Movie or show I saw a very small part of about 20 years ago
I really don't have much to go on for this, good luck
Back in the 90s or early 2000s I remember catching a few scenes of a movie or TV show that was playing in the background while I was over a relatives house. I feel like it was probably from about that time period, at the oldest it was maybe from the 80s, and absolutely no newer than about 2004.
The main thing I remember was that at some point it cut to a scene of a cruise missile flying at low altitude over the ocean, and I feel like it might have done that several times
There may have been 2 missiles, I remember them being white, and kind of a rectangular shape (the real life AGM-86 ACLM is pretty close to what I remember the shape being)
I feel like the plot was that there was some kind of a race against time to do something before the missile hit its target and that it cut to scenes of the missile flying a few times, but again I wasn't paying much attention to it and it's mostly just the scenes of the missiles flying that stuck in my head.
I really got nothing else. I feel like my best bet to identify it is if you can show me a scene with the missiles because that's really the thing that has for some reason stuck in my mind since I was a kid.
EDIT: after spending some time googling different missiles, probably getting myself on some kind of watchlist, some other kind of similar-looking missiles to what I remember
SOM
AGM-154
AGM-181 LRSO
Storm Shadow
Apache
Taurus KEPD 350
Wan Chien
That sort of square/rectangular shape of the missile is kind of what stuck out to me as a kid and made the image stick in my brain, I thought they looked cool
The scenes with the missiles flying I'm pretty sure were in the daytime
There may have also been a scene with them being launched from a plane, which tracks because most or all of those I listed seem to be aircraft-launched
It was also definitely a live action movie/show
The race against time aspect may not be correct. I was only half paying attention and probably saw less than 5 minutes of this movie in total.
EDIT2: Never say Never Again is probably the closest answer I've seen so far. Not totally sure that's it, but it gives you a pretty good general idea of what I'm remembering
Under Siege contains a subplot of Tomahawks being launched towards Honolulu, and the movie cuts to them being in flight a few times. Steven Segal must use his epic chef skills to retake the bridge and enter the self destruct codes before the missiles reach their target.
Solid guess, but I don't think it's the one I'm remembering though.
I feel like the scenes with the missiles were during the daytime, and the camera angles and look of the tomahawks don't feel quite right to me
My best guess is "Never Say Never Again", a James Bond flick from 1983 starring Sean Connery. Maybe this scene? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B89WBnEqq9E&t=55
That's fairly close to the scene I remember, I'm not totally sure it's the one, but it's probably the closest-looking one so far
There are a few more scenes like that in the movie. Regardless, it's a fun movie to watch!
It's been a while since I saw The Rock but they have a missile aimed at San Francisco and I wouldn't be surprised if they visualize it launching a few times. It'd have to go over water coming from Alcatraz
Not, definitely not the rock. Solid thought though!
Broken Arrow the John Woo movie about missing/stolen nukes?
I'm having a hard time finding clips or screenshots of this one that might match up to what I remember, so I can't say yes or no yet. The description doesn't sound like it would match up, but if anyone happens to have a video or screenshot to back this one up I'd appreciate it.
No flying missiles in Broken Arrow. Also no sea. Good movie, though. Thanks for mentioning.
Hm, it's a little out of your time frame but I think the movie deja vu or next has something like that (race against time to stop a catastrophe).
Based on the descriptions of the movie I can find and the date, I'm tempted to say no, but if anyone has a link to a relevant scene I'm open to changing my mind
Yeah, I thought with deja vu there was a rocket flying but I might be mistaken. Let me see if I have that one (I rather don't think it's next).
I don't, and from what I can see I don't think it fits.
The movie the sum of all fears has some planes shooting rockets at low altitude against ships but that's not it either.
The digimon movie involves a missiles and a race to prevent them from killing people, but they were round (LGM-118 Peacekeepers apparently)
Movie: https://youtu.be/YgavsB4b7zs?t=2826 Missile is shown at 47:10 and 48:40 at least, probably some times before that as well.
The movie I'm remembering was definitely live action, solid guess though
Probably not, but "spies like us"?
Yeah, I don't think so. Need to search around for some more clips to confirm, but that one seems to be about an ICBM that would launch into space instead of a cruise missile that would fly low along the ocean
Also I'm pretty confident it wasn't a comedy
Superman? But this is only based on me vaguely remembering watching it years ago and there being a missile scene.
There is a scene of two missies flyijgnover land in two bond films. One with Roger Moore. Guess the Spy who loved me (Not sure tho, it stille was a bond movie)
The other one with an newer actor, could be Dalton.