Yes, women can kick butt, now shut up!

[Mofo Rising]

peter johnson, long MIA is back!  Huzzah!

Now I fully sympathize with the original post.  Yes, women are great.  I didn't forget the last time you told me.  It's not a surprise anymore.

But the dissing of all women as action heros seems kind of stupid.  Like "a woman" said up above, you buy all the leaps of faith your average male action hero requires of you, but don't buy it when it happens to be a woman?  I'm sorry, I didn't know that you could go through an entire fight with many punches to the face without ending up looking like a bruised potato.  Suspension of disbelief seems the order of the day.

Sure, in a realistic fight the bigger person usually wins.  Amend that to nearly always when both fighters have similar fighting abilities.  That's why there are weight classes for every sport that involves one on one combat.  But when are movies ever realistic?  Especially action movies.  If we were going for realism, big fat drunk guys would be the heros of action films.  That's where most fights start and end around here.  Hell, a big fat lady could take down Van Damme seven times out of ten.

I guess it's wish fulfillment and a mixture of adrenaline rushes.  My theory is that everybody loves explosions in films.  Men happen to prefer physical explosions while women go for the emotional ones.  That's my theory and it has certainly been disproved enough times.

Sorry, lost my train of thought, so I'm just going to end this post here.

[Flangepart]

Peter Johnson, where you been, son?
Andrew.....did you describe a Marine version of Rollerball? Duck(walk) ball? I'd like to have seen that. Anyone video tape it, you know, for posterity or blackmail purposes?

[John]

>The accuracy of the 'Bad Guys' when operating fire-arms decreases when the
>difficulty of the shot decreases.

 Perfectly illustrated in the Rambo spoof in UHF.

>Any grenade thrown at the hero has a seemingly endless fuse,

 Die Hard II. The grenades thrown in the cockpit last about 30-45 seconds. I thought the fuse was only supposed to be 8 seconds. Or is it variable?

[Flangepart]

Most grenades, according to Jane's Infantry weapons, have 4 second fuses. And some have fuses that fire as soon as they land, after the lever flies off. In WW2, the standard U.S, "Pineapple" had a 7 second fuse. In short...Bruce was a dead man. You Hear me...a dead man! :)

[John]

>In WW2, the standard U.S, "Pineapple" had a 7 second fuse.

 That's the one I was thinking of.

[Andrew]

By the manual, the standard M67 fragmentation grenade these days has a 5-7 second fuse.  However, the manufacturer says it is 4-6 seconds.  Go figure.

Anyway, you toss the thing quickly after pulling the pin, because at that point you really do not want it anymore.