Recent content by Magniac

I kid you not that a Leyland Interceptor made in Australia could IMO be viable if they got in early enough before the Oil Shock, simply just didn't do the P76 and like, had the rest of their production capacity geared to licensed non-anglo-designed tractors or something./waits to get smacked...

My feeling is if this film had been made, it's a no-brainer to bring back Vaughan and go pedal to the metal on post-Watergate stuff. I'm a little amazed nobody back then ever did a real cop procedural/political paranoia thriller mashup.

Fwiw, John Millius wrote the script for Magnum Force, so there is some dedicated libertarian ideas at work there, maybe a little ACAB. But to me it's so obvious that it was also a very convenient storyline to do, to walk back the low level moral panic the first movie engendered. (Consider: The...

A Bullitt sequel in that era just has to be a post-Watergate thriller, I'm thinking a repeat of Bullitt's encounters with Robert Vaughan's ambitious politician in the first movie (a character who IMO almost certainly was some kind of negative commentary on RFK, maybe also a throwback to young...

I actually do think the 3rd one, with Tyne Daly as his female detective partner, is really good. It has actual character development for Eastwood, but yeah, there is essentially no justification for 4 and 5, they're shoddy cash grabs (though at least 5 is kind of a meta joke, in that Callahan is...

Anybody ever speculate about Callan taking place in the pre-spacefaring history of Blake 7?

Bullitt '78. I specifically choose 1977/78, as that was the era Steve McQueen should have been keeping a commercial iron in the fire while working to release his unwise foray into arthouse cinema, Enemy of The People, as well as being the timeframe his former collaborator (on other movies, not...

I skimmed it, but I have to confess I don't see it being much different to what we got. And I don't even really hate TPM, I'm mostly just perplexed by it. FWIW, I once had the idea that Lucas should have sort out the script for Gladiator and bought it before Ridley Scott could get his hands on...

Surely he's nowt but Rick Perry as a US senator. And while I don't want to do anything to get this thread moved to Chat, I don't think it's a mistake that Mitt Romney today is so good at showing a teflon side to everything he does, for better or worse. The smartest purely tactical move the...

Almost certainly not feasible, or rather at the level of the US invading North Vietnam proper during the sixties, or attacking Iran anytime after OIF. Check out the ideological, if not militarily, united front Latin America put up against Great Britain when Britain simply decided to retake it's...

I do think that an interwar Darwin rail scheme that kickstarted a single national gauge standard would be worth it, plus the postwar economic development bonuses, but, yes, that railroad all by itself has no great strategic value for the war that transpired.

There was also the situation where Militia units were able to convert en masse to becoming AIF units, which has always struck me as being a strange 19th century style policy. Generally, if we ignore the fact that before the USN strategic victories the Pacific campaign was the wrong war at the...

Realistically, to start preparing for a war with Japan from the 30s, the building up of the smallarms, artillery and automotive plants seems like the most immediate and viable way to go, with the goal of having it feed into a doctrine that leads to early adoption of the jungle division system...

Listening to the video now, and apparently 4 of these rifles fired 100,000 rounds between them in range testing without any extraction problems.

Yea verily, "The [rifle] I have in front of me is, I propose to you... the best Japanese self-loading rifle of the early 20th century." A Japanese gas-operated, or maybe gas-piston-delay-operated, Pedersen. If they adopted them prior to going to war with the West, how many are fielded? Surely...