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Mayday: Explosive Touchdown (2020)
Who Carries Gasoline and a Motorcycle Battery in a Plane?
Could someone please explain why you would bring a motorcycle battery with attached and exposed wires on an aircraft? Why on earth would you put gasoline into bleach bottles and expect them to be safely transported beside your fangled-wire-battery mess and NOT expect disaster?? This mode of thinking is just so Hu-Alien to me!
I wonder how many passengers would have smelled gasoline dripping into the luggage compartment?
It's a miracle that they all made it out alive-kudos to the air and ground crews for saving them!
Looking back now, it is odd that the 'TSA' luggage inspectors didn't probe further when they found bottles of 'bleach' in the passenger's suitcase. Current policy prohibits >4 oz containers of liquid.
Finding Noah (2015)
They Found Spiritual Fulfillment,l but No Ark
While I had expected this to be a thrilling documentary, it turned out to be a drama of guys finding spiritual fulfillment, but no ark. If this was billed as a documentary, why not ask Gary Sinise to narrate what's happening throughout the whole movie, rather than the brief synopsis at the end? What about name graphics for the scientists, theologians, and lead explorers?
I found the chaotic storyline a bit tough to digest-requiring suspension of reality to weave in plot fragments like this one: about 30 minutes is spent trekking the long arduous journey up Mt. Ararat, where many holes were drilled, but found empty. Then somehow a Sherpa runs to what appears to be an outlying gift shop, picks up a diamond-studded hollow excavation bit for extracting wood sample, and returns in record time to attempt extracting some gopher wood in the same afternoon? Who forgot to bring that seemingly extremely important bit?? Well why not just rent a few earthmovers and backhoes from the local Cat dealer and hire Turkish sherpas to haul it up?
The other odd scenes involved the explorers on the Mr. Ararat dig site calling the boss back home via sat-phone for him to say obtuse things like, "well, just keep digging more holes", etc.
I believe the ark will be found on Mt. Ararat, and my faith in God couldn't be any stronger if they found the ark or not. But what would have made the movie memorably funny would be if they plunged the bit into the glacier field and pulled up a jelly donut from one of the previous explorers.