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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-16 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:02:15 -0800
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On 2/17/2025 9:44 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2025 at 8:53:34 AM PST, "Arthur Lipscomb"
> <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> Broken Arrow (blu-ray) 1996 movie directed by John Woo (I had *no* idea
>> Woo directed this when I put the disc in) starring John Travolta as a US
>> Air Force pilot who steals his plane's nuclear weapons during a training
>> flight
> 
> Can I ask the obvious here?
> 
> Why in the name of Red Hulk are there live nukes attached to a plane during a
> training exercise?
> 

Because then there wouldn't have been a movie!  LOL.
Here's one fore you.  Slater specifically says that if the wrong code is 
entered 3 times, it renders the nuke useless.  But instead of 
immediately entering the codes the first chance he gets, Slater takes 
time to monologue this to Travolta.  Then as it turns out Travolta was 
able to swap out the hard wired guts of the nuke with a different 
internal panel that would cause the nuke to go to a timer if the wrong 
code was entered 3 times.  Now, let's think about that for minute.  When 
exactly did Travolta have time and access to the nuclear bomb so he 
could do this?  Why is there a convenient countdown timer and screen on 
the bomb, which was designed to be dropped from a plane?  Do the nuclear 
missiles in silos have this feature too?  And upon realizing this, why 
didn't Slater dispose of the bomb without the timer first or just, set 
the time on that other bomb as well, rendering it equally useless to 
Travolta?  Or is it all the same answer as above?

>>   with Christian Slater as his determined copilot out to get the
>> nukes back.  And hey it's Samantha Mathis from Super Mario Bros. as the
>> love interest.  I don't think I've watched this since around the time of
>> the original release.  It was better than I was expecting.  Although one
>> annoyance was the way Travolta was constantly giving exposition to the
>> guy who financed the operation.  I know movies need exposition, but if I
>> was financing stealing a pair of nuclear weapons, you best believe I
>> would have already been fully briefed on the plan and all contingencies
>> well before it began!  Who are the co-conspirators, how are the bombs
>> being transported, and transported to where, are really not the types of
>> information you should be learning the day of!  LOL
> 
> The show SWAT is especially bad about this. Almost every episode has a scene
> where Shemar is briefing the team about their imminent op *as* they're racing
> toward it in their armored truck. Not back at the station before they leave,
> where they can all see diagrams and blueprints of the building they're about
> to hit and mugshots of the suspects they're after. Nope. Shemar yelling over
> police sirens is how they're introduced to the raid they're minutes away from
> conducting.
> 
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