russellmz Posted October 29, 2000 Share Posted October 29, 2000 parodies of saving private ryan and thin red line. (some cursing and two offending comments about war veterans, u have been warned): http://ter.air0day.com/thinredline.html http://ter.air0day.com/savingprivateryan.html ------------------ "They had their chance- they have not lead!" - GW Bush "They had mechanical pencils- they have not...lead?" - Jon Stewart on The Daily Show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dNorwood Posted October 29, 2000 Share Posted October 29, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by russellmz: parodies of saving private ryan and thin red line. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> these were excellent - they hit BOTH nails right on the head. Thanks for posting them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
109 Gustav Posted October 29, 2000 Share Posted October 29, 2000 If any people on this forum think SPR is a dumb movie, check out the original screenplay. (the real one, not the parody) It's kind of a cross between SPR and the worst western movie you ever saw. ------------------ Well my skiff's a twenty dollar boat, And I hope to God she stays afloat. But if somehow my skiff goes down, I'll freeze to death before I drown. And pray my body will be found, Alaska salmon fishing, boys, Alaska salmon fishing. -Commercial fishing in Kodiak, Alaska Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PawBroon Posted October 29, 2000 Share Posted October 29, 2000 SAVING PRIVATE RYAN: THE ABRIDGED SCRIPT By Rod Hilton FADE IN: EXT. A GRAVEYARD - DAY An OLD MAN stands in front a grave, among the hundreds of them in the graveyard. He begins crying in a moment sure to manipulate the audience into crying. EXT. BEACH - DAY Hundreds upon hundreds of SOLDIERS storm onto the beach. Evil GERMANS are waiting, shooting at them all. All of them DIE. The few who don't die happen to be TOM HANKS and his MISFIT CREW of soldiers who will help him. TOM HANKS There goes half of the extras. Bombs and explosives are going off, and limbs are flying across the screen. DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG War is hell. SENILE WAR VETERANS IN AUDIENCE Wow. This is realistic. (crying) I remember this so well. All of that mayhem.. GEN-X MEMBERS OF AUDIENCE I thought this movie was supposed to be really violent. INT. SOME OFFICE - DAY GENERAL We need to save Private Ryan. EXT. FIELDS - DAY TOM HANKS and his CREW have been assigned to saving Private Ryan. They walk through a field. Suddenly, EVIL GERMANS ambush them. EVIL GERMANS Har har! We are Germans and we are faceless and extremely evil villians! Just like in Schindler's List and Indiana Jones. DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG I do NOT have issues, damn it. A battle ensues, in which limbs fly across the screen and blood covers every peice of matter available. All of the EVIL GERMANS die, and one member of HANK'S CREW dies. He is the character played by the least famous actor in the crew. DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG War is hell. EXT. SOMEWHERE ELSE - DAY The above scene repeats itself in various locations until only a few members of the CREW remain or until FAKE BLOOD gets a new tax placed on it. DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG War is hell! EXT. A BRIDGE - DAY TOM HANKS We are looking for Private Ryan. MATT DAMON I am him. TOM HANKS Your brothers are dead. You can go home. MATT DAMON Despite being totally crushed by the deaths of three of my family members, I will stay here and fight this battle, as I owe it to my country. (looking at camera) I am an American. And I OWE THIS TO MY COUNTRY! TOM HANKS Then I shall help you fight. TOM HANKS and what's left of his CREW plus DAMON and the crew he is with all fight more EVIL GERMANS, who are more heavily armed. Everyone is KILLED, except for MATT DAMON. DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG War is hell. EXT. GRAVEYARD - DAY OLD MAN, who, by process of elimination, is MATT DAMON, begins crying some more. OLD MAN (looking at camera) I hope I have been a good man. For, you see, all of those people died to protect me. (looking directly at you) PEOPLE WENT TO WAR AND DIED TO PROTECT ME AND MY FREEDOM! DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG In case you stupider audience members don't get it, a lot of people died for your freedom, and this is what they had to go through, and you REALLY owe