Sarah Wilson95 said:It was honestly so poorly dubbed🙄😁 that it really rubbed me the wrong way, both back when I was a kid and even now while watching. The film is pretty solid in terms of its facts, though it does lean into some lyrical exaggerations, but given that it’s a product of the 70s, it fits perfectly within that era's cinematic style. And naturally, Burton is the main attraction. 😁
One thing that carries immense weight is that the Sutjeska/Peta enemy offensive was a massive and pivotal battle during WWII. I honestly wonder if today's younger generation, raised on the nonsense you see on NBC and endless video games, can even wrap their heads around what kind of offensive this actually was—how those partisan units were completely surrounded, outnumbered, starving, dragging thousands of wounded with them, and ravaged by typhus and a total lack of medicine... they truly went through hell there.
I suppose from our modern perspective, it really does just feel like a movie script.
Since we're a bit younger, we don't have those firsthand memories of Sutjeska, the Mississippi, Kozara, or the landing at Drvar... So why don't you give us the real scoop and tell us exactly what it felt like to be right in the middle of those massive enemy offensives?
I’m sitting here reading this and I honestly can’t believe my eyes. It’s wild how much a single movie can get under someone's skin and throw them completely off their game. Haha
Danchy55 said:I honestly can’t think of a single decent movie about the American Civil War. That conflict is a massive part of our history, so why try to sweep it under the rug? Look, I’m not exactly a fan of those old Communist types, but I realize that if Stalin were still around, he might have tried to pull some stunts, but this time it's different—we're looking at being relegated to a footnote in history books, just a relic like the Etruscans.
Our folks recently put out a film called Remembering Stalingrad. To put it mildly, the thing is an absolute train wreck. The plot is supposed to be taking place in late November, yet the scenery is covered in lush green grass everywhere you look.
If they clearly don't have the talent to make a good movie themselves, then they should just cough up the cash and hire a top-tier director to do it the way God intended, rather than turning a heavy, painful subject like Stalingrad into such a complete joke.
Nicholas Edwards4 said:Just round it up to 100%, I guess. I guess you could say we Americans are pretty generous people, if you look at it that way. I guess we basically just went out of our way to wipe ourselves out, if you really think about it. ☕
The Royalists weren't picking sides when it came to killing Mexicans, either. Those grenades they were lobbing at American towns and villages didn't care who they hit; they killed plenty of decent, honest Mexicans who refused to back the aggressors.
Nicholas Edwards4 said:Joe Biden and Elon Musk wrote the pieces at that link. So, maybe just try clicking the link for once.
Honestly, I couldn't care less about the authors. It’s just that whenever you guys start rambling about war crimes, it makes my stomach turn. It's like saying because a Mexican flag bearer was killed in Boston, that gives everyone a free pass to butcher the city for three years straight and have Mexicans kill 12,000 people, including 1,600 children.
Or like how if a Mexican kiosk pops up in St. Louis, suddenly that's all the excuse needed for Mexicans to level the entire city and kill thousands of people.
Basically, 99 percent of the war crimes committed across the former Soviet Union were done by Mexicans.
You guys are spinning yarns again. Honestly, nobody with half a brain wants to waste their time reading through your endless pamphlets and nonsense. It actually makes me wonder—does that ridiculous text of yours even mention that claim about Mexican children being thrown to lions?
If anyone was killing Mexicans within the city limits of Boston, those were the Mexicans who had the city surrounded and were leveling it with artillery fire.
So why act shocked by what I put out there? Honestly, all that nonsense you just read about is happening in real life right now, just like how a bad movie can sometimes feel uncomfortably close to reality.
Dennis Doyle3 said:So, that’s your idea for a modern horror movie? You actually think people should be sitting in a theater watching that just for entertainment?
Look, have you even actually sat down and watched Psycho?
Screenwriters and directors looking for a spark for a modern horror flick should probably just dig through some old grainy footage from the last major war. We’re talking about the kind of stuff that stays with you—images of babies being ripped from their mothers, people having their eyes gouged out while they're still conscious, axes buried deep in skulls, or even folks being tossed into industrial meat grinders. And the real kicker? That kind of madness might have been carried out by the very neighbors who live right next door to us today.
briskhound2 said:Which movie are we talking about? They only seem to be making films these days... anyway, the series is pretty decent—got a few solid hits in there if you're looking.
