> Also, the standard Hollywood tropes weren't as bad as they could be, but still distracting. Does every film featuring the military need a painfully one-dimens

> Also, the standard Hollywood tropes weren't as bad as they could be, but still distracting. Does every film featuring the military need a painfully one-dimensional rude hawkish general who inexplicably wants to attack the enemy in every situation? There were many good things about the film but as you said the Hollywood tropes are out of control. It turns me off from visiting the cinema. I enjoyed Machina Ex, I think I didn't sense them as much. The 'military is composed of boneheads' is annoying (and wrong) but the thing that irritated me the most was the emotional take Hollywood injects into everything. Why is Hollywood so emotional? Are Americans more emotional than Europeans? Maybe in L.A? It doesn't match human experience at all. Take a funeral scene. I don't know how it is in the United States, but having everybody wearing black (okay everybody wears dark colours, but the Hollywood scene is as if they went and bought uniforms), women with hat-veil things, many people sobbing and being tearful. That doesn't describe any funeral I've been to. And we have very large funerals, with many hundreds of people. The occasional person emits a sob but nothing like the water feature I see on the screen. This breaks immersion. It's too heavy handed. I'm beginning to suspect the reason why somebody would 'act out' in the scenarios Hollywood is known for, is because they are conditioned by Hollywood. With rant complete, my favorite part was the sense of immersion with the 'things'. Reminded me of Half Life. tldr; Give the prizes to the things. People are just bags of salt water.