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Broken Arrow
1996 · Film · 108 min
Directed by John Woo
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.
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Tangentially related, I am reminded of this quote from the fun-yet-silly film "Broken Arrow" (1996):
Giles Prentice: A Broken what? Secretary Baird: Broken Arrow. It's a Class 4 Strategic Theatre Emergency. It's what we call it when we lose a nuclear weapon. Giles Prentice: I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0115759/quotes/?item=qt0352487
You mean the awesome 1996 classic action flick with Travolta and Slater, Broken Arrow? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115759/
Until anyone proves 1 facility that doesn't leak radioactive material after 20 years, they can keep that BS in their own fall-out theme park...
Fission facilities are just another 1950's loss-leader technology. Nonrenewable fuels should be saved for space/remote missions.
The film was ridiculous, but fun:
"Broken Arrow" (John Woo, 1996)
Yeah, the short code for it reminds me of the line from Broken Arrow (1996): “I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it.”
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0115759/quotes/
Funny, I knew the term from the film with John Travolta and Christian Slater, but never knew it was an actual code word in use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Arrow_(1996_film)
Would be highly unusual/nonsensical to launch a warhead on a lunar trajectory. It’s unnecessary for an icbm to have the delta v to reach the moon.
However it would make a great plot for a broken arrow movie!
Teacher is totally right. I used to be a movie buff, I started with the best movies and drilled down like. If I like a movie, I will check director or hero/heroine and start watching their flims. This started in 2004 beginning of torrents. I almost all movies, I ever liked in a 2tb hard disk. Nowadays I just re-download for better print but even I am not sure why I am doing I do it. When it started to hitt downturn is, at a point I was watching movies just to understand what the director is trying to tell as someone has produced this movie. I slowly started to cut back like I don't watch movies if it's more than 130mins and started cutting down the time.
If is say what's my best its mostly the ones between 1980 to 2005. Everything after that was too much CGI or it was like okay movie.
Like comedies I liked were Encino man, son in law, first few parts of police academy, jury duty.
Action movies Conair, lost in space, broken Arrow, specialist, assassins. Desperado.
I'm surprised not to see more people adding their favorite movies. Just sticking to things semi-related. I may have to go watch "My Man Godfrey" again but at least for me "The Thin Man" and its 5 sequels stuck with me where as though I watched "My Man Godfrey" years ago but I don't remember any details of it. (same lead actor and he pretty much always plays the same type of person)
"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" is a good movie but if you want some other westerns starting James Stewart I can recommend "Destry Rides Again" which is not super serious but I found it throughly entertaining. Also "Broken Arrow" (1950), (not the 90s John Woo movie which is a fun popcorn movie).
Seeing "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" on the list I recently saw "The Outlaw Josey Wales" which I enjoyed (also a Western with Clint Eastwood)
Of the movies on that list I've seen the one I'd recommend the most is "Women in the Dunes". I don't want to over hype it I've seen most of the movies on the list and they are all great stories but "Woman in the Dunes" might give you something new to think about where as the others are mostly just great entertainment.