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Old June 10th, 2018, 11:00 PM   #11056
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I watched "Whiteout" (2009) on cable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteout_(2009_film) The movie starts with a Soviet AN 12 cargo plane flying over snowy landscape in 1957. This wasn't as inaccurate as I thought, the plane looked really modern to me for 1957, but the plane's production did start in December 1957, accepted into Soviet service in 1959 - so not that inaccurate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-12

After that sequence of events, the film switches to modern times with Kate Beckinsale as a deputy US Marshal in a remote Antarctic station who only has a few days before a major storm shuts down all transport away for six months. She doesn't really do nudity and the film isn't that interesting so my mind did keep wandering to that modern Soviet cargo aircraft. I did look up the production date of the C-130 Hercules - which first flight was August 1954 - so the Soviet design wasn't that groundbreaking.

Yeah, I did mention the film wasn't that interesting, didn't I. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 21% like rating, so they didn't really care for it either. Guess I kept expecting Kurt Russell with a flamethrower chasing the thing to appear. Just a film about greedy people willing to murder to get some items.

No nudity.

I'd suggest trying to find something else to watch.
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