Because the alien ship conviently decided to fly away and thus spare AREA 51 from being crushed.
Donald Sutherland’s character says after the first shot misses, “Ok, look, there’s another one. Aim again.” So the squirrel wasn’t stupid…just the one who came out of the trees to see what the loud bang was.
On a side note, Panic is a fantastic movie, and I’d recommend it to everyone. Donald Sutherland, William H. Macey, Neve Campbell, Tracy Ullman, and JOHN RITTER. Got to love that cast line up.
Well, if you’ve got a real long needle, and some seriously cold or stale Velveeta…
In defense of the flick, IIRC, he does indeed keep sliding after stabbing his claws in vertically, but the friction involved slows him down a bit.
Then, when he actually stops himself completely, he stabs 'em in horizontally, with the cutting edge facing 90 degrees away from down. This is the bit where the camera cuts to Scott and Jean, inside, and the claws burst through the side if the statue, between them.
Unbreakable bones and fast healing ligaments make for some extreme gymnastics, kids.
Now, if only we could get some Lucas-style CGI “improvements” made to that scene where he swings around the spike in the crown, cutting the tip off it in the process…
What irks me about that scene is the fact that in the original animatic, and even in the trailers released before the movie, he just grabs the spike and swings back around it. Someone thought that the final version of that scene was an improvement.
Personally, with the film “Trading Places”, I never figured out how, near the end of the film, Winthrop and Valentine made that much money. As I recall, they bought the same futures that the Duke Brothers did. Wouldn’t they be wiped out when the price collasped too?
The scene in A Nightmare on Elm Street where Nancy tells her boyfriend Glenn (Johnny Depp) that she hasn’t slept in seven days. She looks pretty good, and is pretty mentally alert for someone who hasn’t had seven days of sleep. A lock of grey hair and a faint darkness under the eyes does not convince me. Wouldn’t you be on the verge of death by then? I mean, I could be wrong as I am not up to date with my sleep science.
I believe what W&V were doing was short-selling. It’s like the stock/futures equivalent of securing a loan. The way it works is a person sells shares they don’t have but promises to buy back the same shares at a later time, hopefully at a lower price. W&V start out with lots of selling then the bad forecast drives down the price down to rock bottom. W&V buy back the shares that they sold, earning a good chunk of change in the process plus the value of those shares can only go up. The Dukes don’t notice what’s gong until it’s too late and by they they’re stuck with shares that are viturtually worthless. They’re ruined because they don’t have the funds to pay for the shares that they bought while W&V were selling.
Nitpick: The GOOD forecast for the orange crop sends the price down.
The price has been artificially raised by the Dukes, who have been fed the false inside information. They think the crop will be bad, and they move quickly to buy up the futures now, while they’re cheap. Lots of other people follow their lead, and the price goes WAY above what the market will support about ten minutes later, when the the real report comes out.
But remember, W&V have been SELLING on the way up, and then BUY on the way down. It’s the classic money-making formula, just done in reverse order.
From what I have read, you’d only have a few seconds. There have been some experiments done, as well as accidents in which people were exposed to vacuum. I wrote about this, describing “Misison to Mars”.
Nasty. You’d have a few seconds, then pass out. Then there’s paralysis, then convulsions, then paralysis again. Yuck.
Ah, Okay. It’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie.
Of course, Spider-Man tried that once, and it didn’t work out quite so well…
Hrm… But that NASA “Bioastronautics Data Book” cite seems to be refering to an explosive decompression (With reference to “rapid pressure loss” and the like), which I would imagine would dramatically reduce your life expectancy. However, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if I mis-remembered the source I’d read and accidentally substituded “operate” for “survive.” Probably did… Does that book indicate any difference between explosive and slower decompressions, or did it find the effects roughly similar? Not that it makes much of a difference for the movies, even if removing the helmet wasn’t an explosive decompression, it’d probably be rapid enough to not make much of a difference…
How about when he decided to hide from the police at his ex-wife’s house? Not something a smart cop would do.