Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Bedrockgames]

I turned off the Paul Giamatti John Adams miniseries when they showed Henry Knox talking the cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston through Braintree, which would have been a wildly irresponsible detour just to chat for a minute with Abigail Adams. Like, there's a war on, man!

In fairness they didn't have to contend with traffic congestion the Boston area has today

 

[Autumnal]

Y'all are really stretching that pineapple analogy.

Pineapples are way more ductile than most people know.

People got really worked up about minor league ball games during World War 2.

C.S. Lewis, “Learning in War-Time”:

Plausible reasons have never been lacking for putting off all merely cultural activities until some imminent danger has been averted or some crying injustice put right. But humanity long ago chose to neglect those plausible reasons. They wanted knowledge and beauty now, and would not wait for the suitable moment that never come. Periclean Athens leaves us not only the Parthenon but, significantly, the Funeral Oration. The insects have chosen a different line: they have sought first the material welfare and security of the hive, and presumable they have their reward. Men are different. They propound mathematical theorems in beleaguered cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on scaffold, discuss the last new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature.

 

[dragoner]

The one that always kills me is Michael Bay's The Rock.

They fire the missile, and then they say the missile is heading towards Oakland. But then they clearly show the missile going over Candlestick Park, which is on the south side of San Francisco across the bay.

My favorite story is for "Streets of San Francisco" with Michael Douglas, and Karl Malden; where Douglas said on their first shot together he was supposed to drive fast and he didn't know SF streets so accidentally got the car airborne (not that unusual) and Malden yelled at him: "None of that Hollywood driving!"

Once we sent a guy to the dump by Candlestick, and he took forever, said he was down in Foster City by the time he asked someone and they were like, they renamed it to 3Com. lol

 

[Thomas Shey]

I always love it when locals recognize a place from a movie. Having grown up around San Francisco, I always can tell which movies really got in deep with the city, and which ones were just using it as a backdrop.

I had that some years ago regarding a place that was used as the setting for a movie; it was initially seen supposedly from a hotel window.

What was amusing was that, at the time, there was no building in the proper position and height to have filmed that shot. They must have done it from a scissor or boom lift.

 

[Maxperson]

 

[trappedslider]

Both me and my mom had a good long laugh when an episode of CSI showed Cline corners new mexico as having trees.....

 

[trappedslider]

 

[Smackpixi]

Never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to solve the problems of others discussed on the internet. Usually involves them doing something they just refuse to do but which would be super easy for them if they would just do it.

Yet, unfortunately, my own challenges are not so simply fixed. Those things I just don’t want to do wouldn’t change anything. Also, those things I don’t want to do aren’t as easy as other people make them out to be.

 

[Maxperson]

I always love it when locals recognize a place from a movie. Having grown up around San Francisco, I always can tell which movies really got in deep with the city, and which ones were just using it as a backdrop.

Out here in Los Angeles there are the Vasquez Rocks. I used to hike there fairly often when I was younger. If you look at them, you'll recognize them from tons of westerns, Star Trek, and more.

 

[trappedslider]

@Dannyalcatraz is this because of you or @Ryujin