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Blue Thunder
1983 · Film · 110 min
Directed by John Badham
Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences during the Vietnam War, and Lymangood, his resourceful new partner, are tasked with testing an advanced and heavily armed experimental chopper known as Blue Thunder.
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Blue Thunder wasn't just B-movie conspiracy theory paranoia porn but also contained a warning about technology authoritarianism and invasion of privacy, and police over-militarization.
A bit of a non sequitur but I did ask a similar question to some models which provide links for the same small helicopter question. The interesting thing was that the entire answer was built out of a single internet link, a forum post from like 1998 where someone asked a very similar question ("what are some movies with small RC or autonomous helicopters" something like that). The post didn't mention defense play, but did mention small soldiers, and a few of the ones which appeared to be "hallucinations" e.g. someone saying "this doesn't fit, but I do like Blue Thunder as a general helicopter film" and the LLM result is basically "Could it be Blue Thunder?" Because it is associated with a similar associated question and films.
Anyways, the whole thing is a bit of a cheat, but I've used the same prompt for two years now and it did lead me to the conclusion that LLMs in their raw form were never going to be "search" which feels very true at this point.