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Scuffy_1989 posted:Are you sure you're not confusing Korea with Vietnam? you sound like you really know a lot about the korean war. what is the significance of this information quote:The bombing was long, leisurely and merciless, even by the assessment of America’s own leaders. “Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — 20 percent of the population,” Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War, told the Office of Air Force History in 1984. Dean Rusk, a supporter of the war and later secretary of state, said the United States bombed “everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another.” After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops.
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Scuffy_1989 posted:Are you sure you're not confusing Korea with Vietnam? Glad to see you like to defend genocide as long as it's done against non-white people. The war wouldn't have happened if America hadn't decided to prop up a brutal military dictatorship.
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scary ghost dog posted:you sound like you really know a lot about the korean war. what is the significance of this information Well you can read the whole quote in context here, I recommend you do then you tell me what you think. https://books.google.com/books?id=e...20Korea&f=false
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MonsieurChoc posted:Glad to see you like to defend genocide as long as it's done against non-white people. What are you talking about? I'll defend the strategic bombing of Germany all day long.
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Scuffy_1989 posted:What are you talking about? I'll defend the strategic bombing of Germany all day long. I'm talking about you defending the decimation of an entire country.
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Scuffy_1989 posted:What are you talking about? I'll defend the strategic bombing of Germany all day long. The “strategic bombing” that massacred mostly non-military targets? Good lord you are a piece of work.
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Scuffy_1989 posted:Well you can read the whole quote in context here, I recommend you do then you tell me what you think. im not smart enough to read books. i was asking you to tell me what it meant in context of the koren war because im a big dummy who doesnt know anything
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MonsieurChoc posted:I'm talking about you defending the decimation of an entire country. You're the one defending the aggressors in the Korean War, the whole thing kicked off when the communists invaded South Korea. They attempted to militarily conquer the whole country and failed, but the resulting war devastated the whole peninsula.
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Scuffy_1989 posted:You're the one defending the aggressors in the Korean War, the whole thing kicked off when the communists invaded South Korea. im really stupid and dont know anything but have you ever heard of the “bodo league”
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Scuffy_1989 posted:You're the one defending the aggressors in the Korean War, the whole thing kicked off when the communists invaded South Korea.
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Scuffy_1989 posted:A pitch for an action movie. Student of history
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How the gently caress do your invade your own country lol
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Ringo Roadagain posted:How the gently caress do your invade your own country lol IDK, ask General Sherman. So, what happened on June 25, 1950?
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Scuffy_1989 posted:IDK, ask General Sherman. Peoples army crossed over some arbitrary line decided on by foreign nations?
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God this this thread stinks of late stage SA brain worms. Re: Strategic Bombing. Isnt it wonderful to be able to shift the moral grains of sand that we know of the the 2nd World War, right now, 80 years later, and wag the finger at our ancestors for going too far in that desperate struggle for their very existence. What a luxury that is for us to have, a luxury that they secured for us. Yes it was too much, it was too far, but in the words of my Jewish Belgian Grandmother who suffered the German occupation, "They started it." Quote the reaping tweet.
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neoconservatives OUT!!! glory hole cthulhu.... welcome
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Get back to movie trailers, stop this derail.
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precision posted:alright i'm in yup
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Venuz Patrol posted:glory hole cthulhu New username?
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muscles like this! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRu3zLOJN2c I really didn't like Three Billboards or Seven Psychopaths. I liked In Bruges, but I was like...16 or 17 or something, so that makes sense. To be fair I haven't seen enough of John Michael McDonagh to paint him with the same brush, but I got the same vibes from The Guard, which I also wasn't a fan of. They just seem like, 50 something racist dickhead white dudes...
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I feel you, those films do nothing for me.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Controversial opinion maybe but as much as I love Brendan Gleeson I'm kinda getting tired of the McDonagh clan's schtick. It feels kinda obnoxious and edgelord a lot of the time, in a way I can't really express but like Joe Carnahan level annoying. I kind of feel like this, although In Bruges is still one of my favorite films. It is very "scripty" as it has so many basic screenwriting set-ups and Chekov's guns but somehow it works, the dialogue is really funny, the mood is melancholy but at the same time nonchalant. But after that, I've found his films really masturbatory and irritating. Like he is parodying himself or something.
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I just realized no know has posted the trailer for RRR yet! For shame! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgBoMJy386M One of the most entertaining movies I've ever seen.
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CelticPredator posted:It’s been out for months This is true. It doesn't change the fact that it is awesome and no one had posted it before, as far as I can tell.
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Scuffy_1989 posted:The whole thing could have been avoided if the Communists had decided to not invade South Korea. My favorite part of blowback is finding out how the 38th parallel becoming a thing was just 2 drunk American generals realizing that their strategic line was due the next day so found the closest line that worked in a National Geographic magazine at like 2am because neither had ever looked at a map of Korea let alone been there.
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I'm a hard pass on biopics in general I've completely burned out on them. No to Elvis. No to Marilyn. No to whoever eventually makes a Gene Wilder one. No.
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The only biopics I'm interested in are ones that feel more like a historical period flick than a hagiography, or one that uses its subject as a vessel for a larger musing. Something like The Aviator doesn't really feel like a biopic to me because it intersects with so many other things that I'm interested in, it really soaks in its era, and it also felt like it was more about genius than it was about Hughes.
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I recently enjoyed Alex Cox's Walker because it actually sets out to comment on the entire history of American imperialist policy in Latin America, and makes some really creative/fun/anachronistic choices, rather than just set out to make a historical biopic about William Walker. The Aviator is fun but I really just wanted the first chunk about Hughes in the studio system to be the entire movie. Shoulda been The Filmmaker, man.
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Agreed, it would have been a better trilogy with time jumps between. And that first film would definitely have been my favorite of them.
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feedmyleg posted:The only biopics I'm interested in are ones that feel more like a historical period flick than a hagiography, or one that uses its subject as a vessel for a larger musing. Something like The Aviator doesn't really feel like a biopic to me because it intersects with so many other things that I'm interested in, it really soaks in its era, and it also felt like it was more about genius than it was about Hughes. Honestly I felt like Chadeick Boseman's biopic on James Brown Get Up hit this as well.
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I know Elvis is a biopic technically... but it's Baz Luhrmann. I can't imagine lumping that in with the genre as a whole.
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Someone needs to learn the right lesson from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Make that Lennon biopic, but have it be about how he defeated the saucer men.
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