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Inspired by the linked XKCD. Using 60% instead of 50% because that's an easy filter to apply on rottentomatoes.

I'll go first: I think "Sherlock Holmes: A game of Shadows" was awesome, from the plot to the characters ,and especially how they used screen-play to highlight how Sherlocks head works in these absurd ways.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Battle LA very much feels like it was written by people super into the military, but who aren’t actually in. Like a bunch of really gung ho people who did ROTC in college wrote it.

The uniforms and jargon, from what I remember were pretty spot on (even the combat gear from what I remember was seemingly all completely by the book looking or at least following a insanely uniform SOP) but the following of regulations was correct beyond a fault. People were still screaming out “Yes, Staff Sergeant!” like they were in boot camp as alien energy beams splashed around them.

That sense of regulation to a fault really kept pulling me out of the movie. I imagine dropping the marines from Generation Kill into the same situation and the dialog and reactions being much spicier and less robotic.