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Post by Big on Mar 13, 2007 14:57:17 GMT -5
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Post by Flop the Nuts on Mar 13, 2007 15:30:49 GMT -5
Shocker.
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Post by JensenS on Mar 13, 2007 16:07:14 GMT -5
I certainly can't believe it...
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Post by Big on Mar 13, 2007 17:01:50 GMT -5
I guess when you make a movie that relates to present issues and involves other countries, you should take those countries' (however dumbass) feelings into considerations as well.
But the mighty dollar is not capable of that. I understand.
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Post by Mike on Mar 13, 2007 17:08:23 GMT -5
I guess when you make a movie that relates to present issues and involves other countries, you should take those countries' (however dumbass) feelings into considerations as well. But the mighty dollar is not capable of that. I understand. Yea and screw history as well!
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Post by Big on Mar 13, 2007 17:13:18 GMT -5
Why not show a movie how CIA supported Taliban or how Bush family helped Hitler build Nazi military or how Reagan condoned use of chemical weapons in Iraq Iran war?
You could get some kick ass images on Taliban murdering opposition and instilling their own laws and welcoming Al Qaeda, all with US help.
You could get kick ass images with Hitler receiving Bush finances and murdering Jews.
You could get kick ass images with Iraqi military murdering Iran's and Iraq's people with chemical weapons, all with US approval.
Dont forget Rumsfeld's handshake with Hussein.
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Post by Flop the Nuts on Mar 13, 2007 17:26:16 GMT -5
Maybe the Taliban or Iran should make those movies for their own people, they don't sound like movies I'd be interested in.
Or, I guess that Hollywood could make those sorts of movies for hard-core America haters, like some on these boards.
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Post by Big on Mar 13, 2007 17:33:29 GMT -5
I can't imagine why you would be interested in the movie where some Greeks a long time ago fought a large Persian Army. You must be Greek.
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Post by Big on Mar 13, 2007 17:36:20 GMT -5
Why would you call movies about history as Anti-American?
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Post by Flop the Nuts on Mar 13, 2007 18:10:23 GMT -5
I didn't say they were anti-American movies, I said that America haters would like the movies.
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Post by satiev1 on Mar 13, 2007 18:25:38 GMT -5
Is it possible that one might enjoy such a movie if the're not American haters? I like 300 even though it depicts persians as monsters and greeks as saviors of democracy. Yet, i'm not a persian hater.
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Post by Big on Mar 13, 2007 18:38:18 GMT -5
I didn't say they were anti-American movies, I said that America haters would like the movies. As opposed to America's lovers, or Iran's haters, liking 300.
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Post by Flop the Nuts on Mar 13, 2007 18:51:22 GMT -5
I'm not talking about 300, I'm talking about the listing of fantasy movies that Big recommended.
I don't want to sit for two hours and watch a movie that celebrates America's mistakes (if you want to categorize those issues as mistakes). I wouldn't find it entertaining, although I'm pretty sure that America-haters (or haters of American foreign policy) would.
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Post by JensenS on Mar 13, 2007 19:27:23 GMT -5
Is it possible that one might enjoy such a movie if the're not American haters? I like 300 even though it depicts persians as monsters and greeks as saviors of democracy. Yet, i'm not a persian hater. Well, in this context of history the Persians weren't exactly a merry band of fellows, this was the second time that they had invaded, and attempted to conquer Greece. Were they the faceless monstrous hoard that they were portrayed as in the COMIC BOOK, and in the movie based on the COMIC BOOK? In all likelihood, they weren't. But they were the aggressors in this war, and as such were likely to be portrayed in a little less favorable light than the Greeks who were defending their homelands for the second time against a Persian invader.
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Post by Big on Mar 13, 2007 19:33:21 GMT -5
Back in those days everybody conquered everybody and the conquest Wars were not that uncommon: Although there were many wars in ancient Greece, most of them we don't know very much about. There are four main wars that we do know about, thanks to the writing of Homer and Herodotus and Thucydides and Arrian. These are the Trojan War (about 1250 BC, which could be a legend), the Persian Wars (490-480 BC) and the Peloponnesian War (441-404 BC) and the campaigns of Alexander the Great (331-323 BC). Then a little later, Greece was taken over by the Romans (146 BC), which we know about thanks to Polybius. www.crystalinks.com/greekwars.html
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