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I've noticed that most war movies featuring gravity bombs only show explosions where the bombs supposedly hit, with no attempt to show the dropping bombs themselves (except maybe when released at the plane). Unlike bullets, bombs are large enough and slow enough that I'd expect to see them falling.
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Cough choke...barf. LOL! 100% accurate documentary well acted? Please, a documentary isn't acted and some of the acting in this "film" could have been done by robots and the only depiction of Hawaiians were prostitutes. The one thing that was was accurate and many hundreds of hours were dedicated
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many veteran's complained because the smoke plumes did not look anything like the disaster of the original attack, but the newer film made a lot of mistakes as well as being pretty offensive to Japanese and Hawaiian U.S. citizens. But I digress. The answer to this question is pretty simple,
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sure...CGI is now being used to depict bombs dropping but perhaps not to the ground itself. There may or may not be films that do show this but I really doubt studios are going to spend the hundreds of thousands of dollars to add cgi to older, more classic films. Some things are sacred.--
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Presumably this was traditionally omitted due to the difficulty in showing falling bombs safely on the set. However, with CGI, it ought to now be possible to add them in. So, have they started doing so in modern war movies ? How about adding them retroactively to old movies ?
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Not technically a movie, but from a time when cartoons were shown in cinemas. And not technically a bomb, but the box of dynamite the kangaroo is seen falling with is responsible (we can also blame rabbits) for a
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As you may know, every brand of bridges require it's own way to string the guitar; For example, Floid Roise bridges require the bottom of the string to be removed to hold the strings by kind of punching it.
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I currently own a B.C. Rich Kerry King Signature V and wonder that if I'm stringing it in the right way so the strings won't damage the Kahler Hybrid bridge installed on the guitar.
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Did his death really mess up their plans for a third movie? Would his character have played a big part in the proposed next film?
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riding it, only dropping from the plane. And nuclear bombs don't necessarily even hit the ground, in the case of an air burst.
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It wasn't a "proposed" third movie, they were already well into making it by the time he died. From our article on
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So my question is that should I do the same thing with Kahler bridges or is there a specific way to do it?
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I don't believe it showed it hitting though, either with or without
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certainly showed a bomb falling. Rather famously, I might add. --
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into replicating it in exacting measures was the smoke plumes. In
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Phillip Seymour Hoffman's character in the Hunger Games franchise
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Indeed so, but my memory is good at least. If you Google for
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I believe you see some of this in the 100% historically
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Stringing a B.C. Rich KKV with Kahler Hybrid bridge
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09:57, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
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Pearl Harbor
Michael Bay
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