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

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    22 days ago

    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.worldOP
      2·
      22 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

    • Fondots@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      21 days ago

      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
        2·
        21 days ago

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

    • Fondots@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      21 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.worldEnglish
    3·
    21 days ago

    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

  • Strider@lemmy.world
    2·
    21 days ago

    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.worldOP
      1·
      21 days ago

      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·
        21 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.

  • WarlockLawyer@lemmy.world
    2·
    21 days ago

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

    • Fondots@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      21 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