Btw. he's lying about the hair cut being about him liking "her" more... Dill has yet to realize it, but they're both on the run from the British after an IRA kidnapping of an American serviceman (Forest Whitaker), and the planned assassination of a British royal.
Posts by GScholz
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Still is...
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If you haven't watched The Crying Game you might remember Jaye Davidson from his/her second role as Ra in Stargate... A role he/she really didn't want so he/she demanded a million bucks... They gave it to him/her.
It was also his/her last role.
A pity. What a screen presence!
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The Crying Game is actually a really, really good movie... Back in the '90s the shock value alone was noteworthy.
The love/hate relationship between the IRA terrorist protagonist (yeah, you read that right) and the tranny love interest is pure cinematic art.
I don't really care what you think about these people, but they exist. People like GG exist and they have feelings... And the conflict protrayed here is just beautiful in all its complexity.
This was the acting debut of Jay Davidson as Dill... He/She was nominated for an Oscar back when that actually meant something.
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No, but certainly groaning out loud in a public theater bad.
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If memory serves....the muzzle velocity of the .50 caliber was at least 2500 fps.....if memory serves...
Yes... The Cowboi is just having a senior moment.
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...6 or 8 fifties still had a lot more rounds per burst than 2 cannon.
lazs
Personally I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of either of these, but especially not the 20 mike mike...
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I do...
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Speaking of which... Ad Astra. Pretentious space bullshit.
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You have really strange taste curly.... no wonder dad likes me better.
lazs
You're confused... This is the "Really bad movies" thread...
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Sorry... the fifty had 900 fps ...
Is that frames per second or feet per second?
You demented old git...
Still love ya, but you're wrong.
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IIRC HTC modeled the 13 mm MG 131 round as 80-90% the damage of a US .50 cal. In real life it probably was better than that, but not by much. The MG 131 was designed to replace the .30 cal machineguns on Luftwaffe planes, so it had to be compact and light enough to fit on existing aircraft. The MG 131 was about the same size and weight as the Browning .303. At 750 meters per second the 13 mm round was slower than the .50 cal's 890 m/s, but it carried almost twice the chemical content. So it delivered damage more like a light cannon than a typical machine gun. The most powerful .50 cal class weapon of the war hands down was the Soviet 12.7 x 108 mm. As fast as the US .50 but with a heavier projectile carrying more than twice the chemical content.
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Yes, that's hilarious. lol
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What 12 mm?
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Actually the Brits were looking to install 20mm in their fighters before WW2 as they knew mg wouldn't do the job.
True, but it wasn't until the BoB that they got the thumb out...
Though they first considered the .50 cal and rejected it as an insufficient improvement.
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Sorry but if you know anything about Galland he did fly 190's when they came out. he was one of the aces who did not like em.
By the time the 190 entered service Galland no longer flew in combat. He had been promoted to the commanding General of the fighter force.
The .50 cal has about the same rate of fore as a MG 151/20 cannon. 10-12 rounds per second. The Fw190 had 250 rounds of 20mm per inboard gun giving it about the same firing time as the P-51.
You are still full of really shitty sauerkraut smelling scheisse...
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And yet a battery of .30 cals did fine against German Bombers...
Absolutely not. The poor performance of machine guns against German bomber in the Battle of Britain is exactly why they shoehorned a pair of 20 mm Hispanos into the Spitfire, and four of them into the Hurricane.
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Some of my favorite films are independent films and non-American films. Actually I struggle to think of a Hollyweird film from the last 10 years I really liked.