them. The OLD MAN solutes the grave. It is very SURPRISING and NOT CLICHE. Another LIMB flies across the screen. END Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PawBroon Posted October 29, 2000 Share Posted October 29, 2000 THE THIN RED LINE: THE ABRIDGED SCRIPT By David Faulkner FADE IN: EXT. JUNGLE Shot of leaves. Trees. A LIZARD. Birds. More trees. More leaves. Birds. Lizards. Etc. AUDIENCE Wasn't this on PBS last night? EXT. PEACEFUL NATIVE VILLAGE JIM CAVIEZEL is AWOL (whatever that stands for) and hanging around with native people. It is very PEACEFUL and PLEASANT, even though they are PRIMITIVE. This is contrasted later with VIOLENT, UNPLEASANT, but supposedly CIVILIZED people fighting their war. JIM CAVIEZEL I sure do like it here. This symbolizes the existential metaphysical being of the essence of the human condition... A big sinister American ship shows up. JIM CAVIEZEL is taken on board. INT. SHIP The ship is very lifeless, claustraphobic, and sinister seeming. This is a sharp contrast from the wonderful natural world outside. SEAN PENN You were AWOL again. Guess I'll make you a medic. JIM CAVIEZEL A medic, symbolizing my role as a healer within this horror of warfare, the dualistic nature of the... SEAN PENN Shut up. EXT. SHIP JOHN TRAVOLTA (with a silly looking) mustache) Wanna join the Church of Scientology? NICK NOLTE Uh, no thanks. Oh, by the way, I'm a fanatical war-loving type of guy. JOHN TRAVOLTA (not so subtly) Some people in wars do stupid things to try to increase their prestige and stab people in the back. I wonder if that is a foreshadowing. Oh, I'm only in this movie briefly as an awkward cameo. EXT. JUNGLE More trees and jungles. A simple native man looking for food walks by as the scared ****less American soldiers march through the jungle. DIRECTOR TERRENCE MALICK It's symbolic! Soldiers find a mutilated American soldier. NICK NOLTE Damn Japs. Let's go shoot some of those yellow Nazi-loving evil squinty- eyed Japanese so they make TVs and Walkmans instead of trying to take over half the world. Har har har. A battle starts. JAPANESE SOLDIERS shoot at AMERICAN SOLDIERS. NICK NOLTE stays a safe distance away. NICK NOLTE (into radio) Go lose your life with a frontal assault on their base, even though you're outnumbered and being slaughtered, but I want to be a big war hero. ELIAS KOTEAS (through radio) No, they'll all die. NICK NOLTE Who cares, ****ing coward. God bless America. AMERICAN SOLDIERS kill JAPANESE SOLDIERS in a bunker, take some captive. JAPANESE captives are all half- starved boys, trembling and praying in terror. DIRECTOR TERRENCE MALICK See! They're not really faceless evil monsters! STEVEN SPIELBERG Damn you, people might compare that to SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, where the EVIL GERMANS were just faceless EVIL NAZI enemies. Then again, people are idiots, so they probably won't. Battle is over. AMERICANS beat crap out of JAPANESE prisoners, pull out their teeth, torture them, etc. JIM CAVIEZEL War is bad, takes away people's humanity, the essence of their lives, ripped away, their souls torn as the very fabric of consciousness is torn with a barbaric blood lust, the transcendent flow of their being rippled across the jagged terrain of the symbolic human struggle... JIM CAVIEZEL goes back to the native village, where he sees people arguing, children fighting, and a child dying from disease. DIRECTOR TERRENCE MALICK You see, we idealize even nature, but in reality, there is no such thing as a perfect place. Get it? AUDIENCE Duh...huh...what? BEN CHAPLIN daydreams about fondling his wife. BEN CHAPLIN My wife sure is hot, I can't wait till this war is over so I can go back and **** her. That's the only thing giving me hope to keep on going. BEN CHAPLIN gets a letter from his WIFE, saying she fell in love with another man and wants a divorce. BEN CHAPLIN Aww ****. Suddenly, hordes of JAPANESE attack. People DIE. It is very SAD. The LIZARD that was shown in the beginning is DEAD. DIRECTOR TERRENCE MALICK Get it? Isn't this deep and meaningful? TEENAGE BOYS IN AUDIENCE What the ****'s he talkin' ‘bout, yo? Let's see some Japanese ass get kicked, otherwise they'll never become pacifists and just make consumer electronics, like my crappy SONY PLAYSTATION and my NINTENDO 64 that I waste vast amounts of time playing, when I'm not listening to music on my SONY DISCMAN or watching my SONY TELEVISION. TEENAGE GIRLS IN AUDIENCE Where's MATT DAMON?! I thought