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- From: johnson@spectra.com (boyd johnson)
- Subject: Re: Problems with DieHard 2
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.220231.13902@spectra.com>
- Keywords: minor spoilers
- Organization: Spectragraphics Corporation
- References: <00965765.53414BE0@vms.csd.mu.edu> <1992Dec23.001056.19236@spectra.com> <78752@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 22:02:31 GMT
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- In article <78752@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccoprdj@prism.gatech.EDU (Jorge A. Diaz) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec23.001056.19236@spectra.com> johnson@spectra.com (boyd johnson) writes:
- >
- >>I thought the most glaring problem with the tower being out of
- >>communication with the airplanes was that there must have been many
- >>planes at the gates somebody could have boarded, switched on the radio,
- >>and let all of the planes in the air know the facts along with
- >>instructions to divert to an alternate airport immediately.
- >
- >Um, the Colonel did say that any attempt to contact the planes would have
- >resulted in strict disciplinary action (and it did).
-
- True, but what did they do for that disciplinary action? Just to avoid a
- big spoiler I won't say, but it would have been completely avoided if they
- could have contacted the planes. Wasn't security attempting to reach an
- unused transmitter when they were ambushed and then the transmitter
- blown up?
- OTOH I suppose they would have alternatively rounded up a roomful of
- travelers and held them hostage like in DH 1 and maybe shot some for an
- example.
-
- >>Nevertheless, I thought it was a great movie. You just have to overlook
- >>the implausabilities.
- >
- >I thought it was good, but not as good as the first.
-
- I was wondering for awhile if they just rewrote the first movie's script
- to take place in an airport. I can't think of many of the
- implausabilities right now other than what has been in this thread.
- One of them was the poor security (on the plane) guarding the dictator
- they were extraditing. Couldn't anyone have phoned or used a police
- radio to contact anybody in the city, phoned an air base enroute from
- South (or was it Central) America and ordered that military plane to land?
- Another was how Willis reached the landed planes within seconds of when
- they flew about 100 feet over his head, landing probably 1/2 mile or
- more down the runway.
-
- --
- ======== Boyd Johnson nosc!spectra.com!johnson San Diego, Ca. ========
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