Fight!: Samuel L. Jackson v. Tommy Lee Jones

[Perd Hapley]

Dealing with the insomnia last night, I watched Rules of Engagement.  Any movie with a fistfight between those two has to be pure WIN. 

[Grandpa Shooter]

Dealing with the insomnia last night, I watched Rules of Engagement.  Any movie with a fistfight between those two has to be pure WIN. 

One of the best movies I have seen.  Dealt with a lot stuff, and did it well.

[Monkeyleg]

I really enjoy that movie, enough so that I've watched it several times over the past few years.

The whole story has a huge flawed premise, though, which is that none of the Marines firing into the crowd saw weapons in the hands of the people they were shooting at, nor did they see weapons on the ground when they stood up after the shooting was over. That really requires a suspension of disbelief.

Other than that, a good flick.

[Perd Hapley]

Another thing I don't understand, is why the NSA director would not turn over the tape.  As far as I can tell, he thought he would be blamed for failing to deal with the situation sooner.  But destroying the tape only opened him to actual criminal charges, so...? 

But I maybe I missed something in this first viewing. 

[Monkeyleg]

The NSA director wanted everything to be blamed on Colonel Childers, so that he could be punished and the world wouldn't blame the US government as a whole.

[Perd Hapley]

Then why not just release the tape, that clearly showed an armed crowd, firing on the embassy? 

[Monkeyleg]

I didn't write the book or screenplay, but my guess is that the powers that be assumed that nobody in other countries would believe the tape. They would say it was faked.

As long as we're picking nits, why didn't the FBI, when examining the embassy, establish bullet trajectories in the exterior and interior walls and conclude that many of the bullets came from ground level?

[Perd Hapley]

Yeah, there are a few too many holes in the plot, I guess.  Still a good flick.