OT: Hit Movies that Blow Chunks

[Loser]

Check your history. Hitler was focused and that is worth noting, but he was not the only monster.

Hell, forget history. Check current events or the events of the Last two decades. Genocide is still happening.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

yes, i know genocide is still happening. the current comparison is between hitler and the japenese in ww2.

[Puke]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
yes, i know genocide is still happening. the current comparison is between hitler and the japenese in ww2.

and its not an arguement worth having. suffice to say that the world is an ugly place, and people will continue to do ugly things to each other. nothing will be gained here by inciting people with comments about the behavior of the national socialist party or the largely anti-forigner attitude of the Japanese through history.

This is a perfectly good thread about bad movies, lets take the politics and history debates somewhere else.

and on-off-on topic, the bridge over the river kwai was a crappy movie and a poor historical representation. Last of the Mohegans, on the other hand, was great (though probably had a few inaccuracies of its own).

[Starhawk]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
I don't think so, hitler was making a concerted attempt to kill civilians.

Uh have you heard of the rape of Nanking (sp?) or what happened to Korea or the rest of China for that matter? Your telling me those japanese soldiers didn't make a concerted effort to kill civilians!?!?!

I personally still don't like the Japanese because even now they are all "We are genetically and mentally superior to the rest of the world." I mean granted Americans can be as arrogant as hell but i've only heard the racicst madmen comment on being genetically and mentally superior....especially when it's usually not even a Japanese scientist that makes the breakthrough it's just someone they funded .

And besides that I've known a lot of Chinese and even some Korean people as friends throughout the years so it kind of sinks on when you hear their parents and grand parents described what happened in WWII.

Anyway....deep breaths....sorry for the rant....hope no one here takes personal offense.

NOW back to movies to bring things back on topic.
YOu know I heard Braveheart was a hit....I was shocked at just how stinking lame and innacurate that movie was I mean come on they made it look like braveheart rebeled against England over a woman...a WOMAN HE NEVER HAD!! hehe.

P.S. I am an American so I know my country has made mistakes and on behalf of our nation I appologize for them ;-). And assure you the vast majority of us aren't ugly americans.

[ October 10, 2003, 23:43: Message edited by: Starhawk ]

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Starhawk:
I personally still don't like the Japanese because even now they are all "We are genetically and mentally superior to the rest of the world."

To be fair, not all Japanese are racists/ethnocentrists. Most Japanese I know and have known never once referred me as an inferior race, even though I'm Korean.

Edit: Since this thread is going off-topic, in order to nudge it back, Let us post about this no further.

[ October 11, 2003, 00:00: Message edited by: TerranC ]

[primitive]

For some sobering reading, check out this link Death tolls

Allthough all numbers are unreliable and metodes of estimation varies (some numbers counts secondary effects like starvation and disease, some don't)

Hitler outkills the Japs 2 to 1.
Lifetime "achievments" of both Stalin and Mao beats Hitlers easily.

Back on topic:
Every movie in history with a roman numeric in the title.
Except: Alien II and III and Mad Max II

[Puke]

oh yeah, no one dies in unfathomable numbers like the Russians. speaking of which, didnt that sniper movie suck? the one about that fictional but widely publicized sniper duel in red square...

i think it was Behind Enemy Lines, or Enemy at the Line, or something like that.

in fact, im not sure that i've ever seen a GOOD sniper movie, much less a realistic one.