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Top Gun

Let's not forget the national military secret that was accidentally shown in Top Gun.

To this day no one has been able to track down just how a single AAM can be fired from the same underwing pylon at least twice in the same fight!!!

A memorable moment in film.

A truely momentous moment in film came last night at the Marin Symphony when they played a compilation of Shostakovich accompanying Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin. Amazing film, outstanding music. As stirring as the film/music was, the sold out house also surprised me by singing the national anthem with the full orchestra before the show. That's the first time that I have heard that many people sing it in many years. At a baseball game it's unusual to see people even take off their hats or stand for the national anthem.

Tom

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maiesm72
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Enzo Matrix wrote: : : If *course* it was lousy... it had Tom Cruise in it! : : "War of the Worlds" was his worst yet! No attempt at any sort of logical : plotline, an annoying self-obsessed teenager who thinks his problems are so : important that he steals the car in the middle of an alien invasion and Tom : Cruise gets acted off the screen by an eleven-year-old girl who has no : dialogue! ;-) : I knew the movie was going to be a stinker when the previews were:

CRUISE! SPIELBERG! WAR OF THE WORLDS!

Yeah, okay, this movie stinks so bad, we can only hope that "star power" brings them in.

Unfortunately, the bad taste of MI:II was still lingering, as was SPR, so I knew it was going to be super heavy on CGI, and no acting was required.

Bruce

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Bruce Burden

I don't think I've ever heard of anyone who didn't like them; they were agile, made a very hard target for gunfire due to their small size, reliable, and could take a lot of battle damage and still come home. The Israelis were supposed to have welded a steel tube extension on the back of the engine nozzle so that it could be easily replaced if a Grail missile went into it, as in most cases the aircraft would survive the hit with just some damage to the back end.

Pat

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Pat Flannery

I haven't seen that one in years, thought the ending seems anticlimactic after all the other things that go on in the movie, including the great, but fictitious, slaughter on the Odessa steps. I recently latched onto a uncut copy of "The Fall Of Berlin" with all the Stalin scenes restored, and the score by Dmitri Shostakovich...this movie shows that when it comes to Stalin, there is no way to lay the praise on too heavily. Because if he doesn't like it... :-)

pat

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Pat Flannery

The war machines looked neat, as did the Martians themselves. I have no idea why the whole "buried war machine" idea was used, as it made no sense - as sooner or later someone was going to bump into one while digging a subway or mine. This is the concept of screwing around with a good story for the sake of screwing around with it. And I'm getting sick and tired of those kids that Spielberg sticks into all his movies of recent. Frankly, I think he may have some problems of the Michael Jackson nature when it comes to kids, although it could also be that both he and George Lucas never emotionally developed much past age twelve, and still think of themselves as children.

Pat

Pat

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Pat Flannery

Especially considering it is the Bay Area of Calif.

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Andrew M

He didn't say which nation's national anthem it was, comrade. ;-)

Pat

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Pat Flannery

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