Re: [gundam] (OT)Matrix Revelations

[Alfred Urrutia]

Reynolds, Jason M. wrote: It all comes down to when it is self defense. Han shot Greedo preemptively in the original Star Wars. Greedo was going to shoot him, but Han didn't give him the chance. I saw nothing wrong with that. Lucas did, hahaha.  Screwed up a perfectly good scene because he felt he knew better.  The thing that made me like Han as a hero was exactly because he wasn't bound by the film-making convention that he would have to wait for Greedo to shoot first.  He knew where it was going and Greedo meant nothing to him, so he blasted him.  That is my kind of realistic hero.  I also hate those movie heroes who are being shot at by multiple people, say, in a large building, run into one of the bad guys, knock him out and then *leave* him there, alive!  My movie hero would pick up the bad guy's gun (so no other bad guy could use it against the hero) and then shoot the unconscious guy in the head (one less bad guy).  I hate the film-making convention that the hero must play by overly restrictive honor code rules.  Oooh, he's unconscious so I can't kill him, even though he was shooting at me with the intent to kill.  Screw that.  I like the more the "Bourne Identity" hero who can add 2 and 2 together and dispatch obstacles. Alfred. -- -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "I think that's 'the Line'." - Tom, on having one artist in The Island cut off the penis of another Islander, let him bleed to death and then eat his corpse, like he heard about some German doing recently, being what would constitute crossing the line in The Island such that someone would have to do something about that infraction. Alfred Urrutia - Digital Domain - 310.314.2800 x2974 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-