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What is your major malfunction?
I am talking about why HOLLYWOOD cannot be arsed to make the movies you request, not you personally, you dimwit.
I suppose the reasons are many and varied, but I think some of these may be relevant:
The Korean war wasn't a US war. The Korean war was a UN "police-action" (war).
There were 27 nations, fighting North-Korea, China and Russia (with Soviet-block nations making up triage and support).
The US and the UK, as usual, made up the largest bulk of the force from the west, but still half that of South-Korea itself. (350 000 UN + 600 000 South-Korea). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
The Korean-war was unpopular
Nobody wanted to go to war in Korea, so it was a very unpopular war, both domestically and also internationally (European nations were for the most part also against any actions, since it meant that security in Europe would suffer).
In the end, the war and it's consequences, caused Truman to be the most unpopular president in the history of the US and he did not seek another term in office.
Douglas MacArthur wanted to nuke China.
The famed general wanted to use nuclear weapons in Korea and also openly expressed political views and wishes to go to a full-scale war with the Chinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur#Removal_from_command
This was in conflict with the directives, given by the president and the famed WWII general was relieved of command.
The Korean war is still not over
Korea was divided before the war, and after the war, so very little was gained or lost. (apart from human lives).
In the end, a ceasefire was reached, and is still in effect today.
Thus, the star-spangled banner thumping, all-American Hollywood nationalism-mush will not work here.
And if that doesn't work, why make a movie about it?
Vietnam took the limelight
As war-movies go, the tragedy in the American-war in Vietnam (which is the Vietnamese term for the war), is way more movie-friendly. Even from a war with no clear strategy (apart from winning by attrition, killing everyone), huge losses of lives and in the end a loss, the story of the American-war in Vietnam is way cooler to make a movie about.
- Invaders gets portrayed as heroes and misunderstood liberators.
- You get to quote Kennedy \o/
- The music was great
- It's all-american (apart from the 2 million Vietnamese lives lost)
- The weapons used were cooler.
- The language and swearing is more modern.
- The stories can be made so much greater than they really were.
- The 60's was a much more interesting decade than the 50's, you have the Kennedy-assassination, Cuba-crisis, space-program, hippies, protestors and is a water-shed between the old and the new America (or so they say). Who the heck knows what happened in the 50's?
- You get to stereotype a whole continent as slant-eyed 'charlies' (in the film), kick commie-ass and turn a loss into nationalistic 'measurbation' (mis-spelled intentionally)
Thus, the start-spangled banner thumping, all-American Hollywood nationalism-mush will indeed work here.
And if that does work, why not make a few dozen movies about it?
:P
And for you Americans, there are indeed (great) movies about the Korean-war, but you need to watch a movie in another language (Korean) and read the subtitles (like 97,5% of the rest of the world), but I suppose that is not interesting. :)))
personally, after all the tongue-in-cheek, the Korean-war should be filmed and the stories told, also from Hollywood, the people who fought in that war deserves to get their stories told as well. Would be cool to see an American war-movie also portraying other nation's efforts as well, it's a tendency to 'forget that' sometimes.
I stayed behind too, but I wasn't really expecting anything.
The film is a conclusion after all, a post-credit thingy, would indicate that the saga would go on somehow and set the premise for the next film.
But yeah, people grumbled in our theater too, when there was none^^
Yes, I know, they mentioned that in the film, more or less, but how could they know that?
He was couching blood, indicating lung-issues.
There is a conversation in one of the previous films, that someone points out that his cigars will give him cancer, so I assume it's an extension of that.
If his abilities to regenerate is failing, I suppose it is highly likely that he is in fact suffering from lung-cancer, 200 years of cigar-smoking has to cause some issues. ^^
But I guess we'll never know.
Dreams come true?
I must admit that I am not a die-hard follower of the series or the comix, however, I've seen them all and wanted to see Logan.
I like the movie, as well as the ending.
I am not to certain what to think about the new circle of mutants though, but I suppose it's a message in the line of the old goes and the young takes over, circle of life continues, even for Logan's genes.
It was ok to finally lay Logan to rest, especially since Jackman has stated that he will not play the character again.
An no, it would be stupid if a pair of claws came out of the grave in the end or something stupid like that. Everyone else was dead (whatever happened to Magneto btw and what was the Westchester Incident?), and Logan was dying as well, cancer probably.
He had a final battle with his evil self and a last hurrah to save the next generation and I like the film, it was more meditative and more 'real life' than any of the other spandex-suit-live-forever previous films.
The only thing that annoyed me, was that the type of seizures of Professor-X was not really explained. Was it a dangerous variant of the time-stopping ability...?
I think it's interesting to see how much stringer Wolverine is these days, compared to the earlier films.
In the first films, he is knocked out cold very easily (car-crash in the first film, and a simple 9mm slug in this one.
In the latest installments, he survives and stays conscious after saving a Japanese soldier from a nuclear blast and he can be shot, smashed, crushed and drowned and still keep ticking, even after getting his regeneration-powers temporarily taken away. :)
Heheh.
I don't understand the motivation of Magneto sometimes.
He is always angry and want to get back at the humans, but every single film ends with "Oh no, what have I done".
He has been doing the same things since the early 1970's, but still goes on and on and keep finding out that he loose in the end.
Old or young, he is actually quite stupid :)