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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Which cult classic film was a huge disappointment when you finally saw it?English
01·3 years agoInglorious Bastards ain’t your average war flick or history lesson, it’s Tarantino doing his offbeat thing
I can understand that, I like his style ususally. But that’s point of my disappointment. As a historian I cannot see it apart from the historical events. But the crowd reaction is what really freaked me out, it’s scary if you think of it.
But remember, Tarantino’s all about pushing buttons and sparking chatter. If it got under your skin, maybe it hit the mark.
It may have. I think the true brilliance of the movie is how the audience, due to framing, can be induced to condone the killing of innocents. I sincerely hope that wasn’t actually Tarantino’s intention.
For instance the soldier killed by the bear jew refused to give up military secrets under threat of death. He chooses te respectfully refuse and is then killed. Framed differently in lots of war movies this is a heroic act.
But here people then cheer when te bear jew comes out and finishes him off.
All of this is an actual war crime.
That’s just folks enjoying seeing the Nazis get some comeuppance.
Indeed and I know, it’s all a bit of good fun. I just can separate it from the very real and very deadly seriousness of this part of history. That was what the main question of this thread was about.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Fast food go-ers of Lemmy, what are your "usual" orders?English
1·3 years agoThnx!
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Patient Gamers@lemmy.ml•Competitive games for gamers with slow reflexesEnglish
3·3 years agoIf you only play artillery it’s certainly slow paced :p
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Fast food go-ers of Lemmy, what are your "usual" orders?English
1·3 years agoWhat are impossible sliders?
I had another experience. The power of the first John wick movie was the very simple story of a man listing his dog and his car, to an orgasmic vengeance bullet bukkake.
Four is the other way around. The story is so complicated and, too be honest, weak, that all the fantastic fight choreography in the world can’t offset it. It gets boring as you’re not even remotely emotionally engaged.
I will treat the wick saga like I did with the matrix. There is only one, shame they didn’t shoot a sequel.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your favorite memory from the early internet?
3·3 years agoLeisure Suit Larry
Ken sent me
It takes leather balls to play rugby
Lubbers
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your favorite memory from the early internet?
2·3 years agoThat last sentence made me crack up
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your favorite memory from the early internet?
5·3 years agoJoe cartoon!
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Gaming@beehaw.org•What are y'all's all time favourite game OSTs?English
1·3 years agoI’m this thread I’ve missed Bastion, once the top answer of these kind of threads.
Personally I’m very fond of the germanized versions of pop music songs in Wolfenstein: a new order.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Netflix sees jump in subs as it begins to curb password sharing in US, says report
9·3 years agoIf you don’t vote with your wallet on the Netflix one, crackdowns will become the norm
Yeah, it’s a shame that the sarcasm gets overlooked by many. So it gets mistaken as a celebration of fascism.
Such is the bane of great parody, unfortunately.
Starship troopers
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Technology@lemmy.ml•17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s AutopilotEnglish
1·3 years agoI think it’s quite hard a you’d have to compare it on ‘time spent behind the wheel’, which is not easy to precisely calculate.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Snowden Ten Years Later - Schneier on SecurityEnglish
1·3 years agoThey might reveal more after even more time has passed. The incredible thing about all this is that several people worked on these files, yet, on behalf of morality, chose to keep most of it a secret.
If anything the NSA should praise these journalists for their morality, but that’ll never happen.

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