A Sticky Situation

[sbagman]

What does one does one do when sitting with one's new German housemate, and one is watching a WWII movie in which one is watching the nasty German shoulders get shot to smithereens? Should one change the channel? Sit in silence? Make some half-baked attempted to sympathise by commenting on the one-sidedness of American films?

A Sticky Situation Indeed.

 

[ozzult]

Go for a toilet break.

 

[sbagman]

Originally posted by ozzult
Go for a toilet break.

For the duration of the film?

 

[jim boy]

Don't mention ze war

 

[The Hitman]

Laugh.

The Hitman

 

[Santos L Helper]

Maybe you two should console each other? After all, you have two of the big three from the losing side in one room.
Perhaps you could do a retrospective thing like we do when our footy team loses..eg "If only Williams could coach we would have beaten them" etc. You could change it to "If only Hitler and Il Duce had been able to sort out their problems"...etc.

 

[Carlos]

How good looking is she?

Does she like pr0n?

 

[shiva25]

Have a Kit Kat

 

[mantis]

Why did you start watching it in the first place? I would have thought that if you have a German person living with you, then you would avoid WW2 movies in the first place.

 

[knuckles]

Could say..."nice uniforms, shame about your tactics"

Don't think Germans can see this stuff in their own country anyway. Hitler books are banned I think.

 

[Uncle Steve]

Originally posted by knuckles
Don't think Germans can see this stuff in their own country anyway. Hitler books are banned I think.

Kind of ironic, since it was Hitler's mob who started burning books in the first place.

Back on topic - go down the video shop and rent a few tapes of "'Allo 'Allo". Hours of mirth set in occupied France as the mickey is taken equally from all parties involved.

 

[Mooster7]

What kind of PC bull**** feel-good crap is this?

Granted, very few war movies are entirely accurate. That's because they aren't made by historians, they are made by coke-snorting, make a buck, don't know their di(k from Sturmgeschutz III pansy-assed Hollywood types.

*diversionary anti-film producer rant over*

Also (just a small aside) Knuckles: The German tactics were unrivaled. It was the overall strategy and strategic logistical situation which sunk the Germans.

As a yank, I'd have no problem sitting in a room with a crowd of Japanese and watching a film of Pearl Harbor getting creamed. It was an historical fact. Given their national strategic situation it was really a good move on their part. No hard feelings from me.

 

[Asgardian]

Cheer loudly as the Allies relentlessly crush the Nazi war machine, and exterminate all who fought for Hitler.

Over the top? damn right

 

[sbagman]

Originally posted by Santos L Helper
Maybe you two should console each other? After all, you have two of the big three from the losing side in one room.
Perhaps you could do a retrospective thing like we do when our footy team loses..eg "If only Williams could coach we would have beaten them" etc. You could change it to "If only Hitler and Il Duce had been able to sort out their problems"...etc.

Ahem, have to pull you up there Frank. The Italians switched sides in 1943, and so of course we won!