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Pretty much, though it's more consistent with the aesthetic of Starship Troopers most people imagine than the actual Starship Troopers movies we currently have.
Also, don't we need to have the thread title changed to "Edge of Tomorrow" as per the movie's now current title?
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A slightly better look at the exoskeleton:
Doesn't look like the hand guards can be used as brass knuckles (which, I believe, is possible with either the real-life HULC or Sarcos prototype suits). OTOH, I could easily see the system being used to make the M2HB or M134 Minigun man-portable. Well, at the very least, it looks more intimidating than what Matt Damon was wearing in Elysium.
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Though not entirely sure I find the suits all that intimidating honestly. It's bulky, but the exposed unarmored operators just makes me think of all the airburst fragmentation rounds turning everyone of these guys in a 100 meter radius into casualties. ...also, does the physical performance of the suits seem a bit inconsistent in the trailer? A few scenes with individually have the suits zippineem to have trouble managing a slow awkward waddle forward.g around and smashing cars and watnot...then in the beachhead scene the suits s
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As for the movie itself, I bet some Hollywood critics will accuse this of ripping off Groundhog Days, Starship Troopers & Elysium at the same time .
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For those who haven't heard, Obata Takechi, the mangaka of Death Note and Bakuman fame, has just published the first chapter of the novel's manga adaptation in the Shuukan Young Jump magazine. The scenario adaptation will be left to Takeuchi Ryosuke, who recently did St&rs, another sci-fi series.
Spoiler for a couple scans; click on the thumbnails to enlarge:
It's interesting to note that the exoskeletons are more Halo-ish than the movie's HULC-ish vision. And...in the first chapter, the MC Spoiler:
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...I do kinda hate how American mechanical cartoon art makes me feel a bit weeaboo at times though. This does not satisfy any of my machine porn needs.
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The exoskeleton is still quite bulky, as those two pages suggest:
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But the exos still carry normal weapons like Type 88-like LMGs and such... Though the cover does show that oversized weapons like that big-ass axe are also available for...more specialized? units. Oh, and Rita has already made her appearance in the first chapter. Spoiler:
For safety's sake, I suggest we keep future posts about the manga adaptation to the thread I've just created in the manga board.
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I'm sorta morbidly interested in how they're going to get Tom Cruise as a Lieutenant Colonel whose never been within 50 miles of the frontline dumped into a penal battalion as a foot slogging grunt. I can only imagine something a tad melodramatic used as the setup for this.
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I know of at least one Lt. Colonel who never managed to get to a combat zone, despite serving during Gulf 1 and 2.
Anyway I'm cautiously anticipatory. Who knows, it might actually be quite good. I had my doubts on Pacific Rim, and wasn't expecting anything great from it, but I was converted. Maybe this movie will do something similar.
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Though USUALLY you don't see rear line Lt. Colonels getting booted into the infantry.
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The human race wasn't facing the brink of extinction, with majority of Earth destroyed and conquered by alien monsters during the Gulf War. The desperation level is thousandfold, it makes it less believable that someone serving in the military for decades not seeing the combat against these aliens.
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The desperation level hasn't even hit Terminator future levels looking at the trailer :3
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That's the ratio of support services personnel to combat personnel in the Australian Army. And support service corps have more officers than other corps because of the heavy administrative and logistics burdens. I imagine most other armies around the world have similar ratios.
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It gets even crazier when you realize that the logistical tail end you're sending to support your army ALSO has a logistical tail end (trucks and supply planes and ships need fuel to you know)
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Also, speaking with a guy I know on Spacebattles who's up for LTC, as a general rule, about 40% of all LTCs in the US Army will hold a battalion command, but that includes the logistics guys and what's termed as Combat Service & Support. If you go pure infantry, 70-80% of all Infantry Lt. Colonels will cycle through a battalion command tour. Quote:
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I'm guessing they'll have Cruise be some smug asshole who gets himself into trouble, or they'll play him more virtuously and some convoluted situation will occur that will require him to stand up for all that is right and all that lame stuff, and as punishment, get assigned to be a grunt.
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