Nowadays Gamegirl lounging in her pink bunny P.J.'s . . .

Rating: 8/10 (14 January 2014)

. . . at a drone control station around the corner from a San Antonio-area McDonald's can accomplish the failed mission depicted in LONE SURVIVOR and "live to tell the story" over her Egg McMuffin. The grueling Navy S.E.A.L. training of LONE SURVIVOR's opening credits is OBSOLETE today. Gamegirl's drone can pick out the Taliban leader "with no earlobes" and liquidate him with a Hellfire Missile without her P.J.'s needing to soak up any sweat. When you balance the cost of Gamegirl's training and salary against the drilling, equipment, transportation, health care, and survivor benefits of Marky Mark's S.E.A.L. squad (one of whom whines "HOW can the Taliban move faster than us?!" just before he expires), Gamegirl costs we taxpayers LESS THAN 10% as much as one of those self-styled Supermen. S.E.A.L.s are great for propaganda movies, but even LONE SURVIVOR shows them moving like 90-year-old grannies with walkers (weighed down by tons of excess equipment) compared to the locals, who pick them off one by one while moving with the nimbleness of the goats they herd (though these Taliban can't shoot well enough to hit the broad side of a barn). Gamegirl doesn't know one word of the local language halfway around the world, but neither does Marky Mark's S.E.A.L. character in LONE SURVIVOR. I don't mind paying to watch movie S.E.A.L.s, but subsidizing real-life ones is another story.