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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts) Wed Feb 18, 2015, 10:22 AM Feb 2015

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War Cinema for americans

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War Cinema for americans (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Feb 2015 OP

I guess that's why WW2 movies have the edge. el_bryanto Feb 2015 #1

I guess he forgot the sarcasm Emoticon. You did too. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #2

No actually what I typed was pretty sincere. nt el_bryanto Feb 2015 #3

You forgot it again. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #4

If you have something to say just say it. nt. el_bryanto Feb 2015 #5

the only appropriate sarcasm reddread Feb 2015 #8

Freaking perfect malaise Feb 2015 #6

Do you know the comedian? Ichingcarpenter Feb 2015 #7

Looks like Frankie Boyle muriel_volestrangler Feb 2015 #9

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)

1. I guess that's why WW2 movies have the edge.

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 10:27 AM

Feb 2015

It's hard to feel bad about killing Nazis.

But then again a lot of the best movies about war are set in WW1 or Vietnam, which are much more ambiguous - but then again, I suppose this guy would dismiss Paths of Glory or Apocolypse Now are movies about how killing people makes soldiers sad.

Bryant

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

2. I guess he forgot the sarcasm Emoticon. You did too.

Reply to el_bryanto (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 10:34 AM

Feb 2015

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)

3. No actually what I typed was pretty sincere. nt

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #2)

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 10:36 AM

Feb 2015

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

4. You forgot it again.

Reply to el_bryanto (Reply #3)

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 10:38 AM

Feb 2015

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)

5. If you have something to say just say it. nt.

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #4)

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 10:46 AM

Feb 2015

reddread

(6,896 posts)

8. the only appropriate sarcasm

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #2)

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 12:59 PM

Feb 2015

would apply to the part where this is supposed to be funny.

malaise

(269,038 posts)

6. Freaking perfect

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 10:47 AM

Feb 2015

Rec

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)

7. Do you know the comedian?

Reply to malaise (Reply #6)

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 12:57 PM

Feb 2015

hadn't seen him before.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)

9. Looks like Frankie Boyle

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Reply #7)

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 05:04 PM

Feb 2015

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Boyle

Has been controversial (see the long section in Wikipedia), and that continues: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/bbc-axe-frankie-boyle-comeback-5036991 ; though I did happen to catch him talking about a Joseph Heller novel (the one after Catch 22) on radio recently, in which he was low key but quite insightful - I don't know if this is listenable outside the UK: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05108gw

And, while looking for that, I found a recent piece by him:

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/if-youre-a-writer-these-days-our-culture-seems-to-say-please-challenge-and-provoke-me-while-i-scream-whenever-i-hear-something-i-dont-like-10052188.html

On edit: yes, it is him - youtube clip of the joke here:

http://www.democrats.com/laughing-our-way-to-destruction

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