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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

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago

There are a few more scenes like that in the movie. Regardless, it's a fun movie to watch!

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Broken Arrow the John Woo movie about missing/stolen nukes?

[–] doesit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

No flying missiles in Broken Arrow. Also no sea. Good movie, though. Thanks for mentioning.

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Not, definitely not the rock. Solid thought though!

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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).

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[–] zout@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Probably not, but "spies like us"?

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

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

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

The movie I'm remembering was definitely live action, solid guess though

[–] WarlockLawyer@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Superman? But this is only based on me vaguely remembering watching it years ago and there being a missile scene.