he was supposed to be in this! He's SO CUTE, almost as cute as LEONARDO DICAPRIO. WAR VETERANS IN AUDIENCE Damn, when I was in the war, I just remember wanting to go home alive. I guess I should've noticed all that symbolism and the philosophical side to it. Now where are my dentures? STAUNCH REPUBLICANS IN AUDIENCE THIS MOVIE REALLY SHOWS WHY AMERICA RULES! USA IS THE BEST. WE HAVE THE BEST MILITARY IN THE WORLD, NOW WE RULE THE WORLD INSTEAD OF THOSE JAPANESE ****ERS! I CAN'T BELIEVE THOSE ****ING HIPPIES IN THE 60'S DIDN'T WANT TO GO INTO ANOTHER JUNGLE AND FIGHT MORE ASIAN PEOPLE FOR THEIR COUNTRY! GOD BLESS THE USA, THE LAND OF THE FREE! CRITICS This movie sucks, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN was much better, because it had TOM HANKS, and WE LOVE TOM HANKS. More leaves, trees, birds, etc. FADE OUT: GEORGE CLOONEY Hey, wait, let me make my cameo before you end! GEORGE CLOONEY shows up for some unnecessary part tacked on the end. END Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PawBroon Posted October 29, 2000 Share Posted October 29, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> Very much not WW2 related but, err, it's still war. It's the last of those posts for you lazy bunch... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> STARSHIP TROOPERS: THE ABRIDGED SCRIPT By Peter W. Horton III FADE IN: INT. CLASSROOM - DAY MICHAEL IRONSIDE teaches a class of FUTURISTIC STUDENTS in their FUTURISTIC CLASSROOM with FUTURISTIC DESKS. MICHAEL IRONSIDE I am your hard-ass teacher. I lost my arm in one of the many wars of our fascist society, and because of that I am now eligible to vote. Now, tell me the difference between a Citizen and a Civilian! CASPER VAN DIEN Sorry. I didn't read the classic novel by Robert Heinlein that this movie is based on. MICHAEL IRONSIDE You should die then, you bitch mother****er. EXT. OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL - DAY CASPER VAN DIEN, DINA MEYER, DENISE RICHARDS, and NEIL PATRICK HARRIS are all outside doing futuristic high school things. DINA MEYER Hi! I show my breasts twice in this movie. DENISE RICHARDS Anyway, let's all join the military. CASPER VAN DIEN Okay. NEIL PATRICK HARRIS Cool. INT. RECRUITMENT PLACE - DAY CASPER VAN DIEN, DENISE RICHARDS, and NEIL PATRICK HARRIS take an OATH and are sworn into MILITARY SERVICE. RECRUITER SERGEANT I have no legs and no right hand. So, how did you kids do? DENISE RICHARDS I'm going to be a starship pilot! CASPER VAN DIEN I'm going into the infantry! NEIL PATRICK HARRIS Hey, remember me? I was the star of the hit show "Doogie Howser, M.D."! RECRUITER SERGEANT Holy ****--I knew you looked familiar. Are you going to become a hardcore futuristic soldier? NEIL PATRICK HARRIS No, I'm a ****ing geek in this movie too! And this was my last chance to be cool! Instead I'm going to be a super-intelligent mind control freak! EXT. TRAINING CAMP - DAY EVERYONE goes through the roughest, most bad-ass BOOT CAMP anyone has ever seen in any SCIENCE FICTION WAR MOVIE. CASPER VAN DIEN Sir, yes, sir! Move out in pairs of quadruple squads, left flank to the middle side rear, moonwalk on the triple! JAKE BUSEY Har, Casper. I'm Gary Busey's son. I'm going to be yer bestest bud from now on. Let's shoot pool and drink beer together and take ****s together, like bestest buds in the military do. DINA MEYER Hi, I'm back--I joined the military too! I promise I'll show my breasts soon. They go through more TRAINING. A CO-ED SHOWER SCENE occurs, in which most of the FEMALE CHARACTERS, especially DINA MEYER, show their BREASTS. Meanwhile, a race of ALIEN BUGS destroys an EARTH CITY with a METEOR, since Earth with its futuristic, fascist, war-like society has NO DEFENSE against slow-moving, long range METEORS. CASPER VAN DIEN That meteor killed my whole ****ing family. The Bugs are bad, real bad. EXT. BUG HOMEWORLD - NIGHT A HUGE INVASION of the BUG HOMEWORLD occurs in response to the METEOR ATTACK. MANY SOLDIERS are ripped to pieces by SPECIAL EFFECTS and COMPUTER GENERATED BUGS. GEORGE LUCAS ILM actually didn't do the graphics for this movie? No wonder the Bugs look real! The SOLDIERS get beat up bad by the Bugs. CASPER VAN DIEN is WOUNDED and left behind, surrounded by many BUGS. CASPER VAN DIEN I'm not worried. I'm the main character. Meanwhile, DENISE RICHARDS is flying around in a STARSHIP above the planet. Her ship becomes DAMAGED. INT. FUTURISTIC HOSPITAL CASPER VAN DIEN has been miraculously RESCUED