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Agreed. Also, SecDef & Chairman would have given up their lives before putting the President in danger. If the "cerberus" system was really so insanely brain-dead that 1) it could not be disabled from outside the White House and 2) would somehow detonate enough nuclear weapons to kill millions of Americans, you would hope the Americans would know this about their own system if the North Koreans knew it worked that way. I can't say how I would stand up to torture, especially if the North Korean commandos were experts in torturing people, but I would try and last as long as possible if I knew millions of people would die if I gave up my code. Someone else also pointed out that likely 2 codes are given. 1 is the real code and the other is the "I've been taken hostage" code which acts exactly like the real code except the system knows it's not the real one so the system won't be activated. They didn't need to aim, they just wanted to create chaos. Real AC-130 gunships can shoot very accurately at ground targets. Thank you - a soldier cannot follow an illegal order and giving terrorists access to nuclear weapons would be an illegal order. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is an elite soldier. You would need to torture him for a long time for him to give up his code. Forgot to mention : you don't build a system like this without being able to turn it off from the outside. This isn't the Doomsday device from Dr. Strangelove. They would have a contingency in case hostiles got a hold of the system and a way to turn it off. This part of the movie made me think of the disclaimer in "Dr. Strangelove" where you are assured what happened in the movie would never happen in real life. First, you don't design the system to detonate if the missiles have not yet been launched yet since that makes no sense. Second, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff would let the President get tortured to death and give up his code just because a knife was pressed into his neck? I don't think so. Third, as others have pointed out here, detonating the nukes inside the silos wouldn't cause nuclear explosions. You might get dirty bombs but you don't build missile silos close to population centers. It would be a huge mess but would not kill tens of millions. Finally (getting off topic now), how does North Korea manage to insert a dozen commandoes into South Korea's security detail? We know they were all bluffing because Mannix was the best character at detecting lies (the Abraham Lincoln letter) and he said she was lying. Also, I would expect Warren to know more about how big their gang was and he never mentioned more people in the gang. That makes sense to me. The gang probably found out through the telegraph that John Ruth was bringing Daisy to Red Rock and knew he would stop at the haberdashery. So they <spoiler>murdered everyone inside</spoiler> and waited. Once they saw a storm was coming in they knew John Ruth would be stuck there and they could take their time. But with the unexpected addition of Warren and Mannix executing their plan became impossible because Warren, Ruth and Mannix were suspicious from the start. "Why wouldn't they share their medical resources?" There are enough resources in the United States to feed, clothe, house and provide medical care for every single person. But that isn't happening for similar reasons as in "Elysium." Simple example: it would cost $20 billion to eliminate homelessness in the USA. Just one person, Jeff Bezos, increased his considerable wealth almost 4 times as much that amount in 2020. I'm not arguing it's not accurate. This is more about the director guiding the story. The look on your face! Poor man wants to be rich. Rich man wants to be King. King isn't happy until he rules everything. Tony didn't do this just to become wealthy. He also wants to be a feared drug kingpin. He loves it when he walks into a bar, club or restaurant and everyone there is scared to death. Matrix Reloaded contains one of the very few accurate Hollywood hacking scenes. Trinity breaks into a computer system one way real hackers do, by exploiting a software vulnerability in SSH. It's not practically unknown, it's just less likely. Women have gotten HIV from oral sex only. Low risk is not no risk. Lesbian HIV transmission is practically zero but can happen. It has nothing to do with the real life person who was not homophobic and was comfortable around the LGBT community. This was invented for the movie to create this "journey." It turns out the bleeped words are still there :) Great points. They had two choices - stop the execution and prolong the most horrible suffering imaginable (being cooked alive) or continue and reduce it to the shortest time possible. This botched execution is not just a work of fiction. I remember a death row inmate being set on fire in some death penalty state (forget which one) and the sheriff coming out and saying "You better not kill someone in our state. Our electric chair ain't working too well." Yup - totally. When he gets excited he has this weird delivery that really pulls you out of the scenes. It's distracting. I initially didn't like Captain Sisko for that reason, but his relationship with Jake changed everything. IMHO it was the best family dynamic ever done on Star Trek and saved this character for me. There are some movies that no matter how badly they are reviewed, I will always love. For example, I think the first two underworld movies are fantastic - I love the world in the film and the style and the look. These films got absolutely savaged by the critics but they must have done well because they keep making sequels :) I just watched it myself for the first time. I agree with all your points. I was thinking about this film vs. Full Metal Jacket and how that film had a strong first half followed by a weaker second half and in this film it was the opposite - I felt the first half tried too hard to make us like these soldiers. I agree with you on the religious aspect - all these soldiers praying and the end result is thousands of dead soldiers on both sides. I felt Stanley Kubrick's film dealt better with the dehumanization associated with warfare and don't forget the Sgt. Hartman was also religious but that was handled better in Full Metal Jacket -- Kubrick was a brilliant thinker and philosopher which I think explains the difference. The battle scenes were gripping and I don't doubt the authenticity although some of the NVA tactics seems bizarre to me - for example them charging into the line of fire apparently without firing their weapons? Trump supporters should LOVE this movie because of Al Pacino's Jimmy Hoffa -- while I was watching him have non-stop tantrums if he didn't get his way and calling everyone around him idiot c*cksuckers I was thinking that's Trump!