The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP

5 hours ago, SympathysSilhouette said:

 

The CGI of the aerial combat looks shit.

Have you seen "Battle of Britain" 1969?  I think it is the only great aerial combat film ever made it was made with real WW2 aircraft.

Making WW1 and WW2 aircraft look like Star wars Tie-fighters like all the modern works is just wrong!

Even Memphis Belle which is a lot more recent than Battle of Britain looks quite a bit better than the Masters of the Air trailer.

The big problem is that they don't even try any more to capture any of this stuff in camera. Just all CGI, all the time.

welcome to the nyc subways 

On 11/9/2023 at 3:40 PM, Enrico_sw said:

 

It all comes down to this:

If we want things to improve, we better start to allow stronger men to thrive in our countries. Weak men are responsible for this shit

US/West is not strong enough to dominate BRICS at this point and make them their coolie-slaves like all those loony 1990s neoliberals believed would be the case.  I think too many people in the West- including the MSM do not understand how competitively declined the West is, there is too much residual arrogance & delusion from the cold-war era.

Japan is also screwed up

Overall I think it is too late to save the West, the pandora's box has been opened for too long.  

WW2& the US arsenal was built and fought by a predominantly Christian people with traditional values from the farms and the factories. US was an industrialized nation at the time. Those people are no longer what we are today, and I think they actually more similar to the Chinese people today LOL. 

US MIC is so corrupt that it can't even produce basic artillery shells for a large scale war.  Last I checked the current target, which is not being reached is something like 38,000 heavy shells produced a month for the USA.  So in 1 year the US can make the same number of heavy shells the Russians used in 12 days of serious offensive operations in 2022...

At the same time the Pentagon claimed that the North Koreans gave the Russians a 'present' of 1 million heavy shells for their war recently.

It should be pretty shocking that in 2023 the US munitions production is so poor. For comparison In WW2 to defeat the Germans in the 3 month Normandy campaign the Allies used millions of artillery rounds.    As late as Vietnam the US used more explosives than they did in all of WW2. 

I miss Seattle and can't wait to go home for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Europe has been amazing and a great substitute for home, but it'll never be home.

I can't 

Dude needs a haircut 

8 hours ago, Jade Bahr said:

I can't 

 

J. Phoenix is so old looking these past few years and is too old looking for the role.  It is surprising that he doesn't get botox like other actors.

^I don't even know how old (or young) Napoleon was when he became who he is famous for to be honest. But I prefer Phoenix "older" look over botox any day. But since this movie also works as a satire (even better I heard from some critics) I think his washed up look is kinda perfect for the role. Also didn't age people much faster back then than nowadays?

that timing...

I can't...

am I the only one wondering why does the Pentagon have an elementary school division?

On 11/20/2023 at 8:12 PM, Jade Bahr said:

I can't 

 

He's right. The French don't like themselves any more. Ever since we started to embrace far-leftism. This dogma is melting countries like acid.

France is the most successful military power in history, but embracing very “progressive” ideas made it so weak it collapsed in 1940. You can only have peace, intellectual prowess, thriving art and safety for the weak in a strong country.

Far-leftism make countries flimsy. It's also happening in the US, right now.

2 hours ago, Prettyphile said:

I can't...

On 11/21/2023 at 1:39 AM, Matt! said:

 

Dude needs a haircut 

He may look clumsy, bu this dude is probably the best thing that happened to Argentina for the past decades.

Socialism destroyed Argentina. It used to be a rich country and now it has inflation over 100%!

I can only have sympathy for someone that says "long live freedom"

I've almost done re-reading Blood of Elves, Book 3 of the Witcher series.  Re-reading this after the show and going through the games a second time has made me appreciate and catch so many more details than the first time I read it.

On 11/21/2023 at 8:20 AM, Jade Bahr said:

^I don't even know how old (or young) Napoleon was when he became who he is famous for to be honest. But I prefer Phoenix "older" look over botox any day. But since this movie also works as a satire (even better I heard from some critics) I think his washed up look is kinda perfect for the role. Also didn't age people much faster back then than nowadays?

Napoleon was in his 30s.  He died 'young' for modern standards (age 51). 

I am ok with historical inaccuracy as long as they get the spirit of the times correct.  It's almost impossible to make a truly historically accurate war film.  Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven were very historically inaccurate but were great films.  It would have been better to make a Napoleon film a few years after Gladiator if he wanted to cast J.Phoenix though.

For me his Commodus is the best dramatized depiction of the historic emperor I could ever imagine.  I love it!