It doesn’t make sense for the Navy to practice in Nevada, really.
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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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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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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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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.
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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 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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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 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 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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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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Similarly with news of impending catastrophe in movies, everyone gets in their cars and all the roads out of the city are jammed. Whereas we now know most people would probably go have a look at the crashed alien spaceship, mutant monster thing and have a row with anyone who told them to leave the scene.
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