@0:32 there's no body hooked to the crane. Then, 2 seconds later there's a body hooked and you can clearly see Arnold's stuntman making him look great yet again!
It's also an amazingly understated parody of Wile E. Coyote .... I'm sure I've seen that surprised look in several animated sequences from the Chuck Jones era!
That brings to mind the first season of Star Trek The Next Generation, the episode where Denise Crosby's character was killed off, The black slime pit in that particular episode was made of metamucil and black printer's ink, Jonathan Frakes went so far as to perform the stunt where his character gets sucked into the sludge pit by himself, When Frakes was later vomited back up onto the "Beach" there was a moment between takes where he was lying on the beach set covered in the stuff and LeVar Burton simply went up to him and said "Frakes, I would never have done that."
Last Action Hero used digital compositing for all its composite shots(a few effect facilities still did optical compositing). ... and while this composite is great, the shot of the mid-air dynamite (practical prop in rig) earlier in the movie for comparison is not that great.
I think it was a ‘harsher/hilarious in hindsight’ moment. An explosion in a tar pit surrounded by dinosaurs - the movie was a box office bomb due to it being released right after Jurassic Park. 22 years later, another Arnie classic ends up bombing to a Jurassic sequel.
2:05 lol you can even see the edges of the pool he's swimming in. Don't know if it was intentionally bad so as to fit with the theme or an actual mess up.
Such an underated and misunderstood movie.... revisting this flicks is truly relaxing and entertaining in the same time compared with today and near past mental garbage with witch Hollywood and the film industrie flood us......
It Wasn’t his belly. In the movie the defiled cadaver of the former flatulently renown mobster Leo “The Fart” was rigged with a nerve-gas bomb; instead of exploding like tnt he would “go off” one last time wiping out the opposing mob family at his funeral. Now we know this is a fictitious movie and dead people don’t “fart” only living people can break wind but Jack Slater had mentioned the goons that killed leo for this nefarious plot stuffed the 3 canisters inside leo probably within his stomach/ intestines, Schwarzenegger’s character also deduced that the movie’s bad guys Torelli and Benedict whacked him specifically for this job because of his immense corpulence. Now I used to think that when the bomb went off leo popped or exploded and the gas released but because of the loud fart sound and the amount of effort the bad guys put into rigging Leo the fart as an effective stinkbomb and judging by the comical trigger device for the bomb by pulling the corpse’s finger hence arming the wristwatch timer chemical-weapon I would assume that because this attempted mass-murder was designed to kill an entire opposing mob family by hiding a gas-bomb insides a fat guy who’s known alias was “the Fart” to make him pass gas one last time even though I’ve already mentioned a dead person cannot produce one because they are already dead I think that’s exactly what the bomb did. The amount of effort and irony that went into Leo’s explosive I’d wager that when the clock reached zero after he was thrown into the tar pit the canisters began dispensing the gas and because of where in his body they were being stored all of the sudden immense pressure pushed it out of Leo, effectively making the erroneous corpse “pass gas one last time” as earlier quoted by Slater. The reason Jack has Danny swing them over and into the tar pit was so that the nerve toxin would be contained (The Huge Bubble) as probably everyone in the vicinity would have died. The very definition of Silent But Deadly.
it sucks this movie got an unfair treatment I think it released the same time as Jurassic Park and just got steam rolled. I really think this movie is actually pretty good for what it is.
I know it's hardly the #1 problem with Last Action Hero, but the fact that you can clearly see the set-work (glass panes on both sides of Arnold as he swims ashore) is bad. Worse still, Arnold clearly rests his left hand on the "tank"-edge as he is climbing out of the fake tarpit. Yep, this is why we use CGI for everything now.
If you are not familiar with the geography of Los Angeles, the Hyatt Regency hotel and the Rainbow Lagoon Park are about 29miles (google) from The La Brea Tar pits, both of which were used in this scene....
