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grindy · 01-26-2018, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Some People Never Learn.

That's some gratuitous abbreviating.

Chula Vista · 01-26-2018, 03:30 PM

Good is good.

We also know that you dislike anything that's popular. It's your only edge.

The Batlord · 01-26-2018, 03:31 PM

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I don't disagree but a great action scene is not enough for me to get behind a bad movie like Saving Private Ryan.

Do you think Saving Private Ryan could have been saved if it had cut out a lot of the character building moments or the contrived scenes meant to convey the horrors of war (like the dog tag/poker chip scene)? I think a lot of Dunkirk's charm is that it didn't have that much in the way of character building and so the soldiers were allowed to be just random people in uniforms getting shot at, which is a lot less contrived than a movie that spends ten minutes in a church talking about random bull**** that just makes the movie drag on.

**Frownland** · 01-26-2018, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Good is good.

From what I gather, your standards for what's good and what isn't all comes down to how something is marketed. It doesn't really upset me anymore since I know that it's just who you are.

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We also know that you dislike anything that's popular. It's your only edge.

I like a lot of popular things (f. ex. Led Zeppelin), just not all of them and I'm willing to humour that anything might not be perfect.

Trollheart · 01-26-2018, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

You are beyond hopeless. Go put a bullet into your brain.

SPNL

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I don't know what movie you're talking about so I can't say, but in general those movies, even the anti-war ones, often carry water for soldiers so that anti-war messages become pro-veteran messages, which encourage you to "support the troops", which puts it into your brain that you should support their wars as well. Not all war movies are like that obviously, and generally the ones that aren't are the more controversial, but in general if a war movie has a battle scene that can be described as "cool" then you should probably be leery of its intentions, even if the intended intentions aren't jingoistic.

I'm talking about Born on the Fourth of July. Have you seen it? None of the second part of the movie backs up what you're saying at all. It's total anti-war to the max, even going so far as to turn a gung-ho soldier into a protester against the war he fought in. AND it's based on a true story.

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That's some gratuitous abbreviating.

I will make that ubiquitous all over the internet before I die next Thursday.
#SPNL

**Frownland** · 01-26-2018, 03:37 PM

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I'm talking about Born on the Fourth of July. Have you seen it? None of the second part of the movie backs up what you're saying at all. It's total anti-war to the max, even going so far as to turn a gung-ho soldier into a protester against the war he fought in. AND it's based on a true story.

I tried watching that but choked on the fistfuls of ham that Oliver Stone was trying to cram down my throat.

OccultHawk · 01-26-2018, 04:20 PM

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I'm talking about Born on the Fourth of July. Have you seen it? None of the second part of the movie backs up what you're saying at all. It's total anti-war to the max, even going so far as to turn a gung-ho soldier into a protester against the war he fought in. AND it's based on a true story.

It’s pro-war because because it’s sympathetic to the experience of a war veteran.

I liked it, though.

Trollheart · 01-26-2018, 05:07 PM

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It’s pro-war because because it’s sympathetic to the experience of a war veteran.

I liked it, though.

It's pro-war because the message in the movie is that the war was a mistake, it ruined people's lives, it was based on a lie and it destroyed the nationalist fervour of the young soldiers?

**Frownland** · 01-26-2018, 05:10 PM

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It's pro-war because the message in the movie is that the war was a mistake, it ruined people's lives, it was based on a lie and it destroyed the nationalist fervour of the young soldiers?

It's pro war because it makes Vietnam seem like an exception.

OccultHawk · 01-26-2018, 05:15 PM

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It's pro-war because the message in the movie is that the war was a mistake, it ruined people's lives, it was based on a lie and it destroyed the nationalist fervour of the young soldiers?

In order to hate war you have to hate veterans. I don’t need Ted Bundy to write memoirs about how raping and killing teenage girls ruined his life. Kovic didn’t earn the right to preach either. **** him and his war.

01-26-2018, 03:30 PM	#47772 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Good is good. We also know that you dislike anything that's popular. It's your only edge. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”