I downloaded the wedding crashers and it was two men having severe anal sex. I was captivated.

Yeah I was wondering if anyone had seen my film. Did you like my acting in it?

You were rubbish. I stole the show.

^^ :lol:

Doesn't sound appealing to me but I'd watch it if I've got nothing better to do. I once watched some period drama called 'The Forsyte Saga', it was captivating...

I don't collect uniforms or Nazi memorabilia (those things are semi-illegal).

I have a terrifying cousin who makes the uniforms for reenactments. I asked him, and he just prefers the German ones... :ph43r:

Who else saw the 'Nazi' in Wehrmacht uniform collecting money by the quad stairs yesterday?

Your cousin must have a kick ass hobby. Re-enactments are expensive.

Where's this guy in Wehrmacht uniform? Why was he collecting money? This is one must see sight for Mr. Chiang!!!

It's his small business making and selling the costumes to reenacters, plus he occasionally drives tanks around at Motat. And actually part-owns a German Leopard tank and transporter - at the bottom of a lake in western Russia.

We think the Nazi guy was pulling a stunt for Jafa TV but he still got crap thrown at him and a lot of hatred. As it should be. I have no sympathy at all for people who wander round the streets in 2005 wearing that stuff.

Look on the bright side, at least he's not wearing Waffen SS or SS-TV uniforms! I would have walked by and shouted "Achtung!" just to see his reaction. He should have a prop Mauser 98k., that's one of my favorite WWII rifles.

I think I'll be quite comfortable doing that guys job. I'll even get more attention to my cause since no one has ever seen an Asian in a Wehrmacht uniform before. Did he have a Swastika armband? (If he did, he deserves the crap thrown at him.)

I felt stupid for thinking he was a real Nazi. Then I thought: "Hey, he was wearing a Wehrmacht uniform and swastikas. It's not my job to prove he's really a Nazi, it's his job to prove he's not a total cock."

It's just like those fucked up T-shirts with the Hammer and Sickle. Communism is all washed up now and 'tis all for a good satirical laugh. Not that I would wear it, since I hate communism with a passion.

I'm kind of tempted to be in that guy's situation since, I can impersonate the Nazi marching and salutes. Pity I don't speak German. The first thing I would do if I had that guy's costume would be to find some of the German lecturers in my faculty, they'll either laugh at the idea of a 'Chinazi' (Chinese Nazi, portmanteau word) or tell me to get a life.

It's odd that wearing a Stalin or Mao badge doesn't get the same social opprobrium as wearing a Hitler T.

The Hammer and Sickle deserves to be shelved alongside the Nazi Swastika cinsidering that millions had died under their tyranny. Just because Hitler specifically targetted certain groups and races in his industrialized genocide, it does not mean that the communists (on the other spectrum of extremism) are innocent. Far from it, far more people had been liquidated by the communist regimes than those killed under fascist ones.

There's probably a greater stigma of evil attached to targetting those for elimination based on race rather than ideology. It should be noted that Stalin targetted certain ethnic minorities after the war for collaborating with the Germans and there's evidence that he deliberately starved the Ukrainians back in the 1930s as revenge for their separatist movement. Stalin was a Russian chauvinist. He also disliked Jews (Lenin and Trotsky were jews and they stood in his way before), although not to the extend of Hitler. Soviet Jews have been discriminated politically for many years. During Stalin's later years for example, Jews were forbidden to enter the military or certain universities, because of Stalin's fears of the Jews heightened after the creation of Israel (potential an outlet to divert the loyalties of Soviet Jews). Prior to Nazi Germany, Tsarist Russia was the most anti-Semitic place on Earth.

I concur. That's why I prefer this:



Much less hackneyed.

Speaking of Jews, I found out this year that there have been Jews in China since 12th Century!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaifeng_jews

Wouldn't communist Russia have been anti all religions since it was technically an athiest state? I can see how they would see Israel as a threat, dividel loyalties and all. I tried to think of a good "In soviet Russia" joke to go along with this post, and failed :(

Anyway, before this thread got Chiang'd :chiang: film people were talking about movies. What did you guys think of memento?

In Soviet Russia, religion follows YOU!

Memento is excellent. I think Aaron Von Cock: The Movie would also have potential, though I suspect it'd be film-fest/educational viewing only material.

Awesome!

Oh my god, even this thread has turned into war memories

I personally prefer these:




Speaking of movies, I don't seem to mind period dramas as I've always wanted to look into another time period.

Hey, look above. I did my best to bring it back on topic!

Samf, do you like period dramas? You're doing a history major.

I do indeed. Studying history gives you quite high standards for historical film, however.

I know. I have high expectations for historical dramas since I'm a big history buff. Recently, there was this recent Chinese dramatization of the life of Henry Puyi called 'Extraordinary Citizen', the major horseshit my father and I picked up when watching was that after he was driven out off Beijing but living comportably in Nanjing's Japanese district, his bodyguards (dressed in 1920s fashions), wore today's colored business shirts with their tuxedoes, that sight caused a laugh!

The biggest howler I've noticed was the modern frigates that were clearly visible in Pearl Harbor.

I'm going to start a historical film thread so we can get this one back on topic.

Hell yeah!

Or that infamous shot of a gas cylinder on the overturned chariot in 'Gladiator'.