Thanks for allowing me to rant with aplomb
Back on topic:
I think the Marines were
written to fail.
There has been a lot of talk about stereotypes and how we all hate them etc...
But when you've got a squad of Marines to kill off in about a hour and a half film you
use these stereotypes to quickly familiarize your audience with the paper thin characters without having to spend much background on them.
The audience goes, "oh there is the grizzled NCO... i don't need more explanation on him... lets see... ahh yes the green second LT... i bet that is going to be trouble."
all in my humble and likely flawed opinion of course with no offense directed towards anyone
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