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Putting a thing on a thing with harpoons.

Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered!

Sanguinius sacrificing himself.

 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:
Avatar just made me puke through most of it. The plot was obvious from about 20 minutes through.
Also, I cannot see arrows and animals beating GUNS, MECHS AND HELICOPTERS!!!

Just gonna leave that cuddly little guy right here...

In the spirit of the OP and my avatar, I'm going to have to second the ending of Aliens. "COME ON!"

More personally for me, every time people do something really cool. I mean, we put a probe on a comet! A COMET! How cool is that?

 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:
Mine's when they have captured the brain bug in starship troopers, the physic commissar dude touches it, says, "It's afraid" and the half a million mobile infantry just start yelling and cheering, and you can tell the brain bug is crapping its pants
Also basically any battle scene from starship troopers really.

You should try reading the book much better then the movie! Honestly that movie is a abomination to the book.. I watched the movie first when I was younger and my grandpa actually gave me the book and said "this is the best book I have ever read. And that movie was gak" So read the book!

Greatest moment in human history was when Sir John Harington made the flushable toilet that changed everything.

I found the Starship Troopers book dull as dishwater. To put it into a war film context, I went into the book expecting 'Black Hawk Down' but instead, what I got was Jarhead.

There's a quick fight against the Skinnies at the start. A couple of pages of action against the bugs at the end. The entire rest of the book is basically the guy training and trying to get promoted. In all honesty, I'm pretty sure there's more pages on why Social Workers are the cause of the downfall of civilisation than there are pages about the actual Bug War in the book.

If you want stuff about, well, a Bug War, but without the tongue-in-cheekness of the films, have a watch of the recent CGI film, Starship Troopers: Invasion. - And, of course, the classic Roughneck Chronicles.


How about this one, coming from an alien no less.



Of course, the next line is cut off.

"I feel sorry for the Dominion."

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:
The latter parts of Crysis 3.

'After all... I'm only human.'

I only played crysis 2 and i'm wondering if i should play the 3rd. There's is that cool looking crossbow in the title picture.

I've also never played the first. The first seemed like it was better than the 2nd.

They all have their strengths.

The first one is quite disconnected from the others though.

Can recommend them all. Best FPSs I've ever played.

 Compel wrote:
I found the Starship Troopers book dull as dishwater. To put it into a war film context, I went into the book expecting 'Black Hawk Down' but instead, what I got was Jarhead.

There's a quick fight against the Skinnies at the start. A couple of pages of action against the bugs at the end. The entire rest of the book is basically the guy training and trying to get promoted. In all honesty, I'm pretty sure there's more pages on why Social Workers are the cause of the downfall of civilisation than there are pages about the actual Bug War in the book.

If you want stuff about, well, a Bug War, but without the tongue-in-cheekness of the films, have a watch of the recent CGI film, Starship Troopers: Invasion. - And, of course, the classic Roughneck Chronicles.


How about this one, coming from an alien no less.



Of course, the next line is cut off.

"I feel sorry for the Dominion."

Haters gonna hate! Im kidding of course. But for some reason I enjoyed the dull moments in the book, (then again I read SK and most his books are dull till the end) the development of the character I felt was really cool and yes there are only 3 10 - 20 page battles. But still can you say it was better then the movie at the very least?

Also the views of author and a militarized government would be "better" for society could be argued.

And! if it wasn't for Starship troopers there would probably be no starwars, no star trek or 40k...

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:
The Navi are basically big blue humans with bows and arrows

They are obviously a Native Americans allegory. Or more generally native cultures being invaded by more technologically advanced colonizers.

Tall Iroquois vs. battle tanks with no limitations on rules of engagement? Yea I know which side I'm betting on.

 Frazzled wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:
The Navi are basically big blue humans with bows and arrows

They are obviously a Native Americans allegory. Or more generally native cultures being invaded by more technologically advanced colonizers.

Tall Iroquois vs. battle tanks with no limitations on rules of engagement? Yea I know which side I'm betting on.

Thankyou.
And one more thing,

They are obviously a Native Americans allegory. Or more generally native cultures being invaded by more technologically advanced colonizers.

Yeah, 'cause we all know how the natives beat them off, amirite?


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 zombiekila707 wrote:

 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:
Mine's when they have captured the brain bug in starship troopers, the physic commissar dude touches it, says, "It's afraid" and the half a million mobile infantry just start yelling and cheering, and you can tell the brain bug is crapping its pants
Also basically any battle scene from starship troopers really.

You should try reading the book much better then the movie! Honestly that movie is a abomination to the book.. I watched the movie first when I was younger and my grandpa actually gave me the book and said "this is the best book I have ever read. And that movie was gak" So read the book!

Seriously though, regardless of whether the film is good relative to the book, it is probably my favourite film of all time.

Well, Creeeed, I did not meant it made sense. Just that it was to be expected. You cannot get a downer ending where the space Pocahontas being exterminated in the end, can you?

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
Well, Creeeed, I did not meant it made sense. Just that it was to be expected. You cannot get a downer ending where the space Pocahontas being exterminated in the end, can you?

You can in my world. Unfortunately, contrary to what the conspiracy theorists tell you, me being Jewish doesn't give me the ability to change what Hollywood releases. :(

Hated the Avatar movie. Found the humans to be completely sympathic over the Na'vi (remind me why I'm supposed to care about xenos?) and Sulley to be a reprehensible and disgusting character.

The best ending would have simply been the humans nuking them from orbit. Or sitting at a high elevation in VTOL aircraft or jets and burning and bombarding everything to dust.

 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:
You can in my world.

Sorry, I meant “You cannot get a downer ending in an Hollywood blockbuster. The Coast Guard sure did have a quite depressive ending, and Martyrs… well, either completely hilarious or completely, utterly terrifying.

 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:
Unfortunately, contrary to what the conspiracy theorists tell you, me being Jewish doesn't give me the ability to change what Hollywood releases. :(

Cheer up: it they were right, that would mean I would get to change what Hollywood release too, and who would like that ?

 Wyzilla wrote:
The best ending would have simply been the humans nuking them from orbit. Or sitting at a high elevation in VTOL aircraft or jets and burning and bombarding everything to dust.

You sir, need to go to Hollywood, and force them to remake it in this way.