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Quote:Yeah Sleeper! And he was on an ether binge at the time too!

it was absinthe you tool

I've read Freud in its original German. I'm gonna move on to Mein Kampf next week.

Quote:I've read Freud in its original German. I'm gonna move on to Mein Kampf next week

i bet if i said i had a cold, you would say you had pneumonia

no, I would say, "haha, you have a cold, sucks to be you"

Quote:no, I would say, "haha, you have a cold, sucks to be you"

nice comeback.lol

Quote:I'm gonna move on to Mein Kampf next week.

sleeper don't do it!! i tried in college german class and couldn't do it...i am having enough trouble with the english version right now...so wordy i get tired!

Nice absinthe reference.

Quote:sleeper don't do it!!

ok I won't

Back to topic:

In Saving Private Ryan: Why didn't they just blow up the bridge right away? Why wait around when you know you can't hold it against a superior force?
-Credit: General Norman Schwartzkoff talking with Tom Hanks.

well, this thread seemed rather simple at the beginning, but then you people all went and confused me :clueless:

oh, and i read l'etranger in french too. well, ok, i only read some exerpts, but we also read other books in french, so you see, it's not all that farfetched...

Quote:In Saving Private Ryan: Why didn't they just blow up the bridge right away? Why wait around when you know you can't hold it against a superior force?

I think that they may have mentioned it in the movie. I don't remember, but I do know from my WWII history, that that was the last bridge crossing that river, and they needed to keep it intact to move allied forces back and forth across the river.

Quote:I don't remember, but I do know from my WWII history, that that was the last bridge crossing that river, and they needed to keep it intact to move allied forces back and forth across the river.

The US was already pretty good at creating temporary pontoon bridges for crossing rivers. Losing the "last bridge across the river" would only cause a delay of a few hours while the army corp of engineers put a replacement together. Inconvenient when your in the middle of a major offensive and have momentum on your side, but not major.

Tom Hank's response was "It's just a movie. We needed something to create the dramatic tension for the finale."

Quote:It's just a movie

my point all along

Quote:It's just a movie
my point all along

Sure, but how entertained are you if you watch the film and are constantly REMINDED it's just a movie by all the things that are wrong with it.

Like "Reindeer Games". Nice concept, good cast, etc. But every time they showed the casino security, I was, like, bullshit. I mean, what moron puts a plywood door on his money room? And plasterboard walls? I don't think so.

Don't know who was the first person to say it, but you should only be asked to accept one thing in a movie that is not realistic. Like the existence of vampires. Establish that there are real vampires and the rules about them. Sunlight, crosses, super strong, etc. Then, eveything else about the movie should be realistic. The effect of guns on objects, the way people act, stuff like that.
In other words, don't treat the audience like their too stupid to notice all the mistakes.