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Worst set ever?

posted 16 years ago by AxeMarc
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The "Forrest" in which DeVito shoots a deer, is to me the absolutely worst example in modern times of an indoor-studio trying to look like it's located outdoors.

Anyone agree?

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[–] AxeMarc 16 years ago

I think DeVito really went over his head on this production. Some scenes are great and amusing, but many pieces seems made just to try and win awards. The deerscene is perhaps the lamest and unnecessary piece of cinema I've seen.

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[–] taijiquan12 10 years ago

I think DeVito really went over his head on this production. Some scenes are great and amusing, but many pieces seems made just to try and win awards. The deerscene is perhaps the lamest and unnecessary piece of cinema I've seen.

I think this is an exaggeration, but the hunting scene and the set was really bad and distracting. It really shook me since movies in this era and on upwards usually don't use sets like that.

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[–] bluestrat70 16 years ago

OMG it was horrible. i saw this last night for the first time. i surprised to see the leaves under their feet move. the solid orange sky, what was that? i don't get it, how could they let that look so bad. it was so obviously on a sound stage. the scene where hoffa first encounters bobby. that road was clearly on a sound stage set too.

[–] Exeron 16 years ago

Yeah that was lame :P, The mansion set was pretty lousy too.

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[–] Pharaoh-in-de-Nile 15 years ago

I agree MeleeMaster2001. I actually liked that scene due to it's surrealist look...sort of reminded me of a less lavish 'Kwaidan' set.

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[–] ancatdoh 14 years ago

The "Forrest" in which DeVito shoots a deer, is to me the absolutely worst example in modern times of an indoor-studio trying to look like it's located outdoors.

Anyone agree?
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Worst set ever, worst scene in this movie, which was a BIG disappointment.

I actually laughed the instant the scene started because it was so painfully obvious it was a soundstage (reminded me of the farming scenes in Green Acres), but what absolutely ridiculous was when the deer walked up to them.

A real deer wouldn't be anywhere NEAR a group of SEVERAL men who were walking, talking, shuffling through dry leaves and smoking like DeVito was.

They broke every rule of deer hunting, which is shorthand for "climbing a tree at 4 o'clock in the morning, sitting absolutely still for several hours, making no noise, and hoping you don't need to go to the bathroom because if you do, your scent tells every animal in the forest there's a stranger in town--run away."

This movie looked great in the trailers, but it turned out to be a big waste of Jack Nicholson and felt like it was longer than its long running time.

[–] Master_Live_013 13 years ago

Good movie, but that set LOL.

[–] PassTheSeason 13 years ago

My memory may be a little off, but in seems like this was also the case with DeVito's War of the Roses.

... Director trademark?

[–] thatguy_78757 13 years ago

brilliant movie but yes, bad scene

perhaps Devito was trying TOO hard to make it a work of art

that scene and the gangsters patio look beautifully colored- and very very fake

[–] MuleDeer 13 years ago

What thatguy said

[–] jakobstrunk 12 years ago

Just watched this film the other day and had to make sure the awful "woods" set was being discussed here.

It's atrocious. Couldn't have looked good in 1992, either.

[–] xPrestonx 12 years ago

I am pretty sure that the opening scene with Nicholson meeting DeVito for the first time was also a set. My initial reaction was "that looks BAD" but he more I think about it, I wonder if DeVito did that as a nod to classic films that were almost entirely shot on sound stages?

[–] jakobstrunk 12 years ago

I would accept that if so much of the film wasn't shot on location.. but it was.

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