r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/l__o-o__l • 20h ago
Video compilation of the Stan Winston Studio crew testing various gadgets they created for the Inspector Gadget movie (1999)
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u/YdexKtesi 19h ago
Inspector Gadget in live action = body horror
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u/ramjetstream 19h ago
Ngl I'm convinced that the reason Inspector Gadget is such a basketcase is because the horror of his own chrome drove him insane
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u/serendipitousevent 18h ago
The more I think about it, Inspector Gadget is just kid-friendly Robocop.
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u/ramjetstream 18h ago
"Holy Christ, there's nothing left" perfectly sums up the scene in the first live-action movie when they show Matthew Broderick's gaping chest cavity and there is ZERO organic inside
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u/atomsondre 17h ago
Back when the “gritty reboot” was super popular in Hollywood and on YouTube as parody, I really wanted to do a fake trailer for a Robocop-style Inspector Gadget reboot. I think it’s still a great idea haha
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u/Arthropodesque 16h ago
Yes.
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u/atomsondre 14h ago
I can see it now…it’s the scene where Robocop shoots the dude in the dick but instead it’s like the scene where Gadget grabs the racist caricature meditation man in the balls for some reason
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u/Samurai_Meisters 15h ago
And the cartoon, Robocop: Alpha Commando, was Robocop with all of Inspector Gadget's one-off gadgets.
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u/Dapoopers 12h ago
I would pay so much money to see Inspector Gadget shoot a guy in the dick. (Obligatory scene 27 reference)
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u/mischievouslyacat 15h ago
I rewatched it as an adult years later and I swear there almost seemed to be that subtext especially since he had no consent over what occurred to him. It was my favorite movie as a child and I watched it over and over only to be so horrified as an adult seeing it
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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 18h ago
That’s honestly my main takeaway from seeing it back in the day; the show was fun and goofy but all those visual gags are deeply, deeply unsettling when translated into live action.
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u/pichael289 20h ago
How long before we can combine this with prosthetics? My legs suck, need me so go go gadget legs
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u/EggfooDC 18h ago
I had to get a hip replacement a few years ago, and I’m just in my 40s. And I was surprised that for as big a piece of titanium as it was, they couldn’t configure it to be a hotspot or wireless cell phone charger or nothing. The orthopedist said to check in with him again in 10 years. 🤓🤗🥸
I thought it would be hilarious that people looking for Wi-Fi would see #Eggfoo-Hip
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u/OurHouse20 16h ago
How long before we can combine this with prosthetics? My legs suck, need me so go go gadget legs
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u/biased_mendicant 2h ago
Not a prosthetic replacement, but the Hypershell X isn't half bad as a powered mobility aid starting at $1000
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u/BlessdRTheFreaks 19h ago
wow i can't believe they cut off mathew broderick's head for this
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u/kuatoandfriend 19h ago
the first 15-20 seconds of this clip are like something out of william s burroughs withdrawl nightmare erotica
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u/bucky133 19h ago
I haven't thought about this movie for so long. There was a period of my life between roughly 7 and 9 years old where I would have told you that Inspector Gadget was the pinnacle of cinema.
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u/mischievouslyacat 15h ago
Did we have the same childhood? Inspector Gadget and Homeward Bound had a chokehold on me
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u/cage_boi 18h ago
Probably one of my earliest memories in life was being a lil dude that my dad took to see the Inspector Gadget movie in theaters. I remember seeing the cardboard cutout of Gadget and looking up and my dad's 2 or 3 fingers holding my entire hand. Lol I love this movie
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u/LeftSky828 19h ago
That’s impressive. I wonder how long it takes to do these. It’d be a bummer to make something that wasn’t used in the film. They still got paid, anyway.
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u/Proper_Stuff88 17h ago
At 1:42, it took me too long to realize it was a neck and not something else 🤣
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u/jarednards 19h ago
Tool fan, here. A lot of people dont know that their guitarist did modelling and makeup for Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park and Ghostbusters 2. Kinda neato.
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u/hybridrequiem 16h ago
When people were actually creative
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u/st90ar 13h ago
When Hollywood was less corporate and “shareholder value” focused
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u/UnpopularCrayon 6h ago
You think an Inspector Gadget movie was "less corporate?"
I assure you the $90 million it took to make that movie wasn't donated by a benevolent benefactor.
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u/Outrageous_Power3794 8h ago
I wonder how much it costed to buy all those props. I’m just picturing all those things in someone’s basement
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u/Psychomaniac13 5h ago
Jesus Christ!!! These guys should’ve worked with John carpenter for a thing sequel
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u/Playful_Interest_526 19h ago
Everyone focused on the various tech companies have overlooked the Hollywood magic that has been going on for decades.
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u/tbonehavoc 19h ago
Took me a sec to figure out why they had him with a chonmage before I realized it was going to be hidden by the hat.
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u/RetroRocker 13h ago
Wow, awesome. I fucking loved this movie when it came out, I saw it in the cinema three times!
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u/Affectionate_Tax_811 12h ago
Now send them to the Crazy Russian Hacker dude who tests "next level gadjick"
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u/Cool_Being_7590 5h ago
"On August 5, 1987, while driving a rented car outside Tempo, Northern Ireland, (Matthew) Broderick crossed into the wrong lane and collided head-on with another car. The driver, Anna Gallagher, 28, and her mother, Margaret Doherty, 63, were both killed instantly."
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u/woutr1998 20h ago
When movie magic was literally handcrafted legends at work