 February 26, 2013 - 3:55pm | There will be explosions. The aliens attack at some point in the movie. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
 February 27, 2013 - 4:12am | Yes, the A-Team conditioned us to expect explosions because in gun fights where you can't have people getting shot explosions give the impression of action and violence. This is propably part of that trend -that aliens being chopped up because that's not as violent as humans being killed. My big question is does the token black guy get killed early or late in the film? I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 27, 2013 - 4:29am | A great irony in life is that the most anti war and least violent people I 've known have been people who were avid war gamers, gun owners, black belts in martial arts, and etc. A friend who's sister is anti guns and wont let her kids play with guns is always dismayed at family get togethers because the first toys her kids go for is the toy guns. Ironic. I've had the most interesting conversations with my 7 year old over LotRs The Two Towers (she easily watches it at least once or twice a week) the part when they're mobilizing the old men and boys to defend Helms Deep leads to all sorts of discussions concerning how terrible war is. Her fascination with this movie is not, I've come to realize, with violence but with heroism. There is an inate drive in children to want to be the hero. The constant watching of their dance recital video is part of that because they are up on stage and the audience applauds- plus they aspire to be the older tean girls who are so good. Having realized this i've resolved to play more role playing games with them to give them an outlet for vicarious heroism. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 27, 2013 - 5:50am | The most avid war gamers, gun owners, black belts in martial arts, and etc. I've found to be gun-toting conservatives who go to church on sunday and beat their wives on monday. (I live in Oklahoma, where "good ol' boy" means "white, conservative, patriotic, bigoted, country and believes every man needs a good war.") I like action movies, but hate guns, not because of the guns and the damage they can cause, but because of their availability to criminals and crazies on account of deficient laws written by good ol' boys. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
February 27, 2013 - 8:02am | We dont get that sort around Boston, we do have one odd ball in East Boston that I like to call a red neck but if he doesn't go to church and his wife beats him (more or less). Boston being Boston we get a lot of anit guns, anti war and anti hard on criminals; city of Dracut Ma passed something like 40 new gun ordinances in a few years time when I first moved here- worked with an avid hunter who had the misfortune of living in that town. A college professor of mine who hunted and lived in NH sold all his guns and bows before taking the job teaching in Boston rather than deal with all the crap. Just the culture around here. I here there are a few good ol boys up in NH but their wives are just as good with guns as they are so not so much of the wife beating goes on. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 27, 2013 - 10:25am | Just the culture around here. I here there are a few good ol boys up in NH but their wives are just as good with guns as they are so not so much of the wife beating goes on.
Around here, a wife being good with a gun just means the man doesn't threaten her life, but she still submits to his fist. My son's mom knows her way around a gun, and that didn't stop her ex-common-law husband (not me) from beating her for years. One of my closest old friends was a dangerous scrapper (I guarantee she could knock a guy flat in one punch,) but that didn't stop her from curling up in a ball and taking it every time her less-than-a-man husband beat her for over a decade. (I wasn't around during most of that time. Though he almost got the business end of the bat I took out of his hands when he threatened me for protecting her, back shortly after their first child was born. Her scream at me is what stopped me.) Oh, and I almost forgot, my mom knew how to shoot a gun, too. She and my dad went hunting together. But that didn't stop him from beating her for nearly a decade. (They divorced and he eventually changed.) Having a gun and having the willingness to use it against a person are two different things. Wives stay with their husbands, not because they're not getting beaten or because they know how to use a gun, but because they have an attachment to them which interferes with their willingness to defend themselves or get away, usually because of some overblown sense of family, familiarity or need for security or approval, often stemming from the husband's own psychological abuse of the woman used to control her. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
 February 27, 2013 - 4:35pm | Ahem. I find it interesting that the main weapon is not a laser pistol, machine gun, etc. At least that's my impression after watching the trailer. Stay on target... stay on target... Going to be neat watching Will's son play in this. |
