Metal Dectectors in Movies and TV.
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Neil Diggit
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There was an episode of "I shouldn't be alive" and it was about a guy in Australia that was out "prospecting" with an MD and got lost and just about died. I didn't see the first part of the episode so I don't know how it started.
daveinoregon
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Watch the "Meteorite Men". Its a great show as they scour the globe for meteors and they use detectors in every episode.
PuddleJumper
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Was just watching The Heartbreak Kid, two kids walking on the beach swing what looks like an Ace about a foot off the ground.
GoBanana
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Digger Magoo
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Minelab has a commercial out too.
carcur
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the beginning of "national treasure" there at the north pole looking for a ship
curtis
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ab1
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T.V. Show 'Bones'. Last week, had a garrett looking for a bullet used in murder. Shows them finding a nail, then a coin, and finally the bullet.
I seldom watch TV. Didn't watch the Super Bowl last night. My mom's lung cancer appointments with the medical center keep me busy as a taxi driver. A too smart border collie ties up alot of time and then there is the snow......big fines if you don't clear it.
Texas is almost starting to look good again!!!!
Dusty
Texas is almost starting to look good again!!!!
Dusty
dan
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Dusty, check out my border collie video (I've lost weight since then):
Coin_Master
Moved On
Look here!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1333031/
A whole movie on it!
A young reporter, Joe McDonough is set out to do an article on a man always seen on the beach with a metal detector and has become known to the locals as, "Metal Detector Man." His editor makes it clear that Joe must find out the man's real name. On the beach, Joe meets the "Metal Detector Man" and discovers the grim reason that he is there. Joe then finds himself in a difficult position to print his real name, or not.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1333031/
A whole movie on it!
A young reporter, Joe McDonough is set out to do an article on a man always seen on the beach with a metal detector and has become known to the locals as, "Metal Detector Man." His editor makes it clear that Joe must find out the man's real name. On the beach, Joe meets the "Metal Detector Man" and discovers the grim reason that he is there. Joe then finds himself in a difficult position to print his real name, or not.
PuddleJumper
Elite Member
I wouldn't say a whole movie, short film at 10 minutes in length and an estimated budget at $100. And we won't go into the tiny little detail that he would never, ever find anything
dan
Elite Member
Well. Ten minutes and nineteen seconds of my life I'll never get back.
All I can say is that if I were going to do a movie about boomerang-throwing, even a no-budget short, I'd learn how to properly throw a boomerang before I began filming.
All I can say is that if I were going to do a movie about boomerang-throwing, even a no-budget short, I'd learn how to properly throw a boomerang before I began filming.
Vethraxx
Elite Member
I know in the movie Transylvania 6-5000 the spirit hunters were using a detector body with the coil replaced by what looked like a V shaped wire array. I laughed when I saw it, because it reminded me of my first detector I bought at the old Jafco store. I can't even remember the brand. It stopped working shortly after I got it, and we returned it and bought a Compass Magnum 240, which I still have.
CoiltoSoil
Elite Member
Revenge of the Nerds 2 "Nerds in paradise" when Poindexter finds a buried metal detector on the beach using his metal detector. 
Old Prospector
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That was the third time I've seen a metal detector featured on Bones. The first time they were looking for a sword, used as a murder weapon, in a park. The guy using it made a crack about "being the creepy guy with the metal detector". Ha.
The second time an old fella was metal detecting a beach at the beginning of the show and ended up finding a nice necklace...but it was still connected to its dead owner who was buried just below the surface of the sand.
The funniest part about seeing metal detectors in Hollywood is that they almost always make them sound like Geiger counters! Unlike real detectors that are generally quiet until a target alerts the device into beeping, Hollywood makes detectors sound like they're in a nuclear radiation area (tick tick tick- ticks get faster and faster until almost like a hum when they're on the radiation mother load).
Makes me laugh every time. Plus they swing them about 6" off the ground like some of you have already said.
Old Prospector
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PuddleJumper
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Haha, Dan, you nailed it. Wow, that was rough to watch! The detector was about 16" off the ground, with no swinging motion whatsoever. That is some Grade A crap, but it's cracking me up, so thanks for posting it!
Don't forget the coil cord almost dragging in the sand
