Stockfootage - not only in Seagal movies

[slawek_wozniak]

I have just watched SCORCHER with Mark Dacascos. Then I remembered every screaming and talking bad about Today You Die and all this stuff that they used some stockfootage.

So please stop and watch SCORCHER for example. They used there many stocksfootage from Dante's Peak, Daylight and The Beach.

I liked Today You Die very much and I will never kill it becouse some chase scenes from other movie.

greets to all fans

p.s. I will watch tomorrow the new FLIGHT OF FURY, I can't wait

 

[supertom]

The problem with many of these low budget movies that use stock shots, is that they become a crutch. They use way too much in FOF, and much that I've seen already when I watched Lundgren's Stormcatcher. The problem is also when these films are specifally written around the stock footage. It doesn't make for a very good movie. FOF is reasonably enjoyable, compared to Attack Force, but it's a bad movie, make no mistake. Stock footage can become a crutch. Seagal should be, at 12 million budget a film, avoiding doing these types of films. I fully understand why he hates to ackknowledge the existence of his recent films, because really, they suck. Especially comparing to the peak of his career in Under Siege and before that. Even stuff like Nico and Out For Justice isn't considered great, so these recent films really are stink worthy. I don't think Once Upon a Time in The Hood will be much better than FOF really, and after that we'll get one of two things:

1-Seagal doing a film he wants to do, which could be ego-driven and poor like ODG, FDB. Or perhaps a return to form in something passionate and well made.

Or

2- No more movies.

Thankfully I don't think he'll be signing any multi picture deals with the likes of Castel pictures or Millenium films, doing quickly, shoddily produced garbage. That's a good thing. Although I always enjoy the anticipation and regularity that comes with Seagal releases in the last few years. I'll miss him doing 3 or 4 films a year, pap or not.
Whether he does another film all depends on whether he'll be able to get a movie that's truly "his" financed.

 

[SimonLustenberger]

Watch AGENT RED with Dolph Lundgren. The whole movie is a stock-footage. A miracle they didn`t take Wesley Snipes to double Dolph. Nothing against Dolph. Because he is a great guy. But AGENT RED almost made me eat my shoes.

 

[GlimmerMan]

Once I watched an episode of Knight Rider, and they used stock footage from the movie 'Superman'. The bit where Supes pushed the big rock down the mountain to block the torrent from the ruptured Hoover Dam was used so it looked like Kitt pushes a big rock down a hill to block a road. Interesting...

 

[undefeated]

It's not unusual for DTV garbage movies to have this, this is what happens when you don't have the budget to film all those scenes yourself.
Other movies that suffer from the use of stock footage:

Ablaze (Tom Arnold - Ice-T - Michael Dudikoff)
Blast (Eddie Griffin - Vivica A Fox - Breckin Myers)
Today You Die (Seagal)
Scorcher (Dacascos - Rutger Hauer)
Epicenter (Gary Daniels)
Flight of Fury (Seagal)

 

[slawek_wozniak]

Watch AGENT RED with Dolph Lundgren. The whole movie is a stock-footage. A miracle they didn`t take Wesley Snipes to double Dolph. Nothing against Dolph. Because he is a great guy. But AGENT RED almost made me eat my shoes.

So that's why I didn't know what am I looking at But It was Lundgren I think or the guy with the same face.

There was a Bruce Lee movie somedays. But he died and the makers put a "real" photo of him behind some things so the audience think that the other guy fights real Bruce Lee. Very funny that was. But I think they gone too far...

 

[GlimmerMan]

That was Game Of Death wasn't it? He died before the movie was finished, so they finished it anyway with cardboard cut-outs and stunt doubles. Very poor...