Yesterday, my wife, Silvia, and I sat down to watch a movie on Amazon. As I flicked through “Movies we think you’ll like” I happened to run across a movie name CQ. “Hey, look at this,” I said jokingly.
“Let’s watch it,” Silvia replied. It looked pretty cheezy, but I thought that I’d give it a shot.
Here’s how IMDB describes the movie:
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film’s starlet.
YIKES! I should have trusted my gut on this one. This movie was even worse than I thought. It cut back and forth between scenes from the “cheesy sci-fi debacle” to scenes of the personal art film to scenes of the actual movie, with none of it making much sense. And, while I think you were supposed to sympathize with the predicament of the young filmmaker who was trying to find himself, he was such a whiny twerp that such feelings were impossible.
Nothing about this movie really made much sense, including the title. They did have someone sending CQ during the opening credits, but there wasn’t a hint of Morse Code in the rest of the picture. Instead of watching this movie, my time would have been much better spent actually calling CQ on 80m!
Rob W4ZNG says
Thanks for the warning. Aside from perhaps “Contact,” is there any film that gets ham or even shortwave right?
Mike W8MRA says
Was there any connection to radio in the movie? Or any indication why they chose that title?
Steve says
Yes there was (obviously you need to watch the movie)…lots of HealthKit shots and images of the Beam antenna on the Tower outside the house and DQ talking across time ….well worth a watch for all hams for sure.
Dan KB6NU says
I think we’re talking about two different movies here. I don’t recall any Heathkits in this movie.
Dan KB6NU says
Not that I could see, for either of those questions.
Steve says
That’s because you didn’t actually watch the movie Dan even though you rubbished it🤷🤣
Dan KB6NU says
I did actually watch the movie. Did you watch it and enjoy it?
Steve says
My family and I watched the movie Frequency with Dennis Quaid the other night and amateur radio was a central part of the story. Granted, I’m not aware of any instances of temporal communication across time but I thought it was a good movie and was fun to think about what it would be like to talk to your father from 30 years ago.
Dave New, N8SBE says
The recent return of Last Man Standing has the ham station at work updated. It now sports an IC-7300 and IC-9700.
There have been episodes in the past featuring ham radio, in particular one where the boss goes to the Amazon and uses ham radio to call home, and another where one of the daughters uses the home station to get background material for a school paper, by talking to a ham that’s ‘been there’. There’s an HW-101 on the shelf in the home station set.
A number of folks associated with the show are licensed, and the set ham station is a working station, and is used to make contacts on off hours.
They used to use a Handbook as a stand for a web cam, for recording ‘vlogs’.