Posts by urbanhawk28

Peter Myers29 said:Video games are a completely different beast... When it comes to those Boeing B-17 fighters, they were definitely more maneuverable than the American fighters of that era (like the P-40 Warhawk shown in the film), but it came at a massive cost to safety. The Zero relied on a wooden structural frame covered in metal skin, and it had almost zero armor protection for the engine or the pilot....

A fighter's primary asset is its flight capability, not its armor plating. History showed this during the rest of WWII, as fighter development shifted toward speed and firepower rather than heavy protection;
Armor was being developed for bombers and interceptors. So, the Zero was actually ahead of its time...

And don't even get me started on the outdated F2A Buffalo, which was a main American fighter back then (though it isn't really featured in the movie because it doesn't look impressive enough); it might have been well-armored—assuming the designation implies interceptor use—but that didn't save it from fighter cannons, or even small-caliber ground fire and AA...

Against US bombers, those planes might have helped (especially the torpedo bombers, which were most vulnerable), but they were always screened by Zeros...
Add to all that the initial disadvantages the Americans faced mentioned in the previous post, plus the massive factor of inexperience compared to the pilots who already had combat experience in China and Indochina...

👎 ...The data, specifically American records (meaning reality was likely even grimmer), shows that Americans lost roughly ten times as many aircraft as the enemy did. The only thing that saved them from total fleet destruction was the lack of carriers that posed a threat to the enemy, which reportedly caused them to cancel a third wave of attacks...

😎 To draw a parallel and wrap this up: what the Soviets were to the Germans in WWII is what the Americans were to the enemy in the Pacific Ocean (at least early in the war); pure quantity over quality...

👎 Dogfights in these games are completely unrealistic. Anyone who has actually played something like IL-2 Sturmovik or any serious flight sim knows the Japanese had the advantage in altitude and speed, not to mention their planes were superior... I don't have all the exact historical data memorized, but I honestly believe Americans stood no chance in the air. They might have been able to splash a few planes from ground positions or using AA gear on the carriers, but that’s about it.

👎 And that part where the pilot drops a bomb right over the ship? Pure nonsense. Bombs have a trajectory and velocity; they need to be released much earlier before flying over the target....

Ah, those Americans...

steelstag4 said:There are tons of comments like this about the movie. Honestly, did everyone just miss the first ten minutes or what?😕
Or what? 😕

I still think the guy is right; it isn't really about the meat itself, but the hormones injected during the fattening process, especially on American farms.😢

Because the guy was eating, what, two sandwiches a day, and even then with salad; is that even much?
I eat three times that amount every single day and I feel fine.
So, the issue is the toxins in whatever meat someone using McDonald's eats—whether it's hormones, herbicides, or something else, I don't know.

So, where's the legend Schwarzenegger?

Or for instance, let's compare Madonna on the list with Jim Morrison, who isn't...
...
Or to quote Beer Factory:

"It's just some minor nonsense for the masses."

I actually dug the whole pyramid interpretation and the hunter cult stuff, but I just can't stomach the next part.

😕 That Black woman’s arrogant, condescending attitude being shoved down our throats as leadership? Please. In the real world, a cow wouldn't last five minutes under that kind of pressure. A true leader people actually follow isn't defined by aggression and ego, but by self-control and intelligence.
😕 Sure, all Predators have portable X-ray scanners, yet some baby-Alien still managed to hitch a ride inside a Predator and get onto the ship;
if those guys were really that stupid to miss that, then the Predators are basically a race of morons.

I feel like the whole movie completely ignores—whether by design or just sheer ignorance—the issue of hormone additives in livestock feed, which is used to speed up fattening specifically here in the USA (whereas over in Europe, they tend to rely more on antibiotics in their feed)

So, my take is that it isn't even really about the calories... I mean, eating three sandwiches a day isn't much for an adult anyway... it's more about those growth hormones in the meat.

What are your thoughts on this?

The Dude said:(Bonus points if anyone has theories explaining why there's a five-minute shot of just driving down the highway at the very start of the movie)

Here’s my take:
I think that segment is a parody of the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey (the whole film is somewhat influenced by that movie, which set a new bar for how serious sci-fi could be) and a jab at those psychedelic, mind-bending journeys where everyone's left wondering what the hell they're even watching;
I think the director just wanted to show a gray, mundane reality, far removed from (forgive my phrasing, maybe I'm exaggerating) all that pretentious fluff.

Actually, you should just compare the runtimes of both sequences—if they match up, then that's 100% it.

Just because a movie parodies violence doesn't mean it's actually any good.

Aside from what’s already been mentioned, I’d add:

1) Forbidden Planet (sci-fi classic)
2) Ghost Dog (crime)
3) Flesh + Blood (??)
4) They Live (sci-fi)
5) Beverly Hills Ninja (comedy)
5b) Dark Star (sci-fi comedy)