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I made this fan edit, hope you guys like it!

So I was watching the first movie for the bazillionth time and I got thinking. I may be over-analysing visual plot points here, but assuming everything is as seen on the screen for this one. We see MI troopers fighting bugs, in many cases there are 3-4 troopers unloading at point blank range into a single arachnid to take it down. Later when Carmen and Zander land inside the outpost to evacuate the Roughnecks, Zander (with only basic combat training) jumps out and starts shooting a different kind of rifle and is strafing multiple arachnids off the top of the wall with comparative ease. There are three possible reasons for this and here they are in reverse order of how much I believe them:

1. He happened to shoot at arachnids that were already injured from sustained MI fire and was just finishing them off.

2. Showing multiple troopers vs 1 at the start was just to emphasise their strength and they became easier to kill as the movie went on because the story became less about the threat of the individual arachnids and more about their overall plan.

3. MI were issued rifles that looked bigger and better but were actually less powerful and easier/cheaper to mass produce because a grunt is worth less to the Federation than an officer. Fleet personnel and officers were issued more effective rifles in case they ended up needing to defend themselves because it cost more in money and time to train pilots, engineers and officers. Maybe it was an ammo thing and officers were just given hollow points or something that it would be too costly and time consuming to produce for the whole MI.

I'm aware that every documented source says that the MI have the best rifles. Maybe they do, maybe it's a lie they get fed and we absorb it as observers.

I love this movie and have watched it thousands of times throughout my life. In my thirties now i realize how awful a girl friend Carmen is. During the football game she’s actively flirting with or at least allowing Zander to flirt with her. At the dance she’s seen flirting with him again. Rico tells her his parents disowned him and she’s like, “I’m sorry about your parents”. Then she breaks up with him, clearly starts dating Zander immediately. And there’s that wonderful theory that her crashing into the meteor caused it to redirect to Buenos Aires.

After Beunos Aires was hit, there was a scene of kids 'doing their part'. The kids were stomping on actual insects and wondered if they really stepped on real insects. Isn't that not allowed, to harm insects/animals on set?

Appreciate any answers!

I have been rewatching our favourite fascistic dystopia today, and I got thinking, we don't really know how the asteroid was "sent". We are only told about it on the news, but it could have been just a legitimate asteroid going on it's business across the cosmos and accidentally crashing into Earth, right? There's no evidence whatsoever presented, and while in the book we had earlier encounters with the bugs, so the war was definitely ongoing, at least, here, it seems like the Federation just deflected the origina of a natural disaster to a potential enemy. That's why the first invasion of Klendathu is such a disaster, it's simply the very first fight against the bugs at all.