Anyone have the text to the poem in the opening movie?

[joea]

Originally Posted by DeepSix

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No hard feelings, here, I'm not looking for agreement so much as understanding where you're coming from. What, exactly, is "Milton's" sort of history? How is his poem "On Time" any less appropriate than "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori?"

[Edit: Second (or third) to the suggestion to include Arizona. And West Virginia, and Oglala, and Downes, and so on. Currently, Pearl Harbor looks way too "untouched" for December 9-10.]

I see where you both are coming from, but nothing snowman99 wrote is in anyway an endorsment of Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori at all. What Milton is saying is nothing about the physical part of death being peaceful but about the spiritual part of the hereafter...as was said he was a Christian.

[Safe-Keeper]

Am I the only one who actually likes the intro?

No. I agree with my fellow poster here:

I'm not sure what they want to say with the intro but I can say that I like it! It's refreshingly diffferent from the usual dumb effect-hammer-hero-super-action-intro.

My sentiments exactly. I like to use the Rome: Total War credits (the girl worried half to death for her boyfriend who's fighting with the Roman Army) as an example of another good move by developers who dare to try something else than the 'Hollywood approach' (and no, I didn't see the irony before now:p).

[ScottD]

The only thing I don't care about the intro is that its being read by an Englishmen...uh guys this game is about American Sub Force! Its nearly as bad as Hollywood's version of U-571, which was based on an RN incident!

[Payoff]

Too artsy fartsy for me. Why not just start with an old radio broadcast of the attack on Pearl, fading into some music of the day? An intro is meant to introduce the subject matter with a little what, when, where, not to leave one scratching his head thinking " what the hell was that ".

[Dantenoc]

Not the worst of intros, and in some places it's nice, but overall, I think some frustrated artist tried to be a bit too clever with this one.

Edit: After watching the intro some more, I am more convinced that the poem is completely out of place. The "gratest generation" valued content over form. They were a bunch of young kids who grew in hard times and were a "no-nonsese, quit your belly aching, stand up and get the job done" bunch of people... hardly a match for such an elaborately written poem that is actually talking about a completely different subject matter.

[Reaves]

Originally Posted by ScottD

The only thing I don't care about the intro is that its being read by an Englishmen...

Personally I can't stand the whiny American accent... (joking)


Seriously though, I'm a fan of the intro. Whenever I get a new game I always look forward to the intro and this is one of the better ones.

All time favorite would be mechwarrior 2.