An entertaining little film once you got past all the mythical "mother" planet nonsense. Paganism....a certain kind of Paganism is still around...at least on the movie screen.
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Actually Sol, there not Marines. At the beginning of the movie as Jake is debarking the landing craft, he calls them "Merc's for hire". I too loved Col. Quaritch, and really truth be told throughout the movie he was a cool cat.
ReplyDeletethanks for the heads up...i just deleted that part...and i'll leave the review part up. thanks for keeping me straight on the facts!
ReplyDeletePaganism is alive. I had a buddy in boot camp, a bit on the crazy side and *really* quirky for the time & place. Wanted to transfer to the professional army, get some SF experience and go merc. No Love & daisies pagan, precisely, but a good kid.
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I believe most were supposed to be ex military.
ReplyDeleteI really didnt like it, the casual racism of the maker, the historical implausability of the resistance winning, the lack of a battleship turnrning up in orbit and glassing the panet.
Terra Nova was pretty good, he's basicaly the same guy.