Excellent, excellent points -- especially from b_b, I thought, about links being "conversation starters" rather than endpoints. But this takes the cake:
I mean, I'm still laughing.Do you remember the end of the movie Predator? The alien triggers a self destruct mechanism attached to its wrist which has some sort of alien number countdown. I had a day dream that the countdown mechanism on the Predator’s self destruct apparatus looked like our hub-wheel. It was then that I realized it could be used as a device to count/measure and not just as our logo.
Yeah, I guess Predator's not the most poetic of inspirations, but I'll take it where I can.
John McTiernan is a highly underrated director. He's made some groaners, but when he's on his game, he's an efficient genre filmmaker in the old-school tradition.