That may have been one of the "mixed" movies that were released on VHS in the eighties. They were made up of bits and pieces of different episodes of the original TV series, and were generally a mess. In the series, the western-style shootout with the Cylon and the Apollo radio transmission were part of different episodes.

There were certainly things to be bugged about in BG, but I'm not sure that your memory is accurate in this particular respect. I'm not saying you're mistaken, either. I'm just not sure.

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Of course, gravity leaves the last bit of fuel on the bottom.

Actually; that particular point is not that far fetched if the engines were causing an acceleration. Unfortunately, no acceleration was depicted.
Of course, it would have to be more of a rebound (like the cushions of the chair releasing the pressure)

Banked turns, thrusting through a turn...all sorts of things.

How about this...spaceships that change configuration before accelerating. Like nacelles tilting, wings expanding, etc.

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Another good one!

Sure, dive into unknown water and swim underwater for several minutes to where there might be an opening - forget that. I'll stay behind and fight the monsters!

IIRC, it was Starbuck who had the shootout, in the ep where he became "sherrif".

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The good guy who throws down his gun to be on equal terms with the gun-less bad guy when they fight it out. Just shoot them.

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Beautifully done in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The whole one-on-one machismo fight thing was parodied wonderfully in an episode of Firefly.

ZOE: No, stay back. We've got to let him do this himself, it's the only way he can get his self-respect back.

MAL: The hell with that, someone help me!

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Or the western sheriff who must wait for the bad guy to draw first. I wonder how many times that really happened?

I read somewhere that Harrison Ford felt like crap that day because he was sick and just did that as an improv and the producer/director liked it so much that they did the scene that way instead. Maybe someone can verify this.

Starbuck became sheriff and had to fight some local aliens, but it was Apollo who fought the Cylon. This was in different episodes.

P.S. Amazing, there's still one up.

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Speaking of BSG, I think it was on this board that someone complained about the way Vipers land in the docking bay, coming in pretty fast, then bouncing a time or two on the hard deck.

Which doesn't make sense. Sure, it looks like our aircraft-carrier-based landings, but our fighters have to do that because if they slowed down to the speed of the carrier, their engines would stall. But in BSG, unless I'm mistaken, Vipers can easily match speed with Galactica, then gently drop into position--no twisting of landing gear necessary.

I've also heard the same about Indiana Jones. The script called for a complicated sword/bullwhip duel, but Ford was suffering from diarrhea that day and just wanted to be done. Spielberg liked his impromptu action and kept it.

I can verify that I've heard that story.

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I can also verify that I heard this story, but with a slight difference. In the version that I've heard, Ford (along with a good portion of the crew) was feeling ill, and when it came time to film the duel with the swordsman, he said to Spielberg, "Can't I just shoot him?" Spielberg agreed, and the rest is history.

I can neither confirm nor deny whether there is any factual basis to this story.

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I think that whenever we've seen that happen, it was during a "combat landing" where the Viper pilot really didn't want to slow down due to the possibility of Raider Induced Acute Death Syndrom. I also remember botched landing in training, but I had assumed they were practicing combat landings.

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In the Indiana Jones scene, you see the gun being drawn and fired and the other guy immediately falling all in one take with no edit cut and both men on screen throughout. So either that was planned ahead (perhaps as a subsequent quicky retake after the initial improv by HF that didn't get into the movie), or the other actor is the real improv genius here. He would have had to figure out what HF was doing and how to play along with it in very little time.

Or all the James Bond bad guys who come up with this elaborate complicated schemes to kill him (and which all give him an opportunity to escape). Note to self - if we capture James Bond, immediately hold gun to his head and kill him.

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However it came about, I'm sure the final take was after several takes.

This was nicely parodied in the Austin Powers films, where Dr. Evil's son Scott says, "Why don't you just shoot him? I have a gun in my room. I can go ge