tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415178.post5502452532632904630..comments2023-10-23T00:04:35.356-04:00Comments on The Vault of Buncheness: STARSHIP TROOPERS 3: MARAUDER (2008)Bunche (pop culture ronin)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11831085937894725459noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415178.post-31717220464080265912008-08-12T14:35:00.000-04:002008-08-12T14:35:00.000-04:00"Heinlein purists... the power suits they've been ..."Heinlein purists... the power suits they've been bitching about"!?!<BR/><BR/>Are you barking mad!<BR/><BR/><BR/>"But I do want to mention a little about powered suits, partly because I was fascinated by them and also because that was what led me into trouble. No complaints - I rated what I got.<BR/><BR/>An M. I. lives by his suit the way a K-9 man lives by and with and on his doggie partner. Powered armor is one-half the reason we call ourselves "mobile infantry" instead of just "infantry." (The other half are the spaceships that drop us and the capsules we drop in.) Our suits give us better eyes, better ears, stronger backs (to carry heavier weapons and more ammo), better legs, more intelligence ("intelligence" in the military meaning; a man in a suit can be just as stupid as anybody else only he had better not be), more firepower, greater endurance, less vulnerability.<BR/><BR/>A suit isn't a space suit - although it can serve as one. It is not primarily armor - although the Knights of the Round Table were not armored as well as we are. It isn't a tank - but a single M. I. private could take on a squadron of those things and knock them off unassisted if anybody was silly enough to put tanks against M. I. A suit is not a ship but it can fly, a little on the other hand neither spaceships nor atmosphere craft can fight against a man in a suit except by saturation bombing of the area he is in (like burning down a house to get one flea!). Contrariwise we can do many things that no ship - air, submersible, or space - can do.<BR/><BR/>"There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective, that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time - we've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will."<BR/><BR/>-R.A.H.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415178.post-68916020637789401272008-08-12T13:36:00.000-04:002008-08-12T13:36:00.000-04:00Sadly there's no nudity from Donohoe or Blaylock (...Sadly there's no nudity from Donohoe or Blaylock (dammit!), although there is a certain amount of coed nudity, a la the first film.Bunche (pop culture ronin)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11831085937894725459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415178.post-33746363975324005662008-08-12T12:00:00.000-04:002008-08-12T12:00:00.000-04:00So, does Amanda Donahoe continue her career tradem...So, does Amanda Donahoe continue her career trademark nudity in this one? Or were the producers too afraid that her legendary rack wasn't good enough to compete with someone half her age and experience? <BR/><BR/>As for Denise Richards, I agree, with two exceptions: Wild Things, and the duet with a plastic Jesus in Drop Dead Gorgeous (the funniest scene in that film).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415178.post-16583119249937993012008-08-12T09:40:00.000-04:002008-08-12T09:40:00.000-04:00I agree about Denise Richards. She'd even be eeril...I agree about Denise Richards. She'd even be eerily distracting as a background prop! Can't stand her. She REALLY annoyed me in the first movie.<BR/><BR/>Something in my pants likes this new girl tho. Must be my phone, right?Declan Shalveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03629128268774530529noreply@blogger.com