and put into a giant FISH TANK to heal. JAKE BUSEY and DINA MEYER come to see him. DINA MEYER You're going to live to see my breasts again. JAKE BUSEY I'm yer buddy. When you get out, let's find our old Drill Sergeant and shove a pool stick up his ass, smear **** on him, and flush him down a toilet. Har. That's some funny ****. INT. BARRACKS - DAY JAKE BUSEY, DINA MEYER and CASPER are transferred to a NEW UNIT. The UNIT not only includes the only BLACK CHARACTERS in the movie, but is also led by MICHAEL IRONSIDE. MICHAEL IRONSIDE I bet you didn't expect that ****, because I had no left arm in the other scene. But I have a mechanical arm now, see? And if you don't fight I'll kill you myself, you bitch mother****ers. EXT. DESERT PLANET - DAY MICHAEL IRONSIDE, CASPER, and DINA MEYER and JAKE BUSEY kill Bugs together, alongside the other faceless TROOPERS. They kill bugs dead, like RAID. A whole bunch of people DIE, because that's what happens to people in a WAR MOVIE. MICHAEL IRONSIDE One of my important people was just killed, Casper. Even though I have other soldiers in this unit who are probably more experienced than you, I'm going to promote you. CASPER VAN DIEN Okay. MICHAEL IRONSIDE throws a VICTORY PARTY for his TROOPERS. CASPER VAN DIEN and DINA MEYER have a SEX SCENE during the party, and she shows her BREASTS. Suddenly, DINA MEYER is stabbed through her BREASTS by a BUG and DIES. MICHAEL IRONSIDE has his balls ripped off by BUGS and CASPER VAN DIEN shoots him out of PITY. CASPER and the rest of the SOLDIERS are eventually rescued by DENISE RICHARDS who happened to be flying above the planet in her STARSHIP. DENISE RICHARDS I'm a pilot! INT. STARBASE - NIGHT NEIL PATRICK HARRIS I'm a high-ranking officer now. I need you to go back down to that planet where all that gruesome **** happened and capture a Brain Bug. CASPER VAN DIEN Sir, yes, sir! NEIL PATRICK HARRIS By the way, I'm hardcore now. War does that to people. They put make-up under my eyes to make me look tough, and gave me this Nazi uniform. See how tough I look? CASPER VAN DIEN Sir, yes, sir! NEIL PATRICK HARRIS Also, you're promoted again. I have to go write all this down in my computerized diary now. EXT. DESERT PLANET - DAY CASPER and his TROOPERS try to capture a BRAIN BUG. Meanwhile DENISE RICHARDS is flying above the planet in her STARSHIP. Her ship gets DESTROYED, she crash lands inside a huge CAVE, and is captured by the BRAIN BUG, which is IRONIC. BRAIN BUG I'm going to suck out your brains, because, ****, I'm a Brain Bug, and it makes sense for me to do that. Suddenly, CASPER VAN DIEN and JAKE BUSEY appear inside the CAVE. They save DENISE RICHARDS and capture the BRAIN BUG. They piss on it and then JAKE BUSEY shoves a pool stick up the BRAIN BUG's ASS. They tie a ROPE around it and FLUSH it down a TOILET, then pull it back out. Then they bring it to NEIL PATRICK HARRIS, who is waiting outside with thousands of TROOPERS. NEIL PATRICK HARRIS uses his skills as a genius TV doctor to examine the BRAIN BUG. NEIL PATRICK HARRIS It's scared ****less. Now we know how to defeat the Bugs. CASPER VAN DIEN So I guess in the next few scenes will show us going around killing off all the remaining Bugs, pissing on them and shoving pool sticks up their asses? DIRECTOR PAUL VERHOEVEN **** no, we're almost out of film, you bitch mother****er. So the movie is going to end abruptly, without any real resolution. We'll just throw up a text screen with some bull**** on it about eventually winning the war... because, ****, I directed ROBOCOP. CASPER VAN DIEN Sir, yes, sir! JAKE BUSEY Har, that's some funny ****. END ------------------ "PawBroon: Clinically Insane, also Clinically French, which is very bad as well." Croda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russellmz Posted October 30, 2000 Author Share Posted October 30, 2000 cripes, starship troopers was so bad it became entertaining watching the fools die... i have ranted for pages on this subject i other posts so i'll spare u the rant and summarize my findings: denise richards: bad starry eyed stare acting only character i liked gets killed casper van dien went to harvard, even with crappy grades the mobile infantry gets around on foot. no tanks to squash bugs. no air support. no orbital bombardment to destroy anti ship bug butt guns. at the end people are happy despite their horrid wounds and the fact that some of their friends died about three minutes earlier. at least it bombed...no