What’s Aged the Worst?
Train-scene CGI; Harrison Ford's beard; missing DNA evidence; pre-cell-phone premise; cardigans; bus accident
In the discussion (8)
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- The train and dam scenes lacked the right CGI; Ford was filmed on a wire against a green screen, and the one-chance crash cost about a million dollars.
- The train arrived faster than planned (42 versus 35 mph) and six Harrison Ford dummies, made for about 75 grand, were all destroyed.
- The CGI in the train scene is one nomination.
- Harrison Ford's beard is nominated; another participant loves it as facial-hair acting, and the hospital shave and egg sandwich are recalled.
- The lack of DNA evidence in Kimble's conviction ages badly when watched in 2017, including the DA's 'voice from the grave' evidence.
- Like many movies of the era, cell phones would have prevented the story; Kimble can waltz anywhere, and Enemy of the State already shows a different world.
- An early sequence where everyone wears tweed blazers, corrected to cardigans, is a major issue for one participant; outfit changes are deferred to nitpicks.
- Another pick is not the train crash but the bus accident, which feels like a matchbox bus rolling down a sand mound.