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Professor Von X wrote: Dare I say it... how about Bruce The Shark in Jaws? I LOVE the film and didn't notice anything fake about the shark when I saw it back in '75.. a testament to how good a director Spielberg was. But watching it now... that mouth is pretty silly looking. Professor Von X
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I would have to say the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeves. The blue screen effects of him flying looked it was done very cheaply, and the distant shots of him flying looked like a dummy on a wire was being used. Also when Gene Hackman ripped off his wig to show his baldness, you could tell that he was wearing one of those skull caps.
Dec 4 08 1:17 PM
ejazzyjeff wrote: I would have to say the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeves. The blue screen effects of him flying looked it was done very cheaply, and the distant shots of him flying looked like a dummy on a wire was being used.
I would have to say the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeves. The blue screen effects of him flying looked it was done very cheaply, and the distant shots of him flying looked like a dummy on a wire was being used.
Dec 4 08 1:39 PM
Dec 4 08 1:59 PM
M F Berry wrote: I have to agree with you, Jim, regarding how good the flying effects are in the first Reeve Superman. The visual effects look great from a technical standpoint, and the overall effect is helped further by Christopher Reeve's skillful pantomimes of "flying" body language. The tag line promised, "You'll believe a man can fly," and I think they lived up to that boast.
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lencandraw wrote: The Gargons from TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE are pretty crummy.
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Dec 6 08 5:28 PM
Ted Newsom wrote: Jim & gang-- they actually used a lot of blue screen in Superman--and, yeah, it was pretty crummy. First of all, no one seemed to have given any thought to the character's costume-- blue, for crying out loud. Duh! So you had composites where pieces of him disappeared. The blue-screen fly-bys in the original version of the film had to practically make him green-gray to keep the image together. This is particularly notieable on the flyby when he's racing past the mountains to save Jimmy Olsen from falling off the dam. I've watched the subsequent releases of the film on dvd, and they seem to have tweaked things with modern color corrections. The costume is bright blue again. Lotsa wire work on this, too-- from the first Fortress of Solitude shot, through the entire Lois Lane love scene down through the landing-in-prison scene at the end. And I thought the Zopic front projection looked as soft as the old 40s process shots, but everybody seemed to think it was swell. But for all that, it's all sweet and fun.
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Dec 7 08 6:17 PM
Someone's description of the Sting of Death monster . . .
Although it sure looks like a wetsuit and swim fins, his body has supposedly become fish-scaled and duck-footed. Much of the film has been shots of his green, webbed feet stalking about, with many gnarled tentacles jangling about the knees. (He does have flesh-colored, human ankles.) Until now, we haven't been permitted to see the creature's top half. We might have assumed that it was just too horrible. Guess again. Perched atop the fish-flavored humanoid body is a Man of War wider than the guys' shoulders. It's a head to make the star of Return of the Fly wrinkle his big proboscis in envy. It is one big head. The tentacles we've been seeing are less dreadlocks than a veritable beard of stingers. Why it's just as if he lifted the damn thing out of the tank and stuck it on his head
Although it sure looks like a wetsuit and swim fins, his body has supposedly become fish-scaled and duck-footed. Much of the film has been shots of his green, webbed feet stalking about, with many gnarled tentacles jangling about the knees. (He does have flesh-colored, human ankles.) Until now, we haven't been permitted to see the creature's top half. We might have assumed that it was just too horrible. Guess again.
Perched atop the fish-flavored humanoid body is a Man of War wider than the guys' shoulders. It's a head to make the star of Return of the Fly wrinkle his big proboscis in envy. It is one big head. The tentacles we've been seeing are less dreadlocks than a veritable beard of stingers. Why it's just as if he lifted the damn thing out of the tank and stuck it on his head
Hey, that was my description. Anyway, here's the rest of it. http://www.horror-wood.co...rtu_you_jellyfish_man.htm
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