although some of the Germans in the movie seemed to be decent people, we were STILL supposed to cheer upon seeing them get brutally slaughtered/tortured.
Germans need some positive portrayals in movies instead of always being Nazis. Hollywood seems to have gotten over the "evil Soviet" issue once the Cold War ended, but it is STILL obsessed with the "Evil Nazis." I'm sooo tired of it. It's like making a bunch of movies where the black characters are always criminals and drug dealers and then saying "Oh, people shouldn't object! It's not like we're demonizing ALL black people. Just the criminal ones!" But you'd be hard-pressed to find a movie that showed black people as anything but scumbags.
Enough, Hollywood. Find something else to be obsessed with.
Germans need some positive portrayals in movies instead of always being Nazis. Hollywood seems to have gotten over the "evil Soviet" issue once the Cold War ended, but it is STILL obsessed with the "Evil Nazis." I'm sooo tired of it. It's like making a bunch of movies where the black characters are always criminals and drug dealers and then saying "Oh, people shouldn't object! It's not like we're demonizing ALL black people. Just the criminal ones!" But you'd be hard-pressed to find a movie that showed black people as anything but scumbags.
Enough, Hollywood. Find something else to be obsessed with.
except for hitler, i thought all the portrayals for the germans were pretty sympathetic characters, and the point of the movie was creating moral ambiguity with the reasons everyone was on their own respective sides. i mean, "the basterds" were hardly sympathetic characters, definitely not on the same level as landa and frederick zoller were sympathetic characters.
also, how do you feel about all the tribespeople in avatar being played only by black and/or american indian actors? do you have a problem with that casting as well?
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Why Avatar will win the Best Picture award
- 06/03/2010 06:29:08 PM
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Do the judges see the movie in IMAX 3-D? Or just on a normal screen?
- 06/03/2010 07:00:17 PM
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Wait. Maybe you should explain once again what this post is trying to say?
- 06/03/2010 08:10:55 PM
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There is a longstanding (and apparently increasing of late) occurrence of inferior movies winning.
- 06/03/2010 10:33:15 PM
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Ordinary People is a brilliant film.
- 06/03/2010 11:18:09 PM
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Yeah, I'm not sure what's with that either...
- 07/03/2010 12:36:29 AM
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ROTK was infinitely superior to Seabiscuit and MR
- 07/03/2010 12:55:13 AM
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With all due respect, I love Annie Hall just as much as Star Wars. *NM*
- 06/03/2010 11:13:02 PM
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I'm fully expecting Hurt Locker to win because it bored me to tears. *NM*
- 07/03/2010 04:02:12 AM
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As long as Inglorious BasTURDS doesn't win, I'll be happy 
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- 07/03/2010 09:17:09 PM
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- 07/03/2010 09:17:09 PM
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Oh yeah awful to see Nazis get their asses kicked *NM*
- 07/03/2010 09:23:43 PM
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- 07/03/2010 09:23:43 PM
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I'm tired of Hollywood's constant demonzation of Germans
- 07/03/2010 09:42:04 PM
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Germans aren't demonized in the film. I wouldn't like that either.
- 07/03/2010 09:56:42 PM
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completely disagree
- 08/03/2010 12:24:27 AM
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ummm, Hollywoods has found someone, they are called Muslims...... *NM*
- 08/03/2010 01:54:09 AM
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