TV/Movies Megathread

[Admiral Yi]

No shit.  Every Brit WWII I've ever seen has treated the Krauts pretty well.  Hell, look at that glorification of Rommel.  And they stopped making them 60 years ago.

Just another Squeeze retardo thesis.

[celedhring]

Movies are a reflection of the zeitgeist, not a cause of it.

[Eddie Teach]

Movies are a reflection of the zeitgeist, not a cause of it.

Sure, but they also feed back into it.

[Sheilbh]

Movies are a reflection of the zeitgeist, not a cause of it.

Like Peter Cook saying his satire club was modeled on the political cabarets of Weimar Berlin "which did so much to prevent the rise of Adolf Hitler"

[mongers]

Watched the latest episode of the 'World On Fire' bbc/Polish co-production, I thought it was OK, a bit like a modern 'Winds of War', but this time it was odd.

Specifically the two polish soldiers lost in the forests, running from the Germans and occasionally killing some, this time after encountering a German tank, they suddenly came across a British armoured patrol, hale them as the long awaited reinforcements and then fight alongside them when the German's attacked, this during a snowy period whilst Dunkirk is happening to the British characters. 

My guess is the young Polish soldier is having some sort of dream/hallicnation, I hope they're not suggestion these polish soldiers somehow walked across German and Belgium to get involved in the BEF fight or god forbid that somehow British soldiers did get to Poland at some point in Winter 39/40 or the following Spring. 

That really would be up there for Languishite Braveheart disdain.   

[Sheilbh]

The Poles were at Dunkirk!

I think they participated in like more or less all the battles the British were at in Europe. And then...

[Josquius]

So never heard about the incidents during the new dad's army series?

It's very possible to enjoy war films without being a nationalist idiot.
But what you and I see when we watch these films is not what brexiters see.

For another oddity Farage hailing the Dunkirk film despite me coming away from it thoroughly cursing his ilk.

[Sheilbh]

Weird thing about Dunkirk was it made me think a lot about the whole Spirit of '45 thing and how that society and that moment led to the NHS and a huge welfare state.

[dps]

The Poles were at Dunkirk!

I think they participated in like more or less all the battles the British were at in Europe. And then...

I'm not sure about their actual participation at Dunkirk, but there were some Polish soldiers in France in 1940, certainly.

[Valmy]

The Poles were at Dunkirk!

I think they participated in like more or less all the battles the British were at in Europe. And then...

I'm not sure about their actual participation at Dunkirk, but there were some Polish soldiers in France in 1940, certainly.

Sikorski's Army.

[mongers]

The Poles were at Dunkirk!

I think they participated in like more or less all the battles the British were at in Europe. And then...

I'm not sure about their actual participation at Dunkirk, but there were some Polish soldiers in France in 1940, certainly.

Indeed there were a couple of divisions worth reequipped by the French, my confusion is the supposed case of two lone escaped polish soldiers somehow wandering across central  Europe to join in with the battle of France.   

[Admiral Yi]

Laundromat.  Movie about Mossack Fonseca with a high octane cast.  High on meaningless vignettes and preachiness, low on informativeness. Gives signs of being an adaptation of a play.

[Maladict]

No shit.  Every Brit WWII I've ever seen has treated the Krauts pretty well.  Hell, look at that glorification of Rommel.  And they stopped making them 60 years ago.

"Our adversary was a genius, almost superhuman warrior. We defeated him."
Classic imperial propaganda, Rommel can take his place next to Vercingetorix and Decebalus.

[celedhring]

First episode of Watchmen was intriguing, it feels like the Watchmen brand is tacked on, but I guess you need whatever IP to get stuff greenlight nowadays and draw eyeballs to your story.

Also, slightly annoyed that they [spoiler]pulled a Ned Stark on Don Johnson, was looking forward to a comeback of sorts for him[/spoiler].

[Berkut]

As an aside, it would be hilarious to be in the same theatre as Berkut watching the new Midway movie.

Watching his head explode would be a better effect than any of the CGI in that trailer, and well worth the price of admission. 

I am hopeful, but very, very skeptical.

The problem is that even if it is told according to the accepted "historical" *mythology* of Midway, that will be largely wrong.

I could tolerate that though....