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Wtf was woke about that movie?

Napoleon is a testament to the fact that senility does not avoid movie directors. Pure letdown, and I am absolutely not talking about historical accuracy. The moviemaking sucks ass.

Did some driving in GR Yaris and man, that car ****s! The way it flies even over very uneven and broken roads is simply amazing, auto rev-matching is straight out cheating, the oputput of the 3 cylinder incredible and it stays glued to the road in curves. Oh, and pss pss turbo.

Also has the worst visibility I have ever experienced, driver's position is not that great and it still, unfortunately, looks like a Yaris.

What a ****show

Why is Frederick the Great considered to be a great general?

In recent year or two, youtube has had quite an influx of videos focusing on various historical battles. Recently, a lot of battles involving Prussia and Frederick were introduced. I watched a few and I cannot but wonder why is this guy even considered to be a good general, let alone great. It seems (I watched about 8 battles I think) that his modus operandi is to find his enemy in advantageous position, attack anyway because why the **** not and either be carried by great skill of his regiments or dumb luck and win the battle, or get shot to shred while charging like a Total War AI and retreat. Where is any tactical finesse? Why is this guy placed alongside Hannibal or Napoleon? I demand answers!

What's the deal with Estonia? I am from a country that supposedly have very beautiful women, but this country is on another level completely.

Only the most evil croissants for you!

Jacob, maybe they just lump all films not explicitly endorsing war as anti-war. Oh, and I love the term VR disneyland experience and will claim it for future use myself

Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James said:

I always feel like that kind of thing wraps around to being pro war, and artistic violence-obsessed people like Mussolini would have loved it. I got the exact same vibes watching 1917 and Dunkirk, which critics hyped up as masterpieces of anti war art but they just come across like video games where the violence is part of the entertainment. There is this tendency for modern filmmakers to think pornographic violence and epic set pieces are somehow compelling anti war motifs.

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Hm, it never occured to me that 1917 or Dunkirk are anti war movies. Although, to be honest, 1917 at the very least has that nice twist about it all being pointless because they will just attack the next week or whatever. Dunkirk is a technology demo. It is possible to build an anti war film on heavy violence, but you either have to make it a literal Hell as in Come and See or Threads, make contrasts with non-violence or have it be surprising. This movie fails to do any of these, on top of turning Paul into a killing machine racking up more than 10 kills throughout the movie.

The new All Quiet on the Western Front is a bit artsy, but entirely soulless and ultimately pointless movie. If you want to do an anti war movie, this is not how to do it. Endless stream of explosive gore that has little to offer but the shock value and so much establishing shots of a snowy countryside you would think it was yet another reenactment-group-short about the Ardennes offensive. Instead of a deeply personal story, there is a big void because one cannot form any opinion about or relation towards Paul as everything pre-war and the mid-war trip home are entirely omitted in favour of showing anonymous fat people with moustaches and croissants being evil and a sequence from Lord of War. Paul´s entire character arc, I kid you not, happens in the first 15 minutes of the movie. The rest is then an exploitation movie taking him from one bad situation to another, and a slasher flick, but you don´t care because if there was a mid-movie switch from Paul to Johann Doestein, another German soldier in the trenches, noone would have noticed. On top of that, the ending is so unbelievably stupid, ridiculous and insulting, it can even stand up to certain French New Wave films. Yes, I said it, endings of La Peau douce and Jules et Jim **** all over the Western Front´s ones.

Completely missed opportunity.

#478 Early plastic model kits manufactured in USSR lacked not only decals and paint schemes, but the western planes were not even identified on the box. Interestingly, those kits that were exported to the west, while still of dubious quality, had both decals and correct boxes.