http://sonypictures.com/movies/stealth/index.html

Will Testors re-release their stealth model kit?

Since any plane needs to refuel, how do they get an issue with this out of control aircraft? Just drain the tanks!

M-5 joins the Navy. Could be fun ...on DVD.

John O.

Nice, very nice. Can't wait to see it. Nice planes also. .......


Steph

Watched the DVD tonight, and this is the dumbest sci-fi/aviation movie I have ever seen! The weird thing is it's still kinda fun, but I can't believe the guy that wrote Buckeroo Banzai penned anything this stupid.

"Hey, lets put live missles on our new AI controlled drone on it's first test flight since there no forseeable problem with that"

"Hey, so our new AI controlled robot plane got struck by lightning and is now making up it's own machine language we can't understand, and is talking suspiciously like a petulant Carey Elwes and not following orders.
Obviously there's no problem, let's re-arm it and send it back up!"

And don't even get me started about the ending, when the entire North Korean Army can't find a downed pilot..........played by Jessica Biels.......in the wilds of North Korea! Though to be fair wiley Jessica does keep hiding behind rocks & stuff.

Yeah, I really hope that all the AI drones are not that fragile, especially the price that each cost. Since when a lightning gets a plane down our days..... never, they are darn well protected against that. I know it 'cause I work in the avionic industry. But it's a movie, it's not always like the real thing. Same as Top Gun, it's an action movie, with lots of ''yeah but'' all over it.

Some movies should not be made, and this is one. Never saw, ain't got plans to.

Never saw, ain't got plans to.

You will not be missing much. Saw it and now I wished I hadn't. Wasted that money on a rental. Could have found something in the Wal-Mart bargain bin cheaper and more interesting.

I snapped some photos of the full-size prop of one of the fighter jets that was parked in a lot off of Hollywood Boulevard for the premiere of the film.

I liked the jet design, but I thought the film suffered a serious case of the visual effects tail wagging the dog.

I got a Target gift certificate for Christmas, so I spent it on Stealth.

Let's see -

Steely-eyed square-jawed pilot who disobeys orders and gets away with it 'cause he's The Best There Is - check!

Hot female pilot who goes through the most improbable physical and emotional torture and comes through it all in the end - check.

Wise-cracking black sidekick who doesn't make it halfway through the film without flying into a mountain - check.

Intelligent computer that goes off its nut and tries to kill everyone - checky

Trusted boss who turns out to be involved in an Evil Conspiracy - checky-check!

Thoroughly improbable escape Against All Odds in the end where all-too-human AI drone discovers self-sacrifice - checky-check check!

But it was mindless fun, so what the heck. The making-of was more interesting than the movie, though.

I loved the comment from the producer about the Korean DMZ. They went to look at the real thing to reproduce it for the film- and it turns out it's a beautiful, wooded nature preserve! Well, can't have that in an action film! So they made theirs a devestated wasteland instead :lol:.

Some of the newest RPV's are cast with carbon fiber and other exotic materials so they can be pounded pretty hard and still function. One of my RC airplane club buddies used to work for E-Systems and used to get all the old test drone bodies, and he would re-equip them with engines and radio gear. One even got a camera so we could map our flying field and surrounding area. Several were these ugly delta wings but they flew really fast!

I'm still scratching my head over the decision to give a bad-assed AI fighter plane the voice of Cary Elwes. I kept waiting for it to say "As you wish". Somebody must have really liked Knightrider!

BTW, the credits list the EDI voice as somebody else(Wentworth Miller), Elwes should sue!

I'm tellin' ya, if we EVER give an AI vehicle a personality in real life, the second it talks back, we better pull the freakin plug! And never give the dern thing weapons!

Yeah, I really hope that all the AI drones are not that fragile, especially the price that each cost. Since when a lightning gets a plane down our days..... never, they are darn well protected against that. I know it 'cause I work in the avionic industry. But it's a movie, it's not always like the real thing. Same as Top Gun, it's an action movie, with lots of ''yeah but'' all over it.

Hey, it worked for "Short Circuit", didn't it? :jest:

David.

The weird thing is it's still kinda fun, but I can't believe the guy that wrote Buckeroo Banzai penned anything this stupid.


um, uh, its been i while since ive seen buckaroo... but the word stupid does spring to mind.......

Buy this for the behind the scenes material, it is really interesting, much more so than the movie itself. They did some amazing things to get those shots for the film and it was not just CG either, some very interesting physical effects too.

About the fighter mockup, it was really interesting too. For some reason it was built in a very sophisticated and expensive way. Have you ever seen how composite panels are built for commercial jets, as a fiberglass/honeycomb sandwich panels? Well, the "Stealth" mockups were built the same way. Not sure what they used as a core but all the skins were of sandwich construction. I would guess that this level of construction was part of a US Navy requirement for anything that was going to be brought onboard one of their carriers and taken out to sea. Also, I thought it was interesting that all the tooling required to breakdown and store the mockup (saw all this stuff at the Hollywood display) looked just like what you would see at a real aircraft factory. That plane and its attendant tooling would have looked right at home at Boeing or some other aircraft company. Too bad the movie was so dumb.

One really obvious screw-up (two actually) during the film was that they kept forgetting that aircraft carriers have these really big numbers on them. The film was supposed to take place on the Lincoln (CVN 72), yet in several shots we saw the Carl Vinson (70) and the Nimitz (68) with their big deck or island numbers clearly visible.

If only there was some way to digitally erase the numbers with a computer.

Since any plane needs to refuel, how do they get an issue with this out of control aircraft? Just drain the tanks!
You haven't seen it, right?
Yeah well, they addressed that one. See, in the future (what ever time period this piece of tripe was set) they have automated airborne tankers that just cruise around in a holding pattern. Think the Goodyear blimp with a few probe-and-drogue lines. Robot plane figures out how to fill-up even when it gets denied access...
Sorry about the spoiler. Doubt it matters.

If only there was some way to digitally erase the numbers with a computer.

Wow, that would be an amazing breakthrough!

That's actually a pretty good point - all the aerial scenes and half the rest of the scenes were CG or had CG elements (matt paintings, etc) - the film had something like 800 CG shots. Yet they didn't bother to do something as easy as digital repalcement on the numbers.

Maybe THAT was too hard to do compared to building a CGI plane, doing CGI air combats..... What more goofy stuff, check this out

http://www.moviemistakes.com/film5166

John P, you've hit the bullseye...............

^With all that pickyness, I'm surprised nobody noticed the Carl Vinsen's hull number in one shot.

When George Lucas buys the rights and makes five more stealth movies and then reissues them on HD DVD format in 3-d holographic vision in 20 years time, he'll probably fix the carrier numbers and have Yoda hiding in one of the planes.

Huzz :p