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To: C19fan

I love both of those movies but I missed the rip offs.


25 posted on 06/16/2009 12:19:51 PM PDT by NucSubs ( Cognitive dissonance: Conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistency between beliefs and actions)
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To: NucSubs
I love both of those movies but I missed the rip offs.

When Clint and the Marines invade Grenada in Heartbreak Ridge they use a phone to call the Pentagon to order an airstrike against some Cubans. They need to dig up a credit card to make the international call. Transformers repeats this scene when they place the cell phone call and have to use a credit card to call the Pentagon to order the A-10/AC-130 strike.

In terms of Independence Day, the general concept of the US acquiring alien technology and building a underground secret base to attempt to reverse engineer the technology, a la Area 51 from ID and Hoover Dam in Transformers

26 posted on 06/16/2009 12:33:41 PM PDT by C19fan
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