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That's no excuse. I presume you're not allowed to really smash a tank through the centre of St Petersburg but it appears as if they did. That's called the magic of movie making.
If this was the best they could come up with someone should have said 'we need to go back to the drawing board and do this again.' Either with models or effects or whatever.
The idea they went with that 'the public are too gormless to notice the difference' is an insult quite frankly.
Not saying it ruins the film but the ramp goes from being about a foot thick and utterly impossible to drive up to suddenly being flush with the floor. A three year old would notice. At best it's very sloppy.
But what would your solution be?
Without adding too much to the budget of course.
At least there's no CGI in that finale, unlike the homage nonsense (to this scene I believe) at the end of DAD with the helicopter.
Well who says you can't taxi a Hercules with the back open? They're filming in a desert in Morocco not the EU or America. Hardly the spirit of filmmaking that makes great moments a la William Friedkin filming the French Connection chase on real streets without telling anyone.
No doubt the warranty on a JCB says it shouldn't be driven along the back of a moving train but that didn't stop them. This is a Bond action sequence not a health and safety briefing.
Unless of course they mean that Lockheed have installed some safety feature which means it's physically impossible to open the ramp while taxiing? Any plane geeks who know about this?
My solution if it really cannot be done with the Hercules would be to either disguise the ramp onto the trailer better so it looked more similar to the genuine ramp or fit some sort of fakery onto the Hercules ramp to make it look like the ramp onto the trailer. The other option would be to film Kara driving up from inside the trailer so the difference between the ramps is less obvious.
It's strange that in the same film they can build a staggeringly convincing foreground miniature of a bridge that doesn't exist but are happy to sign off on this.
@Benny - nitpicking is why we come here isn't it?
I was gonna mention that as well. He's much better there than he was in TLD.
So is the general in the circus that calms everyone down after the bomb scare in OP; he's the one in the mass grave scene in FMJ.
And the Waldorf salad man in Fawlty Towers.
Franz Sanchez may or may not be an expy of Pablo Escobar.