The Avengers: Kicking Ass and Selling Tickets
11th May 2012
Steve Sailer, as usual, says what needs to be said.
Perhaps all those The Making of… documentaries included on DVDs inculcated a love of military precision. A movie set is a sort of pretend military operation with the director as the commanding officer. (But you can’t enlist unless your uncle was in the union. And what neither the recruiters nor the documentaries tell you is that the main sensation of both is Hurry Up and Wait.)
Well, now that homosexuals are welcome in the military, can a union be far behind?
Whedon’s fictitious Helicarrier is equipped with J-35 vertical landing fighters, a quasi-real warplane first seen in the 2007 blockbuster Live Free or Die Hard, but which remains, five years later, still in flight tests despite its estimated $1.5-trillion lifetime cost. Every Pentagon gizmo in The Avengers had me scratching my head and wondering: How much am I going to be paying in taxes for the rest of my life for this boondoggle?
May 11th, 2012 at 14:43
Oh, but cutting the defense budget would cripple the military. Geitner has said it, so it must be true.
Wonder how many bullets and beans $1.5 trillion would buy?