Originally posted by ladymuck
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Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Spider-Man (2002) in which a grammatically-modified hyphen gets between the nouns "spider" and "man" and special effects ensue. It's OK as these things go, but the peak is the early scene when Kirsten Dunst trips and her tray flies in the air and the spider bloke catches the tray and then everything lands on it, because it was done without special effects and took 156 takes. That's Singin' In The Rain levels of commitment
Though from what I hear, the bloke in question is a right dick
Anyway, next up was a rewatch of Operation Mincemeat (2021). I may have mentioned this before, but the main staircase in the Admiralty is pretty awesome but not as awesome as the one in whatever building they had pretending to be the Admiralty in the film. Kudos, though, for the scene when they're walking down the side of said Admiralty and the Citadel, glimpsed briefly to the left side of the screen, isn't completely obscured by ivy or some such creeping plant, as it is in the present day; you'd never even look for that unless you knew the buildings and how they were back then, so the SFX people did a good job on the back of the drawers there
And then a further episode of S3 of The Wire
Goodnight all
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