When Indiana Jones is about to get his head crushed in the TEMPLE OF DOOM rock crusher scene. Goddamn, give me a break. Watch this fucking scene. How many times over would he have had his melon splattered? Laziest, most faux-suspense-building scene EVER. For shame, Michael Kahn.
The only thing that even comes close is the descending wall scene in the beginning of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, also by genius editor Michael Kahn. That wall would have come down 35 times before Indy got out if Kahn was playing in real time.
I don’t mind suspense, but does it have to be this shittily obvious?
Come on, those movies were homages to the old serials, in which that type of ridiculous escape and drawn-out suspense were the norm. I’m pretty sure Spielberg and the editors did it on purpose.
What about the first **Star Wars ** movie (you know, the one they actually called “Star Wars”), in the lightsaber duel between Obi-Wan Kenobe and Darth Vader.
Alec Guiness’s lightsaber actually shorts out, or loses its reflectivity, or something. There’s a brief moment when you can plainly see the thin foil rod around which they build the glowing lightsaber effect. Astounded me at the time, and still does, that it remains.
In cases like those the credit/blame needs to be laid squarely on the director. Moments like that are not gonna show up in the final cut unless the director wants them there.
And, like Kaspar said, it’s an homage to the old serials, who constantly cheated the Big Monents. The end of one episode would show the hero facing certain death (e.g. his car going over the cliff with him in it.) Then the next episode would start with a different version of the same scene showing the hero escaping certain death in a way that was totally impossible given what you’d seen in the previous episode (e.g. the hero jumping out of the car before it went over the cliff.)
The lightsaber effects were all hand animated. They just didn’t bother to do it over that shot for time & money constraints (you don’t notice it until you’ve seen the movie a few times). That’s what the light sabers really looked like. And you can see why Lucas knew he needed something more than that!
I’m amazed that he still didn’t fix it with the ‘Special Edition’. He went thru all the trouble & expense of ruining the Solo/Gredo scene…
Not sure if this is bad editing or just a SFX goof, but in Romancing the Stone, when Michael Douglas swings on a vine into a rock wall, you can clearly see the rocks push in and come back out again.
I noticed it the first time I saw the movie, unfortunately. It gave me the impression that Ben suffered an equipment failure that Darth exploited, rather than the notion of self sacrifice that Lucas intended.
Some Jackie Chan movie supposed set in New York. There’s a scene where the hovercraft swings past a mountainous background*. Oh and then straight onto the downtown gold course.