From: j.clarke.873638@gmail.com   
      
   In article ,   
   tsbrueni@dcn.davis.ca.us says...   
   >   
   > On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 4:52:44 PM UTC-8, Tim Bruening wrote:   
   > > Major Nit: Near the end of Starship Troopers, a large number of troop   
   ships approach bug infested Planet P to land troops in order to capture a   
   "brain bug".  The bugs are firing some sort of plasma weapon up at the troop   
   ships.  The troop ships make    
   absolutely no effort to defend themselves!  They don't take any evasive   
   action, or fire defensive missiles at the bug plasma balls, or raise any   
   shields!   
   >   
   > This nit is worse than I thought.  The fleet invading the Bug homeworld less   
   than half-way through the movie ALSO ran into the plasma farts, ALSO made   
   little effort to dodge, and ALSO got decimated!  Why didn't the troop ships at   
   the end learn from the    
   experience of the first set of troop ships, and dodge the plasma farts?   
   >   
   > Why are ground troops being used in the invasion of Klandantu?  Why not just   
   nuke the planet from orbit?  After all, Earth's policy is to wipe out the bugs!   
   >   
   > Why do some people scoff at the idea that the bugs can think?  Isn't the bug   
   ability to wage devastating war aginst humanity proof that they can think?   
      
   Time, there was an error in titling the movie.  Where the "Tr" appears,   
   it was meant to be "Bl".   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)