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On a related note, if society is breaking down in some way or other - natural disaster, apolcalypse, street-rioting, whatever - criminal gangs and drug addicts are going to break into pharmacies and take absolutely everything. They're not only going to be hammering themselves on opioids, but also laxatives and immodium, ibuprofen, insulin, Deep Heat.
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When taking tablets of some kind, it’s best to grab an imprecise handful, hurl them into the mouth and swallow quickly, often without a drink.
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Thetford was the filming location of Dad's Army, and thence we can presume the latter was cover for real-life clandestine operations. Which is clearly known to Big Tech and the Deep State. It all links up, you see...
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Originally posted by Various Artist View PostShould that be impending missions, Sits, or are they secretly saboteurs?
Incidentally (and with some considerable level of coincidence given your roots) autocorrect wrote “Thetford” initially when I was attempting to type “they”. So what is Thetford doing in my iPad’s dictionary?
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The bit in the second one after he tells Austin Powers not to worry about the plot when turns to camera to say the audience "and that goes for you, too" was ad-libbed.
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Originally posted by Snake Plissken View Post
No they aren't. Because you have the opportunity for characters to scheme between themselves or have a sudden revelation which is revealed by them whispering to a colleague and then inexplicably saying "SON OF A BITCH" at a loud volume.
But in a Tom Clancy film or cop drama, or whatever, they're often almost as boring as they usually are in real life The Oceans Eleven approach cutting the meeting with the action is the way to do that.
Also, in real life, those meetings are often just a string of military jargon and wouldn't make sense to more than 0.00001% of the audience if they were presented realistically. Like in that aforementioned thing I saw on Top Gun (or maybe it was actually about the Air Force's equivalent) it was all numbers, acronyms and high-tech aviation jargon.
By the way, I only recently got the joke of Basil Exposition's name in the Austin Powers films because I thought his name was Basil Expedition.
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Originally posted by Sits View PostOf course many establishments have a half court and basketball hoop "out back" which is always kept available for crack teams to discuss impeding missions.
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Originally posted by elguapo4 View PostHas anyone in real life ever spat a mouthful of liquid across the room when someone else has made a slightly surprising announcement.
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Originally posted by elguapo4 View PostOr pushed a full plate of food away when someone else mentions something mild about body functions.
You need to plan your reactions, see?
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Has anyone in real life ever spat a mouthful of liquid across the room when someone else has made a slightly surprising announcement. Or pushed a full plate of food away when someone else mentions something mild about body functions.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View Post
Because committee meetings with power point presentations are boring.
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Originally posted by Tratorello View Post
Yeah I love this in thrillers and war movies, a team of highly trained operatives will be talked through the intricate details of their nigh on impossible mission just as their helicopter touches down for the assault on the terrorist base...
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Oh that's another one, isn't it. Along with "let's go to a bar and shoot some pool while discussing the top secret homicide case that might involve organised crime and corrupt local politicians, no one will ever hear us there..."
and no one ever does.
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Of course many establishments have a half court and basketball hoop "out back" which is always kept available for crack teams to discuss impeding missions.
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They had to downplay that element to optimize its effectiveness as a recruiting tool
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OK, well maybe Top Gun was a bad example. I only ever saw it once a long time ago and I don't think I realised it was meant to be a school.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostTrue. But I thought the hardest thing about being a Navy pilot was taking off and landing on a carrier ship.
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Talking of Tom Cruise, I spotted one in an old Law and Order the other day - Ken Barlow's son was desperately thinking about how to prosecute a case, so reached for his baseball bat which he handled as he paced up and down the office, because it helps him think, just as it did for Cruise's character in A Few Good Men.
A baseball and catcher's mitt can also be used by such characters, I'm sure I've seen a football (American) being used as thinking prop too.
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True. But I thought the hardest thing about being a Navy pilot was taking off and landing on a carrier ship.
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It makes sense for trainee pilots in dangerous fighter jets full of fuel and weapons to crash them into empty ugly desert (or Burning Man) rather than into one of the world's great metropolises. But it makes it harder for short pilots to seduce civilians.
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It doesn’t make sense for the Navy to practice in Nevada, really.
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My experience of Fallon, NV, where the new Top Gun school is, is that it's a pretty depressing town compared to Miramar. The one night I spent there suggested that Tom Cruise would be on his motorbike going past the shitty run-down casino, and stopping for bad Chinese food to woo Kelly McGillis, then going to the county fair drinking very sticky and sweet cocktails and admiring the rusty farm machinery.
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They've moved the programme from San Diego to Nevada
And they do use PowerPoint
https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/ro...-command-brief
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