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• Crowning Music of Awesome/Ear Worm: The use of Boston's "More Than A Feeling" at the end.
• Funny Aneurysm Moment: The movie was released shortly before the Fort Hood shootings, making the scene where Pendleton fires a gun wildly at soldiers in a base significantly harsher.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: "Sparkly eyes technique" sounds an awful lot like Twilight.
• Moral Event Horizon: Hooper is shown to have crossed it when he tested the CIA MK ULTRA experiments on a young new recruit which led to the man's suicide, and then let Bill take the blame.
  • Hooper managed to top that moment, when while running PSIC, he made Bill so disillusioned that the man was willing to work for him for both drugs and Ice Cream. Which in turn caused Lyn to be so distraught that he was willing to hand an Eagle Feather that Bill gave him back to him. Crushing his spirit. However the worst thing Hooper ever done, was imprison Iraqi people in a room with nothing but a strobe light and the "I love you." Song from Barney playing 24/7 as a form of psychological torture.
• Retroactive Recognition: Colonel Quaritch from Film/Avatar.
• Straw Man Has a Point: Bill Django searches for a way to "make their gentleness their strength" and learn how to blend peace and non-violence into the military, and minimize the killing and violence of war. Toward this goal, he builds a disorganized, cloistered, mostly ineffective idiosyncratic mess. Then the horrible and nasty Hooper steps in, takes control of the unit away from him, and creates from it a company which... uses psychological research, propaganda techniques, and gadgetry to devise non-violent and peaceful methods to minimize the killing and violence of war. Hooper's work seemed much more promising toward keeping people from being senselessly killed and terrorized, and seemed very close to many of the ideals that had been expressed by Lyn.
  • If by "non-violent and peaceful methods," you mean "torture and brainwashing", (not to mention driving a cadet into killing himself), then, yes, he uses such methods.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: Lyn's POV during the remote viewing shows an almost seamless moment in cinematography, starting with it going through the barracks from where he was laying to outside to nearly halfway around the world.