Science and Hollywood's, never let facts get in the way of a story your trying to sell. After all everybody knows, KNOWS that it can rain SHARKS, just ask any teen, they have seen it in the movies so it much be true.

Its okay because the reason for watching a movie is in fact entertainment and if you have a bowl of popcorn and a soda, and you enjoy the movie it really does not matter if it,

(Pick one or more)

Follows the book

Makes sense

can actually happen

makes a political statement

can be tied back to Quantum Physics.

The only true measure is did you enjoy it.

I actually enjoyed 10.0 Earthquake, laughed several times through the movie at all the right spots, like the car going off the bridge and the little shit head landing first. Or the couple in the cave humping away and what a climax. They save the dog so all is okay. Other things that I found amusing in the movie, like the Capital Records building falling over on the tour bus, or the many building going up in flames yet the freeways were moving just fine, (now we know that was fantasyland, have you ever driven in LA?) the only thing I really wanted to see was a chase seen where the bag guy gets away because the cop car falls into a sinkhole, but you can't have everything in a low budget movie - the only cop in the movie rides a motorcycle. go figure. So was it a good movie, in a word NO. However I did enjoy it.

I think its all about expectations, if you go in looking for GONE WITH THE WIND, and see Herby does Dallas you might be disappointed but if you go in looking for Dumbo finds Mama and see The Live of PI - you see what I mean.

Its not that a movie is good or bad although some or worse then all the others made, its that you enjoyed watching it.

Movies do tend to rewrite history, though, which is a bit more insidious than simply getting the physics wrong. Hollywood never tells a historical drama the way it really happened. Too boring, I guess. But people will remember the movie version and swear that's how the depicted historical event really was. My hubby figures Tora Tora Tora got it right better than most, because they used two independent film crews, one US and one Japanese, each telling the bombing of Pearl Harbor at the start of US involvement in World War II from its own perspective, then the film editors intertwined the two stories chronologically. It's an exciting, albeit a bit long, film. I don't know what liberties they took with history, but I'm sure there were some. Again, there were idiots in charge (on both sides), and that was probably historically accurate. As my hubby says, "God must love idiots; he made so many of them."

Sandi

All I want in a movie is a nun slap a woman screaming "we're all going to die!"

(wink, wink)

Every so often, a raccoon with a machine gun makes my day. . .

Sometimes "and so it goes with God" does it.

On weekends, Harry Potter can happily live on my TV.

Like Riverwind I say "As Long as It Entertains"

When they run out of dinosaurs, maybe they will get into the too often over looked

MegaFauna

Super Sized Mammals and Birds

ready to eat or trample poor

Jeff Goldblum.

When will he ever learn?

Do NOT get between a mama mammoth and her calf.

Danger Will Robinson, Danger

I use to live near the La Brea Tar Pits as a kid and again as a younger adult.

I never understood why these critters didn't get their due in Hollywood.

Why not fifteen foot tall birds that can bite your head clean off, then pick your guts because

they don't wanna be anyone's T'giving dinner.

Moi

PM interest re. investing.

C&TL2745 (imported) wrote: Tue Oct 20, 2015 1:05 pm Movies do tend to rewrite history, though, which is a bit more insidious than simply getting the physics wrong. Hollywood never tells a historical drama the way it really happened. Too boring, I guess. But people will remember the movie version and swear that's how the depicted historical event really was. My hubby figures Tora Tora Tora got it right better than most, because they used two independent film crews, one US and one Japanese, each telling the bombing of Pearl Harbor at the start of US involvement in World War II from its own perspective, then the film editors intertwined the two stories chronologically. It's an exciting, albeit a bit long, film. I don't know what liberties they took with history, but I'm sure there were some. Again, there were idiots in charge (on both sides), and that was probably historically accurate. As my hubby says, "God must love idiots; he made so many of them."

Sandi

Filmed in Oxnard California for one. I know we watched them flying those 6 zeros day in and day out.

Yes

Dave (imported) wrote: Tue Oct 20, 2015 1:40 pm a raccoon with a machine gun makes my day. . .

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Tue Oct 20, 2015 3:17 pm Filmed in Oxnard California for one. I know we watched them flying those 6 zeros day in and day out.

Someone at the little airport near me has a two propellor vintage airplane and it is amazingly loud. Once or twice a month the owner flies it. The noise almost shakes my house. I can just imagine what Japanese Zeros sound like flying in tight formations and pretending to dive bomb things sounded and looked like.

BTW -- Clint Eastwood's LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA is a war film everyone should see.

The same with BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI.

Dave (imported) wrote: Tue Oct 20, 2015 6:00 pm Someone at the little airport near me has a two propellor vintage airplane and it is amazingly loud. Once or twice a month the owner flies it. The noise almost shakes my house. I can just imagine what Japanese Zeros sound like flying in tight formations and pretending to dive bomb things sounded and looked like.

BTW -- Clint Eastwood's LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA is a war film everyone should see.

The same with BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI.

Got an "international" airport near home. No flights in or no flights out. ...but a Customs office. (go figure)

Used to be a national guard base. Now I believe that they fly drones (predator drones) by satellite. (or something).

Anyways, it has an 9000 ft runway, long enough to land a space shuttle, if they were still flying the damned things. I have seen EVERYTHING there at air shows. From a B-17 to a B-2 Stealth. F-117 Stealth. P-38's B-24 Liberator, hell, they even had a B-25 Mitchell and a B-26 Douglas Invader. Mustangs, Avenger Torpedo plane like H.W. Bush flew in WWII... you name it.

The latest is an A-10 Texan Trainer with a 2000 HP radial engine and NO MUFFLER OF NO KIND. Now the Touch and go's landing practice for the airline novices is not bad at all.

I'd rather have the F-16's and the national guard back.... I saw an A-10 Fairchild Wart Hog the other day. You know, the one that is an armored flying tank built around a 3000 round per minute 20mm cannon-gattling gun. At least they have not shot the gun around here yet. And that's I have to say about that...

Dave (imported) wrote: Tue Oct 20, 2015 6:00 pm Someone at the little airport near me has a two propellor vintage airplane and it is amazingly loud. Once or twice a month the owner flies it. The noise almost shakes my house. I can just imagine what Japanese Zeros sound like flying in tight formations and pretending to dive bomb things sounded and looked like.

BTW -- Clint Eastwood's LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA is a war film everyone should see.

The same with BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI.

The move Bridge in the move Bridge On The River Kwai The bridge the Japanese had built.

moi621 (imported) wrote: Tue Oct 20, 2015 2:55 pm I use to live near the La Brea Tar Pits as a kid and again as a younger adult.

I never understood why these critters didn't get their due in Hollywood.

Why not fifteen foot tall birds that can bite your head clean off, then pick your guts because

they don't wanna be anyone's T'giving dinner.

You are speaking of Kelenken (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelenken)? This thing is big enough to make you its thanksgiving dinner.