Are you kidding? You plagiarized the 2008 Taxslayer.com winner!? This is for your safety that I'm telling you,you might get sued. But cool vid anyway, but it's not really yours :-p

Come on, Rocky. Don't be bitter just because your video for this contest completely sucks. I've seen your other work on Vimeo, and it's far better than this cave man trash that you plagiarized from so many other thoughtless contestants before you who threw together something at the very last minute due to time and not being able come up with anything more than the way over done grainy silent film look. I mean, really, do you know how many times that dumb concept has been overdone for video contests? You all should be sued for not coming up with something a tad more original. But, I digress. Obviously, you've never seen the movie Swingers where the guys point out how filmmakers "steal" film ideas from each other all the time in their movies. Steven Spielberg from David Lean. John Singleton from Spike Lee. Countless filmmakers from Martin Scorsese. If no filmmaker ever borrowed an idea from another, then we'd all be out of business. Take your silent cave man video for this contest, for example. But, I'll tell you what. I'm going to email this video to Jared, the winner of the 2008 Taxslayer.com video contest. If he thinks I have blatantly stole from him, I will eat my words, take this video down immediately and apologize to everyone - including you. However, if he is flattered for using his winning concept and formula for another commercial, I'm going to challenge you to muster up an apology and consider taking your silent video down. Good luck in the future, Rocky!

Jared Cicon's winning video for the 2008 Taxslayer.com contest can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2OY-Ba9jzM

(This post is an email I received from Jared Cicon, winner of the 2008 Taxslayer.com video contest. Funny guy, and great filmmaker.) Hey Justin, I tried to post the following on the ForRent site but it kept telling me I was using bad words and wouldn't let me, so here is the copy, if you can figure out how to get it to post, go head and do it for me. Copy: Hey Justin, I thought I would give you fair warning that agents from the Library of Congress, Copyright Agency have been dispatched to your home. Okay, they haven't, and I don't think you will ever receive a summons to appear on my account. Look, I am flattered that you used a template from one of my productions to create your commercial. It is similar, but you didn't go into a daydream sequence, use another identity, ride a horse, and you're not as good looking as me. Sorry, I'm a comedian first, producer 2nd. The whole "phone call to a buddy" thing has been done a thousand times before I did it. Though there are paralells between the two spots I feel more flattered than ripped off. Good luck in the contest... Jared END OF COPY:

Nice! Definitely going to try this template! :]

LAME. If this guy doesn't know about For Rent magazine, why does it already say "ready 2 move" on the boxes in his apartment? Plus, why does everything in this video suck?

Well i like this video but it reminds me of a commercial...

I'd like to apologize for my brash comments to Rocky. We put a lot of work into writing, shooting and editing these projects, and to be torn down by each other is not very conducive to a productive environment for us or the companies who provide these opportunities. I wish I could delete the comments and start over; however, the system doesn't allow this. So, I will offer my sincere apology to Rocky and the other contestants and supporters of this competition. Good luck and God bless.

Nice work - awwww yeah.

Bona fide awesome~

Rocky Collins drinks his own urine!!

Anyone who purposefully calls himself "Dong Bag" will never have an opinion worth listening to... So Dong, stop "gaming" with your 13 yr old internet friends and try asking a girl on a date...

lol Josh redstone

What does it feel like to win when your video layout was stolen from another writer?

CHEATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What is really messed up is that not only did he copy the Taxslayer video but this guy actually runs a professional production company. So much for this competition being for the average guy. "ah yeah"

God knows what Justin did and will judge him accordingly.

Thank you, ForRent.com, for the great opportunity you provided. I'm thrilled the video will help your advertising efforts, and honored with the award among some great competing videos.

This is lame. There were at least 5 videos better than this. And it truly is an exact replica of taxslayer.com They didn't vote according to the criteria at all. They just liked this cause it had forrent.com ALL over it. Lamesauce...

Yeah...this bites...It's funny that he only has two positive comments but some how managed 700 votes. You would think out of all those votes more then two people would have left something positive. It basically won because he showed off the typical crap apartment complexes that ForRent caters too. Everyone knows that Craigslist is better for finding an apartment. If he does have a professional production company then it's obvious why he resorted to a contest b/c it looks really amateur especially dialogue that includes "awwww yeah" and the fact that its almost an exact copy of the Taxslayer video

Hmm, this looks/sounds exactly like the guys who won the 2008 Taxslayer video. I guess the idea was decent, so you "borrowed" it.

It's funny how often the people who always talk about God are the same people who lie and cheat...The only thing good about this video is the hot chick. She looks like this girl Sarah that I dated at Texas Tech

boring

Whoa! Good job man!

The #1 reason I believe that this contest is a scam is the fact that this video never gave a reason for moving which was the whole point of this contest. 20% was for Relevance to contest theme ‘Ready2Move?’. It only talks about why to use ForRent but had nothing at all to do with the theme "Ready2Move" . I wish the judges would post why this video won over better videos and videos that actually stuck to the theme.