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    We need to reinvigorate the World War franchise

    The WW2 movie has been milked to death with various spin off series. Ever since they canceled the planed TV movie WW3 in the 60's and decided to rather coninue the crappy "Cold War" miniseries I've been getting more and more worried for the future of the franchise.

    (btw WTF with making Commie Russians the villains again after they became the good guys in WW2? Also WW2 had its stupid mistakes, I mean the French where an awesome bunch of characters in WW1 and the Napoleonic Wars prequel books but the writers had to write in a surrender and ruined them just to show how bad-ass "new" and betterer and eviler Germans where. That reminds me moral ambiguity was done waaaay better in WW1)


    Do i need to remind everyone what a dismal failure the "War on Terror" spin of was despite all the initial pomp (and I admit a smashing pilot)?


    Look at what JJ Abrams did for Star Trek! If Start Trek into something more than another cause for nerds to argue about canon then so can WW2!


    Maybe a remake of the OWW series (originally titled "The Great War") could be a good way to reboot the series.
    Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
    The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
    The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila
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    I just want to see guns, explosions, and guys getting ripped to shreds.
    To us, it is the BEAST.

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    • #3
      Hmm, we could use another global war to provide us with more entertainment yeah, but you know, that newfangled war on terror just ain't got it, know what I'm saying...
      "An archaeologist is the best husband a women can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie
      "Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis." - Seneca

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Heraclitus View Post
        The WW2 movie has been milked to death with various spin off series. Ever since they canceled the planed TV movie WW3 in the 60's and decided to rather coninue the crappy "Cold War" miniseries I've been getting more and more worried for the future of the franchise.
        WW3 was cancelled when they realised that whilst initial viewing figures would be truly massive, they would lose most of the audience by the end of season 1.
        One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Heraclitus View Post
          (and I admit a smashing pilot)?




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          • #6
            Delightful!
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              • #8
                Any series is made by the characters. WW2 had a great cast. Exactly what do we have to work with these days?
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                • #9
                  and I admit a smashing pilot
                  urgh.NSFW

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Az View Post
                    I don't get that reference. From which movie is that?
                    Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                    The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                    The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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                    • #11
                      Citizen Kane
                      "An archaeologist is the best husband a women can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie
                      "Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis." - Seneca

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Traianvs View Post
                        Citizen Kane
                        You know I never actually watched it.... should I bother or is it overrated?
                        Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                        The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                        The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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