2 Sailboats and a stinkpotter destroyed

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Dec 27, 2005
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Actually I took this shot (came from a Flip video) during the filming of Transformers 3 on the Chicago river front. Seemed ashamed to burn 2 sailboats unless it was just made to look that way. The power boat looked like it was actually blown up (behind the white sailboat).
 

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OldCat

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Jul 26, 2005
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Actually I took this shot (came from a Flip video) during the filming of Transformers 3 on the Chicago river front. Seemed ashamed to burn 2 sailboats unless it was just made to look that way. The power boat looked like it was actually blown up (behind the white sailboat).
Huh? Why bother? If it is just to make a movie? But, a picture of the explosion would have been a scoop - a 'real' a 'real' movie scene before the promos were out!

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jimmyb

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Hollywood is tough that way. I have a soft spot for performance mustangs 65-66. I cant imagine how many of these vehicles have been destroyed in movies. They gather up multiple vehicles of the same year and model to represent one vehicle in a movie. Then as they destroy one due to bad takes or trying to fool the public into thinking you can jump cars 150ft and keep on going they just paint another and send it out on the set. Do to what is lost on the big screen many of these cars are not really all that nice but certainly could be restored if not WASTED by Hollywood. I guess movies like Bullet would be a little less exciting if filmed with an AMC Rambler. With all of todays computer gen. grafics it would be nice if they would lay off the classics.... And these poor sailboats as well.

God Bless, jimmyb
 

OldCat

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Jul 26, 2005
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With all of todays computer gen. grafics it would be nice if they would lay off the classics.... And these poor sailboats as well.

God Bless, jimmyb
Who Knows? These boats could have been bought cheap - because they were too rotten to be worth restoring. Though one does wonder why they don't make more use of computer graphics...

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Dec 19, 2006
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Hunter 36 Punta Gorda
Hot,Hot

Is that hot chick in it again,I know she is young and they make them look even hotter but she is very Hot,heard the guys out side the movie repeating that after I saw them both,don't you just love the new Camaro.
Nick
 
Aug 2, 2005
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Hollywood is tough that way. I have a soft spot for performance mustangs 65-66. I cant imagine how many of these vehicles have been destroyed in movies. They gather up multiple vehicles of the same year and model to represent one vehicle in a movie. Then as they destroy one due to bad takes or trying to fool the public into thinking you can jump cars 150ft and keep on going they just paint another and send it out on the set. Do to what is lost on the big screen many of these cars are not really all that nice but certainly could be restored if not WASTED by Hollywood. I guess movies like Bullet would be a little less exciting if filmed with an AMC Rambler. With all of todays computer gen. grafics it would be nice if they would lay off the classics.... And these poor sailboats as well.

God Bless, jimmyb

Agree with that, see so many nice cars destroyed in movies it almost makes you cry!
A buddy would never watch Dukes of hazard because he hated seeing the general get banged up so much. (he's had his 70 charger for way over 20 years)
I've always been a fan of ford muscle cars, and cringe whenever I see them used in a movie.
One good thing about hollywood is that they tend to reuse the cars, some large crash scenes have previously wrecked cars from other movies in them

The best thing is that for most boat crashes, they use stinkpotters!
 

Ross

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Jun 15, 2004
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I think that the using of old sailboats for movie scenes is perfectly in line with the advise seen so often on this forum. Those boats aren't worth spending money, time and labor on because you can never get your investment back.
Of course rehabilitating an old boat may be the only way some people could ever be able to have a boat.
 
Aug 16, 2010
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Is that hot chick in it again,I know she is young and they make them look even hotter but she is very Hot,heard the guys out side the movie repeating that after I saw them both,don't you just love the new Camaro.
Nick

Nah..they replaced Meghan Fox with a skinny blond.
 
Feb 26, 2004
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I wish they'd use my dock neighbor's boat! He hasn't been down in over five years and it's been such an eyesore most of the folks on the dock are complaining about it.
 
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