Recent content by josak

Let's not pretend that this is not inherently accurate. All that Let's no pretend that this is not entirely accurate. For christ-sakes we as a society (in the US) have managed to embrace dropping a nuclear bomb on civilian targets because the target was sufficiently bad. Are you really...

Yeah you don't understand what Bob does, seriously if you just want the "This movie has good cinematography but some of the acting is a bit wooden 3/5" type review go almost literally anywhere else. That is never what he is supposed to be doing.

Definitely my favorite contributor, funny insightful and also interesting at various points.

Having your parents murdered and therefore dressing like a bat and becoming a masked vigilante isn't exactly sane.

Great episode Bob, don't ever change.

Jesus Christ why? I really ended up hating those marines even though I was controlling one of them.

I would be just as bothered if someone insisted that Hiroshima or Dresden had to be mentioned in Saving Private Ryan etc. I have no particular alliance to Japan.

"the military barracks listed as a target were a long way out of the city and were not in fact targeted during the raid.[ The "hutted camps" mentioned in the report as military targets were also not military but were camps for refugees. It is also stated that the important Autobahn bridge to the...

Dresden was precision bombed in the central areas which were population centers, the factory outskirts were actually less damaged, high population areas were intentionally targeted so as to send a message. They specifically targeted a refugee camp for christsakes.

"Genocide is something done to eliminate an unwanted faction within one's own country. It's not genocide when you do it against the enemy." NO NO NO NO NO NO NO genocide noun 1. the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular nation or ethnic group.

Jesus Christ, he actually did.

Well then you don't get to have it both ways, the film can't be apologism if a central theme is "the way the planes you made were used was bad" because it thus centrally establishes the role of Japan in WW2 as "bad" (as horribly simplistic as that is) thus one should be pleased with the films...

Dresden was about sending a message not military targets, suburbs were leveled completely, bombs were specifically designed to kill civilians and civilian centers were targeted.