Atlanta_n_JeffDreadfully slow.
This movie had so much dialogue that I was already bored out of my mind by the time the action finally started. The first hour is just straight slow dialogue.
The slow motion scenes just made the movie even more painfully slow. We had a ten minute slow motion montage of farming! Zack Snyder, making every scene slow motion makes it lose its effect.
Once the action did start, It does get a little more tolerable. But I never felt like I had a connection to any of the characters nor did I feel like there was any chemistry between them as a team. James the robot was probably the best part.
Atlanta_n_JeffNone of this adds up. The shoal is not of strategic importance in the South China Sea, Beijing has built up numerous outposts already without any of its neighbors contesting their action. Given the amount of international goodwill and global commerce at stake, why would China risk it on a shoal that is basically out of the way? In fact their actions are precipitating greater confrontation with the US. And if enough countries complain to the UN, from Vietnam and Cambodia, to Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, the UN would not be able to respond, and action would default to the USA and UK plus any European country with ambitions in the region. But predictably NO OTHER ASIAN COUNTRY HAS COMPLAINED ABOUT CHINA’S “IMPERIAL” CONDUCT BECAUSE THE SHOAL HAS VERY LITTLE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE.
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would even hazard that China is being tacitly asked to do this by the USA, as to acquire more strategic footholds in the region. and our military seems to be in a big haste to compel Manila to offer them military bases. Every other article on this issue never fails to highlight that despite the animosity and adversity, the USA remains a very important trading customer with China. Is China being asked by the US to push this issue as a favor for all the American dollars that flow through their borders? The Beijing regime is very sensitive to the issue of money from the West and economics that assures them higher development status than Japan. Is China pandering to their most important customer’s demands behind closed doors? The entire thing feels fishy!
Atlanta_n_Jeffwhere do people like you dig up these highly dramatic and important stories that no one else knows about and our press nationwide has failed to feature anywhere for years that this issue has been in the headlines???? do you make up this stuff just to make yourself feel like you know something we don’t?
Atlanta_n_JeffChinese belligerence towards its smaller, weaker neighbors makes no sense to me. You might think they would want to have friendly relations with their asian partners and neighbors.
Atlanta_n_JeffKate, I am with StarWars on this, you have no idea what big money with license to abuse those who entrust them to do “the rigtht thing” can and will do – corporations and agencies are made up with neat social media to look like caring people, only they have no conscience whatsoever, just budgets, fines, procedures, power, and public polls.
