Thought of Powder as i posted. Think it doesn’t measure head to head, but glad ya brought it up!
I also liked phenomenon better, I just know Hollywood had a stretch where dueling companies made the same movie to get released close to the same time.
Armageddon and sudden impact were around the same time too.
Exactly! Bruce n Afleck won that score! Both decent entertainment. I normally cling to the male hero roles honestly, but watching Phenomenon brought that piece of simple and pure living front and center. Like to see more of that.
Really liked The Void. Reminiscent of classic 80’s John Carpenter movies. I especially loved the use of practical effects instead of CG.
My wife and I are huge horror movie fans. Seen thousands of them including hundreds of obscure gems.
Very cool man. I worked in the film industry for decades and the only “military” scenes I really remember were for the shitty movie XXX 2 where we shot a large scene on the USS Hornet aircraft carrier in Alameda, CA. It was very cool working on the ship for a few weeks. I’ll never forget that on the deck we had two real fighter jets in the foreground and then dozens of giant lifesize photo cutouts of jets lined up behind them haha.
We also used the Alameda Naval base to film the highway action scene from Matrix 2. Built the whole freeway set on the old runways.
Totally. Armageddon and Deep Impact. Volcano and Dante’s Peak. There’s lots of them.
I’ll never understand how the teamwork between the military and Hollywood works, but hilarious cutouts were used since in many cases, when a squadron heads to the ship, there’s usually a lot of aircraft. 1 F-18 squadron is 10-12 aircraft.
I also had part of stealth recorded on the Carl Vinson. Since the aircraft was CGI, it was more about the background atmosphere.
So just ran into another movie I forgot about. It’s a Kostner film called the Guardian paying tribute to rescue swimmers. Good watch if ya ain’t seen it. Kushner plays the up and comer. Always respected everything Coast Guard.
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