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    #92
    paulbok
    Registered Users Posts: 4,898 ✭✭✭paulbok


    glasso wrote: »
    only if it was on whatsapp over wifi provided on the plane

    would not get a mobile signal at cruising altitude for normal text messages

    Could be Viber or an old fashioned email Pat


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    #93
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,695 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Every movie where the military use Hollywood Tactics to get too close.

    In reality the plucky rebels or monster would be taken out by the simple expedient of using long range weapons.


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    #94
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Braveheart

    In the push for Scottish independence, William Wallace sets up a Twitter account to abuse politicians and organize Protests. They eventually get a referendum but the Scottish people vote to remain in the union.


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    #95
    Pa8301
    Closed Accounts Posts: 543 ✭✭✭Pa8301


    branie2 wrote: »
    United 93, the passengers and cabin crew get text-messages about the the World Trade Center attacks, spot the would-be hijackers and prevent them from entering the cockpit.

    You do realise that there were mobile phones in 2001 and you could text with them? They're not that recent a development.


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    #96
    upupup
    Registered Users Posts: 605 ✭✭✭upupup


    Pretty Woman.
    Julia Roberts gets busted for Prostitution.
    Irish remake.....Richard Gere get arrested for buying sex.


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    #97
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    upupup wrote: »
    Pretty Woman.
    Julia Roberts gets busted for Prostitution.
    Irish remake.....Richard Gere get arrested for buying sex.

    And is diagnosed with a number of STD's


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    #98
    Dakotabigone
    Site Banned Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Dakotabigone


    Bird box

    Sandra ends up in the dole office.


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    facehugger99
    Registered Users Posts: 7,215 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    Dakotabigone wrote: »
    Bird box

    Sandra ends up in the dole office.

    :confused:


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    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The Van

    Health and Safety close it down due to a lot of violations


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    #101
    Dakotabigone
    Site Banned Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Dakotabigone


    facehugger99 wrote: »
    :confused:

    She meets Margerat cash and her children. She is offered a can of Heineken.


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    #102
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Carry On Abroad - the tourists complain about the hotel on Tripadvisor on the return home, and get a huge refund from Wundatours. The chaos on the evening trip to the town of Elbels make the tabloids


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    #103
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,695 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Sink the Bismark!

    1970's A Buccaneer launched from a British Carrier would sneak in under the primitive radar and lob toss a 16 kiloton nuke at it

    1980's A Vulcan would get there with multiple refuellings

    1990's - 2000's A harrier would get half way there with something that could scratch the paint work

    2010's ...

    2020's an F35would get half way there with something that could scratch the paint work


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    #104
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The Wicker Man - Sgt Howie informs the authorities of his discoveries, and the army and police swoop on Summerisle moments before the sacrifice takes place.


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    #105
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,695 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    branie2 wrote: »
    The Wicker Man - Sgt Howie informs the authorities of his discoveries, and the army and police swoop on Summerisle moments before the sacrifice takes place.
    The army and police don't swoop in because religious freedom.


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    #106
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    The army and police don't swoop in because religious freedom.

    Does religious freedom involve human sacrifice?


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    #107
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The Sixth Sense - Cole's mother hears him say "I see dead people" and gets psychiatric help for her son.


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    #108
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    branie2 wrote: »
    Carry on Camping - After her bra pops off, Babs quickly retrieves it and puts it in before Matron takes her away.

    Sorry, I meant to say on


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    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,162 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Every movie where the military use Hollywood Tactics to get too close.

    In reality the plucky rebels or monster would be taken out by the simple expedient of using long range weapons.

    What was that recent enough one with Helen Mirren about a drone strike, Eye in the Sky, I think, totally unbelievable


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,015 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    branie2 wrote: »
    The Wicker Man - Sgt Howie informs the authorities of his discoveries, and the army and police swoop on Summerisle moments before the sacrifice takes place.

    ... taking every adult on the island into custody and every child into care only to discocver, three years later that the entire thing was a hoax.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,015 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    branie2 wrote: »
    The Van

    Health and Safety close it down due to a lot of violations

    The snapper - Burgess goes on trial for rape, deinies it, has his reputation ruined by the media, is found not guilty.

    The commitments - the group gets absolutely slated for racism, gig cancelled (methaphorically as well as literally).

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #112
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,015 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    2012 - the new president of the US address the world from a boat in the South Pacific in the middle of a -50C snowstorm, declares climate change to be a hoax.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    ... taking every adult on the island into custody and every child into care only to discocver, three years later that the entire thing was a hoax.

    And it was, as it was perpetuated by Lord Summerisle's great-grandfather to get the islanders to help him with his experiments


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    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Goldfinger - before Bond enters Goldfinger's hotel suite to expose the villian for cheating at cards, Jill is thrown out of the hotel, as someone down at the pool area spots Jill and the binoculars on the balcony, and mistakes her for a peeping tom.


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    GreeBo
    Registered Users Posts: 27,031 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    Every single spy/suspense/crime drama can basically be avoided with a smartphone.

    "oh no, the radio is out and I cant warn anyone"
    "oh wait, I have a smart phone, I can literally tell the entire world!


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    #116
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The Fugitive - CCTV footage shows the one-armed man entering the Kimble home


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    bigar
    Registered Users Posts: 596 ✭✭✭bigar


    w/s/p/c/ wrote: »
    Die Hard - The hostage situation and takeover by Hans Gruber and his gang is live broadcast on Facebook / Instagram and police/SWAT/FBI respond within minutes.

    John McClane sues the owners of Nakatomi Plaza for emotional distress to himself and his wife caused by the brief hostage situation.

    John McClane cannot fly from New York to LA as his flight is cancelled (he is still waiting for his refund). Hans Gruber goes to Nakatomi Plaza and finds out that the Christmas Party has moved online and has a hard time threatening people over Zoom.


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    #118
    bigar
    Registered Users Posts: 596 ✭✭✭bigar


    Independence Day

    The President climbs on a golf cart and declares all the destruction is fake news and the aliens assured him personally that they did not destroy anything and have no bad intentions. He credits his negotiation skills as a business man for having prevented any deaths.


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    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    Andy Dufresne is on trial for murdering his wife and her lover. After a high profile trial he is acquitted following DNA evidence presented by the defence and he goes on to have a successful career in the financial industry. Decades later a convict named Ellis Redding is paroled from Shawshank State Penitentiary after serving 40 years. Woefully institutionalised, he becomes irrevocably depressed and commits suicide in a similar manner to that of a former prison friend, Brooks Hatlen, who was released twenty years earlier after a fifty year stretch.


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    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,695 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    GreeBo wrote: »
    Every single spy/suspense/crime drama can basically be avoided with a smartphone.
    Look out for SONY product placement in the Daniel Craig 007 movies.


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    #121
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Roman Holiday - Princess Anne is found with the help of a tracking device on her mobile phone.


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