Category: Lessons from Movies

An intelligent person takes appropriate actions to effectively plan for future activities and postulate for any scenarios that would cause problems.  A wise person not only reviews those plans and subsequent actions following the prescribed events, but they apply those lessons at future engagements. Fog of War (2003), from Academy Award winning documentarian Erol Morris, is a film comprising multiple interviews with Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (1961 – 1968) for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.  Not known to be either humble nor admitting his failures, Fog of War was released 6 years before McNamara’s death at…

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“A whole lot of people going crazy over some nutty dream they just had.  The truth is, this kind of shit happens at the end of every century.  It’s just people afraid to face the future.”  — They Live The 1980s provided movie watchers some memorable movies that have aged very well or even done better.  One of the best science fiction movies from that era was Wes Craven’s They Live (1988) starring Roddy Piper and Keith David.  Since its original release, the movie gained a cult classic status and has one of the best lines in any movie (that would later be…

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“…that the said negroes be declared to be free, and be dismissed from the custody of the court, and go without delay.”   — United States v. Amistad We all have our reasons for joining the military.  Those reasons are varied in theme and at the core have some sort of selfish manner no matter the patriotic zeal.  At our moral centers though is a desire knowing our actions matter; that our daily emotional, mental, and physical struggles are properly sacrificed for something of a higher regard.  We want to know that what we do matter and that these sacrifices…

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“This Nexus of yours, very clever.  I can start all over again and do things right from day one.” – Captain James Kirk (William Shatner), Star Trek Generations This author has watched Star Trek Generations at least three dozen times in his life and the focus has always been on the “passing of the torch” from The Original Series (TOS) and The Next Generation (TNG) casts.  So much so of a passing of one group to another, the writers specifically destroyed the Enterprise D to ensure Star Trek fans understood the the storyline was specifically moving into another creative segment. …

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SULLY:  I’ll tell you what I think… I’m just so damn proud. You were right there with me, through all those distractions. With so much at stake. We did this together. We were a team. SKILES:  Thanks Sully. SULLY:  We did our job. SKILES:  We did our job. Commercial aviation is a tricky and complex business; military aviation is no different.  When outsiders watch military or aviation movies, the viewer receives only a basic understanding of the aviation system and culture that they only see through news or the times they travel home to visit family.  People build their assumptions…

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