That’s really sweet :)

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.

Having a deeper understanding is useful, for sure. But how does that make one language real over another?

Why is c++ a “real” language and not rust? It’s a tool. All programmers need to know logic above a specific language.

Hey, you can’t scapegoat leopold and forget that Belgium held on to and continued to exploit congo till the 60s. That’s less than a hundred years ago, your grandad was probably alive then.

Oh and Belgium got their first democratically elected leader lubumba assassinated. And you still regularly interfere in their politics.

Talriko and el sayed seem like noncareer politicians. Maybe they’ll actually bring about some change like zohran and you’ll see more candidates like them in future.

Was surprised to see independents in iowa, montana and nebraska give tough fights.

Yeah that makes sense. Populist policies with easy loop holes, nothing substantial. They’ll just pass the cost to customers in one way or another.

Maybe they should have policies to support and incentivize competition as well with it?

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.

Got permabanned from reddit formoffering general safety advice to protestors in Minnesota in early 2025.

Fucking fascist racist piece of shit spez. May his guards be the first ones to desert him during the apocalypse.