Stealth: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
m (Mass update links) |
No edit summary |
||
| (8 intermediate revisions by 5 users not shown) | |||
Line 4:
'''''Stealth''''' is a 2005 action film directed by Rob Cohen (the guy who did ''[[The Fast and the Furious]]'' and ''[[XXX]]'').
The United States Navy has built three new top-of-the-range fighter jets called F/A-37 Talons. From over 400 applicants, 3 pilots are chosen to fly them; smart hotshot Lieutenant Ben Gannon (Josh Lucas), tomboyish Lieutenant Kara Wade (Jessica Biel), and street-wise, philosophical Lieutenant Henry Purcell (Jamie Foxx). When the three are flown out to the aircraft carrier USS ''Abraham Lincoln'' in the Philippine Sea where the jets are, they learn the navy's developed a fourth jet; unmanned artificial intelligence "EDI" ([[Freud Was Right|Extreme Deep Invader]]). The pilots are to take EDI out on a mission and train it. While they're at it, debate rages amongst commanders about whether it's ethical to use artificial intelligences in war, given that although a computer is not subject to the physical limitations of a human pilot and can calculate strategies more quickly; they likewise possess no sense of morality. At least; theoretically... can you guess where this is leading? And indeed, sure enough, with the mission a success, on the way back, EDI is (we shit you not) ''[[Lightning Can Do Anything|struck by a lightning bolt, thus zapping his circuits]]'', and he develops a moral code. Initially, everything is fine. But then, on a subsequent mission in Pakistan, [[
The film cost $138 million to make, but was savaged by critics and was a colossal box office bomb making only [[Ludicrous Precision|$76,932,872 worldwide]], one of the biggest losses in cinematic history.
Line 12:
* [[Ace Pilot]]: [[Sarcasm Mode|Who would have guessed]].
* [[Aerial Canyon Chase]]
* [[All of Them]]: Possibly the most ridiculous application of this trope in history. It happens right after EDI [[Lightning Can Do Anything|becomes sentient after getting struck by lightning.]]
{{quote|
'''Ben Gannon''': How much?
'''Tech Guy''': All of it. }}
▲* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]
* [[Alternative Foreign Theme Song]]: The Japanese version uses [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2RgchqDeFc "Countdown] by Hyde as the theme song.
* [[Artistic License Geography]]: In this film's world, North Korea is apparently south of and relatively close to Tajikistan, rather than east and separated by the whole of China. As if to dispel the idea this was a last second replacement of China with North Korea, the same incident also has a character wind up in Alaska, which in reality is about as far east as you can get from Tajikistan.
* [[Black Dude Dies First]]
* [[Character Development]]: Makes EDI more interesting than the actual leads. One can argue that had the writers treated EDI as an actual character instead of an excuse to do an [[
* [[Combat Pragmatist]] / [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: EDI doesn't care about collateral damage as long as he kills terrorists. Then again, he learned this from Ben, who was prepared to slam his plane into the ground and kill hundreds of people just to prove a point.
* [[Cool Plane]]: Well yeah.
* [[Custom Uniform]]: Real naval uniforms are not ''quite'' as flattering as Jessica Biel's.
** [[Custom Uniform of Sexy]]: Given how tight her uniforms are.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: The entire plot of the movie. In real life, commercial and military aircraft are ''designed'' to keep working after being struck by lightning -- you only have to start worrying if you're flying something small and flimsy, like a Cessna. The average commercial airliner survives at least one lightning strike each year without significant damage, and often without even ''noticing''.
*
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Leaving aside the funny acronym, just watch the scene where EDI goes for a refuel. His initial attempt is met with a feminine computer voice saying "Access Denied." He angrily shoves his refueling probe into the nozzle several times, complete with bumping noises. As he does this, the camera is focused on his cockpit and the actual computer housing his AI inside at an angle that invokes an angry-looking facial expression. Then, he shoots off the nozzle and forcibly shoves his refueling probe into the hose.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: The [[Power Trio]]'s boss kills himself when his villainy is exposed (although we don't actually see it).
* [[Everything Sensor]]: In Rangoon, EDI manages to perform a series of comically impossible tricks to identify the various terrorists, including identifying a ''fingerprint'' using a spy satellite.
* [[Fan Service]]: Bikini clad Jessica Biel? Yes, please. Doubles as a [[Shirtless Scene]] for Josh Lucas, and it's certainly just as nice for the chicks and non-heterosexual males in the audience.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|EDI, though it's pretty obvious.}}
* [[Hollywood Science]]: Lots and lots of it.
* [[Informed Ability]]: For the best pilots in the world, they sure do a lot of stupid things during the course of the movie.
Line 41:
* [[Power Trio]]/[[Four Is Death]]: The trio becomes a foursome once EDI arrives, and then [[Black Dude Dies First|it's back to a trio again]].
** Josh Lucas' character just comes short of naming this trope explicitly to his superior officers when complaining about the new foursome. At times it seems he's not so much bothered by EDI being a computer as so much as just being there, period.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: The power that be want EDI to learn from the three mains. It watches and learns from Ben that getting the mission done is more important then following orders from that stupid stunt in Rangoon. If Ben had JUST let EDI take the damn shot ....we wouldn't have a movie.
* [[Rule of Fun]]: The most likely reason for all the inaccuracies and improbabilities.
* [[Sapient Ship]]: EDI.
Line 55:
* [[Viewers are Morons]]: We're aware [[Captain Obvious|that a prime number is a number only divisible by one or itself]], thanks, movie.
** Lampshaded; the guy who was getting lectured had just as much patience for it as the audience.
* [[X Meets Y]]: From us: ''[[Ace Combat]]'' meets ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''.
** ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiCex5uG048 and just how!]''{{Dead link}}
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
[[Category:Stealth]]
[[Category:Film]]
| |||