Are the Russians the bad guys again?
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CaptainBalu — 9 years ago(August 21, 2016 07:01 PM)
'Mericuh' makes the movies, they dish out large sums of money to make them, I'd assume at least half of the staff that makes Hollywood movies is American, so grant them the right to be the heroes. It's their movie, it's their privilige, they decide.
Bollywood movie = Indish (or is it Indian? Sorry) hereos
Chinese movie = Chinese heroes
Japanese movie = Japanese heroes
Russian movie = Russian hereos
German movie = German heroes
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blazarsquasars — 9 years ago(August 21, 2016 07:18 PM)
Really? The rest of the world wouldn't get involved?
Why do you get pissed by that? The movie is American, let America & Americans be the center of the movies universe, even if it's broadcast worldwide.
America isn't even the actual real financial source for Hollywood
Don't look only at this year's ticket sales. The U.S. was, is and will be one of the major sources for Hollywood both in terms of revenue and inspiration. -
drewschmidt920 — 9 years ago(August 31, 2016 09:41 AM)
Slight spoilers for book below
Are you sure that it is only the Americans interacting with the aliens? In the book, many countries interacted with the aliens. They also cooperated with each other. However, the book is from the perspective of the linguist, so there may have been a whole conflict over what was being shared between countries that Dr. Banks was never made privy to.
So maybe one country in the movie isn't sharing information or something they discovered. Maybe America is doing the same. It is obvious that the book is going to deviate from book, but you're making a lot of assumptions from one trailer. -
rocconorth — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 05:39 PM)
It's the Chinese or insert random Arabic terrorist here.
You're wrong about that. The libs in Hollywood are scared to death of making those people madthey may chop off your head. This is a myth but through propaganda many people think it's a reality. South Park did an episode about this where everybody was losing their minds because a tv show was going to show an image of Mohammed! The people literally put their heads in the sand so they can claim they didn't watch it! And believe it or not, the channel that airs South Park censored the cartoon image of Mohammed! Another instance of the bs myth that Arabs are used for movie villains is the movie adaptation of Clancy's "The Sum of All Fears". In the book the terrorists were Arab, but in the movie they changed it towait for itGermans! My point is just like we're always allerted to "backlash" against Muslims after terrorist attacks (of course nobody can find any actual evidence of it unless some lefty white guy fakes the "backlash")it's a myth that movies over use Arabs for movie baddies. If you listen to the talking heads and propaganda you'd think it was the casebut go and actually look for it and you won't find it
In the paper todaytales of war and of waste
But you turn right over to the T.V. page -
kgwrote-854-104240 — 9 years ago(September 01, 2016 02:03 PM)
Hollywood is owned by companies that have a vested interest in seeing conflict with Russia-or at least encouraging it. Portraying Russians as bad guys has generally been the standard policy (when not Russians then Eurotrash anyway).
Obviously it is getting harder to sell that idea given that it is the Us going around bombing the hell out of countries and creating the greatest refugee migration since WW 2(the end of which BTW owes a lot to Russia).
"Slavery is a good example really. It has been illegal in Sweden since the freaking 1300's. Yet some people appear to think that they can judge me as a white person using the American history of slavery and guilt trip me with it as an argument in debates. Sorry, but what the hell? LOL????????????"
*Excellent point. It is ridiculous that white people are somehow responsible for the actions of a minority hundreds of years ago. The rich and powerful are the ones who created slavery. They made money from it. Then when they were done, the blame gets passed to society at large. Just as we see today. Wall Street and other rich interests profit from globalization and migration. When poor people complain about losing money or healthcare they get called racist. Ooh the irony. -
MafferDragonhand — 9 years ago(September 02, 2016 11:28 AM)
Obviously it is getting harder to sell that idea given that it is the Us going around bombing the hell out of countries
Yeah: al Qaeda, Saddam Hussein, and ISIS poor, peaceful, unfortunate victims of American bombs. No different from Russian invading Georgia and Ukraine! LOL! Moron.
creating the greatest refugee migration since WW 2
Wrong. Iraq was stable for 8 years after the U.S. invasion. The Syrian refugee crisis, ironically, happened largely because America
didn't
get involved until the war had gone on for 3 years. If anything, American politicians have learned America needs to be involved now more than ever to stabilize humanity. So get used to our being involved in international affairs; it will continue throughout your lifetime.
(the end of which BTW owes a lot to Russia).
No. It was American money and American supplies that kept Russia afloat during World War II. But don't take my word for it, see this quote:
"Without American manufacturing, the Allies would have lost the war." - Josef Stalin
In conclusion, please consider killing yourself for being so wildly ignorant of both recent and distant human events. Ignorance such as yours must have a genetic cause, and it shouldn't be allowed to spread via your reproduction. -
slay-er — 9 years ago(November 09, 2016 02:30 AM)
Yeah: al Qaeda, Saddam Hussein, and ISIS poor, peaceful, unfortunate victims of American bombs. No different from Russian invading Georgia and Ukraine! LOL! Moron.
Georgia assaulted UN peacekeepers who happened to be Russians. That war lasted just few days. In Ukraine US and EU politicians showed full support for coup, then US made Ukrainian coup government to move tanks against those who disagreed with what took place.
Wrong. Iraq was stable for 8 years after the U.S. invasion. The Syrian refugee crisis, ironically, happened largely because America didn't get involved until the war had gone on for 3 years. If anything, American politicians have learned America needs to be involved now more than ever to stabilize humanity. So get used to our being involved in international affairs; it will continue throughout your lifetime.
High majority of refugees aren't even from Syria. US don't have history of success in all these endeavors in the middle east or elsewhere. They have nothing to show.
No. It was American money and American supplies that kept Russia afloat during World War II. But don't take my word for it, see this quote: "Without American manufacturing, the Allies would have lost the war." - Josef Stalin
False quote. Land lease was no more than 15% but USSR was paying like triple price for that even if they never received what they paid for (if delivering ship was sunk for example). -
MafferDragonhand — 9 years ago(September 02, 2016 11:19 AM)
Movies tend to mirror real life somewhat. As such, any film involving geopolitical issues has to feature Russia as the bad guy, otherwise it would be too fictional even for fiction.
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