Re: [OT] Re: Tired of the stupid comments about SST...

On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Jonathan Jarrard wrote:

> Brian Burger wrote:
> > 
> > I'm willing to grant that the spaceship scenes are very good
looking. 
> Yes, they were great.  But why didn't they USE any of those big gun
> turrets we say????  The fleet is being massacred during hte drop
scenes,
> but we don't see one SHOT fired at the planet!
> 

The only semi-coherent explaination I can think of is that the
scriptwriters/producers/etc were working on the Russian model: lots and
lots of mediocre infantry, and ignore casualties.

They left out the rest of the Russian Equation, though: lots and lots of
artillery and armour...Given the rest of the movie's tactical sillyness
-
napalm-armed tac fighters coming out to play ONCE; no AFVs, no fire
support, etc etc, I think we can just file SST under "Horrible Movies
That
Shouldn't Have Been Made". It's got a lot of company in that category...

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