 February 27, 2013 - 6:39pm | The most avid war gamers, gun owners, black belts in martial arts, and etc. I've found to be gun-toting conservatives who go to church on sunday and beat their wives on monday. (I live in Oklahoma, where "good ol' boy" means "white, conservative, patriotic, bigoted, country and believes every man needs a good war.") I like action movies, but hate guns, not because of the guns and the damage they can cause, but because of their availability to criminals and crazies on account of deficient laws written by good ol' boys. While I do not want to start an argument or rant here. Honestly, sincerely, I whole heartly disagree with the categorical gross lumping of people. While in some cases it is correct, but, simply, this does not refer either to all gun owners, conservatives, or white patrotic church going folks. Been a gun owner, black belt martial artist, church goer, conservative christian who has lived both in the country and city and have never ever raised a hand, or any other offense, against a spouse, family member, or girl friend in my entire life. Even when it was done to me first. Most importantly, I have never done this becuase I am a conservative church going martial artist who ethics, morals, and belief system prevent it. Its like saying all role playing gamers are live with their parents, un-employed (or under employed), liberal, tree-hugging, satan worshiping occultists. It just simply isnt true. |
February 28, 2013 - 5:08pm | To be fair, I never included all of each. I only referred to the standard here in Oklahoma, of those who beat their wives. So the stereotype is "those who beat their wives", not white men, gun owners, conservatives or church goers, or everyone belonging to all or any number of those. I myself am a white man, gun owner, and church goer. (And wife beating most certainly isn't locked into the conservative community.) There's also another wife beating stereotype here of the black persuasion, that generally involves being unemployed gangster wannabes (Never got into the gangs but are still closely associated. Surprisingly, I don't hear much about gangsters who beat their wives or girlfriends. And that's not to say that all gangsters are black. In fact, locally, we have quite a smattering of different races in the gangs, not the smallest number of which are white. Nor does that say that all black men are gangsters or beat their wives.) So you see, when someone speaks of a stereotype, there's no reason that you should assume that they mean all the parts included in that stereotype, or that all the parts together, are that stereotype. I'm sure most people can make that distinction. The sum is greater than its parts, and there's a lot of things you can make with eggs, flour, milk and sugar, not just cake. These stereotypes are related more to psychology, social retardation and familial association. Race, gender and the like generally have nothing to do with such stereotypes, beyond the social barriers that inadvertently lock them into that race, gender, economic status etc. So it has more to do with social demographics than racism, sexism, religiosity or any other elitism or prejudice. (Note: I discuss matters of race and social stigma easily because most of my friends in my life have been black, and my ex-wife is black. [She's my ex-wife for reasons that have nothing to do with race.] My niece dates primarily black men, and my brother is also divorced from a black woman. I belong to a religion that gets a whole lot of flack from both other religions and from governments for no other reason than believing differently than most everyone else. And with my ADHD and PTSD, I get stigmatized frequently for things people don't understand. Having suffered various forms of child abuse, and closely associated with so many victims of abuse [including my niece's experiences] I am also intimately familiar with the subject at hand. I am a firm believer in the existence of stereotypes, not as inescapable categories, but resulting from the convergence of specific factors.) View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
February 28, 2013 - 5:12pm | Ahem. I find it interesting that the main weapon is not a laser pistol, machine gun, etc. At least that's my impression after watching the trailer. Stay on target... stay on target... Going to be neat watching Will's son play in this. They don't use a high tech weapon because the kid is being tested as a type of super soldier to handle himself with minimum defenses on the galaxy's most dangerous planet. Besides, ammo runs out. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
 February 28, 2013 - 9:11pm | Now we are getting back on target. I am going to have to research that weapon. |
 March 8, 2013 - 8:29pm | Would offence be taken if we used the opposite stereotype? The Communist, tree hugging, gun hateing, atheistic, hypocrtical, hen-pecked, metrosexual, that doesn't know their certain orifice from a hole in the ground? Back on topic, isn't a cutlass just a heftier saber? In every age, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same. |
March 8, 2013 - 10:29pm | Back on topic, isn't a cutlass just a heftier saber? |
March 9, 2013 - 11:13am | A cutlass was originally a short, broad saber, made specifically for fighting in the small confines of a ship's deck and usually sports a cupped handguard similar to a rapier. The weapon in this movie bears no resemblance to a cutlass, but looks more like a naganata, which is one of the deadliest weapons in the world. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
 March 9, 2013 - 3:35pm | The mind is the most dangerous weapon in the world (John Rambo) Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
March 9, 2013 - 4:13pm | Alright, I just saw the trailer in the theater with the kids for a screening of OZ the great and prequel. It was not that bad looking in the movie trailer. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
