According to Cinefex #133, the production used a real digger modified with computer controlled movement, mounted on a purpose-built extra-strength flatcar. The VWs were stripped-down shells fitted with steel understructures so that they would form a crushed 'ramp' as the digger rolled over them.

FIAT: Fix It Again, Tony

Good call.

I don't recall if there was a corporate flap over THE COCA-COLA KID, but there ought to have been. It's drearier than a movie that has Greta Scacchi doing a striptease in a Santa suit has any right to be.

I've always considered LEBOWSKI to be the Disney Musical version of CUTTER'S WAY.

Thank you. It's odd how the article skips over this detail.

@avclub-9f3362679d786df531bab7953d7ab610:disqus , it's not that Lane didn't properly contrast the book and film, it's that he completely missed the point about WATCHMEN being a superhero story in which only one of the characters actually has superpowers.

I was very surprised that that custom Duke Nukem level didn't make it into the film.

My favorite refrain during this section is the theorist's careful qualification of his statements: He's not (any longer?) trying to prove that the Moon landing never happened, only that the TV broadcast was simulated. And still he considers this a dark conspiracy worthy of his persecution. One wonders how his complex…

I find that minor discontinuities can create an energy that makes certain movies more compelling, not less, whether or not they're intentional. Think about the repositioning of the Monster's hands from shot to shot in Whale's FRANKENSTEIN.

I'm hoping that as the film rolls out and more people here actually see it, we'll get some more informed discussion going.

You might even say that we ate Uder and he's in our stomachs.

Leslie revealing that she had April's nameplate engraved five years ago was a perfect character moment.

Since he owned and self-distributed most of his films (and as noted below, many are subject to music-rights issues), they're a little difficult to find. The shining exception is of course BURDEN OF DREAMS, available from the Criterion Collection (with "WH Eats His Shoe" as a supplement).

This is what happens when you spend your career *behind* a camera.

Also, I'm pretty sure Pardo (if it was Pardo this week) said "Karen Tillam".

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She's just that hot.

Good catch. I was expecting the fact that the homeless guy appeared to be a military veteran to pay off somehow, but maybe that's a long-term plan. Wasn't impressed by the acting and/or dialogue though.