Things I learned after watching Capricorn One
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rockdontrun-2 — 16 years ago(November 08, 2009 01:22 PM)
- After your finished faking the Mars Landing, don't bother locking up or guarding the abandoned base where it took place. I mean, it's not like some reporter is just going to walk in.
- However, you SHOULD lock up an abandoned gas station, but leave a crowbar next to the door in case you forget your keys.
- Due to budget cuts, the government only has two helicopters to be used for capturing escaped patsies of conspiracies.
- Also due to budget cuts, there are no money for radios in said helicopters. Therefore, pilots will have to fly together and face each so that they can communicate via sign language.
- When uncovering a conspiracy, don't bother to take pictures of the scene. Just take something from the site that may or may not have any significance.
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dcavalli — 16 years ago(November 10, 2009 06:15 PM)
- Caulfield and Brubaker would be able to get past the Secret Service presumably guarding the cemetery and then drive to the memorial service with the president, vice president, and other dignataries. (The scene might have been funnier if they let the Telly Savalas character prance with them through the gravestones.)
- If you get lost at a night in a windstorm in the desert and pass out or fall asleep, you'll wake up near a paved road and in front of an unfortunately-closed gas station.
- An escaped astronaut who is being hunted by killers will have an operator call his home instead of the police or the media.
- A "survival" kit on a jet will have exactly three flares and three cans of water to accomodate three the escaped astronauts.
- The helicopter pilots will be nice enough to let you shoot off a flare to warn your two friends before killing or capturning you.
- Caulfield probably went to the same lousy journalism school where Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) in "The Parallax Reporter" (1974) graduated from. Both journalists are held low regard by their bosses and have in the past pursued phony, sensationalistic stories.
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DKNYluvr — 15 years ago(September 17, 2010 07:49 AM)
- Also due to budget cuts, there are no money for radios in said helicopters. Therefore, pilots will have to fly together and face each so that they can communicate via sign language. <
Actually this is more or less accurate. The helicopters would be on what is known as a "black op". That is a top secret or beyond mission that "does not exist nor will it ever exist".
Part of the opsec(operational security) would be 100% radio silence. Even with 2010 technology the most secure encrypted communications will send something into the ether which is detectable at some level. Someone with proper knowledge and training can detect what goes out and depending on what they know make use of the data and possibly locate and track the mission.
Therefore the pilots would be using hand signals and visual communications which would not require radio communication.
- Also due to budget cuts, there are no money for radios in said helicopters. Therefore, pilots will have to fly together and face each so that they can communicate via sign language. <
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sophybliss — 16 years ago(November 12, 2009 11:39 AM)
- Schlumpy newspaper reporters can also be excellent (i.e. physics defying) stunt drivers when needed.
- It is possible to not only survive a 100 mph crash from a drawbridge into water, pre-airbag, but also swim to shore without a mark to show for it.
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ghostalive — 16 years ago(January 08, 2010 09:17 AM)
- After being shot at by helicopters while clinging to the wing of a cropduster, you immediately get in a Nissan Z-car and drive from West Texas to Virginia (Arlington National Cemetery) without changing your filthy, tattered NASA jumpsuit or otherwise cleaning up in any way.
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StudioDude — 16 years ago(January 26, 2010 01:41 PM)
you immediately get in a Nissan Z-car and drive from West Texas to Virginia (Arlington National Cemetery)
Brubaker's funeral was going to be right outside of Houston, per the conversation Kelloway had with his wife by the pool. Not that it's really THAT much more plausible that he wouldn't at least want to change clothes and wash his face, but it's a little more plausible. -
jetlag31 — 16 years ago(January 17, 2010 10:16 PM)
IMDBers ought to give these "Things I learned after watching" threads a rest. Or better yet pension them off to a retirement home for elderly jokes.
They were never very funny to begin with, but now that they have proliferated like rabbits they've become IMDB's version of the "Knock knock" gag: everybody's doing them and they're starting to sound alike as well as lame. -
Doom — 16 years ago(March 29, 2010 08:58 AM)
46 That when Hal Holbrook says put everybody you have to the west in your search, that of coarse means the same two helicopters you have been using the whole time.
That's awesome - I can't believe I never thought of that before. Good point.
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Liferr — 15 years ago(October 23, 2010 08:26 PM)
That when Hal Holbrook says put everybody you have to the west in your search, that of coarse means the same two helicopters you have been using the whole time.
That was a kick-ass point.
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