It's a paycheck. (Didn't Austin Powers spoof this a bit? Also Kevin "Diesel" Nash's cameo in John Wick nicely plays with this idea.) I'd insert Randalls speech about "Luke Skywalker: Communist Bastard" as well.
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Originally posted by tee rex View PostIn Taken 2 (yeah, sorry) Liam Neeson's plans are greatly assisted by the entire group of baddies watching a game, and because it is Istanbul and to prove they are very uncivilised men who will not be missed, the game is in black and white.
Said phenomenon reminds me of one of my favourite tropes (which I've doubtless already mentioned on this very thread) - the deathly scream of a victim merging into the blasting horn of a passing Kenworth, or similar vehicle. This has been a running joke between me and a couple of friends for some years.
You had to be there really.
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Vera comes up trumps again:
At the start of the episode a body was discovered out in the middle of nowhere next to Hadrian’s Wall. The crime scene was then thoroughly searched and cleared. Well over an hour into the episode, Vera and Joe suddenly appear back out there, standing discussing the case, despite there being no necessity to go back there at all. Then Vera starts complaining she can’t get a signal and they rush back to the city.
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostLet's not have a proper briefing before going on the mission. Why don't we walk around in public discussing the mission? (Been watching the clone wars cartoon and this happens a lot!)
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Oh and something I may have mentioned previously but I'll rant about it again, the whole point of using a helicopter for a pursuit or to attack someone/something is that they are stand off weapons systems, they can hover a distance away and watch or take potshots, they do not have to continuously overfly the target, then do a massive turn and repeat the process over and over again, what you're thinking of there Mr or Mrs Director is planes, that's what planes have to do, helicopters however can stop and turn on a sixpence, that's the whole point of their existence.
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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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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View Post
Because committee meetings with power point presentations are boring.
Although if there is a briefing it will always be interrupted by a big, dumb soldier who shows off to the rest of his mates that he's going to kill the aliens / shoot lots of bad guys, whatever. That guy always dies.
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Briefings are to inform the audience, who are presumed ignorant. "We'll be going into Cambodia [cue map] across the border from Vietnam ...". It is concerning that these ultra-special ops guys need a high school geography class only minutes before the precisely planned mission.
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One thing I don't really understand about the official briefings is that they often have those incredible window-like two way video wall things that they can walk around and manipulate by waving their hands at. I've used powerpoint enough to know that this functionality is not available, and I'm pretty sure that any government agency would have video display equipment that is cheaper and more obsolete than anything I can buy on Amazon.
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I can't really imagine they use Powerpoint tbh. A map on the wall with some sticky dots on seems more likely.
The other thing with briefings is why do they always sit in rows like schoolchildren? I think they even sit in rows inn Top Gun. Like there are ever chairs in any government installation just sitting about for people to put into rows for a briefing that lasts 2 minutes max.
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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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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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