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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 9226729" data-attributes="member: 54629">I was just reading an article that reminded me of a pet peeve of mine from the WW2 movie, Memphis Belle. For the record, I loved that movie so much as a kid that I named my dog after the plane. But even at 10 years old, I could see the ridiculousness of the plot's "pain point" - namely, that the Belle's bombardier insists that the squadron "go around again" because he can't see the target well enough to make sure they don't accidentally drop bombs on a nearby school.Unfortunately, when the the bombs are finally dropped, what follows is archival footage showing bombs exploding all over the place, making it clear that there was no need to "go around again" because that school was going to get hit no matter what. (I mean, at no point in the movie are the B-17s shown flying in single file; they're all spread out in groups. Most of them weren't going to hit that factory anyway!)If they'd just made it so that the bombardier insisted on going around again because he wanted to make sure they actually hit their target, that would've been one thing. But the writers had to up the ante and make it out like the heroic airmen were all putting their lives further at risk in a noble effort to avoid killing children -- when there was really no chance of them not doing so due to the very nature of the squadron's flying formation -- that makes it ridiculous.</blockquote>