[Milsurplus] Is Fiction Garbage ?

[w4thq at cox.net]

"Objective Burma" is possibly a much better example of good fiction.  Of course, Errol Flynn is my favorite actor.

J. Young, W4THQ



---- "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com> wrote: 

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Is this the POS that has an R.1155 in the blown-off turret of a tank?

-John

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> So I bought this movie at Safeway for $6.99, "Battle of the Bulge", which
> taught me again
> the proof of "you get what you pay for", and reinforced my suspicion of
> fiction works, like
> a well grounded suspicion of packaged fish at its pull date. Without going
> into the many
> ahistorical equipments in the movie, or the absurd subplots, or inane
> scenes, I summarize:
> truly EXECRABLE. I can understand a person up to maybe age 16-18 being
> thrilled by the
> movie, but: if over about 18 years old, how dumb would one have to be, to
> enjoy this?
> And for the gullible, how many points would watching it, subtract from
> one's
> IQ ?  The
> screenwriters, do they really not live among actual real people, and can't
> imagine how
> real people react in the face of real danger?
> Actually, I did get almost $6.00 worth of value from it: by selecting the
> Spanish subtitles,
> I am able to learn many useful colloquial phrases. Ignore the action on
> the
> screen.
> -Hue Miller
>
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