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"Broken Arrow"
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(I haven't personally seen this movie yet so I haven't written a plot summary or done any brash reflections but you're welcome to add you nits and comments to the ones below.)

Reflections from the Guild

[Note from Phil: I have not verified these but they sounded good to me!]

Jim Ferris: "At one point in the film John Travolta is chasing ChristianSlater in a HMMMV (Humvee for the civilian). They are firing shots at Slater when one hits the gas tank of the vehicle he is driving. You hear a metal ricochet and gas starts coming out. Herein lies the nit. HMMMVs have HIGH IMPACT PLASTIC gas tanks! (I was in the Army and spent many hours underneath them.)

Marion M. Thomas: "First off, Why, oh why, would the military send two LIVE nukes out on a training mission?"

"Second, The original supposed plan is to take the nukes to Salt Lake City, right. Then Hale figures out he's going to Denver, then the White House Chief of Staff Guy says that Salt Lake's the closest hospital to Lake Powell. But I live in Grand Junction, Colorado, Closer to Lake Powell than Either Salt Lake City or Denver, and we have amajor hospital with an excellent Radiology Department, so the White House guy is wrong. True, Grand Junction is not as big as Denver, but we have a good sized population in our area, and there are several major national parks near us. Now wouldn't that hurt the economy? And yes, Grand Junction is on the tracks."

"Third, as far as I can tell, there are no train tracks that run anywhere near Lake Powell."

Nathan Hurst: Okay, they put a nuke several hundred feet underground and minutes later the thing goes boom. Among the many nits that occur are:

The EMP apparantly does not damage electronics that are turned off such as the car when Travolta shuts it off. How about his watch? Or any of the other electronic devices in a 10-15 mile blast diameter.

Also, wouldn't the mountain be blown apart. Shockwaves? Fires? Other bad things? The whole scene is JUST BAD!


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