Automotive manufacturers are huge companies, and even a given customer doesn’t represent a huge chunk of your current revenue, there’s always an incentive to bend over backwards for the really big companies out there. maybe they’re not a huge customer right now, but the potential for that revenue to grow is huge. and…

This is all true, but on balance JIT is good for the economy as a whole, becuase parts sitting in the back of a factory aren’t productive, and productivity is what drives economic growth. I know politicians, corporations and CEOs / owners like to say that they “create jobs” but the truth is that if the economy is…

Personally, I have nothing but respect for his god-level IDGAF. This is the best possible type of IDGAF, when you have someone flat-out ignoring onstacles in his path to do his job. There’s no way one excavator was going to get that ship freed in this lifetime. But one excavator was all they had, so like Mike…

I agree completely, until you got to the LED part. maybe some of the OEM headlights are good, but aftermarket replacements tend to be so crappy some ought to be illegal.

I think it’s just a kinda nasty-sounding word? 

I hate to be that guy on the internet, but this is some pretty dangerous advise people are posting here. Sure, gas is a great degreaser but it’s much more dangerous than mineral spirits or other solvents / degreasers. (and no, I wouldn’t recommend smoking around mineral spirits either but that doesn’t mean it is as…

I would tend to agree, if the tire was headed in one direction and not bouncing around. If it wasn’t bouncing around it might be one of those WTF! moments where you react to something before you fully realize what you’re reacting to. But that semi-subconscious reaction is really only good for one decision - it’s like…

Back in the day I worked odd hours and got in the habit of watching court tv (this was back when it was mostly just live feeds of actual courtrooms, and there was one case that I’ve always remembered that was very similar to this. a couple kids threw a very large rock (like 2 feet wide or something like that) over an…

I have no clue about who he supports in terms of his politics on a practical level, and maybe in that regard he is center-right. The subtext in his movies is way past center-right; 300 might be the worst example but that movie is pretty clearly fascist. Misogyny and objectivism are pretty easy to see in his other…

lol, reminds me of the throwaway line when they’re setting the bet in the bar at the beginning of the movie, and Goose says “You have to have carnal knowledge, of a lady this time, on the premises.” - I know it’s just a throwaway joke to us but Goose isn’t saying it as a joke, he’s discussing the terms of the bet. So…

This can’t be said enough. first of all, in the 80's pretty much every Latino character on TV or the movies was a drug dealer. Growing at that time, that’s all you’d see. And I don’t blame the actors, becuase they’re just making a living. but somehow Edward James Olmos managed to have this amazing career without…

Those were not things they wanted to fight over, but I suspect if the Navy had asked for something bigger to be cut they would have just said “see you later” and made the movie without them.

What about a movie like Top Gun, which wasn’t produced by the military but was heavily influenced by the military (including the right to review and censor the script)? The Navy’s intention to use Top Gun for recruiting purposes and it’s resounding success in that regard is well documented.

I think the military cares much less about the portrayal of sexism than they do about the fact that a protagonist is shown flying a fighter jet and looking badass while doing so. Also, that protagonist ends up being an incredibly powerful superhero by the end of the movie, and the sexism is portrayed in the past and…

But what 982>981 is saying is that it won’t be admissible in court. Even if it could point the police in the right direction (for example by showing the presence of a substance without the specific amount), there’s not much they can do with that becuase there wasn’t a sample preserved for later testing. It’s pretty…

That was my thought as well; full size SUVs are really large vehicles and when driven irresponsibly (often in part becuase they give drivers a feeling of safety and invulnerability) the consequences can be extreme. 

When Rock walks up to Diesel’s shoulder Diesel kinda just stands there, it really looks like he’s alone with nobody to react to there. Again when Rock leaves, Diesel doesn’t have anyone to look at or react to so he just looks down and away awkwardly. Both shots wouldn’t work using a stand in (I guess they could have…

As dictated by their respective contracts!

Good point, in real life they’re probably like co-workers. you have some you like and some you can’t stand, and occasionally a co-worker goes from “work friend” to real life friend, but mostly you just work with them and put up with their annoyances.

If they green screened it they probably wouldn’t have staged it so awkwardly, right? I’m thinking you would opt for a simpler shot there. maybe the director had no confidence in his ability to pull that off and opted to hide the fact that it’s green screened by having these characters talk at the space behind each…