Lost In Space - Behind the Special Effects Featurette.
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- Lost in Space is a 1998 American science fiction film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Gary Oldman and William Hurt. The film was shot in London and Shepperton, and produced by New Line Cinema. The plot is adapted from the 1965--1968 CBS television series Lost in Space. The film focuses on the Robinson family, who undertake a voyage to a nearby star system to begin large-scale emigration from a soon-to-be uninhabitable Earth, but are thrown off course by a saboteur and must try to find their way home.
Several of the actors from the original TV series had cameos in the film.
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You can see the people working on the film knew that the technology just wasn't there yet, but did the best they could with the tools and time they had.
12:00 It's crazy how far technology has come in the past 16 years!
Around 676 vfx shots in the 1998 movie, I wonder how it compares to the reboot TV series in terms of shot count. Moving up to many more CG environments in the series it must be an order of magnitude more. It's wild looking back at some of the techniques in this, like the physical puppet interface used to manipulate "Blarp" which kinda calls back to the dino rig from Jurassic Park. It really would have been better to use a muppet in retrospect.
One of my chief complaints about this movie, aside from the script, is that they were trying to make CGI do too many things that it just wasn't ready for yet. If they'd focused more effort on fewer CGI shots, it would probably look much better. Compare "The Fifth Element" which came out a year earlier. Blarp is the ultimate example of a rushed job, it looks like an incomplete render.
The CGI monkey and the casting of William Hurt and Mimi Rogers (who where like emotionless bowls of oatmeal) really hurt this film a lot. Had they cast different leads and taken out the "pet alien" the film (wouldn't have been perfect) but it would have had some legs to stand on and be taken more seriously.
I didn't like the movie, loved the series, but not the movie. Regardless I really like this Behind the Special Effects Featurette, just from a technical view point.
TheThingKing I Loved the movie