Loz wrote:
One of the most pathetic things about this movie, is the...skelitons, hold together and thrash about, as though they are in pain...
Not very sophisticated is it?
Loz,
No. That was one of the lamentable scene which I would have edited out -- not just to shorten the too-long movie, but because it was so bizarrly fictional.
Just before that, you saw folks burst into flames, followed by their skeletons then falling down like houses o' cards. Granted, one could wonder why the flesh would be burned away so instantly, but the bones remain nice and white, but that's almost overlook-able. There's something kind of symbolic about skeletons. They symbolize death, so seeing them for a moment after the flesh/person was gone, has a sort of visually symbolic or mythic reason to be there, even if not highly scientific reasons.
The writhing skeletons was just juvenile. Hines' film lost credibility (from what it had) with those sequences. Take them out, and the whole thing gets just a little better.
A pity that the CGI time wasted on those stupid skeletons wasn't put into the Thunder Child CGI budget.