Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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now you need McGyver to fix your keyboard
Now you tell me... I'm waiting for MacGruber to get here!
p51
Sr Member
One that always bugs me about 'near future' space movies...
Astronauts who rebel against mission control and just go do their own thing. Sure, it has happened to much smaller degrees in the past (Apollo 7 had the crew pretty much give thumbs down to a lot of stuff, but that was Wally Schirra's last flight and Eisele and Cunningham for the most part much followed his lead as a crew normally would, to their dismay afterward to find they were banned from space after that), but astronauts don't just make up their own thing and go do it against what Houston tells them.
To suggest otherwise frankly is insulting to their professionalism.
Astronauts who rebel against mission control and just go do their own thing. Sure, it has happened to much smaller degrees in the past (Apollo 7 had the crew pretty much give thumbs down to a lot of stuff, but that was Wally Schirra's last flight and Eisele and Cunningham for the most part much followed his lead as a crew normally would, to their dismay afterward to find they were banned from space after that), but astronauts don't just make up their own thing and go do it against what Houston tells them.
To suggest otherwise frankly is insulting to their professionalism.
Riceball
Master Member
Don't forget that he was also incapable of patching a hole in a boat, granted it was a pretty large hole but with everything he did on that show patching a hole should have been a breeze. Once he did that, he should have been able to make both a compass and a sextant and the skipper should have been able to get a rough bearing of where they were and charted an approximate course back to Hawaii.
I think he didn't plan on the Gilligan factor! That tends to trump all the best laid plans of anyone!
LOL
Well, he did patch the ship using some water poof "glue" Gilligan discovered. But it was unstable and trashed the entire ship such that it literally flew apart.
Laspector
Master Member
Yeah, you beat me to the punch there, CessnaDriver. For decades people have been complaining that the Professor couldn't fix a hole in a boat, but after that "glue" episode, which was one of the first couple of episodes--There was NO BOAT to repair anymore. It had been reduced to noting more than a pile of lumber! And don't forget that in that episode there was no good metal to make nails with either. So no glue, no nails, no boat.
Now, why he couldn't make a raft, well that's another deal....
Now, why he couldn't make a raft, well that's another deal....
Zombie_61
Master Member
Fixed that for ya'!
p51
Sr Member
Funny how few TV fans even know of that episode, as it was one of the black/white ones that never saw much airtime in syndication. I'd only ever seen it once, myself and I remember as a kid saying out loud, "OH, the show makes so much more sense now!"
p51
Sr Member
What confused people was exactly where the island was. They mentioned Manila several times, even though the opening scenes were filmed from a Marina near Waikiki beach in Hawaii. The island location was mentioned at distances between 300 and 1200 miles from Hawaii and the radio broadcasts were from Hawaii if memory serves.
binkleywalker
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I've never gone back to watch it, but I've heard the opening was filmed right after Kennedy was killed, so the flags were at half mast.
I'll go to Youtube right now to fact check my own story.
I'll go to Youtube right now to fact check my own story.
This was on Russell Johnson's page back some years ago. Some dude tried to use info from the show and come up with something.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=377581
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=377581
Sam Worthington? What has he even been in lately? Avatar and Terminator#4 were both like 7 years ago. I haven't seen him in much else before or since.
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