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OmegaDestroyer
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Fox or Chicken?
posted March 16, 2015 03:34 PM

I saw the new Cinderella with my wife yesterday.  Admittedly, for what it sets out to do, it does it fairly well.  Super sappy and not really my kind of movie but children and people who like princess movies should enjoy it.
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Corribus
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The Abyss Staring Back at You
posted March 16, 2015 06:33 PM

My daughter has been bugging me about it for about two months so we'll be seeing it this weekend.
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kipshasz
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Elvin's Darkside
posted March 16, 2015 07:39 PM

Watched Son of a Gun, which explains what Obi-Wan was doing in his spare time after order 66 kicked in.

lame joke aside, the film was quite enjoyable. a nice crime thriller differing a bit from the yank productions.
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DagothGares
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No gods or kings
posted March 16, 2015 07:44 PM

Zenofex said:
Funny, I watched Birdman just yesterday. It's kind of a theater movie, which was the intention I believe. It's probably nothing you'll remember in 10 years but it's still quite good in many areas.
Damn, I put birdman up there with there will be blood in terms of enjoyment and memorability. de gustibus etc
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artu
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My BS sensor is tingling again
posted March 21, 2015 12:10 AM
Edited by artu at 00:11, 21 Mar 2015.

Just three days ago, it was the 100th anniversary of Gallipoli with many memorial ceremonies and I thought of watching Russell Crowe's the Water Diviner. There was so much Hollywood BS, cliches and absurdity compressed around two hours, it felt like a comedy movie at times. Gallipoli was one of the most brutal, devastating and dark chapters not only in WW1 but the entire history of warfare. The conditions, disease, the fatique... Everything became so unbearable at a point, a feeling of brotherhood and fellowship started to emerge between not only soldiers of the same army but between enemy lines, they started to send each other food, bury each others dead, Those are all true and documanted stories. But the whole plot about 4 years after those battles, nationalist resistance rebels, who are considered criminals to be shot not only by the British invasion forces but also by the Ottoman officals, taking along an Australian father looking for his sons, to their secret meeting places and chit chatting with him, then taking him with them on their outlawed journey to Anatolia feels so crazy it just melts your brain. (They go hobo style by trains and he teaches them cricket in the wagons meanwhile!) Imagine French partisans taking along a Baverian stranger to their secret meeting underground in the Paris catacombs during 1943 and you'll slightly get the picture.

Oh, and of course, before starting to look for his sons remains, Russell Crowe gets to visit the major touristic attractions of Istanbul, the Sultan Ahmet Mosque, the underground water tunnels, he even has visions of semazens doing the whirlwind dance. All those scenes feel ridiculously eclectic and completely out of place.
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Corribus
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The Abyss Staring Back at You
posted March 21, 2015 02:56 AM

Ha, never even heard of this movie before, but it is no surprise it is so limited in advertisement in the US. Most Americans probably have never even heard of the Gallipoli campaign... and of course unless it's a tale of Western victory against great odds, it won't sell here. Americans don't want to watch a WWI movie about a battle where the allies get their asses kicked, much less when the ass-kickers were muslims.
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markkur
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Once upon a time
posted March 21, 2015 03:23 PM

Well said Artu. Liquid apricot-jam and fighting legions of flies that sit on your bully-beef and knowing they've been dining in no mans-land? Maybe Hollywood would stop the horrible practice of abusing history, if people would stop buying tickets just because a movie has some historical reference.

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kipshasz
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Elvin's Darkside
posted March 21, 2015 07:27 PM

well... should I feel bad about the fact that I discovered the campaign of Gallipoli from a Sabaton song?
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markkur
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Once upon a time
posted March 21, 2015 10:16 PM

For what it's worth, and that's not much...I don't think so. It's the greed machine that twists everything for max profit that I'm a tad weary of these days.

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artu
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My BS sensor is tingling again
posted March 21, 2015 10:22 PM
Edited by artu at 22:25, 21 Mar 2015.

Meh, we all learn things from somewhere, why not songs? Come to think of it, that was one of the main function of songs in old times, wasnt it, pass the stories of great battles, local heroes etc to future generations.

Edit: Damn, I always accidentally touch that upper emoticon stuff when I reply to Kip and you cant edit that stuff out later.
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xerox
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posted March 27, 2015 09:24 PM

is Top Gun one of the most gay movies of all time?

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Tsar-Ivor
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posted March 27, 2015 09:49 PM

Love between two guys need not be homosexual in nature.
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artu
artu


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My BS sensor is tingling again
posted March 27, 2015 10:34 PM

I dont even remember any bromance in that movie, Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer are rivals at first and there's conflict between them since Cruise is a misfit. In the very end, (anti-) hero Tom saves Val Kilmer's life, so they turn into buddies, but it's nothing deep enough to be called "love" of any kind, it's just about acceptance and belonging to a team.
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posted March 27, 2015 11:32 PM

Please watch it again because the chemistry between Maverick and Iceman is so much more real than between him and that random girl. There's also homosexual puns across the entire movie. In one of the first scenes they watch a movie/lecture about planes and one guy says "This gives me a hard-on" and then his buddy looks at him very suggestively and says "Don't tease me.". Quentin Tarantino, who had his birthday today, even said it was the main point of the script.

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Zenofex
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posted March 28, 2015 03:18 PM

kipshasz said:
well... should I feel bad about the fact that I discovered the campaign of Gallipoli from a Sabaton song?
Military failures of the "good" countries (read - war winners, usually US and UK) don't get much advertisement so no need to be hard on yourself.

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DagothGares
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No gods or kings
posted March 28, 2015 03:35 PM

Military history is hardly ever covered at all (different from political history which is covered very well), really. People most likely know a bunch of WW2 battles (D-day, battle of stalingrad, the Ardennes offensive, pearl harbor and like maaaybe Kursk and Iwo Jima) and like the battle of Waterloo.

Nobody gives a hoot about Cannae, Teutoburg, Sydon or Sekigahara, unless you're a Latin weeb or a regular weeb.
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Zenofex
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Kreegan-atheist
posted March 28, 2015 04:01 PM

Actually, these are all pretty famous battles (except Sydon... don't know what it's about, there have probably been a few hundred battles there throughout the years) and most people with adequate attainments have at least heard/read briefly about them. Mainstream battles however, by default, have to be won by some celebrities to be advertised - be them nations or people. The war losers or initiators of "evil" wars don't make good celebrities, hence why there isn't much buzz around Gallipoli, or the day 1 Somme massacre, or the pre-Dunkirk German offensive in WW2, or... you get it.

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artu
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My BS sensor is tingling again
posted March 28, 2015 04:10 PM

Meh, to some degree maybe, but Market Garden was a failure and there's an all-star movie about it from the 70's and this is not the first one about Gallipoli from the West. There's also a well known movie starring Mel Gibson, though he wasnt famous yet when he made it.

Failure is hardly remembered with the eagerness glory gets for obvious reasons but everything isnt swept under the rug.
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DagothGares
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No gods or kings
posted March 28, 2015 04:24 PM
Edited by DagothGares at 16:29, 28 Mar 2015.

Oh, I meant Tyrus instead of Sidon. I suck.

Anyway, point being that we hardly know any battles, unless they're recent or if it's about mass murderers (Alexander, Genghis Khan, Hitler, Napoleon) winning or losing.
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artu
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My BS sensor is tingling again
posted March 28, 2015 04:40 PM

I dont think that's an anomalie, I dont expect everyone to learn about every insignificant battle in centuries old wars, unless they are especially interested in the subject.
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