No 'orbital' anything..?
The most effective method, according to this movie, of killing masses of insectlike, primitive creatures on another planet, is to send masses of soldiers with weak armors and weak guns to shoot at them a lot, while getting killed a lot.
Riiiight..
How about orbital scanning, targeting, strategizing and bombing?
How about orbital heat rays, arranged to multiply the power of the solar system's sun, in the same way a magnifying glass can be used to fry ants?
Then there's the idea of pretty much EVERY mass-killing technique ever employed on this planet in this primitive past.. look at what was done in Vietnam and Japan - from carpet bombing to napalm, helicopters, tanks, etc.
Then add more modern equipment, like jet fighter/bombers with all kinds of devastating missiles, bombs and sophisticated targeting systems.
After that, multiply the effectiveness of them, because after all, we are in the 'future' in this movie, and are thus using much more effective and higher technology, perhaps new, innovative equipment!
There were so many other things they could've (and should've) first done before doing the 'let's just drop masses of humans with weak guns on the surface' plan.
Whose idea was this?
Why didn't they try bombing (well, ANY kind of bombing, really) or some orbital stuff? Why couldn't the computers warn the pilots of incoming 'colon burst bombs' (or whatever they should be called)? The blue 'fartbombs' (I guess that is more easy to understand, but I still don't like it) were moving relatively slowly, the spaceships surely could've stayed -way- out there, so it would've taken minutes (if not longer) to reach any spaceship, by which time, it should've been able to evade it easily..
Why do the soldiers even wear armor? Has that armor ever stopped an attack?
How can they allow a general to throw knives through the hands of students, break their arms and beat them with sticks and do all kinds of barbaric, cruel and unusual things to them as punishment?
Why is there so much awfulness, vomit, gore, blood, violence, dismembering and slime and pointless, prolonged shooting in this movie? Not to mention the explosions (the visual opium for the lowest common denominator.. sigh).
Why is a lot of the first half just some awful, cliché-ridden soap opera between soulless barbie dolls?
What's the point of this movie? It certainly doesn't seem to have any. Yes, I get the 'satire' stuff, but it's still a crappy movie. It also seems to try to be like Robocop a lot (especially with those 'propaganda shots'), but fails even at that.
The only thing that REALLY reminded me of Robocop in this travesty, was the music, which it shamelessly reused instead of giving us something new and good (well, it wasn't completely identical, but way too similar).
In any case, so that this post won't become another long rant (I guess most of my posts devolve into something like that), I'll just repeat; WHY not orbital something? Anything would've been fine! Orbital bombing, orbital napalming (probably not a word), orbital scanning and spraying, orbital collective heat (or some other) ray dispersion, photon torpedo bursts.. ANYTHING!
Why aren't there air units AT ALL? (Except for the 'arachnids')
At least I don't remember heavy air support having ever been a part of any scene. Masses and masses of soldiers can't be an effective way to wage war, even a primitive war on this planet, let alone on another planet, when you have future technology, and thus are not limited to the modern tech.
Was this script written while drunk or on drugs? Or is this a test of what audiences will lap up and praise even if you don't really work very hard for it?
This movie might try to be satiric, but it comes off as a very poor Robocop-wannabe in space, with added gore, explosions and cruelty (and ridiculous uneven attempts at 'equality' with the naked shower scene, haha.. can't watch that without laughing at how ridiculous it is)
Hmm, let's talk about the shower scene a bit more.
SO many 'gender-specific' cultural and societal constructs would have to fall first, before anything like that would be possible, but from the looks of it, none of it was, except that women are EAGER to go to military to die equally, and no one thinks this would be extremely unrealistic.
When you look at the differences between men's psychology and women's psychology, what women are biologically hardwired to do, how women's brains contain more white matter (for emotions), while men's brains contain more grey matter (for intelligence), how men's brains are bigger and more complex, the physiological differences (the strongest woman can never be even close to how strong the strongest man can be, because the muscle density can just never be there for women, plus smaller and weaker bones), it becomes insanely idiotic that women would ever ALLOW that treatment, unless really and truly forced to.
