Re: HIGH TECH WONDER INDIVIDUAL WEAPON

Quoting Neomatrix <neomatrix@btinternet.com>:

> >It was on BBC2 years ago, and I thought it was very good. <SNIP>I
> _think_
> it was >made on a tiny budget, somewhere in the USA, so
> >they're clearly not in Vietnam.  The nature of the story means
there's
> no
> >need for a big cast or huge SFX, so those aren't really problems.
> 
> Funnily enough, I hated Full Metal Jacket when it came out as I'd seen
> production footage showing how Kubrick turned the east end into
Vietnam
> and
> I couldn't suspend my disbelief when I watched it - I've managed it
> since
> then, but tof course now I play with Samurai Carrots and Bazooka
> wielding
> Potatoes. Funny world, eh?...

Kubrick was famous for not liking leaving the UK. The bone tumbling
through the
air scene in 2001 apparently took ages to shoot because the tall hedges
separating the field where they did it from Pinewood studios kept
turning up in
shot...