Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-16 (Sunday)

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?

 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.