what were they thinking!?
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scruffy58 — 17 years ago(April 14, 2008 10:25 AM)
You are correct concerning the road sign. What bothers me the most concerning the realism of the special effects is the utterly absurd scene in the office tower as Remy's father attempts to hang out the window to try and rescue the window washer's from the scaffold. All the office tower's would have been shaking so violently, especially the higher up one went. There would have been no way that he would have been able to even stand upright, let alone reach out the window. I guess thats some of the charm's of the film - some truly terrific miniature work and outstanding matte paintings are balanced out by numerous absurdities and some absolutely awful effects.
"Thus, we began our longest journey together."
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dejavu73 — 17 years ago(April 14, 2008 11:20 PM)
Yeah, I agree scruffy!
As far as I'm concerned, the scenes about the L.A. downtown and the Royce inc. at the Sunset & Vine Tower are my favorite ones. I watched them again yesterday night and discovered the Italian dubbed version is more crowded with voices and yells than the original one. I'm bothered the way the man who dies in the elevator - Cameron - keeps on staring at the skyscrapers collapsing, while his room seems to remain all undamaged. The skyscrapers in the distance themselves seem to be completely empty, without any furniture or human being inside and all the green stuff behind them isn't shaking at all! Besides this, the building nearby the Capitol Records Tower with a triangular shaped roof on it crashes too swiftly and its windows dont shatter either: its too much obvious all of them are poorly made by paperboard material to be believable. Anyway, I love them. LoL
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scruffy58 — 17 years ago(April 24, 2008 10:33 AM)
Thats true - you see that when she looks up before the glass strikes her. Also check out the hideous clothes that mom and especially her daughter ("Mother! Mother!") are wearing. Good grief - they look like they rummaged through a Salvation Army box outside of a Wal Mart in the Ozarks.
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namaGemo — 13 years ago(November 12, 2012 09:56 AM)
The cows in the truck sequence was about 1.5 seconds, hardly enough time to notice whether cattle, which do not move a lot anyways when penned in were moving. They look quite real in this picture.
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namaGemo — 13 years ago(November 12, 2012 09:44 AM)
Actually, it made sense. The speed at which the truck was falling, the momentum would have had the cattle in place till the trucks trailer had finally hit the ground, and I think they edited it before that point. It would be like the elevator dropping. You don't go floating to the top because the elevator is falling. Things fall at the same speed, unless they are feathers or catch air a certain way, and cows and people fall like elevators and trucks.
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jdw2691 — 12 years ago(June 06, 2013 05:57 PM)
I think that even more ridiculous than the cows is the scene in the bar near the beginning. A tremor happens and they show the guys in the bar playing pool. The light fixtures are still swaying, but their pool game remains uninterrupted. Balls all still in placemagic!
