Re: [*FSFFU*] GI Jane -Reply

From: Sean Johnston (sean-johnston@UIOWA.EDU)
Date: Sun Sep 07 1997 - 17:32:33 PDT


>Wow, Debra. No need to take it so sensitively. Stallone is not much of
>green beret either, despite Rambo. However, that was not the point of that
>movie, and neither it is of this one. Hollywood will never be realistic,
>because honestly, no one would want to see it exactly like in real life.
>I don't know how well it depicts military, but I can tell you that any
>movie with a plot going on outside of US can _always_ be shown as
>"/Comedy" in that country, no matter what it is about. One hilariously
>idiotic example I can think of right away is _Golden Eye_ (the latest James
>Bond flick). Just the way actors fake your accent would make you laugh to
>tears.

Try watching _You Only Live Twice_ and watch for the Japan scene where
Bond's being bathed.

>
 To say that SEAL men
>> aren't exceptional because they don't look like Arnold
>> Schwartzenegger is silly, because you're forgetting that Arnold is a
>> body builder and actor,

Good point, but one correction: there's no 't' in Schwarzenegger.

-Sean



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