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Top Gun 2

Hair Warrior

Hair Warrior

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MIDNJAC said:
Haha MD, you look a lot like this reservist Targeteer we got part way through my last deployment. I remember passing him in the p way and instinctively calling him sir (assuming he was an O-6 or something), before realizing he was just the oldest LT in the navy. BZ on still fitting into that bag!
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Can confirm reserve intel are old af. Ensigns >40 are common. Much respect for those who can earn the 3A1 and do all the power drills while holding down a day job, tho.

BT

Plot certainly raised a couple questions:
- they sent Mav to NAS NI not Fallon
- TLAM coordinator didn’t want to send a couple against the SAM sites? brutal
- lots of admirals in the same room, no flag aides around
- much lamer, nerdy alternate ending: strike mission gets scrapped last minute when a 3-letter agency comes thru w/ stuxnet 2
- CAPT Mitchell needs to retake his motorcycle safety brief
- no one spilled coffee on their khakis, wtf
 
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nittany03 said:
Navy tech advisor: "well, H-60s usually don't sound like . . ."

Hollywood crew: "HELO MUST GO WHOP WHOP WHOP!!"
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Hollywood sound effects crew:

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nittany03

nittany03

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Hair Warrior said:
- lots of admirals in the same room, no flag aides around
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This sometimes still happens when COS gets a bug up his/her ass and wants a "working session" with the principals. A "working session" that's still preceded by much churn and thrash in whatever areas of the staff have to prep the one- or two-star for the "working session."

I'll never get those three days of my life back, but hey, at least I was getting pay, per diem, and retirement points.
 
GroundPounder

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GroundPounder said:
I was working on the set of “ The Mule “ and they put thousands of pounds of crushed pecan shells on the dirt in one of the scenes. I asked why, and was told it was to make the dirt look like dirt on screen.

Real dirt does not cut it.
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For some reason, I could not edit my own post. The first shot is how the building really looks. The next two are after it was made to look run down. They spent half a day threading weeds into all of the prefect grass, and lily fields, and replacing sections on the front of the house with rotten wood.

There was no high tech in the movie, but it makes you realize how much money they burn through making movies. I tried to offset that cost buy offering to buy either of the old trucks he drove in the movie, it was quick no. It was crazy to see how close they made the two old trucks look to one another, even at a foot away, they were almost identical in every imperfection, dent and rust spot. The picture here does have one glaring difference, the hole in the front grill is 180 degrees out, but it was fixed prior to shooting. before.jpgAfter.jpgafter 2.jpg cars.jpg
 
Griz882

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GroundPounder said:
For some reason, I could not edit my own post. The first shot is how the building really looks. The next two are after it was made to look run down. They spent half a day threading weeds into all of the prefect grass, and lily fields, and replacing sections on the front of the house with rotten wood.

There was no high tech in the movie, but it makes you realize how much money they burn through making movies. I tried to offset that cost buy offering to buy either of the old trucks he drove in the movie, it was quick no. It was crazy to see how close they made the two old trucks look to one another, even at a foot away, they were almost identical in every imperfection, dent and rust spot. The picture here does have one glaring difference, the hole in the front grill is 180 degrees out, but it was fixed prior to shooting. View attachment 35565View attachment 35566View attachment 35567 View attachment 35568
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It’s big business. Most of the “theme work” (sets, ground forms, lighting, theater, fake dirt…) done at the National Museum of the US Army was done by a group in the Hollywood business. What they can accomplish is simply amazing.
 
Hair Warrior

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nittany03 said:
This sometimes still happens when COS gets a bug up his/her ass and wants a "working session" with the principals. A "working session" that's still preceded by much churn and thrash in whatever areas of the staff have to prep the one- or two-star for the "working session."
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That sounds worse than the stuxnet 2 alt ending.
 
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