Author Topic: Rip apart 'Behind Enemy Lines" (Read 802 times)

muckmaw · « **on:** April 08, 2003, 01:56:24 PM »

I hate Owne Wilson.
I hate when people walk into the Museum and say, "That can't be right, in Top Gun Maverick did this...."

It is our duty to stomp out ignorance on aviation in America. I begin with the bane of my existence, "Behind Enemy Lines".

Please feel free to add...

Just prior to taking off from the carrier, you see clear shot of the pilot activating the "master arm switch". This arms all the weapons on board the aircraft. You would never arm your weapons until airborne.

Shortly after our hereo ejects you see the pilot flailing around trying to pull the ejection handle. In a Navy aircraft with two crew, the NATOPS manual (Naval Aviation Training and Operations Manual)clearly states that the seats must be set in the "command eject mode". This means, regardless of who initiates the ejection procedure, the rear seat goes first, followed by the pilot 1/2 later. There is no need for the pilot to pull the ejection handle.

When Burnett is talking to the admiral over the radio, he explains that he ejected while doing Mach 3. He must have switched planes because the Hornet's top speed is nowhere near that.

Curval · « **Reply #1 on:** April 08, 2003, 02:00:25 PM »

I like the part where he trips off all those mines and comes out without a scratch.

Russian · « **Reply #2 on:** April 08, 2003, 02:04:02 PM »

Its too easy...

AWMac · « **Reply #3 on:** April 08, 2003, 02:12:36 PM »

SLO · « **Reply #4 on:** April 08, 2003, 02:14:26 PM »

maybe you guys forgot its a MOVIE....meaning FICTIONAL:D

for the dumb....ITS NOT REAL:p

Mini D · « **Reply #5 on:** April 08, 2003, 02:23:37 PM »

It passes itself off as being based on a true story.

One of the few movies that gives you a peek at its lunacy early on, and doesn't disappoint.

I must say that the opening scene where he used the catapult to kick the football while he held it was the best.

Of course, turn fighting with the SAM(s) was good too.

I also like that "hard-drive in the seat" system also. Just like every ejectable seat I've ever seen.

How about missing with a sniper rifle from 100 yards away... by 2 feet.

And all that wonderment before things really get rolling.

MiniD

gofaster · « **Reply #6 on:** April 08, 2003, 02:34:10 PM »

Its a shame, really, that it had so many technical inaccuracies and traded realism for implausible action and drama sequences. It could've been a much better movie had it stayed rooted in reality.

Kinda makes me appreciate the lengths Stone and Spielberg went to in training their actors to be soldiers...

Sandman · « **Reply #7 on:** April 08, 2003, 02:35:49 PM »

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Originally posted by Mini D
Of course, turn fighting with the SAM(s) was good too.

MiniD

Coming from the EW biz... this was particularly hard to stomach.

funkedup · « **Reply #8 on:** April 08, 2003, 04:03:21 PM »

I like the final battle, where hovering helos slug it out with an armor platoon at 100 yards range, and win.

rpm · « **Reply #9 on:** April 08, 2003, 05:18:36 PM »

The scene in the back of the pickup where they give him a Coke. Everyone knows Pepsi rules over there! And in the attack of the shopping mall...the prices were all wrong.

midnight Target · « **Reply #10 on:** April 08, 2003, 05:25:45 PM »

And not a one named Grunherz!

Saintaw · « **Reply #11 on:** April 08, 2003, 05:40:14 PM »

Just the guy's face makes me want to slap him for the whole duration of the flick.

Mini D · « **Reply #12 on:** April 08, 2003, 05:45:09 PM »

Saintaw.. be nice. If I had a nose that stopped an axe from splitting the rest of my face open I'd show my apreciation by keeping it too.

MiniD

Saintaw · « **Reply #13 on:** April 08, 2003, 05:49:40 PM »

lol

It's not the nose, it's the "kicked dog" look... F18 pilot my a**e, he'd be better off taking a role in "neighbours" or some mexican soap.

Sikboy · « **Reply #14 on:** April 08, 2003, 05:53:04 PM »

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Originally posted by gofaster
Its a shame, really, that it had so many technical inaccuracies and traded realism for implausible action and drama sequences. It could've been a much better movie had it stayed rooted in reality.

Yeah, watching Scott O'Grady eat bugs for two hours would have packed the halls lol.

-Sik