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OrangeAfroMan

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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #112 on: February 18, 2024, 11:07:51 PM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on February 18, 2024, 09:38:49 AM
If you want to learn a whole lot more about both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki weapons, the Trinity Site in New Mexico is open twice a year and they do a great presentation.

I'm far from a nuclear physicist but the general principle is that to get a bomb you need to compress fissile material into a dense enough mass. The untested bomb was a "gun type" bomb in which a fissile uranium "bullet" was fired into a tamper to cause the requisite compression.

The tested version, "gadget" as the test bomb was known, was an implosion weapon in which the detonation of a sphere of conventional explosive around a fissile core led to the nuclear explosion.
There's museums in Oak Ridge, TN and of course Los Alamos, NM that are very informative on the topic.
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« Reply #113 on: February 18, 2024, 11:08:35 PM »
Footloose - Released 40 years ago on this day

February 17, 1984

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« Reply #114 on: February 18, 2024, 11:11:43 PM »
Good call on Vision Quest, definitely an underrated movie as far as the 80s teen exploitation films go.  It also has a really good soundtrack.

I'm not sure Footloose counts as "underrated" though-- it's pretty iconic in pop culture.

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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #115 on: February 19, 2024, 07:55:09 AM »
We have movies here of all stripes ...

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« Reply #116 on: February 19, 2024, 07:59:06 AM »
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« Reply #117 on: February 19, 2024, 08:04:43 AM »
Right turn, Clyde 
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« Reply #118 on: February 19, 2024, 12:22:28 PM »
Scrap the caddy,Clyde
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« Reply #119 on: February 19, 2024, 12:26:37 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on February 05, 2024, 07:07:36 PM
The Last Starfighter was great, loved that movie.  It was in heavy rotation on HBO and Cinemax in the mid 80s alongside Krull and Beastmaster, I probably saw each of those 20 or 30 times.



I was today years old when I found out that this guy from The Last Starfighter:


And this guy from Robocop:


Are the same guy.
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« Reply #120 on: February 19, 2024, 06:05:18 PM »
Cincy & 847
Statler and Waldorf - Wikipedia
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« Reply #121 on: February 20, 2024, 08:55:56 AM »
Cincy is the taller one 
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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #122 on: February 20, 2024, 09:03:36 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on February 05, 2024, 07:07:36 PM
The Last Starfighter was great, loved that movie.  It was in heavy rotation on HBO and Cinemax in the mid 80s alongside Krull and Beastmaster, I probably saw each of those 20 or 30 times.
[img width=274.381 height=500]https://i.imgur.com/cDPwVXq.jpg[/img]
Is this the movie where the video game is basically a recruiting tool and when the kid wins he gets visited by beings from another planet who need him to be a pilot and save them?
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« Reply #123 on: February 20, 2024, 09:09:38 AM »
Quote from: grillrat on February 05, 2024, 04:29:24 PM
True Romance is up there.  Dennis Hopper's speech when he knows he is going to die is one of my favorite scenes ever.
I love that movie and agree, this scene is great. Hopper does such a great job. He knows the Christopher Walken character is going to kill him so he just doesn't care.

The other hilarious part is that the whole thing is over Walken and his crew wanting to know where Hopper's son (Christian Slater) has gone. Hopper has been defiantly refusing to tell them and claiming he doesn't know. After they kill Hopper someone notices a note stuck on Hopper's fridge with the information they wanted.

The final shootout scene is also terrific. 
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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #124 on: February 20, 2024, 09:16:18 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on February 19, 2024, 06:05:18 PM
Cincy & 847
Statler and Waldorf - Wikipedia
Which is Statler and which is Waldorf?
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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #125 on: February 20, 2024, 10:47:08 AM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on February 20, 2024, 09:03:36 AM
Is this the movie where the video game is basically a recruiting tool and when the kid wins he gets visited by beings from another planet who need him to be a pilot and save them?
Exactly. As a brand new teenager in 1984, spending tons of time at the arcades, this was a dream scenario for me! :)
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