Could we have more US Army in our movies please?

[Grandpa Troll]

Better to have Army in movies to control invading aliens doing a bum rush blitz

[Alexander's Horse]

saw Tranformers, found the jumpy camera work really hard to follow

don't ask for US forces to come to Greece for a movie, they'll stay

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse


don't ask for US forces to come to Greece for a movie, they'll stay

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Although I will say, when I was stationed at McKee Kasserne at Crailsheim West Germany in the 1970's, I got a real good understanding of the warmth of Greece, ate Greek food several days a week and well, thanks to Ouzo (which tastes like black licorice) I caught 40 hours of CDAAC (Tested positive for opium) and had to go to substance abuse counselling



I hope to land me and my wife one day on Greece's hallowed land and visit, and no wont be in fatigues and promise to only consumer some delicious food and a few drinks..but enjoy the warmth of the people there...

Gramps

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by MarkG
let's see. it's a fictional movie. about alien robots.

I admire your keen grasp of the obvious.

you are discussing whether the army should be present in the movie or not?

That would be you who is carrying on that discussion. I put foward the proposition that you're an .

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
don't ask for US forces to come to Greece for a movie, they'll stay

US forces are here already drinking rakhi and enjoying the cretan sun

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll
Although I will say, when I was stationed at McKee Kasserne at Crailsheim West Germany in the 1970's, I got a real good understanding of the warmth of Greece, ate Greek food several days a week and well, thanks to Ouzo (which tastes like black licorice) I caught 40 hours of CDAAC (Tested positive for opium) and had to go to substance abuse counselling

neither greek food or ouzo has opium in it. did you miss to tell us about something?

I hope to land me and my wife one day on Greece's hallowed land and visit, and no wont be in fatigues and promise to only consumer some delicious food and a few drinks..but enjoy the warmth of the people there...

sounds like a great plan

[MarkG]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
That would be you who is carrying on that discussion. I put foward the proposition that you're an .

my point was that the presence of the army was "irrelevant and unnecessary" (see op)

you made the point that (while this is a fictional movie) the army presence is "realistic". I wont propose any names....

[DinoDoc]

How is it unnecessary from a logical narrative point of view?

[MarkG]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
How is it unnecessary from a logical narrative point of view?

a couple of scenes would be enough for the "logical narrative point of view". here we basically had a movie about how the USAF (lead by the heroic Secretary/Rambo) fought the bad alien robots (with some little help from a kid and some other alien robots who happened to pass by)

[Lancer]

Originally posted by Drogue

Prediction: They'll lose. You don't fly from another planet and forget to pack enough weaponry to massively outmatch your opponent.

Valid point, but lets not forget who writes the scripts.

USA! USA! USA!

[Wiglaf]

Originally posted by MarkG
a couple of scenes would be enough for the "logical narrative point of view". here we basically had a movie about how the USAF (lead by the heroic Secretary/Rambo) fought the bad alien robots (with some little help from a kid and some other alien robots who happened to pass by)

You're so ridiculous. It was a dumb action movie. Stop making this into some sort of scandal.

In any movie involving large scale warfare, the army should be involved. Of course they went overboard with the campiness. That is the point.

Did you not notice the movie involves robots that can take any form? And you are whining because the secretary of defense shoots a few of them?

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Wiglaf
In any movie involving large scale warfare, the army should be involved.

why? cant alien robots battle on their own?

Did you not notice the movie involves robots that can take any form?

yes, that's called fiction

And you are whining because the secretary of defense shoots a few of them?

yes, that's called propaganda...

i didnt pay 7 euros to see a 2-hour army ad!

[Ellestar]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Dude. There's an alien invasion going on. This isn't the 80's where a battle can go on for over a day without a peep from the military as in the animated movie. Can you think of one logical reason why the military wouldn't respond to the threat?

Well, USAF didn't have an armed planes so to shoot civil airliners in 9/11 (ok, ok, eventualy they found one training plane with some ammo) and it was the same when some private plane flew above a White House. They don't even learn from the lessons of 9/11. So much for the biggest military budget in the world.

So, well, why do you think USAF will show up against aliens? After all, civil airliners don't fight back and even then they didn't show up.

[Lancer]

I seem to recall a piper cub that landed in Red Square... Btw, did they ever repaint that since Russia lost the cold war?