how many movies accidentally filmed a shooting star?
09-11-03 | 01:24 PM
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how many movies accidentally filmed a shooting star?
I Just noticed 2 of them in consecutive scenes in jaws.
Contact has a couple as well, but I assume that they are all CGI.
Contact has a couple as well, but I assume that they are all CGI.
09-11-03 | 01:49 PM
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Temple Of Doom.
I remember reading somewhere [or hearing in an interview], that it was Spielberg's "signature"..
I remember reading somewhere [or hearing in an interview], that it was Spielberg's "signature"..
09-11-03 | 02:27 PM
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It would probebly be wrong to make a The Crow joke wouldn't it?
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09-11-03 | 04:05 PM
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4 posts and no one has pointed out the obvious: Those stars are special effects!
With few exceptions, any time you see stars in movies they are effects. You can't point a movie camera at the sky under normal shutter speed conditions and photograph stars, they're too dim. Star fields (and little shooting stars) are put in later.
Did you really think that Spielberg got the boat out on the water and then waited for a shooting star to come through the right part of the frame? You could spend your whole lifetime trying to do that.
And yes, it's his "signature". He claims it goes back to when he was a kid and his dad dragged him and his sisters out of bed in the middle of the night to see a metor shower
With few exceptions, any time you see stars in movies they are effects. You can't point a movie camera at the sky under normal shutter speed conditions and photograph stars, they're too dim. Star fields (and little shooting stars) are put in later.
Did you really think that Spielberg got the boat out on the water and then waited for a shooting star to come through the right part of the frame? You could spend your whole lifetime trying to do that.
And yes, it's his "signature". He claims it goes back to when he was a kid and his dad dragged him and his sisters out of bed in the middle of the night to see a metor shower
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09-11-03 | 04:44 PM
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Originally posted by Crocker Jarmen
It would probebly be wrong to me a The Crow joke wouldn't it?
It would probebly be wrong to me a The Crow joke wouldn't it?
(I thought you we danol for a minute there...) 
No, that would be the answer to "In how many movies have they accidently filmed the shooting of the star?"
...and duh, of course they're special effects...
09-11-03 | 05:12 PM
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(I thought you we danol for a minute there...)
No, that would be the answer to "In how many movies have they accidently filmed the shooting of the star?"
...and duh, of course they're special effects...
(I thought you we danol for a minute there...) No, that would be the answer to "In how many movies have they accidently filmed the shooting of the star?"
...and duh, of course they're special effects...
Rats. My bon mot was sunk by not proofreading. Aw shoot.
09-11-03 | 05:53 PM
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This is like a danol thread.
Next will be...
what movies feature a scene or more than one scene of a character eating a sandwich with cheese on it or something other than a sandwich with cheese on it?
Next will be...
what movies feature a scene or more than one scene of a character eating a sandwich with cheese on it or something other than a sandwich with cheese on it?
Personal attack!
09-11-03 | 07:09 PM
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Well, Brandon Lee wasn't "shot" in the classical sense. But I guess that's just nit-picking.
And, uh, to get back on topic...I can't think of a single movie where I saw a shooting star and thought, "Wow, that must have been accidental."
And, uh, to get back on topic...I can't think of a single movie where I saw a shooting star and thought, "Wow, that must have been accidental."
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09-11-03 | 07:13 PM
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I thought I read somewhere that the one in Jaws was real, just an accident that they were filming at the same time as it shot by. I'm pretty sure the one in TOD is hand-drawn, though. Along the same lines (or maybe not), wasn't the thunderstorm in Tombstone real, at least for the exterior shots of the town?
09-11-03 | 07:28 PM
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Pants is right.
I remember after learning this, every time I would see a movie with stars I'd critique how well they did the special effect. Sometimes you get funky horizons.
Ah, the magic of movies
I remember after learning this, every time I would see a movie with stars I'd critique how well they did the special effect. Sometimes you get funky horizons.
Ah, the magic of movies
09-11-03 | 08:22 PM
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From: Raccoon City, OR
Originally posted by Tarantino
This is like a danol thread.
Next will be...
what movies feature a scene or more than one scene of a character eating a sandwich with cheese on it or something other than a sandwich with cheese on it?
This is like a danol thread.
Next will be...
what movies feature a scene or more than one scene of a character eating a sandwich with cheese on it or something other than a sandwich with cheese on it?
It's even more danol than the latest danol thread...
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09-12-03 | 01:45 AM
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Originally posted by cheapskate
It's even more danol than the latest danol thread...
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It's even more danol than the latest danol thread...
your best way of cleaning off long time nose snot from your DVD
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09-12-03 | 02:50 PM
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Not a shooting star but with the 'popup video' feature turned on during Animal House DSP, they point out a scurrying mouse in the scene leading up to the horse in Dean Wormer's office.
09-12-03 | 03:36 PM
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Originally posted by Pants
Did you really think that Spielberg got the boat out on the water and then waited for a shooting star to come through the right part of the frame? You could spend your whole lifetime trying to do that.
Did you really think that Spielberg got the boat out on the water and then waited for a shooting star to come through the right part of the frame? You could spend your whole lifetime trying to do that.
