Kruge - Worst Bluescreen Fall Ever?


Whad'ya think?

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I think it was OK.

What I never caught was the trick of use a flash of lightning to disguise the transition from real actor to the puppet.

Those clever 80's sfx people.

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I thought this came up before. I suggested the Joker's death in the Tim Burton Batman deserves that title.




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I hope it won't be much longer.

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Must be the lava. Ripley in Aliens 3 also weird.

Dick Jones' fall in Robocop also bad.

Hans Gruber's was the best.

Those are what I remember now.

Should I have said 'spoilers' before mentioning those? Now I feel bad for ruining 4 good movies ending.

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Apparently, Alan Rickman was up for several takes of a 10-12 foot drop. Looks great in the movie. And the actual fall shot was live with a stuntman.

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The story for years -- although Rickman now says he doesn't remember -- has been that when they shot the close-up of Rickman falling, they were supposed to count to three and drop him, and his surprise/panic was genuine because they actually let him go on the count of two.

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The building fall was done with a cable brake system -- an arresting cable being unwound, and a brake stopping the motion before he hits th ground

-- ironically, not unlike what McClane improvised with the fire hose to get off th roof.




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So may great moments in that film. Two of my favorites are the SWAT guy pricking himself on the rose bush and the thug sneaking out the candybar from the counter.

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The dive from the bridge
"Tarzan's New York Adventure"
Real wretched effect

But no one agrees
The Joker's fall in "Batman"
Was the worst ever?









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>But no one agrees
The Joker's fall in "Batman"
Was the worst ever?

had to look it up. It's bad. So good the rest of the movie, though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdeMD5W51s4&feature=player_detailpa ge#t=200s

Now I pictured Batman kickin Joker in the face "I -- HAVE HAD -- ENOUGH OF YOUUUU!"

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And he bitched about it a lot, I have heard.

"He drank. He fought. He made his ancestors proud!"

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Yep, Joker's fall. Saddens me to say, worst I have seen. A slight blemish in an otherwise great movie.

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Skeletor in Masters of the Universe was much worse.

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Ronny Cox's in Robocop was the worst I can remember and it was so bad it springs clearly to memory.

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GOT to go with Vertigo...




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Dude...it was 1958.

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Sorry...when does "ever" begin? 1959? 1983?




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Point taken.

I remember an old Flash Gordon serial where Flash and one of Ming's guards fall off the top of Ming's palace (and fall like stones). Flash survived because he landed on top.

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Like when Peter Griffin landed on the chicken.




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I forgot Darby O'Gill. The movie's an effects masterpeice...but that fall down the well...

Quien es mas macho?

Benedict Cumberbatch

OR

Ricardo Montalban


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worst blue screen fall?? watch Iron Man 3, the worst green screen fall goes to Gwyneth Paltrow


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If her head doesn't end up in a box, not interested.

Actually, I don't know which is worse: being killed horribly, or being killed by Kevin Spacey.

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I like this film, but Kruge's death was so cheesy...



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There are one or two bad ones in WHERE EAGLES DARE, which I noticed even when I watched it in the theater as a little kid. Also, the one at the end of DR. CYCLOPS doesn't look that great if I remember correctly.

A fairly good (and still shocking) use of the same effect, however, is in KING KONG '33 when Kong plucks the woman out of her bed and then drops her several stories. There's also a still of a shot in which Kong's own demise was done the same way but the background bled through.

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