TV/Movies Megathread

[Valmy]

The better analogy would be using drum magazines when in reality only box magazines were ever used at that time: a detail a history buff would know, but no one else is likely to notice.

I guess I disagree that the first thing that pops up on google when entering something is really expert level knowledge. It is not like Tamas was an expert on exactly where Churchill was but he knew enough to know he wasn't French.

[Tonitrus]

I'm still mad that the German's in "Patton" were driving American tanks.

But at least the tank driver's themselves were fascists (even if Spanish ones).

[Valmy]

I'm still mad that the German's in "Patton" were driving American tanks.

I liked how the otherwise very entertaining movie about the Battle of the Bulge had a tank fight in the middle of a desert. I mean isn't supposed to be snowing?

[Tonitrus]

As a Texan, you would appreciate the John Wayne classic "The Comencharos" depicting the terrain between Galveston and Louisiana appearing similar to Monument valley. 

[Sheilbh]

If you polled 100 people on the street, how many do you think would be familiar with Ypres and Pashendale?

Maybe 4-5%. You gave a list of WW1 battles more people would recognise them.

Ypres has Menin Gate (the Commonwealth memorial), the battlefields round there are like the Normandy beaches for Americans. There's driving tours, loads of UK (and, I imagine, Commonwealth) focused tourism.

Special bonus added question: how did the British soldiers pronounce Ypres?

They used to pronounce it Wipers. There was a recent TV show about a paper done by soldiers on the front called the Wipers Times.

We are now more accustomed to French ways and would call it ee-pre, which is almost certainly still wrong

[Valmy]

As a Texan, you would appreciate the John Wayne classic "The Comencharos" depicting the terrain between Galveston and Louisiana appearing similar to Monument valley. 

The Alamo had the same thing. I mean who knew San Antonio was so desolate?

[Malthus]

The better analogy would be using drum magazines when in reality only box magazines were ever used at that time: a detail a history buff would know, but no one else is likely to notice.

I guess I disagree that the first thing that pops up on google when entering something is really expert level knowledge. It is not like Tamas was an expert on exactly where Churchill was but he knew enough to know he wasn't French.

This is a website that devolved from the comment board for Europa Universalis - everyone here is, to a certain amount, a history buff practically by definition. 

[Malthus]

As a Texan, you would appreciate the John Wayne classic "The Comencharos" depicting the terrain between Galveston and Louisiana appearing similar to Monument valley. 

My favorite John Wayne classic is when he played that notable cowboy, Ghengis Khan. 

[Valmy]

The better analogy would be using drum magazines when in reality only box magazines were ever used at that time: a detail a history buff would know, but no one else is likely to notice.

I guess I disagree that the first thing that pops up on google when entering something is really expert level knowledge. It is not like Tamas was an expert on exactly where Churchill was but he knew enough to know he wasn't French.

This is a website that devolved from the comment board for Europa Universalis - everyone here is, to a certain amount, a history buff practically by definition. 

Well...that is true. And Tamas worked on a WWI strategy game once...but still 

[Valmy]

As a Texan, you would appreciate the John Wayne classic "The Comencharos" depicting the terrain between Galveston and Louisiana appearing similar to Monument valley. 

My favorite John Wayne classic is when he played that notable cowboy, Ghengis Khan. 

Ah Hollywood back before it had to worry about exporting its films abroad.

[Sheilbh]

As a Texan, you would appreciate the John Wayne classic "The Comencharos" depicting the terrain between Galveston and Louisiana appearing similar to Monument valley. 

My favorite John Wayne classic is when he played that notable cowboy, Ghengis Khan. 

Ah Hollywood back before it had to worry about exporting its films abroad.

Or history buffs.

[Valmy]

Or history buffs.

We didn't have wikipedia back then. "Wait...it says here Ghenhis Khan wasn't a cowboy!"

[Malthus]

Or history buffs.

We didn't have wikipedia back then. "Wait...it says here Ghenhis Khan wasn't a cowboy!"

Actually - if you read the Secret History of the Mongols - he kinda was. In the sense that he was a guy who earned his living herding animals on horseback.

Before he became an all-conquering warlord, that is. 

[Syt]

Pff, a few years ago I watched the Clint Eastwood movie Firefox which I liked as a kid. Imagine my surprise when I noticed that the scenes taking place in Moscow were all filmed in Vienna.

[Sheilbh]

Or history buffs.

We didn't have wikipedia back then. "Wait...it says here Ghenhis Khan wasn't a cowboy!"

Actually - if you read the Secret History of the Mongols - he kinda was. In the sense that he was a guy who earned his living herding animals on horseback.

"I did not expect so much of this book to be about beans."