Facebook postings in chronological order:
- Watching San Andreas movie on JetBlue. Opening scene has them trying to rescue a woman whose car is teetering on the side of a cliff. They park the Huey in an out of ground effect hover right over the car and yet the rotor wash does not simply push the car down into the gulch. I am beginning to think this is a purely fictional work.
- Now the rich douchebag real estate developer has his private jet land at KOAK instead of KSFO when going to downtown SF. Further difficulty suspending disbelief.
- Their buildings are falling down but they still have great Internet connectivity.
- There is nobody standing in line to pay $5 for a cup of drip coffee. Definitely not filmed on location.
- I am not even sure that the Rock is sitting in the correct seat. He is supposed to be the senior pilot. I thought aircraft commander typically sits left seat in a Huey. Of course half the time he seems to be simply abandoning the pilot seats in order to run the hoist or whatever.
- Others seem to have the same questions: https://www.quora.com/Do-rescue-helicopters-have-a-hover-button-as-seen-on-San-Andreas-2015-movie
- Girl whose mom abandoned her dad for the rich douchebag is now expressing surprise that the rich douchebag abandoned her.
- Huey seems to be proceeding to SF from LA with no fuel stop. Maybe there will be an autorotation.
- The ragged out military surplus Huey seems to be as quiet as a library for conversation.
- Gearbox failed. Major failure to maintain attitude during the auto. Worse than beginner R22 student chasing needles. (Saved perhaps by the massive amount of rotor inertia in a Huey, though in some of the shots it looked as though the collective was still up next to the seat during the purported auto.)
- They are supposedly getting fuel for their airplane but they are still in a hangar (no ISO 9001 for this airport) and there is no fuel truck or line guy.
- Why is there a tsunami if the earthquake was along an inland fault?
- http://www.bustle.com/articles/85496-can-a-san-andreas-earthquake-cause-a-tsunami-the-movie-definitely-stretches-the-facts
- http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-12/why-arent-we-afraid-tsunami-hitting-san-francisco is more comprehensive
Why do they show this movie on flights to SFO? (And thanks, JetBlue, for the free WiFi!)
Re: There is nobody standing in line to pay $5 for a cup of drip coffee. Definitely not filmed on location.
It’s hand pour! No one pays $5 for drip. Just as ridiculous, but felt worth noting.
A friend told me this was a great movie so I watched it. After watching I agreed, it was laugh out loud funny, an amazing comedy. This was surprising as the movie’s advertising campaign led me to assume it was an action film.