Well there’s evidence the siege of Troy actually happened in the bronze age. Homers illiad and odyssey are also definitely refering to the bronze age era.

My point being - It should been at least interesting. I found it boring to see the same greek armor being used for everything, when we know they were a diverse bunch, let alone for something that supposedly took place thousands of years before. You wouldn’t have complained if Nolan used era authentic armor, but it would have added to the charm.

Homeric descriptions of combat were, and I’m saying this as someone that’s trained in fighting of various sorts, laughable.

Yeah, it’s a myth. To be honest it fails in my eyes there as well. It’s not a very epic myth, everything feels so small. I wanted to see a grand Troy being seiged by hundreds of thousands of people. I get that it’s trying to be more grounded, but I thought it wasn’t supposed to be realistic.

If you are going to represent an epic, why not go all the way? Why is it grounded in only some places but doesnt care to be grounded in history?

Yeah, but there will always be a niggling doubt.

Right? Good god man it’s the first nuclear explosion 💥.

Was really disappointed with the Nuclear explosion. It was like an extra gassy fart on taco tuesday. I think I saw some instgram videographer do it better.

Also for the love of God why doesn’t he do holding shots? I want room to experience and breathe in the moments. He cuts to the next scene way too fast.

Yeah Zeus’s law and the twist were some of the better done parts of the movie.

It simply isn’t about realism.

Sure movies don’t have to be realistic, but they have to be entertaining.

Having era authentic production can be a part of what appeals to people.

The immersion break of “dad” is more about the audience’s expectations of any far past setting using theatrical formality than any unrealistic placement.

He’s not complaining about that. The movie has straight up some atrocious on the face dialogue. It has little subtext and leaves little for the mind to imagine. Good dialogue is the opposite. People like to infer what the character is saying over what they actually mean.

And from what I can tell, if it was trying to emulate the illiad’s style of prose, it fails at it.

Nolan has some really good movies, but I’d get his brother or another writer to edit his writing for the big screen.

EVERYONE lies, distorts, exaggerates, especially AUTHORITARIAN LEADERS. (Who’s going to stop them? At least in democracy you can vote them out). If you think the USSR and its leaders didn’t do that you live in a fantasy world.

And I will put my trust in where experts can speak freely, while recognising their bias. Not a country that silences every dissent because it’s going to disrupt security.

The secret speech was an indictment by the very same leaders of USSR of the terror and paranoia Stalin created in Soviet Russia. They understood the ramifications of it and hated what he had done to the nation.

Oh and the facts about the purges and gulags were corroborated by historians who got access to the Soviet archives in the 90s. So unless the soviets were secretly forging millions of documents to further their enemies’ agenda, the call is coming from inside the house.

What’s wrong with pinkhaired dudes?

No dude, Stalin was a facist at heart and only used communism to further his agenda. He killed anyone who he felt threatened his power and with paranoia. Idk where you get the idea that he was trying to reign in the purges. He wasn’t. Doctor’s Plot, the red purge, holodomor, his hatred of Jews, there’s way too much. Everyone was happy to see him gone, at least secretly (refer to the secret speech). He had terrorised all of USSR.

While the politburo did sign off on the purges (never said they weren’t complicit) it was NOT a democratic process. You need representation of voters there.

Stalin’s purges must have been an educational tool as well then.

People have a fond outlook of what the USSR was like. They neglect to see that they were an authoritarian society with a single party in charge which was willing to do anything to remain in power.

Gulags were horrible places on all accounts.

That wasn’t real communism. Just an ideal hijacked by meglomaniacs.

Yeah that’s true, but we have to hold these people accountable without resorting to fascism and violence somehow.

Something to get the blood pumping. I am waiting for when the niche communities come alive.

Dunno what to say man. Take it up with reddit I guess.

It was repeated offense. I had got warnings before for insulating people’s limited brain power before.

Platform. I appealed but they weren’t having it. Reddit doesn’t like people causing others of being nazi and colonial fucks.

In one comment I called spez a nazi fuck. He removed that too.

Dude was talking about how the Brits were actually really good for their colonies (how they brought culture and infrastructure there) and how the bengal famine was actually because of the locals themselves.

London was apparently a benevolent european power.

Yeah, that will be the pantzing of a lifetime.

They’ll never live down the shame.

But yeah, he’s gotta point. Why don’t central banks loose money like this? Is it because their cash isn’t in a Blockchain?

God damn fucking vultures.

Got banned for telling a colonial apologist and nazi to fuck off.