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How did Steve Austin crash the plane?
My theory about the show...
Anybody familiar with this failed pilot that Spin City was adapted from
What was all the slapstick comedy about?
Question for fans of Star Wars and for those interested in World War II history
Logan was running to avoid being arrested for theft...
The problem I have with her...
My problem with the film...
A debate on who the terrorists were
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Is that in the intro of the second episode of the pilot?
In the first episode, the scene is from about the 10-13 minute mark. Steve Austin mentions the plane is oscillating and you can see he's having problems controlling it, but he then seems to get a handle on it as it's going down.
I can't find it but there was at least one Lotto commercial (maybe just in Canada) that used the 6 Million Dollar Man in its advertising.
A guy has just won the lottery and dreams of having bionic powers, flashback to him playing with the Steve Austin doll. At the end, he's having second thoughts on the operating table and one of the guys in the room says to him "relax, we've got the best Hollywood doctors money can buy."
I think I found it on a website once years after it aired (not youtube.)
This is not to be confused with the lotto advertisements that Lee Majors did, although now that I think of it, it may have been Lee Majors who said that to the guy.
If you're trying to test me about a random episode, I can't remember most off the top of my head.
I don't remember an episode with Russian (Soviet) astronauts, I remember the episode with Soviet spies, and what was illogical in that episode is that they thought that Gilligan was a genius.
But whole sections of dialogue are lifted straight from Zero Hour! including where Lloyd Bridges says "looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking."
Lava reversing direction to go back in the volcano isn't too far fetched. Heh.
I didn't say the episodes were illogical, I said there was at least one illogical thing in each episode.
That's true about tribes in the South Pacific and especially true about tribes in the Caribbean, but they were in the North Pacific, about 500 miles from Hawaii.
One other thing, not that the show should be taken seriously. But, it's highly unlikely there would have been any uncharted islands between Hawaii and Japan as the U.S Navy did a complete survey of all the islands in and around those areas and everywhere in between during World War II.
Yes, they kept all the bullets for the flare gun in the storage hut (which is an issue in itself as the hut was much bigger than the boat) and Gilligan fired the gun right into the storage hut which caused all the bullets to explode in one go.
I've actually criticized a film reviewer myself for that. One of our local critics in Vancouver, B.C, Katherine Monk, was constantly criticizing films for what they weren't. I think I even emailed her once saying "Could you criticize what the film actually is rather than what you'd like it to be?"
So, I'm very sensitive to making that sort of movie criticism. I wrote that post now five years ago and barely remember the film, so I can't comment on it, other than in this case, I clearly thought the film didn't have a point since I thought the characters were insane. It can't be a rational criticism of marriage if the characters aren't rational themselves.
Of course, the idea may have been 'marriage makes people crazy.' But, not to criticize the film too much for not being what I want, that's more of an idea for a five minute or so sketch than for a feature film.
I've never seen The Man from UNCLE, but I'm familiar with it. I didn't say Robert Vaughn could only play villians (or antagonists.) I believe in another thread somebody said they didn't think much of Vaughn in this film and that my point was that he was generally fine in this but was better in Columbo.
I just found out about this movie a few days ago. I agree it is better than JFK though Oliver Stone's film is more professional/slick. The interesting thing for me about this movie is that Stone's movie was so dense with information/dialogue that I had to stop watching it about half way through because it gave me a bit of a headache. After finishing the film I thought to myself: "the problem with JFK is the format, the prosecution/trial format made it heavy with dialogue. It would have been so much more interesting if Oliver Stone tried to show us his theory rather than tell us."
I guess because of this movie, Oliver Stone didn't want to use that format. Oliver Stone certainly knew about this film because the wiki of Executive Action mentions that Donald Sutherland is credited with the idea for this film and Donald Sutherland had a fairly major role in JFK.
A couple other points. There is a post here about the weakest argument in this film. One of the conspirators asks "is there no way we could simply blackmail JFK?" I guess even by 1973 it still wasn't known that JFK had affairs including with Mafia wives and might have even raped a woman in the White House.
An interesting fun fact, though I don't know if there is any connection between the two: The actor Will Geer plays the crusty conspirator Harold Ferguson. This movie was released on November 7, 1973. Early in the film, kind of out of nowhere, he says "there's nothing wrong with my heart."
In the Columbo episode that aired February 11, 1973, Will Ferguson played a crusty heart surgeon and medical researcher who has to undergo heart surgery to repair a valve during which his research assistant and fellow heart surgeon (played by Leonard Nimoy) tries to kill him.
One other kind of interesting point: JFK is over 3 hours long (and the directors cut is nearly 3 1/2 hours long.) This film is so short that it's slightly under 90 minutes even with all the 'padding' of the JFK and other speeches intercut into it. (I know the purpose of those clips was to provide contrast and not to be padding, but they obviously also added to the length of the movie.)
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