Mine were less about one liners and more about creative ways to humiliate and torment. They absolutely loved abruptly saying obscure things to try to make you laugh or smile. Then there was hell to pay for "losing your bearing" or showing any emotion. For example, there was a guy who was very intently focused on meticulously (everything had to be perfect or else) painting a wall that was scratched up from gear scraping across it and one DI decided to sneak up behind him and whisper in his ear "Oh, you're just Big Daddy Longstrokin' with that motherfucker, aren't you?", which caught him off guard and made him burst out laughing when the room containing of 90 people had been dead silent for hours. Within seconds he was swarmed with 5 DIs around him screaming in his face, and the nitwit panicked and tried to run, which did not turn out well. They tormented him about the incident the rest of the time he was there. They spent every moment of down time trying to think of ways to create chaos over the most minor and ridiculous things. If no one did anything wrong, they created havoc out of nowhere. They'd tell everyone to change clothes and give you like 8 seconds to do it, then they'd punish everyone severely for being lazy and moving slow. If they were irritated with a particular person, they'd single that person out and say that everyone has to be punished just because that person screwed up. They'd sometimes position the person in the doghouse in the back so no one could see them; they often didn't screw up or do anything wrong, but the peer pressure was pretty brutal and could get physical at times. We came very close to having a "blanket party" (beating the daylight out of someone with bars of soap in socks) in my platoon for a guy with a big mouth who was always getting in trouble and causing everyone to be punished. They had a thing I believe they called the "Texas tornado" in which they'd dump everyone's belongings and clothes into a pile in the middle of the room as punishment. It's lots of fun sorting out your underwear from those of 89 other guys. They designated the overweight recruits as "deep sea divers," which involved holding a wash cloth with their hands and quickly crawling under all of the racks (bunk beds). They basically made the overweight recruits race while crawling under the beds on their stomachs and cleaning, screaming at them to move faster the entire time. They'd knock themselves silly occasionally from cracking their heads on the steel frames of the beds. They'd run them under the beds in races and punish the slowest guy. My platoon was pretty rough. DIs got busted for depriving a recruit of food despite running us ragged with intense physical training. They also got more physical than they were allowed to, but they wouldn't do some of the things in Full Metal Jacket like make someone walk with his pants down sucking his thumb. Too many high ranking people tour the place, so hazing happens indoors or in isolated places. There were suicides in other platoons while I was there. At the time I was only 17 years old (in 1995), and a 24 or 25-year-old recruit took a swan dive off of the 3rd floor in the adjacent building. San Diego sounds like it would be a much nicer place to be than Paris Island, and I was so glad it didn't rain like it does there, but when I went it was approaching record highs in temperature. People were passing out all the time. They made you wear a fucking grey wool sweater for the first week and marched you around all day while they sleep deprived you. You will begin to experience imperceptions and feel like you are hallucinating if you stay up for 3 days straight. I actually started drifting into sleep from a standing position and caught myself before I fell to the floor. There's also the constant torment from being next to an airport. You want nothing more than to get out of there, and every few minutes you hear an airplane roaring over your head flying away. After 3 months of that, it messes with the mind. It was a crazy time in that place.
What purpose does the humiliation and hazing serve? It just sounds really childish and stupid and I don't see how it would make you a better soldier.
Brainwashing I think. I was far too independent minded for their tastes. They were frequently frustrated with me throughout my 4 years. I was glad when it was over. I was at one point in recruited near the end of infantry training to be attached to an ANGLICO unit, which is basically a support group for special forces personnel. I assume I was one of three from the company brought into a peculiar, unannounced meeting because of my physical fitness test scores. I was fresh out of varsity track and had drawn some attention from the infantry instructors by running behind and pushing much larger people who dropped out of runs through the desert back into formation. They seemed stunned when I started doing that, but I was used to the cardio demands from running both short and long distance events in high school. Anyway, they guys in this mysterious meeting said all I needed to do was rework my contract to be active duty only and remove the reserve component so I could join this ANGLICO unit. I thought to myself that they had just talked me out of it by suggesting that. The only thing I wanted out of the Marine Corps was me.
If they were that douchey in the training I can see why you wouldn't want to sign on for more time. I never would have made it in the military. I don't respect authority figures unless they earn my respect.
Rise of The Planet of the Apes It was much better than I was expecting. They did a really good job of creating an origin story for Planet of the Apes.
I went into the movie expecting way too much since I saw the super high imdb rating for it. Was slightly underwhelmed although it's still a good movie by all means. Gorilla owning helicopter was awesome.
Gnomeo and Juliet It was kind of funny but mostly not. Season of the Witch Bad acting but a solid B movie performance.
The Next Three Days It was a pretty decent thriller about breaking out of prison and fleeing the country. The plan was pretty elaborate, and it had enough twists that it stayed interesting even if none of it was really plausible. The Tree of Life It was a pretentious pile of crap that only a snooty film critic could love. I ended up turning it off.
I've been watching the extended versions of the Lord of the Rings movies. To be honest, I liked the theatrical versions better. Sometimes less is more. Most of the deleted scenes don't really add anything to the movies, and they end up screwing up the pacing and making them painfully long.
painfully long? as if they weren't already in the first place *.* lol I loved the scene in the first movie with the troll statues (as they stayed out too long and turned to stone). It was eluded to in the original (regarding the trolls from The Hobbit) but it was a real thrill to see this in the next movie in the series. Hope you got all that, dunno how I can explain myself any better *_* but w/e
The theatrical versions are about the right length. They're long, but not painfully so. The books are huge, so it's impressive that they were able to condense them as much as they did. The extended versions just drag. The deleted scenes spend too much time on minor characters and minor events that don't really matter that much. There were only a couple of scenes I think shouldn't have been cut. One was the one where they confront Saruman after he loses, the other was the scene outside the black gates with the mouth of Sauron (I loved seeing Aragorn cut that douche's head off).
True. Deleted scenes are usually crap. But in some cases they're deleted due to studio interference and not because the director wanted to delete them. Take Blade Runner for instance. The theatrical version is a mess, but the final cut, which includes a bunch of deleted scenes and removes the awful narration, is a classic. It's a completely different and much better movie with the deleted stuff added back in. Although in the case of LotR, they were mostly just deleted because these movies are really fucking long, and they drag things out even more.
Come to think of it I've never seen Bladerunner. I know I know you're wondering how I've not seen what I'm told is a masterpiece. Maybe I should watch it, but only the director's cut it would seem. I've also only seen the first 45 minutes of Saving Private Ryan, and that was only last year. It seemed good but I was beyond tired so I couldn't finish watching it.
I don't know if Blade Runner is your kind of movie. The concept was really unique for the time, and its visual style has been massively influential on the sci-fi genre. But at the same time it's a slow paced noir style detective story that doesn't have a lot of action until very near the end. It's one of my favorite movies, but a lot of people find it boring. I think they go into it expecting something action packed only to find out it's a thinking person's movie with complex themes, a sympathetic villain (masterfully played by Rutger Hauer), and an ambiguous ending. Blade Runner is sci-fi for intellectuals. If you liked Transformers 2 or 3, this isn't your movie. You didn't miss much. It's really just known for the Omaha Beach scene at the beginning. After that it's pretty much a snoozefest up until the battle at the end.
I'm a huge sci fi fan and i couldn't sit through blade runner. would always doze off. It had amazing visuals and cinematography though. I could never sit through dune either even though I like David Lynch stuff. back to deleted scenes.. some movies have some helpful deleted scenes though that i think would've helped if it were kept. the most memorable that comes to mind is American history x.