Movie thread

[MA_PE]

jeb:  A star is born!  I hope your bike doesn't run off to Hollywood on you.

 

[knight1fox3]

Who knew EB.com had so many potential movie stars! 

 

[Wolverine]

I am in the Stevie Ray Vaughan video "When The House is a Rockin'", about 2/3 of the way through, for precisely the exact amount of time it takes the camera to pan left to right, about 0.15 seconds.  See - THERE!  The guy in the back of the crowd wearing the forest green shirt?  Random partying guy #17?  That's me.

Nailed it.

 

[jeb6294]

I discovered that a lot of it is just being lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. When they filmed them walking down the sidewalk towards the bar, they decided they wanted a couple "bikers" sitting on their bikes outside. There were three of us standing there but they picked the first two. They're right there when they turn the corner so they should definitely make it into the movie. It was funny though. I had been talking to one of the guys and he liked to think he knew all about this movie making stuff so he tried to come up with his own "act" when they came around the corner. Director went over and told him he was just supposed to stand there.

 

[Road Guy]

Remind us when this one comes out... Maybe you can get a screen shot of the bike?

 

[Sapper PE LS]

When they shot War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise, they used a bunch of humvees and stuff from the Virginia Army National Guard.  They also wanted soldiers to drive them, so that scene where all of the military equipment is rolling out to go fight the aliens, that's all Virginia Guard soldiers and equipment.  There were about ten of them from my unit in there, ten trucks, and a handful of drivers from my unit (can't remember how many).  I was not in it, but I did authorize the use of the equipment as the commander that those humvees came from.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407304/trivia?item=tr0775253

 

[Wolverine]

Movie related - so my local county school system put out a notice that there had been some Creepy Clown threat/rumors going around and that, although they believed it to be a hoax, they still take any threat seriously and would be vigilant on the Creepy Clown issue.

So I quizzed my high school age son about it that night and offered up my theory that this was just a clever advance marketing campaign for the remake of Stephen King's "It".

He says, "Duh, Dad, I don't mean to burst your bubble, but we already guessed that."  And bingo, I am officially old.

But then I did some surfing and Stephen King swears it's not his doing.

Then I did some more surfing and read about how actor Bill Skarsgard came up with a new approach to Pennywise the Clown that completely creeped the directors out.  So he's it.

Now he's starting to creep me out:

 

[Road Guy]

anyone over 5 Ft tall that steps on my property in a clown suit his Halloween is getting a 22 short  to the leg

 

[knight1fox3]

 

[snickerd3]

saw ms peregine's home for peculiar children this weekend....still not sure if I liked it or not.  it definitely has tim burtons touch, but i dunno....maybe it's weird because helene boheme carter ( a tim burton usual) wasn't in it.  

 

[Ramnares P.E.]

Was it true to the book? ^

 

[snickerd3]

Was it true to the book? ^

not a clue, never read the book.  

 

[Road Guy]

is that the one that had the toy child? 

 

[snickerd3]

not in the movie...

 

[Ramnares P.E.]

is that the one that had the toy child? 

No.  Ms Perigrine's home for peculiar children is about caretakers (ymbrynes) that take care of peculiar (gifted) children - children with special powers.  The ymbrynes and children exist in a time loop hiding from wights and hallowgasts. 

 

[Dleg]

I went to see Sully this weekend.  I really didn't want to go because I thought it looked boring, but my wife made me.  It was actually really good.  Clint Eastwood did a good job of keeping the pace up and highlighting the whole witch hunt thing which I didnt' even know had happened to the poor guy.  

 

[mudpuppy]

I went to see Sully this weekend.  I really didn't want to go because I thought it looked boring, but my wife made me.  It was actually really good.  Clint Eastwood did a good job of keeping the pace up and highlighting the whole witch hunt thing which I didnt' even know had happened to the poor guy.  

It was a good movie, but from what I've read about it the witch hunt part was vastly overplayed to make the movie more dramatic.

 

[Dleg]

Yeah, I kind of wondered about that.  In this anti-government age, it's become so popular to portray any "bureaucrat" as a mean-spirited person on a power trip, when the vast majority are just doing their job and want to see people get the best of the deal in the end.  

If that's the case, then someone should follow up with a witch hunt movie about the NTSB guy who was wrongly accused and had his life ruined by a hollywood director in the name of making a story about someone else more exciting.

 

[Flyer_PE]

^Sullenberger requested (it was honored)  that the real names of the NTSB people not be used in the film for that very reason.  After an accident, the NTSB people are going to go over everything and everybody with a microscope.  The idea isn't to persecute the pilot but rather to figure out what exactly happened and see what, if anything, can be done to keep it from happening again.  This incident stands out just for the fact that it was pretty spectacular and the pilot was still alive to be interviewed.

I don't think there was any disagreement among the aviation community that putting that plane anywhere other than the river would have resulted in mass casualties.

 

[Dleg]

I went and googled it, and now I have lost a lot of respect for Clint Eastwood for dramatizing the story at the expense of the NTSB investigators.