Wing Commander DVD
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Phillip Tanaka
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How about a cold, unflinching look at what the war does to a pilot, along the lines of Full Metal Jacket or Saving Private Ryan?
yes i know all about the crazy war movies, Platoon was really good.
but, WCM didnt have any depth, it lacked violence, it's the ultra-cheese
it was like the movie "Masters of the Universe".
sure the movie was "Wing Commander",
but if I had never played the game and seen WCM first, I think that would turn me from playing the "greatness", that is the game.
but, WCM didnt have any depth, it lacked violence, it's the ultra-cheese
it was like the movie "Masters of the Universe".
sure the movie was "Wing Commander",
but if I had never played the game and seen WCM first, I think that would turn me from playing the "greatness", that is the game.
Phillip Tanaka
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That really depends on who you ask. Personnaly I prefer Wing Commander over Titanic (a first grade movie if ever there was one) and other supposed blockbusters like Vanilla Sky and Gladiator.
Phillip Tanaka
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Huh? Pick up something like Judge Dredd, or if you have the stomache for it Mad Bull if you want to see ridiculousness and cheesy over the top theatre.
Phillip Tanaka
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Or Marine. C'mon, you get my drift. Throw me a bone here. The point is how the war affects someone involved in it.
Phillip Tanaka
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Well, imagine what it would be like to be fighting the Kilrathi war for the better part of fifteen years. How straining it must be. The horrors you would have witnessed for yourself or heard about. The lives you've taken playing heavily on your mind. Losing friends and loved ones. Having to face betrayal. How all this affects a pilot, or Marine, or sailor, or soldier, or whoever. That is the sort of movie I had in mind.
My father was a Marine Medic in NAM, he's told me several stories, but there's one that stands out, his second day after arriving in his camp, it was bombed by the cong,
checking several bodies for any KIA, he comes upon a body slumped up against a tank, he shakes the body and the soldier's head rolls off,
he suffered several horrors, but he's sane, "somewhat".
Phillip Tanaka
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Yeah, that's the sort of thing I'm thinking of. Booby trapped bodies. Children being used as suicide bombers. Punji traps, you know about those, right? The pits filled with poison bamboo. Were the Vietcong involved with slavery? Chuck that in as well then. Doctored ammo. The possibility of being taken from your hootch and being tortured and killed. Vietcong rounding up civillians and shooting them, then dumping them in a hole. Children parading with the decapitated heads of American soldiers. Snipers. Ambushes. Gurialla warfare. Once, the Navy SEALS had left a quartet of Vietcong outside their hootch. They were like Buddhist monks, sitting cross legged as if in prayer, except they were all decapitated. The bodies holding their heads in their laps. Inside the eye sockets were smoking joss sticks. Now think of a soldier who had been through all that, and throw it into the 27th century, in the Kilrathi War.
Phillip Tanaka
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Yes, it is, which is why I prefer counterterrorism over outright war. Prince's Gate and all of that. Or SWAT.