The hardest movies to shoot

[miguel_montes]

I remember only a couple of movies that I think that were very hard to shoot:

the first was "Apocalypse Now" Go here (IMDB) to see some terrible dificulties they had:

http://us.imdb.com/Trivia?0078788

The other I think it was "The Abyss". In the DVD documentaries the actors share the awesome problems.

And I think "The Lord Of The Rings" trilogy was also a headache to PJ, because he had to shoot three films in a row.

What do you think? Feel free to post your thoughts...

[freakandgeek]

imo since i can't draw worth crap, i think anything animated would be hard. but i am not sure, thats just what i think. anything with special affects and people at the same time and something that has animation AND real life people at the same time. those kinds just seems really hard. and i wonder how in the heck they filmed the frog scene in magnolia without someone getting majorly hurt. ha ah

[docholiday_13]

Black Hawk Down - The battle scenes in this must have been hell to shoot

Fight Club- Could have been a fairly easy movie to do, but Fincher wanted to make it something very special.

Saving Private Ryan - The opening twenty minutes. Having to worry about, the weather (it always needs to be cloudy), hundreds of extras. Special effects, continuity. Just a major headache. And that's just the first 20 minutes!!

Jaws- This movie was arduous to film. Only because every thing that could go wrong, did go wrong.

Requiem For A Dream - I think I read somewhere that this movie has the most cuts ever. Maybe I misread and it just has a whole fuck load of them. Regardless, tricky movie.

[Annie Hall]

Moulin Rouge...those dance sequences...oy gevault...the first scene in the Moulin Rouge *alone* is enough to make me throw in the towel and never act again. :p

Star Wars...more for the fact that the actors have to resist making light saber noises when fighting.

[eleven]

though i hated the movie water world with kevin kostner, it seems to me it ould have been a bitch to shoot. the whole movie was out on the ocean in old crappy boats.

[therealjohng]

Saving Private Ryan - The opening twenty minutes. Having to worry about, the weather (it always needs to be cloudy), hundreds of extras. Special effects, continuity. Just a major headache. And that's just the first 20 minutes!!

Tom Sizemore was on Leno when SPR was released and he said that he threw a grenade at the wrong moment. Spielberg yelled cut and they had to reshoot the same scene. Sizemore said that 1000's of men were pissed because they had to do it over again. Funny shit!

[Buck Turgidson]

Catch the documentary My Best Fiend (SIC) sometime, and check out what Werner Herzog had to go through to get Fitzcarraldo filmed. That movie and Apocalypse Now are the true modern legends of Difficult Shooting.

[electriclite]

Originally posted by eleven
though i hated the movie water world with kevin kostner, it seems to me it ould have been a bitch to shoot. the whole movie was out on the ocean in old crappy boats.


Yeah, but The Abyss was mainly filmed underwater. Now THAT is rough.

[Zed]

Originally posted by miguel_montes


And I think "The Lord Of The Rings" trilogy was also a headache to PJ, because he had to shoot three films in a row.




Not only that.....he also got to manage to make Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd and Dominic Monagan look like small hobbits and a very similar job with 6' 1'' John Rhys-Davies.

The shoting of the Lord of the Rings was a very complex job.

[rushmore beauty]

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (10/10 - I know they will all be perfect) must've taken a shitload of sweat and patience to make.