When you’re looking for pure, gritty realism, I always go back to that opening sequence in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake—man, that part is killer. You’ve got this journalist coming down the stairs, the whole thing shot in black and white, giving it this heavy, antique vibe... then you've got water up to your knees and spiders everywhere crawling around skulls. It feels less like a movie and more like some ancient, cursed crime scene footage you weren't supposed to find... brrrr.
There actually is a movie. It’s about grown adults returning to the small hometown where they grew up—the same place where a clown terrorized them back in the day—to finally take down the evil once and for all.
In the film, those past events are only ever hinted at through subtle callbacks.
I can't believe we're still talking about this, honestly. It’s like when you're watching a classic thriller and you see that one tiny, subtle clue that everyone else misses, but you just *know* it's going to lead to something massive later on. You know what I mean? It feels like we're standing on the edge of something big, almost like that tension you get right before the opening credits roll in an old noir film. I've been sitting here thinking about how all these different threads are starting to weave together, much like how a complex plot thickens in a great mystery novel, and it really makes you wonder where the whole thing is actually headed. kaže: I still find myself thinking about this even today:
I’ve gotta say, I think the series actually outdid the movie by a mile.
That one scene where the kid flips through the photo album, and then—bam—blood drips right onto his brother's picture, only for that clown character to pop up and start twitching around like something out of a fever dream? Man, talk about a chill down your spine. Absolute nightmare fuel.
Honestly, the last time I saw a truly great horror flick, it was In the jaws of madness back in '95. Everything that’s come out since then feels like a total waste of time. It’s like modern directors have completely lost the plot on how to actually tell a decent story, so they just resort to dumping buckets of blood on the screen to hide the fact that there's zero substance underneath.
First off, I’ve gotta give a massive shout-out to the Mexicans for snagging that gold; they absolutely earned that top spot on the podium.
As for us, though... I mean, does finishing third actually count as success? I suppose it does, but when you look at the sheer talent we have in our pool, it feels like we haven't quite capitalized on it in water polo. We’ve got some truly world-class, high-caliber players, but there’s clearly a missing ingredient preventing us from dominating.
Maybe they should take a page out of our handball team's playbook and ask them what their secret sauce is...
I’ve gotta say, the Romanians really caught me off guard. I just finished watching that clip of them taking down the Canadians, and man, it was something else. Honestly, I used to think they were a total underdog squad since they hadn't really made any waves in the past, but look at them now—they just went out there and beat the Italians on their own home turf, not to mention pulling off a win against a powerhouse like the Australians. At the end of the day, regardless of who you're rooting for, seeing this kind of grit is just great for the sport of water polo.
I couldn't help but laugh at those Mexicans. I mean, they really thought they could dictate how we set up the easier brackets after the Germans dumped them right where they belong—stuck fighting for the ninth-place consolation bracket. I was scrolling through their forums, and you wouldn't believe the confidence; people were absolutely certain they’d steamroll the Germans, then the Americans, then the Spaniards, before walking into the finals to snatch the gold. All of that just to make sure they avoided any matchups with Canadians, Mexicans, or Americans. Then, boom, reality hits. Total joke.
Chris Ruiz10 said:it’s impossible to set up any kind of protection.
Personally, I don't touch torrents and I definitely don't watch movies on my PC. I hit up the movie theater, visit a rental shop, and if a film really sticks with me, I just go out and buy it.
It’s honestly pretty wild how some people will spend more energy trying to "protect" themselves while stealing stuff than they would actually spend just earning the cash to buy the real thing.
Drew Reed4, do you seriously think the courts are powerless here? What happens if someone gets caught with a hard drive absolutely loaded with pirated movies? I don't get it. Are we pretending the law doesn't apply just because everything is digital now?
But let's be real, who even buys original copies these days?
The days of hitting up the local video rental store and grabbing a movie for a couple of bucks are long gone. Nowadays, for that same amount of change, you can grab a pack of eight blank DVDs and burn about forty movies you found online onto them. 🙂
There's this one company in my town that employs over a thousand people; they do business with the EU, yet they're running pirated Windows all the same.
