Posted on 09/29/2001 10:47:10 AM PDT by Cagey
If there is a chain link fence in a scene. A car is going to be driven through it .
Amazing how a bad guy gets hit in the jaw over and over and still has his teeth and the knuckles on the both good guy and bad guy never swell up.
Or how the cars in a scene are always lined up just perfectly so that a chase is always missing people crossing the street and not flying off the hoods of the chasing cars.
HOw when a pewrson flying out of a winodw or off a building and is supposed to live always manages to land on cardboard boxes that just happen to be there. Or a big trash bin to catch the fall.
And why do they let the bad guy live when they keep having a chance to kill him. It is a sure bet he will pop up and do more damage.
Yes! And if you look close you can see all the tire marks where they practiced the scene a hundred times before they shot it.
It'd be laughable if it didn't look so much like the truth sometimes.
Well I don't like homos and their agenda, and I'll stand up and say it. And I may smoke and listen to country-western all the time, but I'm not your ordinary uneducated hick and I got advanced degrees to prove it if these pansy-a$$es were worth the trouble to talk to... Waste of skin, the lot of 'em, IMO.
/rant
During each car chase, you have to make sure to swerve around the old homeless woman with her cart of cans, or the young woman with the baby stroller.
In the warehouse/harbour districts, businesses buy large quantities of cardboard boxes, which they keep stacked up in a large pile out back, unused, until the hero needs to get off the roof, or drive through them.
One thing I love about the movie "The Replacement Killers" is that the guns all run out of bullets at realistic intervals. There are lots of scenes of the heros/villains reloading, frequently.
And when the good guy goes marching in to the villain's most heavily guarded lair, he does it with about 14 guns strapped to his body. When one runs out of bullets, he simply drops it and grabs another -- it's faster and more reliable than reloading.
The film also violates another movie cliche: The woman he ends up on the run with (Mira Sorvina) turns out to be just as tough and competent as he is (no more, no less).
You must not have looked far enough. Paintings #10 and #12 both show garters:
http://www.lileks.com/institute/frahm/art10.html
http://www.lileks.com/institute/frahm/art12.html
(Maybe it wasn't obvious, but the first page was just an intro -- click on it to proceed through the "celery art gallery")
Top gore movie of all time, hands down -- "Dead Alive" (1992), a very early film in the career of director Peter Jackson (yes, the same guy who's doing the upcoming "Lord of the Rings" films).
Shot on what looks like a budget of about fifty bucks, it starts out just being a grade Z cheesy horror flick, but stick with it. The gore and over-the-top, I-can't-believe-they-did-that stuff just keeps reaching higher and higher peaks. By the time you figure they can't top themselves, they do, then do it again another two dozen times.
Make sure you rent (or buy -- I have it on DVD) the Unrated version instead of the R-rated version.
The folks at the Internet Movie Database give it an average 7.3 out of 10. That's clearly for the "oh wow!" factor, since it couldn't possibly be for the acting or the plot. :-)
Believe it or not, I actually saw this happen in real life once.
I was driving through an intersection not long after the light had changed, and I heard a loud *CRUNCH* noise to my right. I turned my head to look out the side window just in time to see a mid-sized car pirouette through the air as gracefully as a ballerina, no farther than fifteen feet from my car. At the time I saw it, no part of the car was touching the ground, the lowest part of the car (the rear edge of the trunk) was at least two feet off the ground.
Of course, it quickly made an ungraceful landing... It ended up resting on the roof, and the driver (a middle-aged woman) was left dangling from her seat upside down, since she had her seat belt on. I stuck around to help (okay, and to gawk) as rescue workers quickly arrived and sawed the car apart so they could extract her easily.
The funny thing is that none of the cars involved had been going over 30 miles per hour. The woman's car ran a red light coming out of a convenience store parking lot, right into the path of our oncoming traffic, and managed to get hit just right to flip the car like a tiddly-wink.
If you think that's bad, notice how many of them don't have a rear view mirror...
Whenever a scene is shot such that the camera is looking into the car from over the hood, so that you can see the faces of the driver and passenger, it's common for the rear view mirror to be removed so that it doesn't clutter up the shot.
LOL -- I swear, just as I was typing this, there was a commercial on TV (the one where the guy is letting his dog drive his truck), and sure enough, the rear view mirror was absent.
In the film "Vertical Limit", the rescue helicopter lands in the middle of nowhere on a snowy mountainside to ask a crazy hermit-like mountain climber to assist in the rescue -- and the helicopter clearly lands on top of another set of helicopter skid marks in the snow...
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