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[gkgyver]

When I saw DAD for the first time, I shuddered when I saw the snow-race car bouncing on this iceberg. I think it's the most obvious and worst "effect" ever done in a Bond movie.

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I think this looked terrible because of the slow-motion they used.

Made the sequence look like one of those old stop-motion special effects.

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[mccartney007]

Herve Villechaize?

[Kara Milovy]

Wow, Jordan, that was harsh!

Actually, every time I watch the lab blow up in TMWTGG, when the catwalk collapses, I think "Obvious miniature." So last night I watched with the director's commentary track turned on, and there's Guy Hamilton saying what a wonderful Derek Madding miniature that set was!

If it's wonderful, ladies and gentlemen, you can't tell it's a miniature.

But in all fairness, it looks great until things start blowing up.

[rafterman]

worst miniature is the tiny boat that shoots out of the Liparus in TSWLM, pretty fake....

[Adam]

The helicopter that blows up in the teaser of AVTAK

[marktmurphy]

Derek Meddings was, to be honest, not very good. Compare the Thunderbird-style minatures in GoldenEye (Plane crashing into dish; Derek's bath doubling as the Aracebo Dish) to the impossible-to-spot models in TLD or any of the others. Atlantis was pretty bad too- it looks exactly the size it is.

[General Koskov]

Too bad water can't be miniaturised. If it could be, then the models would all work.

And you all forgot Goldfinger's Lockheed. 'We are now passing over the director and crew at an altitude of three metres, suspended by four strings.'

[Jriv71]

Originally posted by mccartney007
Herve Villechaize?

HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jriv71]

Originally posted by mccartney007
Herve Villechaize?

I really mean it....Good one.

[mccartney007]

The opportunity presented itself, so I had to take it.

[Blue Eyes]

And what an opportunity it was.

[RITZ]

What about the bit in MR when Jaws's boat drops down the waterfall after chasing Moore in his Q boat.

[flares]

More an affect using the miniature. How about when the water drains from the Aracebo dish in GE. The water jumps in the air just before it disappears down the drain, making no attempt to disguise the fact that the clip has been played backwards and the water was in fact spirting out of the hole.

Gotta love it

[RITZ]

Yeah, thats a common (and sometimes silly) trick used in the Bond movies - filming a scene and playing it backwards.

In DAF pre-titles when Connery throws the Chinese guy into the wooden partition and in TND when Q gives Bond his new car - the bit where it stops right in front of them.

[Jriv71]

Not a miniature, but one of the worst effects ever is in MR when Jaws jumps from one cable car to the other...just horrible.

[Blofeld's Cat]

Originally posted by RITZ
....and in TND when Q gives Bond his new car - the bit where it stops right in front of them.

Actually the car clearly stops to the side of Pierce and Desmond, the side closest to the camera, thus "trying" to give the illusion that the car stops right in front of them.

The same illusion was employed with better effect in other Bonds, but the worst execution would have to be when the chandelier crashes onto Zao. Clearly missing him by a wide margine.

And the Herve Philishave crack was wicked. Truely wicked.

[RITZ]

Whistling dwarf in OHMSS

[kevrichardson]

Connery's wigs in "YOLT" when is becomes Japanese . And the one in "DAF".

[Simon]

Originally posted by Blofeld's Cat

Actually the car clearly stops to the side of Pierce and Desmond, the side closest to the camera, thus "trying" to give the illusion that the car stops right in front of them.

The same illusion was employed with better effect in other Bonds, but the worst execution would have to be when the chandelier crashes onto Zao. Clearly missing him by a wide margine.

I always thought that too. The car had so obviously "grown" in size that it had to have been a perspective shot. There had to have been another way of doing it. Perhaps shot from behind Brosnan and Llewellyn with a zoom from a great distance. Depth of field becomes less of an issue then.

Personally I thought the worst miniature was the sunken frigate in TND, the way it was shot made the boat look like a model against the divers. They should have made the water murkier between the divers and the boat or place some gauze in between to create a sense of distance between divers and boat. Unfortunately the focus and clarity meant they were both within a few metres of each other.

Meddings, his Thunderbirds stuff was great but then it was meant to be models and puppetry. His GE work was clearly not up to the standards as set by the period's cinema output by other FX technicians. Not sure why this was as it was all shaky wings and funny lights for engine exhausts. Oh well.

[Simon]

Originally posted by kevrichardson
Connery's wigs in "YOLT" and "DAF".

Are you suggesting he should have worn a mullet?