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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

As a kid I thought that americans just didn't say goodbye at the end of phonecalls because they never do in movies.

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Blackbeard wrote

Drives me nuts every time! Is the half second that it takes to say the word "bye" really too much?

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GrimWillow wrote

The Anarchist is almost never done right, especially anything mainstream. I never saw it, but I heard there was a movie called "The Anarchist Cookbook" which is the worst idea for a film title. They chose a book that associates itself with Anarchism and is just a dangerous piece of shit. I can only hope the premise doesn't involve anything to do with the book, but the damage has been done already anyway.

The numerous movies that prop up Anarchists and then attack liberal strawmen is something we can only expect more of as Antifa gets dragged through the mainstream mud.

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Random_Revolutionary wrote

V would be a good movie anarchist, but he's a originally a comic character.

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GrimWillow wrote

Nah, he stopped being Anarchist when he put the journalist lady in jail and fucked with her head. I was like...wow...shitty consent much?

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RedEmmaSpeaks wrote

The comic is a bit better in that it's implied at several points that V is a raving nutter who might actually make things worse than better and that the reason he devotes himself to bringing down the Fascist government may be more out of vengeance than all this talk about freeing the people from tyranny. The movie casts him more as the freedom fighter hero, but in doing so, while still having stuff like Evey's torture at his hands, they wind up creating a muddled mess of a message.

Though Valerie's letter...as badly as the Wachowskis may have screwed up other parts, not even they could ruin the sheer majesty and greatness of that part.

Valerie's Letter in Text Form: http://www.shadowgalaxy.net/Vendetta/valerie.html

Valerie's Letter in the Movie: https://youtu.be/k2W0-z8EnaM

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TheNewKing wrote

The East did it decently, though it focuses on anarchist terrorists.

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sudo wrote

Death scenes. Pretty sure you won't have the mental faculties to whisper a few lines to a loved one, then be completely dead a few seconds later.

Battle scenes, too. If the hero is surrounded by hundreds of other soldiers, their chances of killing them all and coming out unscathed are just about zero, but they do anyways. I'm sorry LotR, you're a good movie, but Aragorn should be dead a hundred times over by now.

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Mance wrote

Database searching by investigators........flashing images as the search would be done would just consume to many resources......code tends to search quietly in the background, only returning when you have results (you might get a progress bar)

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RedEmmaSpeaks wrote

When they try to do Oscar-bait movies based on some deep-rooted social issue, often Hollywood tends to reduce the problem to one bad guy and give the impression that all we need to do, is defeat that one bad guy. I suppose they do this because a deeply corrupt, flawed system is too abstract to serve as a villain, but it does leave their viewers completely unprepared to handle massive geo-political realities.

I could say something similar regarding their depictions of bullying. Bullies in the movies are so cartoonishly over-the-top evil or psycho that it makes it hard for real-world people to address the problem because they've been so miseducated as to the nature of the problem.

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