Worst miniature ever?
#1
Posted 25 January 2003 - 11:45 PM
#2
Posted 27 January 2003 - 03:16 AM
Made the sequence look like one of those old stop-motion special effects.
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#3
Posted 27 January 2003 - 06:40 PM
#4
Posted 28 January 2003 - 03:32 AM
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.
#5
Posted 28 January 2003 - 04:06 AM
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Posted 28 January 2003 - 04:53 AM
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Posted 28 January 2003 - 06:03 PM
#8
Posted 28 January 2003 - 06:15 PM
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.'
#9
Posted 28 January 2003 - 07:20 PM
Originally posted by mccartney007
Herve Villechaize?
HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#10
Posted 28 January 2003 - 07:21 PM
Originally posted by mccartney007
Herve Villechaize?
I really mean it....Good one.
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Posted 28 January 2003 - 08:37 PM
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Posted 29 January 2003 - 03:29 AM
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Posted 29 January 2003 - 10:23 AM
#14
Posted 29 January 2003 - 10:55 AM
Gotta love it
#15
Posted 29 January 2003 - 11:03 AM
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.
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Posted 29 January 2003 - 12:55 PM
#17
Posted 29 January 2003 - 01:49 PM
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.Originally posted by RITZ
....and in TND when Q gives Bond his new car - the bit where it 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.
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Posted 30 January 2003 - 11:03 AM
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Posted 24 February 2003 - 02:02 PM
#20
Posted 24 February 2003 - 02:26 PM
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.
#21
Posted 24 February 2003 - 02:28 PM
Originally posted by kevrichardson
Connery's wigs in "YOLT" and "DAF".
Are you suggesting he should have worn a mullet?