Another Hollywood Ending

Sigh.
Sometimes the worst thing about having a lot of knowledge on varied subjects is watching how Hollywood can completely fuck things up and yet still gain praise.

For example, most everyone who knows me will agree that my aviation knowledge base, particularly on the military aviation history side, is immense. That's not me being immodest. When you study something for 30 years, you tend to know a bit about it, lmao. I routinely amaze museum staff when on vacation by the amount I will know about their collections. That makes for a huge upshot, I can start a conversation with people at any time that work at an aviation museum, and most of the staff at Fantasy of Flight know me on sight. The downside? It tends to ruin movies for me. I'm the guy you DON'T want in the theatre for Top Gun, because I know how fucked up the flight scenes are.
Perfect example? The Scorsese film, "The Aviator".
I could go on for hours on the inaccuracies in the movie. For instance, 90% of the XF-11 crash scene is pure Hollywood bunk. He never spoke to anyone over the radio while flying the XF-11, which was part of the reason he crashed. Odie was not on the ground talking to him, he was in the air in a modified A-20 as a chase plane, but on a different frequency from Hughes, so the two never talked. He was not supposed to have retracted the gear at all on the flight, but did so because he thought he knew better than the military that had set up the flight test schedule. After the crash, he never muttered a word to the Marine that came to his rescue, according to all reports, and only shook his head no when asked if anyone else was in the aircraft, then passed out. Odie chased the ambulance to the hospital, which was the first time anyone knew who they were treating.
As for the Hughes HK-1/H-4 Hercules flying boat (Commonly called the Spruce Goose as a derisive term by the press), Hughes himself did not draw up the plans for it. Odie, with other engineers at the NACA facility in Langley, worked on the initial designs. The name "Hercules" came about as a contest at Hughes Aircraft among the employees to name the aircraft. Howard Hughes never named it this and never referred to it as anything other than his flying boat.
Let's not even get into the mental illness side of things, which was portrayed WELL out of timeline.
Those are small examples, but you get the idea.
Still, even with its, Top Gun's, Into the Sun's, and many other aviation films' utter BS, I still enjoy the movies themselves, though grit my teeth through them. With two exceptions. Though there are some inaccuracies in both Amelia from last year and 1983's The Right Stuff, they are among the best, and most accurate, aviation films I've ever watched.
What kinds of films bother you in that way??

Sound the trumpets: Call to war.

Which is better?

Van Halen with DLR or with Hagar? (Sorry Cherone, your best work is with Tribe of Judah)
For my 2 cents, it's Hagar. The band sounds like real musicians with him, and, to all the DLR fans out there, guess what? Van Halen only ever had 4 #1 albums. They were 5150, OU812, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge and Balance, all with...that's right, Hagar on lead vocals.

Muscle Cars vs Tuners:
So I'm old. American Muscle all the way. I don't feel I need to justify it. ;)

New v Old? Specifically, Knight Rider, Dukes of Hazzard, V and The A-Team?
Everything old is new again, or so it would seem. Or is it just that TV and movie execs have run well out of originality? The new iterations of Knight and Dukes have sucked goat, V I am ok with the new and old, and the A-Team movie looks like crapola, but until I see it the vote is out. I would love to see some new ideas pop up.

But Bri, what about Avatar? That was new and original!!
Hardly. It was typical Cameron and half of every scifi show or movie ever made. Man finds planet. Something we want there. We go take it. They fight back. Human falls for alien. Indigenous species wins, evil humans driven off for a bit.

Camaro v Mustang v Challenger.
I LOVE this one. I'll take one of each please, an example of all from 67-70 and 2010. Thanks. But I like the new Camaro just a smidge more than the other two...but the barest smidge. Someone gave me any of the trio, I'd be a happy men.

What other Vs do you have for me?

2010

As 2010 starts, I've begun my planning. Here are the things i WANT to manage this year....we'll see how many I get at the end of the year....most of them in Florida are pretty much a lock.....yeah, I know it's an ambitious list, but why shoot low?

Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour, B-24, B-17, P-51, and possibly B-25 and Me-262, January 29, noon-5pm
Hooters and Hot Rods, Casselberry, FL 11-2, January 31
Nellie and the Evergreen Aviation and Space and Tillamook museums in OR, Feb 3-8 CONFIRMED
TICO Air/Car show March 12-14
MacDill Airfest March 20-21 Blue Angels
GP St Pete? March 28
Sun N Fun April 13-18 Thunderbirds 17-18
Doolittle Reunion-NMUSAF April 16-18 ?
Mustang Meet April 17
SAHS all years reunion w/ Jill Laura and others DC (also Smithsonian) June 24-27
Omaha-Denver road trip ? (late June early July)
Shuttle launch and Landing KSC (Feb 7, March 18, May 14, July 29, or Sept 16)
Star Wars Celebration V w/ Geoff and Nicole August 12-15
Lake Mirror Classic Oct 15-16
Raleigh NC/SC/TN
Chad's wedding Oct 23
Mopars with Big Daddy (oct or nov)
NYC again? (winter, Intrepid, Brooklyn Bridge)