How can you shoot Women and Children???

macgyver06
macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
edited January 2007 in A Moving Train
EASY!!! You don't lead them as much...

favorite line from Full Metal Jacket.

that and

'' If they run, they are vietkong, if they don't run..they are just well disciplined vietkong.''
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  • not4u
    not4u Posts: 512
    get some! get some!
    we don't want war, but we still want more?
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    That movie is a model of how ruthless and mindless military and war is.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • sapperskunk
    sapperskunk Posts: 684
    Ahnimus wrote:
    That movie is a model of how ruthless and mindless military and war is.

    Are you always ON.
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  • not4u
    not4u Posts: 512
    one of my favs. it haunts me.
    we don't want war, but we still want more?
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    sapperskunk wrote:
    Are you always ON.

    Depends what ON is. If you mean the forum, I've been OFF all weekend.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • western pearl
    western pearl Posts: 632
    Just watched FMJ over the weekend. Very thought provoking movie.
    "Everyone is a patriot in some form or another.... i prefer the intelligent ones."

    "She fell funny"

    "Klaus Daimler, 40, engineer, calm, collected, German"
  • sapperskunk
    sapperskunk Posts: 684
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Depends what ON is. If you mean the forum, I've been OFF all weekend.

    That's not what I meant, forget it man.
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  • not4u
    not4u Posts: 512
    western pearl wrote:
    Just watched FMJ over the weekend. Very thought provoking movie.

    i've watched it about 30 times.
    there is to much to say to even start.
    we don't want war, but we still want more?
  • sapperskunk
    sapperskunk Posts: 684
    western pearl wrote:
    Just watched FMJ over the weekend. Very thought provoking movie.


    So's

    "all quiet on the western front"

    "the bridge at Remagen" my favorite war movie, a must see.

    http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/cult_movies/bridge_remagen.htm

    "the longest day"

    "Bravo two zero" also good.
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  • western pearl
    western pearl Posts: 632
    sapperskunk wrote:
    So's

    "all quiet on the western front"

    "the bridge at Remagen" my favorite war movie, a must see.

    http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/cult_movies/bridge_remagen.htm

    "the longest day"

    "Bravo two zero" also good.

    Watched "All Quiet" in one of my many high school history classes. I'll have to check out "the bridge" Thanks..
    "Everyone is a patriot in some form or another.... i prefer the intelligent ones."

    "She fell funny"

    "Klaus Daimler, 40, engineer, calm, collected, German"
  • not4u
    not4u Posts: 512
    my favs.

    apocolypse now
    the deer hunter
    full metal jacket
    platoon
    ryan
    watership down

    Sgt. Barnes: Death? What you all know about death?
    we don't want war, but we still want more?
  • sapperskunk
    sapperskunk Posts: 684
    western pearl wrote:
    Watched "All Quiet" in one of my many high school history classes. I'll have to check out "the bridge" Thanks..


    Definately, they don't make movies like that anymore. George Segal is so serious it's scary, the look on his face throughout the movie is absolutely intense.
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    Gunnery Sgt. HARTMAN: "Do any of you people know who Charles Whitman was? None of you dumbasses knows?
    Private Cowboy?"

    Pvt. COWBOY: "Sir, he was that guy who shot all those people from that tower in Austin, Texas, sir!"

    HARTMAN: "That's affirmative. Charles Whitman killed twenty people from a twenty-eight-storey observation tower at the University of Texas from distances up to four hundred yards.
    ...
    Anybody know who Lee Harvey Oswald was?
    Private Snowball?"

    Pvt. SNOWBALL: "Sir, he shot Kennedy, sir!"

    HARTMAN: "That's right, and do you know how far away he was?"

    SNOWBALL: "Sir, it was pretty far! From that book suppository building, sir!"

    ** Other recruits Laughing **

    HARTMAN: "All right, knock it off! Two hundred and fifty feet! He was two hundred and fifty feet away and shooting at a moving target. Oswald got off three rounds with an old Italian bolt action rifle in only six seconds and scored two hits, including a head shot!
    Do any of you people know where these individuals learned to shoot?
    Private Joker?"

    Pvt. JOKER: "Sir, in the Marines, sir!"

    HARTMAN: "In the Marines! Outstanding! Those individuals showed what one motivated marine and his rifle can do! And before you ladies leave my island, you will be able to do the same thing!"
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • lalalalaaaaaaaa
    lalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    I like the film, but I think it's like a kids version of Apocalypse Now. That film says much more about war, violence, and humanity on a much deeper level.
  • sponger
    sponger Posts: 3,159
    I don't get what "You just don't lead them so much" is supposed to mean.
    reigning champion

    http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825
  • sapperskunk
    sapperskunk Posts: 684
    sponger wrote:
    I don't get what "You just don't lead them so much" is supposed to mean.


    Leading is when you aim further in front of the target you are tracking through your weapon sights, it's to account for distance and speed of the target. Women and children are considered slower than in this case, the average VC.
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  • sponger
    sponger Posts: 3,159
    sapperskunk wrote:
    Leading is when you aim further in front of the target you are tracking through your weapon sights, it's to account for distance and speed of the target. Women and children are considered slower than in this case, the average VC.

    How in the world is the audience supposed to know this? I would think one would have to be in the military. I guess that makes it an inside joke.
    reigning champion

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  • sapperskunk
    sapperskunk Posts: 684
    sponger wrote:
    How in the world is the audience supposed to know this? I would think one would have to be in the military. I guess that makes it an inside joke.


    Not really, quarterbacks do it every time they throw the ball at a moving reciever.
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  • ThumbingMyWay32
    ThumbingMyWay32 Posts: 1,224
    Ahnimus wrote:
    That movie is a model of how ruthless and mindless military and war is.

    Over the top may have been a better assessment.
    "Sarcasm: intellect on the offensive"

    "What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact."

    Camden 5-28-06
    Washington, D.C. 6-22-08
  • ThumbingMyWay32
    ThumbingMyWay32 Posts: 1,224
    sapperskunk wrote:
    Not really, quarterbacks do it every time they throw the ball at a moving reciever.


    lol I for one understood you. And thoroughly enjoyed your follow-up explanation. Well done...
    "Sarcasm: intellect on the offensive"

    "What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact."

    Camden 5-28-06
    Washington, D.C. 6-22-08

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