This film is on BBC1 tonight. Basically it is a modern day film where Dragons come back to life and destroy most of the world. For some very strange reason a bunch of US National Guardsmen fly to the UK to take on Dragon Central which is of course in London. The National Guardsmen arrive in the UK, with some Chieftan tanks, Humvee, Stalwarts, a Kraz and some Urals. Makes me wonder if they stopped off at a tank museum on arrival. What does make the film interesting is that Preston Issac, Tim Isaac and Alec Small were in it as drivers/mechanics. Oh yes, Matthew Mcconoughey (whoever he is) was in it as well. Alec worked out that if spoke a certain number of words he got paid extra money, so he rewrote some of the script:
Mcconoughey (under attack by Dragons): "Devide, Get the tank going"
Alec: "It wont start"
Mcconoughey "Whats wrong with it"
Alec "Well i dont really know. It could be the tappets. I mean the British Army couldnt get them to work reliably, and that was when they were new. Here we are 30 years later on in Wales, and there are no spare parts and no trained mechanics - what chance we have got"
McConoughey "Run"
Alec "Aaarrrrrrrgggghhhhh"
Well its a rubbish film, but if you have nothing to watch it is mildly (only ever so slightly, mildly) entertaining. Tim drove the Chieftan. Alec was Chieftan crewman. Preston looked on dissaprovingly as film crew men butchered privately owned MV's. One case in point was i think a Range Rover fire appliance. At the end of the shot the vehicle was totally destroyed (blooming dragons - never work with animals or children). The Director says, "right get it fixed, i want to retake that shot tomorrow. Not a good advert for film companies wnating to hire your MV's.
Tim (too)