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Post by TOMAHAWK on Jun 3, 2005 20:49:50 GMT
I have put this as a general question on the trailer thread , but that thread is getting a bit full so i thought i would post it as a proper question cos it has me thinking..
Anybody have any idea what is going on with the HM coming out if the green mist?? / green backgound ...I cannot think of any scene were that would fit .
Also ... do the cylinders strike you as been rather small
Also .. Does the HM appear DIFFERENT in the green mist scene and the end scene with the narrator .. or is it just me
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Post by TOMAHAWK on Jun 3, 2005 21:01:15 GMT
after seeing the trailer again ... The HM's ARE different .. the one ploughing through the house at the end , is FATTER around the hood area then the one with the green background,
I suspect the one at the end is chasing some people (in the book didn't he see a machine (FM) chasing people , but this could be artistic licence, no other reason for HM to plough stright through a house)
Also ... No BASKETS on either FM/HM that I could see
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Jun 3, 2005 21:17:15 GMT
The HM seen in the green hew is during the chapter of the book "What we saw from the ruined house" (so I perseve it). Regarding the size of the HM, the 'green' hew scene is showing the machine looking from the front, the scene showing it walking across the road is from the side. Maybe the hood is longer than it is wide, making it look bigger.
The cylinder - the scene showing Ogilvy as he finds it for the first time did strike me as being small, but the scenes after that seem to show it as described - 90 ft diameter.
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Post by Poyks on Jun 3, 2005 22:59:18 GMT
Yes, I think the HM in front of the green is more of a wide angle perspective shot.
I guessed the HM ploughing into the house is a dying one toward the end of the film out of control?
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Post by Lensman on Jun 4, 2005 4:42:17 GMT
Also ... do the cylinders strike you as been rather small Yes, definitely. In the first shot, with the small human figure just to the left, the cylinder can't be any larger than about 25 ft across. In later shots it appears somewhat larger, but in no case does it appear to be more than about 45 ft across... which is half the diameter it should be. (I'm not just eyeballing it: I'm measuring the distance-- compared to the height of the people-- on freeze-framed shots on my monitor.) Even when it's seen approaching a house, it's not much taller than a 3 story building. It should be 9 stories high! But hey, as Ham Salad said to Fluke Starbucker (in "Hardware Wars"): "Relax kid! It's only a movie." |
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Post by RustiSwordz on Jun 4, 2005 5:23:38 GMT
The fighting machines are muppet powered.
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Post by krys666 on Jun 5, 2005 13:48:27 GMT
So we're getting Kermit and Miss Piggy masakering all of mankind?
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Jun 5, 2005 14:45:15 GMT
No Krys. I think that means you can drive it.  |
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Post by FALLINGSTAR on Jun 5, 2005 16:35:11 GMT
On the subject of the cylinder. It does look too small but that looks like it could be one of the problems with this film. If I was making this I would have made everything look as grand and epic as possible without straying too far from the source. It looks like Pendragon might have gone for the stripped to the basics approach.
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Jun 5, 2005 18:03:49 GMT
Well they didn't have much money to make this film, so yes they have gone back to basic's.
Which reminds me, its ike the cheap brands of food at super markets 'back to basics brands. They must have known buying cheap FX from the Netto stores was to come back and haunt them.
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