Conundrum

Meh, there are a fuckton of gullible people out there then. Doesn't take much of a brain to look at the video and tell it's fake. Or maybe I'm just special.

As in teddy bear? Are you 12? It's merely an expression - Shroppy will confirm! I did not *litterally* throw a teddy... (I don't even own a teddy.) Thank god (or, someone).

As in teddy bear? Are you 12?

A lot of involvement and poorly executed filming. I could tell as soon as he started running for takeoff it was fake. Then I found this, and it further confirms my thoughts. http://gizmodo.com/5895235/cgi-experts-say-flying-bird-man-is-fake

Fuck no.

This place would be boring as fuck if there wasn't anger and drama. Just like any other forum. If you're looking for sunshine and happiness you might want to check out www.christianmingle.com

No one is asking you to apologize.

So is it cheesy to laugh at a movie? How about if they cry, but remain sitting - is that cheesy? What about people who cheer when a good guy gets the bad guy, or the hero gets the girl? Is it only the act of standing up that makes it cheesy? And if so, why is standing up so essential to your definition of cheesy? See message #25. I feel emotions during movies but I don't stand up and cheer when I'm watching a football movie, sing the star spangled banner watching a baseball movie, or do air guitar during a band scene...

So Clapping, cheering, standing, and saluting are all silly because it is a movie. You would make a researcher go nuts. We have test screenings and review groups to see just those things where the Director and Producer hope to see them. It validates for them that they connected with the audience and are doing their job well and invoking that emotional response. It is a good movie, Oscar worthy as some suggest? Maybe parts of the production. Look at what wins these days and they have a chance like any other, except it is probably too political. If you watch a movie and it doesn't connect, fine, if it connects for others as the Production hoped, that is fine too. They still got your $8.75. Matt I never said it wasn't a good movie. I loved it and will purchase it when it's released and I never said it didn't "connect" with me. You think production was hoping that it would connect with everyone in the audience and they would all stand and salute? I doubt it.

Because it's a MOVIE. The list you gave are actual real events that are happening that you're supporting, not fictional movies. I'm sorry, but standing and saluting a funeral in a military movie is just silly to me. There is a million different military movies with funeral scenes, do they salute at each one?

delicious

I've been eating doritos with taco meat since I was a kid. Can't wait to try this new shell.

I just put my dog in the back back of my Mazdaspeed3. Problem solved.

Without having a clue what your "mistake" was, it's hard to give an opinion.

ehhhhh, I think they're a bit tacky. A small bar through the nipple? Hot.

How was it "Cheesy"? Matt is a retired soldier who has a lot of real life experiences to share and based on what he said, it was pretty close to accurate, and I believe there's a couple others posting in this thread who are retirees or ex-military, AND based on the fact that they used real Seals, I have to ask, what was "Cheesy" about it? Because it was in the middle of a theatrical film. Just like when people clap at the end.

Based on your comment I take it you didn't take the time to read my or Matt's post above? No, I didn't see your post, but it really doesn't change my opinion

Ok, since you see it as a "Fake funeral" scene, and not based on a true story, would your opinion be different if it were REAL footage of a REAL funeral that was incorporated in to the movie? Even if the movie was mostly Hollywood created? I will say this, when that was happening, Not a single person had a problem with it! If they did, nobody said anything. And when the group congregated outside the theater, a bunch of the people who was coming out of the theater stopped to meet them and most thanked them for their service. I may, I dunno. Look, I see what they did as cheesy, you don't have to agree. I was just wondering if they stand and salute at every military movie they see. I doubt it.

Feel free to jeer and throw popcorn at them for their insensitivity to your personal enjoyment of a movie experience. This movie's advertising stressed that the characters were real Navy Seals, not just actors. That made the impact more real than most movies, because some day there actually could be a military funeral for any one of those men. They're still out there, performing dangerous missions for our country. There was also, in the credits at the end of the movie, a list of Navy Seals who have died in combat since 9/11/01. It was scrolling too fast for me to read all the names, so I just read one column out of two, and counted. I seem to recall there were 26 names in that one column, so that would be about 52 Navy Seals KIA total. That too made the funeral scene more real than the standard Hollywood movie. It wouldn't affect my movie going experience. The point is that it's fictional. I think it's a bit over the top to stand up in a theatre and salute a fake funeral. It's not even based on a true story of a soldier who died like, "Taking Chance" for example. I could understand saluting during the list of deceased soldiers at the end, but during the funeral scene in a movie? Come on.

No kidding. I wonder if they do that at every military funeral scene in a movie theater.

It's contrail, not chemtrail.

heh, cute

It's too hard to tell by just being able to see her back.

So what you're saying is that there have been 30 parachute deployments; all of which involved loss of control and/or mechanical failure and they were unnecessary? Come on man. At least try to come up with some compelling evidence. Pilots with poor decision making skills have been killing themselves since the dawn of aviation. Cirrus has done a tremendous job with their training programs and support for the pilots and instructors. I really don't see a problem with having a tool in the airplane that could become useful over uneven terrain at night. Personally, I would much prefer to impact terrain vertically at 17 knots than horizontally at 60 knots (or faster) It's a tool; not an excuse to do dumb shit.

I'm on COPA, I'll search later. So two instances means that "idiots keep" deploying unnecessarily? That's all you have? There are idiots flying all types of aircraft, and frankly, I'd rather see an "unnessecary deployment" with a decent touchdown than some idiot plowing into a neighborhood and killing people going 200kts. I mean, who cares? If someone wants to total (insurance wise) their aircraft by deploying the CAPS, let them.