sequel! ------------------ "They had their chance- they have not lead!" - GW Bush "They had mechanical pencils- they have not...lead?" - Jon Stewart on The Daily Show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Madmatt Posted November 1, 2000 Share Posted November 1, 2000 The computer animated show was cool (Rico's Roughnecks), but I am not sure they will ever finish the series. It was supposed to be 40 episodes or so with 5 major campaigns covered with 8 episodes per campaign concluding with a full Klendathu assault. The dozen or so that I saw were awesome. Pretty mature for a show scheduled during a *kids show* time slot and was closer to the book (they wore real powered armor with different variants) then the movie. If you are into Powered Armor then I would recommend the book ARMOR by John Steakley, one of my favorite fiction books ever. Madmatt ------------------ If it's in Combat Mission, it's on Combat Mission HQ! Combat Mission HQ CMHQ-Annex, The Alternative side of Combat Mission and home of the CMMC CMHQ-Annex Host of the Combat Mission WebRing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted November 1, 2000 Share Posted November 1, 2000 I'm not quite sure how to respond to these. I did find them funny but at the same time they piss me off. I understand that these are parodies but even then a person's views can shine through. And this guy sounds like some kinda AntiAmerican hippy ass. I don't recall WWII as a warmongering act of American agression as this jerkoff seems to think it was. I could go on for a very long time but I am not going to. I will spare myself and the rest of you guys the anger I am feeling. Hopefully I missed the point and this was not taking shots at my country just the movies themselves. And there is nothing uncool about being a patriot. I am a longhaired metalhead, who chased many chicks, drank many beers and saw many bands. Not exactly the wet dream image of the all american boy but I am still a patriot and I love my country as many of you on here love yours. Mord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted November 1, 2000 Share Posted November 1, 2000 Just so you can see where I am comming from on this I want to give you an example of something a teenager at my old job said one night. It is a long the same lines as having a bad view point of the US during wartime she says: "We should never have been involved in WWII all the Americans did were rape and kill. They raped all kinds of women in France. They should ban war." My jaw hit the floor twice. This was such a stupid and idiotic statemnet that even the teenage busboys were dumbfounded by this moronic girl. I said something like "You never took the fact into consideration that world domination was the reason we were fighting? If we hadn't entered that war most likely we'd be goose stepping right now and eating sushi by the boat load" I went on and on and so did the bus boys and I finally think she realized how stupid she sounded. Is this what they are teaching our kids in school now a days? WWII was nothing more than a reason to rape French chicks and kill some people? Jeeeeeez! Sorry about the rant fellas I am getting carried away.... and all this cause of a movie script. Mord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russellmz Posted November 1, 2000 Author Share Posted November 1, 2000 hehe i think the two POV's were different for the abridged scripts and the dumb-ss chick, er, i mean, mistaken girl. probably the girl mixed up wwii and vietnam(i wouldn't be surprised) but how she knew the french were involved in wwii astounds me given her obvious state of intelligence. the abridged movie script guy i think just thought thought vietnam was a bad idea. (plus he makes fun of republicans, always a plus in my book!) the making fun of american jingoism is not cause of anti-americanism but making fun of the bit heavy handed patriotic parts of SPR. meanwhile the thin red line parody made fun of malick's nature imagery and "trans existential" thoughts in the movie's soldiers. starship troopers...well, i spilled enough bile in their direction. ------------------ "They had their chance- they have not lead!" - GW Bush "They had mechanical pencils- they have not...lead?" - Jon Stewart on The Daily Show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Germanboy Posted November 1, 2000 Share Posted November 1, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mord: If we hadn't entered that war most likely we'd