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Post by itsthatguyme on Feb 23, 2017 15:10:49 GMT
Is this possibly the worst special FX and backgrounds for any movie ever made?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 15:12:33 GMT
I loved the movie though
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 15:14:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 15:16:18 GMT
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Post by itsthatguyme on Feb 23, 2017 15:22:24 GMT
It has a campiness I can appreciate but ehh. I could never get into it. Especially seeing as how much I loved the first movie.
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Post by alexhurricanehiggins on Feb 23, 2017 15:30:24 GMT
It's been a while since I've watched so can't remember. I do remember enjoying it but.
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Post by Reynard on Feb 23, 2017 16:12:08 GMT
John Carpenter dislikes both Hollywood & sequels but the money was just too good. Escape from L.A. is basically a campy remake of the original with huge amounts of political & entertainment industry satire added. It's not a great movie but I appreciate Carpenter for doing it his way instead of trying to just repeat the original, which is what both fans & the studio probably would have preferred. Also it has one of the best endings ever.
Some backgrounds look intentionally fake - few miniature buildings even have "miniature" written on them for god's sake. Others probably look fake just because around the time this was made Carpenter was slowly losing his touch. None of his 90s work or later is really great, though I enjoy some of them for different reasons.
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Post by ck100 on Feb 23, 2017 19:37:48 GMT
They're far from the worse effects I've seen, but they're quite crude.
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Post by itsthatguyme on Feb 23, 2017 19:42:23 GMT
They're far from the worse effects I've seen, but they're quite crude. I can't think of another film with a budget of 50 million that looks as bad as this. I'm sure there are some but nothing well known |
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Post by schizkebab on Feb 23, 2017 19:44:22 GMT
I hated it. 'Escape from New York' is one of my all-time favorite movies, so when L.A. came out I had very high hopes. Oh brother, talk about a disappointment.  |
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Post by Times Up on Feb 25, 2017 6:20:27 GMT
I always thought the effects were deliberately poor to feed the purposely campy feel of the movie.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2017 6:22:37 GMT
it was entertaining. the original was obviously better, but LA had Bruce Campbell as the Surgeon General of Beverly Hills...
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Post by moviemouth on Feb 26, 2017 2:23:37 GMT
Is this possibly the worst special FX and backgrounds for any movie ever made? Mortal Kombat: Annihilation has the worst cgi of any theatrical release ever. Also, Escape from L.A. >>> Escape from New York. The part with the people of Beverly Hills that need to keep getting plastic surgery in order to survive is hilarious and awesome. |
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Post by barkingbaphomet on Feb 26, 2017 3:02:21 GMT
John Carpenter is my favorite director.
but Lord Thoth, that movie was a shitshow.
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Post by itsthatguyme on Feb 28, 2017 16:08:15 GMT
I always thought the effects were deliberately poor to feed the purposely campy feel of the movie. Maybe so. Carpenter is a competent guy. I can't see him signing off on this without knowing it looked so terrible. |
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on Feb 28, 2017 16:11:43 GMT
Same FX company that did the CGI for The Phantom (1996), I believe.
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Post by maxwellperfect on Feb 28, 2017 16:11:51 GMT
It's been ages since I watched it. I don't recall fx being an issue, though.
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Post by Reynard on Feb 28, 2017 16:19:44 GMT
I always thought the effects were deliberately poor to feed the purposely campy feel of the movie. Maybe so. Carpenter is a competent guy. I can't see him signing off on this without knowing it looked so terrible. I remember reading an interview with Carpenter where he said something like how Escape From New York was a product of its time and Escape From L.A. is superior in every way. This was not an advertising interview from the time L.A. was released but a much more recent one, Carpenter pretty much looking back to his career. In the Mouth of Madness has some really fake looking effects too. Not sure if it's intentional but the movie is about lines between reality & fiction being increasingly blurred so it kinda fits the theme there too. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2017 16:33:09 GMT
I haven't seen it in some time, but I remember not being particularly impressed.
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Post by inthepipe55 on Feb 28, 2017 16:39:02 GMT
I always thought the effects were deliberately poor to feed the purposely campy feel of the movie. Maybe so. Carpenter is a competent guy. I can't see him signing off on this without knowing it looked so terrible. Could be or he had to self finace or wasnt given a good budit only others I can think of for Carpenter. |
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