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100 things I learned from'Exploding Sun'


I am surprised this has not been done yet, surely this movie is deserving of such a list. Here goes...


1) The presidents daughter may be a hormone raging, horny, underage, sex-fiending freak. But the first lady was worse than her when she was the same age.

2) During a windy, turbulent, raging electrical storm, it is a good idea to stand right in front of a high story buildings' full length glass window. And remain in that same building even during earthquakes.

3) At the moment of certain, impending death, nevermind telling your loved ones and others who really matter how you feel, instead profess your love for a grouchy, dismissive man who has brushed you off every time you have tried to make an advance.

4) Loved ones die horribly, but no one seems to grieve all that much over them.

5) Even at the brink of global doom, two egotistical, arrogant, overbearing grown men will continue to bicker back and forth over "who has the biggest d**k".

6) Fear not! There is a very remote, but still possible way to escape impending, (Jihadist?) terrorist attacks with super lightning on your side.

7) That same lightning that thwarted your terrorist attacks? You can save yourself from it by hiding in a 2 inch thick, open ended concrete sewage cylinder.

8) Some kids will run towards an approaching, deadly, ominous lightning storm in a vain attempt to... I don't know you tell me what they little bastard was thinking?

9) You want to set up a defensive line to guard your towns limited resources, put rifles and other weaponry in the hand of young, dimwitted, immature teenagers.

10) Two men that have been at each others throats will all of a sudden work together. Even after the ex husband makes out with the current husbands' wife, who doesn't even say goodbye to her husband who she may never see again.

11) Some Arab men don't care about heir own daughter. And will kill them or let someone else kill them for no valid reason whatsoever. Actually, that is the one true part of this whole film.

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Okay, I'll play, even though I enjoyed this (fan of these type of sci-fi flicks)

12- Clipping an astronaut in the shoulder will cause the mayor to find her humanity and 'tear down the barricades,' allowing non-residents to come in and be safe.

13- The military would weaponize a toaster (if they could)

14- In the near future the prep time needed to launch space vehicles has been cut down to zero

15- In the near future we replace the control panels on all space vehicles with iPads.

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16 - Skype works in space.



Easy, miss, I've got you.
You've got me? Who's got you?!?

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16.5 - Even when one is 90 million miles away. As do cell phones, which can be "patched through" even during significant solar activity.

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17. In the near future highly sophisticated space ships will be controlled by a single joy stick with a green for go light and a red for stop light on it.

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18. Julia Ormond can give an Oscar worthy performance even in the crappiest of films. (Seriously, she made me tear up twice! I'm not used to actual conveyance of emotion in my D-Day flicks).

19. The actor playing Elias' son looks remarkably like a hamster.

20. Random people with no experience can survive 9G's with (almost) no problems, but veteran astronauts will instantly faint.

21. It is perfectly acceptable for the President to make repeated comments regarding his top science advisor's "husbands", plural & present tense.

22. It takes nine hours to drive 200 miles, with no other traffic on the road.

23. Top Military officials routinely desert their base in times of crisis, especially if they house top secret weapons. Perhaps because they know the youngest, newest, and least qualified members will stay to ensure everything runs smoothly in their absence.



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21. It takes 8 minutes for electromagnetic radiation to reach the Earth from the Sun, but radio communication is instantaneous.

22. Scientists usually refer to speed in "miles per minute" unless it's really really fast, then they switch to "miles per second".

23. Passing the Moon at 300000m/s will cause you to take a 90 degree slingshot around it.

24. While slingshotting around the Moon with no additional trust you'll experience up to 9 g-forces.

25. The ISS is occupied by at least one Canadian who inexplicably speak with a horrible Russian accent.

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26. Even when facing impending death, two d-bags will fight over a mildly attractive over-the-hill woman.

27. Whenever there's a Middle East setting in any American movie ever, expect the same cliche mournful, tragic Arab music.

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28. When the craft took off you should appauld because even though its exactly like an airplane at that point it's pretty special apparently

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28. When close to the Sun you can look directly out the front window and work the controls without eye protection or even squinting your eyes.

29. iPads velcroed to spacecraft walls make great control panels.

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30. Space vehicles need to be designed like trendy stealth aircraft so they can evade radar (alien radar?), even though stealth design GREATLY degrades all other qualities such as payload, stability, maneuver, etc.

31. Mylène Dinh-Robic is pretty hot, eh!

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32. In the 50~60+ years since they've been making 'B'grade sci-fi 'outer space' movies, they surrender the fact that the only improvement they've made in all these years is to film in color.

33. The studio made their biggest blunder by leaving out a laugh track.
Dub in a laugh track, call it Airplane 3, and they would've all been rich.

This movie would cause even John Agar, Leslie Nielsen and Robbie the Robot to turn over in their respective graves.

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34. Right at the beginning they boast about it being the first civilian space program "a new Era of civilian space flight. No longer will space flights belong exclusively to governments or special interest. AS OF TODAY, SPACE BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE".

With that...the first thing that goes wrong, the white house steps in and controls everything, who's in charge, etc.

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