.
Last edited by Carousel (August 22, 2012 (12:56am))