Yeah, you really shouldn't. Everybody does it. Ridley Scott reused footage from The Shining when making Bladerunner. It means saving a fortune on special effects, one less car's worth of metal and plastic built just to be destroyed and thrown out, and unless you start going through movies frame by frame looking for an excuse to hate on a director you already hate, it's unnoticeable.
"noticeable to an obsessed action movie junkie who puts together animated gifs" or "noticeable once you see side-by-side evidence" are very narrow definitions of "noticeable." I doubt that a fraction of a percent of moviegoers said to themselves, "hey! that's the car from The Island!"
Duuuude, artists/filmmakers should REALLY know better than to think they can get away with this shit in the current day of the internets (and bored searchy people)
Damn right. I hate the thought of defending Bay over anything, but 'waste not, want not' is a sensible point.
Especially when you consider the cost. I have a few friends who work for Tippit Studios. The amount of money they bill for doing some of their CGI work is obscene.
It happens within individual movies too. I have fond memories of Robert Rodriguez' commentary on one of the "Spy Kids" flicks. It went something like this:
"Okay, see this scene here? All those rocks? You know how many rocks we actually used? Guess! One! That's right, just one rock! We didn't have the money to use two rocks, so we just painted up one rock, shot it from several different angles, and edited them together!"
(Also, compare the car chase music from "The Rock" to the PotC soundtrack...)
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Date: 2011-07-07 11:41 am (UTC)And, of course, The Wilhelm Scream is the classic example.
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Date: 2011-07-06 03:50 pm (UTC)But it's still funny.
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Date: 2011-07-06 03:58 pm (UTC)Roger Corman, of course, was the greatest exponent of this technique. Look at Battle Beyond The Stars, then look at Space Raiders.
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Date: 2011-07-06 07:00 pm (UTC)Especially when you consider the cost. I have a few friends who work for Tippit Studios. The amount of money they bill for doing some of their CGI work is obscene.
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Date: 2011-07-07 12:05 am (UTC)"Okay, see this scene here? All those rocks? You know how many rocks we actually used? Guess! One! That's right, just one rock! We didn't have the money to use two rocks, so we just painted up one rock, shot it from several different angles, and edited them together!"
(Also, compare the car chase music from "The Rock" to the PotC soundtrack...)
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Date: 2011-07-06 03:56 pm (UTC)http://archive.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/09/woman-remains-unconscious-after-transformers-accident.html
http://jalopnik.com/5629380/extra-has-skull-sliced-open-on-transformers-3-set
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