Besides, if women are portrayed as good as men at everything, PLUS then they can be 'good mothers, give birth, etc.', then men have no reason for even existing.
The reality, of course, does not support this fema-fascist-utopistic view. Women are NOT as good as men at many things, because women and men are different, with different, separate strengths and weaknesses.
Men are better at spacial vision, understanding and coordination. This makes men better at handling and driving cars, for example. Women don't need this ability as much as men, because women have other abilities - they are good at giving birth, feeding and nurturing the baby (from 0-2 years old, approx.), and gathering information for the family (and spreading it around).
Men have higher intelligence, but women are better at manipulation emotions.
Men's weakness is their lust and desire for women. Which women can, oh, so easily exploit, and demand a very high price for satisfying this lust and desire (and then paint it as 'love', so everyone would be endeared by it).
There's NO WAY women would freely let all kinds of men just stare at their naked bodies in a situation, where they could get a high price for it (of course women don't think this logically about it - but this is basically what their biological programming leads them to do). Sure, there are nudist beaches and many women can be seen on topless beaches. But it's a different situation - showering together with random men makes women extremely uncomfortable.
This fact alone has 'forced' militaries to build separate showers for women, although heterosexual men are still forced to show their stuff to gay men (all inequality is always against men, and no one sees a problem with it).
So, since women and men are different, have different mating strategies, brain structures and physical bodies - also attraction works very differently for women and men - a situation like that would never work.
It would either create a chaos, and disorder in the army - hormones raging, young women and men naked in showers .. it would only be a matter of time before there would be plenty of sex happening, then plenty of women regretting that sex and yelling 'rape', a lot of false rape accusations, and the like. The man the woman had sex with wasn't alpha enough after all, so now she feels dirty and 'raped'.
Women also menstruate, which creates PMS-rage and other side effects, not to mention the blood flowing from between their big toes.
You can only have a stable group, if that group consists of men. Women, their unrestricted freedoms in social behaviour and raging hormones and mood changes and 'emotion-worshipping' would definitely make any group completely unstable.
There was once a silly TV show, where a group of men and a group of women tried separately to reach certain goals in the business world. The men immediately arranged into an efficient group, where everyone knew their place, and they worked together to organize complex tasks and events, and succeeded very well.
Women were a constantly bickering flock of backstabbing hens that questioned each other all the time, and no one knew what place in the group they should be in or take.
It's madness to unnaturally try to shoehorn or force women to roles their biology fights against. Other women are seen as their competitors, so they have to be constantly sabotaged. Even when they rationally KNOW that kind of behavior doesn't get them anywhere, they can't help following their programming, they sabotage each other anyway.
Men can also talk about sex more directly and freely, women use euphemisms and all kinds of roundabout ways of speaking about it. And when a woman is exposed (not very often, because men usually change their behaviour in the presence of a woman) to such direct language, it feels shocking to them. Ask any of those women, who have done these 'gender studies' by masquerading as a man, and just having to listen to how men really talk. Or the one woman, who thought she could become a man just by 'a gender-changing operation'. She couldn't change her woman-brain into a man-brain, because when she was exposed to this kind of more honest and direct sex talk, she almost vomited inside of her head.
In a nudist colony, or a sunbeach, where such is the norm, you can see some women exposing their breasts for everyone to see. Some women probably either don't care, or pretend they don't care, but feel secretly ashamed.
But it would never work as casually, with as young women as shown in the movie, and as young men. The men would be sporting erections, and the women would notice, and the situation WOULD become -at-least- awkward. And they wouldn't be talking about such casual topics as they were.
Whoever wrote this shower scene, doesn't understand women's psychology, men's psyhology, human physiology, human psychology or what common sense is WHATSOEVER.
But that could be said about the whole movie.. it's a completely pointless product, that shouldn't exist. Only sadists and out-of-touch-with-reality types can enjoy it.