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Originally Posted by Graham

Or what about "before this girl even gets to pilot the Starship, she does some insanely dangerous manouevres around the space station, then when she gets into the pilot's chair she does some more really stupid stuff, but instead of her getting a new a$$hole ripped into her, it's 'wow, wasn't that well done'"!!

Yes, I forgot about that. Isn't it crazy that with all the gravimetric, motion and other sensors at their command, they could've avoided that asteroid just by looking out of the freakin' window a bit sooner?! What kind of pilot relies solely on instruments? A dead one, that's what! And who places a cadet at the helm of a multi-million-credit starship like the Rodger Young?

Or how about "let's send massed infantry onto this planet with no armour or air support and then be surprised when they get butchered".

Yes, that was stupid, given that they already knew the Arachnids tended to number in the tens of thousands at any given location. I don't even want to think about how many billions of them there must've been on Klendathu itself. Why didn't the Navy plaster the landing areas before the M.I. dropped?

On the other hand, Verhoeven occasionally has a macabre sense of humour. Remember Shujimi in the shower scene (Dina Meyer naked. Naked in a shower. Right in front of the guys. Ooh, those lucky b***ards!) saying his Harvard tuition was going to cost an arm and a leg? Well, on Klendathu it did - the Bugs ripped both off before dismembering him totally. Wheter the joke was intentional, I don't know.

Remember Total Recall? "You think this is the real Quaid?" The guards turn away - "It is!" and he handily blows them away. Or Richter having his arms ripped off by the elevator and falling back down the shaft - Quaid tosses the arms after him and calls, "See you at the party, Richter!"

We'll leave the glaring scientific inaccuracies of Total Recall's Mars for another time, I think...