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Thoughts on Clint Eastwood's 1982 flick 'Firefox'
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 3:24 PM
CHRISISALL
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 6:32 PM
BLUEEYEDBRIGADIER
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Engaging cold war thriller? Slow moving unintentional farce? Personally, I could have TOTALLY done without the Russians-speaking-English-in-a-Russian-accent-thing. Subtitles would have worked so much better. But, whatever. It was a cool flick IMO, made MUCH more interesting because of John Dykstra's Special FX. And the plane, oh, THAT PLANE!!! Such an amazing design! Halfway between a Viper & an F-18! And, here's the shameless model moment-
Quote: I am working on perfecting that crappy model I made so many years ago... like Lucas, I am changing what I made, hopefully, into something better (but here I can offend only myself ). Pix will ensue. In the mean time, movie reviews, discussions of Eastwood's political views of the era, FX Dykstra talk... All are welcome, all are welcome... (Whoah, just had a Poltergeist moment there...) The laughing Chrisisall
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 7:23 PM
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 8:48 PM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 10:32 PM
FREMDFIRMA
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:15 PM
CATPIRATE
Thursday, November 25, 2010 4:47 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: Firefox Down is kind of unimpressive, as a novel, really it came across more as just plain milking the franchise than actually adding anything to it - so don't feel too bad about never getting around to reading it, honestly you won't miss much.
Thursday, November 25, 2010 10:46 AM
Thursday, November 25, 2010 12:32 PM
Thursday, November 25, 2010 4:31 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: I never understood the premise. I mean, why go to all the trouble to steal Soviet technology ( laugh ) when we had far more advanced ALIEN technology , right in our own back yard ?
Thursday, November 25, 2010 8:58 PM
OUT2THEBLACK
Friday, November 26, 2010 11:19 AM
Friday, November 26, 2010 1:52 PM
LWAVES
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: There. Done. Except for one last coat of paint, but there it is. The obsessive Chrisisall
Friday, November 26, 2010 2:47 PM
Quote:Originally posted by lwaves: That's better, the neck, body and intakes look more like the original now.
Sunday, November 28, 2010 1:58 PM
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 2:34 AM
CLJOHNSTON108
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 4:51 AM
Quote:Originally posted by cljohnston108: Wait a sec... you're saying that model began life as the Monogram F-19 kit? Awesome conversion, Dude!
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 8:39 AM
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 3:09 PM
Thursday, December 2, 2010 4:47 AM
Quote:Originally posted by cljohnston108: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=d2a60c047a253670a4d24d0a7a76d519&prevstart=0 http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=3265b621ca222d29d00d52e62bf14ee9&prevstart=0
Thursday, December 2, 2010 8:16 AM
Quote:Originally posted by MGANT: So, my question is: What are everyone's thoughts on the way ahead of its time technology used in the movie? -Considering that all of it is not only known to be real (today, some of which for many years.) ... how long has this technology actually been in existence?
Thursday, December 2, 2010 3:44 PM
Saturday, December 4, 2010 3:12 PM
Sunday, December 5, 2010 1:12 PM
Sunday, December 5, 2010 2:11 PM
Quote:Originally posted by lwaves: [English toff's voice] Well that's looking pretty gosh darn spiffing, old chap. A top notch effort there. [/English toff's voice] Take a well deserved rest, I'm sure after all that fiddling and seeing the movie your brain must have Firefox overload.
Quote:Oh yeah and when I went downstairs tonight I glanced at the TV and guess what was playing? Yep, caught the bit where he first walks into the hangar.
Monday, December 6, 2010 4:20 AM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: ...the little wings on the front...
Monday, December 6, 2010 9:56 AM
Quote:Originally posted by cljohnston108: Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: ...the little wings on the front... Y'know, they've got a word for those... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canard_%28aeronautics%29] I thought 'canard' was what right wing folks called 'the truth' from left wing folks.... The laughing Chrisisall
Monday, December 6, 2010 3:32 PM
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