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Old 01-17-2013, 12:32 AM
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That would have been ridiculous if they were trying to pass him off as a USMC officer. In the film there were the Marines that were under Hummel's command, and then I thought the rest were mercenaries led by Captain Darrow (Tony Todd) and Captain Frye (Gregory Sporleder). I can't remember if they were explicitly stated as being ex or serving Marines, but whatever they were they were being paid to be there, and were not in it for the ideal like the Marines under Hummel. There was a line at some point about how Hummel had never worked with them or their men before, but they lived up to their reputation, and then later when they found out they were not getting paid they tried to kill Hummel. Maybe I am reading to much into it, but I always assumed these people were "for hire" to one degree or another.

As from the sound of it the script was very early on, it is not much of a difference to have the hired muscle being foreign or USMC. Or the story could have been totally different from the final film, maybe he was going to fill the Captain Mason spy role and just have him be from a different European country (would ahve to change the timeline a bit to get the age to match up though).
Arnold in the Mason role would've ruined it. I thought they were all active duty Marines that Hummel recruited with the promise of payment.

If TPTB had actually just made them mercenaries, they could've gotten Pentagon support. The fact that they were Marines was a sticking point.
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I thought they were all Marines, or atlest former Marines, but Hummel had only served with Major Baxter and Gunny Crisp in the field before, so they were therefore loyal to him and his mission. The other jarheads were just in it for the money.
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Old 01-18-2013, 05:44 PM
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http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-simple...e-hard-sequel/

Yeah, let's go with that.

And this may be blasphemy, but I can see the logic behind potentially remaking Die Hard. (Which is not to say I'd want a remake.) The original feels a little... dated.
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Red 2 trailer is out.
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That's the 4th movie so far with Catherine Zeta Jones. Is she trying to bring back her career?

Also...how many movies did Bruce Willis decide to be in? He's like in 6 over the course of a year not including the new GI Joe. I am seeing his old face everywhere
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I just saw the trailer to the new Tom Cruise movie Oblivion and is it just me or the rifle that he's holding in the movie look like it has an AR like lower.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmIIgE7eSak
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/french-...y-mask-in-mali

That's kinda badass, which is not something someone would normally say about the French Army.
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