 What a load of cock. Just don't bother.
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 What a load of cock. Just don't bother. I was looking forward to this film, is it really that bad? I generally find Tarantino films overrated, Kill Bill was awful, but quite liked the look of this one.
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 Hasn't this film been made before?
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It really is bloody awful, even worse than KBII. The Guardian review gets it about right, wish I'd read it before I went.
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 More implausible rewriting of history by someone that hasn't got a clue about the realities of the Nazi occupation of France no doubt. It's getting rather tiresome. I mean think about it, some Jewish Americans fighting the Nazis on French soil or how to really upset the locals by provoking massive reprisals against the population. I might go and see Antichrist, Lars having a bit of fantasy fun with his audience.
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I read an interesting piece recently, about how the African and black American troops were removed from the allied parades through Paris at the end of WWII, sometimes you have to wonder what the fcuk was the reality of the politics of the era. I think that the politics throughout Europe that lead to the rise of the nazis are rarely given the responsibility they deserve for the horrors that resulted. The only thing for sure is that history is written by the winners, and the truth is rarely revealed.
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I was highly amused to learn that it was Prince Edward that let the Nazis know that the French and BEF were expecting an attack through the Pas de Calais so they opted for the Ardennes. He exected the Germans to win and put him back on the throne. Right royal traitor eh! Off with her head and get all that sordid, monarchy-led, bloody nationalism behind us!
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How are the right wing fairing in France now John, they were looking quite a strong force a few years back, was it Le Penn or something that took quite a large chunk of the vote.
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If you read Beevor's latest book about D-Day (not as good as his others), it casts de Gaul and the French in a pretty poor light...
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Jean Marie le Pen and his equally articulate daughter Marine haven't been doing as well of late. Protest votes are now going to the Greens of all people it would seem and Sarkozy is far enough right for most right wingers. I vote with my wallet on green issues and Sarkozy is right wing enough for me on other matters (once François Bayrou has been eliminated).  Barbara has masters and doctorate on resistance/collabo history which I helped with and proof read. Fascinating stuff. Speaking to anyone of that generation you have no idea if they were 'combatant', 'résistant','collabo' or simply 'survivant'. She interviewed lots of them in the 80s (before they died off) and went through all the available documents for the period. If you got invaded and occupied what would you do? Now perhaps you understand why I refer to the Taliban and Al-Quaïda as resistants rather than terrorists.
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 Antichrist really hasn't been received well at all, John. Every review I have read has pretty much slated it.
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All the more reason to go and see it. A film that has people outraged and feeling obliged to slate it in Cannes has to be worth a few euros.
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 I was not keen on the idea of the latest Tarrentino film - messing with a vampire flick is one thing (Dusk till dawn - great fun) but a pastiche of the dirty dozen lampooning the war film, just not sure...somehow the Nazi's are not a laughing matter having said that "The Producers" managed it. Just for the record I am generally a Tarentino fan from Resevoir Dogs, Pulp fiction, both Bills. Maybe helped by a small crush on Ulma Therman . I love his dialoge and playing spot the reference in films like Deathproof.
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All the more reason to go and see it. A film that has people outraged and feeling obliged to slate it in Cannes has to be worth a few euros. I'm interested in seeing it for myself. If only to see if it really is bad as they say. Having read good reviews for `The Idiots` I bought the film. And well I'll just say I was underwhelmed. I should watch it again just to confirm my initial feeling that I did not like the film. But it was my first introduction to Lars von Trier's films and am consequently a little wary of buying another.
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 I've never really got along with Tarantino...style over substance when compared to the Coen brothers
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I don't think any film in which Hitler and the entire German High Command are slaughtered in a French cinema in 1944 is purporting to be an accurate representation of the events of WWII. However, drawing glib analogies between the French Resistance and the Taliban/Al-Quaïda has such obvious flaws it's not worth even stating them. It's doubly ironic coming from someone who lives in the Western country that's most actively pursuing the banning of Islamic symbols such as the niqaab.
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 If you got invaded and occupied what would you do? Now perhaps you understand why I refer to the Taliban and Al-Quaïda as resistants rather than terrorists.
I'd ask my Mum she lived through occupation and still dislikes Germans to this day tales she tells would fill a book. As for a comparision to Taliban and Al-Quaïda all I can say is BOLLOXS JG.
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So if the British/American invasion and occupation wasn't an invasion and occupation what was it? The French state is secular. No religious symbols from any religion are acceptable for people working in state institutions and that includes school children. If you want to wear your Islamic head dress in school you go to a private islamic school which is perfectly legal as are catholic private schools.
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Taliban and Al-Quaïda existed and were active before either Kuwait and Iraq wars, they also destabilised Sudan and Afghanistan and are working on Pakistan. Maybe the Brits should have just forgot about France et al in 45 and stayed an Island nation.
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