From: psperson1@ix.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 17:20:59 -0400, Wolffan    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 2021 Jun 04, T987654321 wrote   
   >(in article<54765772-8d30-4943-879d-a4b9e61bf331n@googlegroups.com>):   
   >   
   >> " In the year 2524, four hundred years after humans started colonizing the   
   >> outer planets, retired General James Ford is called back into service after   
   >> soldiers on a remote planet are attacked by a hostile alien fleet. The   
   threat   
   >> against the human race escalates into an inevitable interstellar war.   
   General   
   >> Ford teams up with General Eron Ryle and a team of elite soldiers in a race   
   >> to stop the imminent attack before it is too late.   
   >> Cast Frank Grillo, Bruce Willis, Brandon Thomas Lee, Corey Large, Perrey   
   >> Reeves, C.J. Perry, Lochlyn Munro, Costas Mandylor, Adelaide Kane, Luke   
   >> Wilson, Johnny Messner, Trevor Gretzky   
   >> Director Edward Drake "   
   >>   
   >> Yes you've seen this countless times before. I guess the closest in tone   
   >> would be Starship Troopers. In general the future looks like today, aliens   
   >> planets look just like earth, aliens look like homo sapiens wearing a cheap   
   >> mask. The only thing that sort of saved it from total dreck is Bruce.   
   >   
   >I think that I’ve seen part of the trailer. Only part, I switched to   
   >something interesting. However, Bruce was out front with a Very Big Gun.   
   >He’s a _general_? Generals aren’t supposed to be out front with Very Big   
   >Guns. The last general I can think of who was out front with a Very Big Gun   
   >or close enough to it was the gentleman in Korea who got a Medal of Honor for   
   >killing a tank with a grenade... which begs the question of What the _Fuck_   
   >was William Fucking Insane Dean _doing_ close enough to an enemy tank to kill   
   >it with a grenade?! Worse, Bruce has a sword or a machete or something; the   
   >last general I can think of who actually used a sword in action was Colin   
   >Campbell, while assaulting Lucknow’s gates, with, ahem, a boy piper on the   
   >parapet playing “Cock o’ the North”, but then that ol’ boy _was_ the   
   >madman previously famous for the Thin Red Line. And, besides, he was a Scot.   
   >Us Gaels, we got a thing for sharp edges, we do. What’s Bruce’s excuse?   
      
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