Comments on: Special effects?

Special effects?

puke & cry — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:46:54 -0800

Questionable special effects - Sliding a horse under a moving vehicle. Shooting the landing gears off a moving plane. Insane fight scene. Truck rollover.

By: sacre_bleu

sacre_bleu — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:59:40 -0800

"Insane fight scene." That guy sure is hell on windshields.

By: Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese

Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:01:27 -0800

The sliding horse is quite funny.

By: papakwanz

papakwanz — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:01:47 -0800

The fight scene one would have been better without the obnoxious titles added.

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:15:19 -0800

Shooting the landing gears off a moving plane. This was towards the end of Stunt Island, wasn't it? Best. Game. EVAR!

By: user92371

user92371 — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:18:23 -0800

You didn't like "Cow chewing gum"? Cow chewing gum.

By: MegoSteve

MegoSteve — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:39:47 -0800

The insane fight scene was great, but it was ruined by Papyrus.

By: porpoise

porpoise — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:42:17 -0800

Isn't shooting the landing gears guy the same as the insane fight scene guy? In the landing gear one, the script on the top left looks arabic; is there a thriving Bollywood-esque Islamwood? Indeed, KAC, the sliding horse looks like something out of a Zucker Abrahams Zucker film.

By: HeroZero

HeroZero — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:48:26 -0800

ROU: Many of my middle school recreational hours, hours that could have been spent developing precious social skills, were instead spent creating movies about flying postal trucks or at least attempting absurd stunts such as slaloming a fighter jet through skyscrapers. Stunt Island was indeed the best game ever.

By: nj_subgenius

nj_subgenius — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:57:40 -0800

The insane fight scene is gold. Gold, I tell yah!

By: phaedon

phaedon — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:12:28 -0800

I can't believe the "landing gears off a moving plane" link uses the noise of an iChat user logging off to simulate the sound of a sword being swung.

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:58:42 -0800

ROU: Many of my middle school recreational hours Jee-zus fuck, I was in grad school. Don't tell me shit like that; I'll have a coronary.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:00:46 -0800

Couldn't see it closely, but it didn't look Arabic to me. Looked more like Hindi or Bengali. I liked the sliding horse... it made me laugh.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:02:52 -0800

(Not an expert. I'm taking Arabic & Riq'a though so I know the basic alphabet.)

By: Tenuki

Tenuki — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:11:32 -0800

My horses really hate when I do that.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:14:14 -0800

I could do all that. But I choose not to. I am a man of peace.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:49:04 -0800

No, those effects are special alright. Special precious little effects no matter what the other kids say.

By: Senor Cardgage

Senor Cardgage — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:03:34 -0800

I think the "guy shooting out landing gear" one was from the third Weekend at Bernie's film.

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:05:27 -0800

American blockbuster action and stunt scenes may look more "convincing" but they're no more believable.

By: The Deej

The Deej — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:21:28 -0800

I'd call it a van.

By: wemayfreeze

wemayfreeze — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:03:10 -0800

Just a bruised ego!

By: wemayfreeze

wemayfreeze — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:04:43 -0800

Also: At least it wasn't Sand, eh?

By: moonbiter

moonbiter — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:54:46 -0800

After seeing that "shooting off the landing gear" scene, I have concluded that Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan is one bad mofo.

By: hal9k

hal9k — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:24:20 -0800

The soundtrack frightened me with all the gratuitous violins.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:53:39 -0800

hal9k, I'm embarassed to admit that I'd never, until now, heard that particular pun before. Favorited.

By: buriednexttoyou

buriednexttoyou — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:19:36 -0800

Wouldn't it be great if they made a prequel to The Fast and the Furious that took place in the old wild west with horses instead of cars? The possibilities for horse-based stunts are limitless.

By: junebug

junebug — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:17:08 -0800

the "insane fight scene" features the one and only Rajinikanth, a film actor of god-like proportions in South India: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajnikanth#Political i only wish i could find the fight scene of him shooting a bullet in two to kill two guys, or the other one where he needs to kill someone who's on the other side of a wall, so he throws one of two guns in the air and hits the trigger by firing the other, and manages to hit his opponent square-on. timeless. this is why I love the internet (minus the annoying running commentary and fun with iMovie by whomever edited the fight sequence). the fact that Rajini is chewing paan the whole time makes the scene extra-special. the extra-specialness added to, of course, by his acid-washed Canadian tuxedo. i lowe it.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:35:03 -0800

On the plane one, it went from "surprisingly good 3D effects" to "is that a toy plane someone threw down the runway?"

By: quin

quin — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:20:41 -0800

See, the problem with CG is that it doesn't age well. That is why when I film my first masterpiece, it will all be done with practical effects. Unfortunately since I will be on a budget and filming guerrilla style, in the scene where I shoot the landing gear off a plane, I will have to actually go to an airport and wait for some poor bastard to take off. My plan is to have me and the camera crew escape in the confusion that is a plane coming to a grinding halt because someone just took out it's tires with small arms fire. But it will look great.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:44:34 -0800

Rajinikanth = Indian Bruce Campbell

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:13:44 -0800

Embrace the truck.

By: phliar

phliar — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:38:57 -0800

The script in the airplane landing gear clip looks like Kannada although the language he's speaking sounds like Malayalam. (The bad guy who gets blinded by the sword reflection trick is speaking Hindi.)

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:41:02 -0800

O Kannada.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:10:58 -0800

Clearly, not everyone requires Hollywood SFX in order to enjoy their movies.