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Really? 2500 miles of ocean would do what to the invasion?
That's a pretty damn long supply chain Hitler would have had to maintain.
Granted, England held on by its teeth, mainly because Der Fuehrer was too stupid to invade the UK. Once the US was brought in, the outcome was pretty assured.
And frankly, I don't think anyone would be willing to trade anything for sex with you...
Except maybe their dignity.
..Joe
And a sign of a bad pilot- a roll is a positive-G maneuver when done correctly.
..Joe
Yeah, except when you take an electric shock, the muscles contract, NOT expand. That means every time she zapped him, his foot would have come OFF the pedal, not pushed it down.
Fun movie, but ya really gotta shut your brain off or it just doesn't make sense.
..Joe
"our [b]hero’s[/b] actions"
There's the problem right there- someone that condemns someone else to a death and destroys her life for his own selfish designs can in no way be called a "hero." "Miscreant," or "scumbag," maybe, but "hero? No.
But that a screenwriter can still think of him as a "hero" shows everything wrong with Hollywood.
..Joe
I think she is miscast . She has no tits, and is nowhere near sexual enough.
Dunno who they could cast, though... Lilly Collins maybe?
..Joe
Maybe not physical rape, but psychological. Rape is about control, not sex. He demanded the control over her life, and took it away from her.
Yeah, that IS rape.
And it is VERY easy to say I would not have done it. It's called a moral code. It's what one lives by, regardless of the circumstances.
It's called "honor." Without it, you're not a man.
..Joe
Wrong. I would not. I could never kill someone unnecessarily like that just for my own selfish needs.
Because similarly, one could state: "I haven't had sex in a year, so I'll rape this girl here because, well, because I WANT to!"
..Joe
Only if you enjoy self-castration with a rusty Sardine can.
It plain sucked.
..Joe
Actually, calling it "awful" is being kind!
..Joe
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Good one. Just look at who was causing all the damage- destroying cars, burning, breaking windows et al during the inauguration.
Yeah- REALLY open-minded and cool.
..Joe
[quote]there might not be enough food[/quote]
That's why they had the children! Did you see the movie "Alive!"?
:-)
..Joe
You "understand" his decision to completely destroy someone else's life?
Just because he was lonely?
Because to me, if he was going to awaken someone, why not search through the profiles to find someone who could fix the ship? Someone who was amazing at hacking computers or engineering issues to get into the crew quarter's pods and awaken them?
This seemed like a typical Millennial movie: "My needs are the most important, so I'll do the most selfish thing for my own wants. I won't work the problem from a logical standpoint, I'll do that which fulfills my desires most."
..Joe
[quote]Ethan does make a written 'will' later on, leaving all his worldly goods to Martin but cutting out Debbie. What 'worldly goods' could he have had that would be worth leaving to anyone, apart from his clothes and his horse?[/quote]
The herd. His brother's herd passed on to him, and Jorgensen was working the herd for him while they were away searching for Debbie.
And the ranch. While the buildings were gone, the land was still his.
..Joe
Yup. See, there's no place for Ethan in polite society. He's a creature of the wild, and once he was done, needed to leave, to get back to the wild.
Without him and his ilk, the US would never have been settled, but there's no place for him once it was.
And that is indeed melancholy.
..Joe
Wow. what an immature, 12 year-old reply!
..Joe
Easiest way for me to reply is say I watched Pacific Rim twice with no problem, and I'm having trouble getting through Kong: Skull Island even once. It's just so poorly done. Think about it: Huey pilots that survived the hell of Vietnam haven't the brains to avoid a 125' gorilla? They just sit and watch as stuff comes towards them without taking evasive maneuvers? They don't fly high above him and drop the seismic charges on his coconut? Why is the Chinese girl in it at all? This was during the height of the Cultural Revolution in China, and they would NEVER send a scientist to the US for education. (And her accent is too thick for her to be born here.)
As to the monkey: taking rounds from a 20mm Vulcan electric cannon didn't turn him to mist? Those things carry explosive tips. He can be big and mean and all, but physics are physics.
Oh, and one last thing (because I can't be bothered with the other 5,000 things wrong in the first hour of this movie) When you bury a soldier and leave his weapon in the ground marking his grave, you NEVER leave the magazine in it: bad guys can be following behind, and you just provided them with a fully-loaded weapon, not to mention that you carelessly threw away ammunition, which you'll most probably need.
There's suspending disbelief, then there's having Kong stomp all over it because the scriptwriters were too lazy. This one definitely falls in the the latter category.
..Joe
It's hatred, not racism. He hates the Comanches because they killed his mother, then his brother, his brother's wife, raped and killed his niece, and took his young niece as a play toy for the Comanche bucks.
That's pure, unadulterated vengeful hatred.
..Joe
[quote]...and his requited but unconsummated love for Martha.[/quote]
I disagree. I think it WAS consummated. I think Debbie is actually HIS daughter. That's why there's such a burning desire to find her and kill her: that she was captive, being passed around from buck to buck, defiled. He wanted her dead to expiate her shame.
..Joe
Very, very true...
If you cobble al the Liberals into one "dark lord."
..Joe