be goose stepping right now and eating sushi by the boat load<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> While I can see the point about goose stepping (only funny when John Cleese does it), what's wrong with Sushi? Hmmmm, Sushi... And a nice cold Sapporo Burakku Raberu ------------------ Andreas <a href="http://www.geocities.com/greg_mudry/sturm.html">Der Kessel</a > Home of „Die Sturmgruppe“; Scenario Design Group for Combat Mission. [This message has been edited by Germanboy (edited 11-01-2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveman Posted November 1, 2000 Share Posted November 1, 2000 Starship Troopers... what a disappointment. The only female character (Denise Richards) I wanted to see take her top off didn't. ------------------ "Whenever a mission ends and I still have a member of the red team standing, I have to ask myself: did I do enough to ensure my own safety?" - Old Man Murray review on SWAT3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pham911 Posted November 1, 2000 Share Posted November 1, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> she says: "We should never have been involved in WWII all the Americans did were rape and kill. They raped all kinds of women in France. They should ban war." <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I can understand the rape comments as being just ignorant. But... They should ban war? And how would they enforce this ban? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Germanboy Posted November 1, 2000 Share Posted November 1, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Pham911: They should ban war? And how would they enforce this ban?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> They'd shoot you? ------------------ Andreas <a href="http://www.geocities.com/greg_mudry/sturm.html">Der Kessel</a > Home of „Die Sturmgruppe“; Scenario Design Group for Combat Mission. [This message has been edited by Germanboy (edited 11-01-2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maj. Bosco Posted November 1, 2000 Share Posted November 1, 2000 I thought he was a little rough on SPR but those other two peices of crap deserve it. When I left the movie theater after Thin Red Line I said "Wow, that's two hours of my life I'll never get back" and just because it was two hours wasted on artsy crap doesn't make it any better than having wasted a similar amount of time on Starship Troopers. Russel was right when he said that they should have had tanks to squash dumb bug things. I'll go beyond that. They should have had frigging machine guns. They didn't need tanks. Machine guns would have done it. Not stupid futuristic machine guns either. German WWII MG42's would have done the job fine. Dumb bug things run at dug in defenders, dug in defenders mow dumb bug things a la WWI. End of story there. In fact, why the hell did they even need troopers on the planet? They've mastered interstellar travel I'm sure they can grab a nice big asteroid, say about the size of mars, and slam it into that planet fast enough to kill everything on or in said planet. Oh well.. that's enough ranting. Wait, no, a little more ranting. Never watch Battlefield Earth or Wing Commander. They're bad. Very bad. They're after-I-watched-(Battlefield Earth/Wing Commander)-Starship-Troopers-seemed-excellent-by-comparison bad. Oh, and on a different note Armor, by John Steakley, is one of the best science fiction novels I've ever read. Not the best science or best tactics you'll ever see in a SciFi novel, but it is incredibly well written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russellmz Posted November 1, 2000 Author Share Posted November 1, 2000 they got scripts for those too! http://ter.air0day.com/wingcommander.html http://ter.air0day.com/battlefield.html http://ter.air0day.com/archives.html even if a movie is bad, at least we can read the abridged scripts and realize we're not alone in hating them... ------------------ "They had their chance- they have not lead!" - GW Bush "They had mechanical pencils- they have not...lead?" - Jon Stewart on The Daily Show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Offwhite Posted November 1, 2000 Share Posted November 1, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Germanboy: They'd shoot you? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Not to mention... who are "they"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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