Things you've learned from the movies

[BeBMan]

1. In the early 1900s-1920s people did walk much faster than today. Probably cuz everything was in grey tones only.

2. A disproportionate amount of Space Aliens land exclusively in the US. Might change now with Trump tho.

3. In the wild west people had initially guns with unlimited ammo, reloading was invented later only

4. Car crashs end in explosions for the bad guys, while the good guys walk away unscathed.

5. A well-researched side effect of time travel is that it forces people to utter loudly that meals tasted much better in the past.

[Dauphin]

Only Ozymandias (Adrian Veidt) is clever enough to reveal his bad guy plan after it's completed.

[Thoth]

Sometimes you have to take off and nuke the site from orbit.

[Broken_Erika]

Sometimes you have to take off and nuke the site from orbit.

While riding the nuke like a Cowboy!

[Ming]

Bad guys usually die from a single bullet, while good guys can get hit multiple times and keep on going

[N35t0r]

Bad guys usually die from a single bullet, while good guys can get hit multiple times and keep on going

Most bad guys will only appear to die the first time though.

Good guys' important others will also readily die from the slightest wounds.

[EPW]

Fat people are either bad or funny.

Alien planets all have the same gravitational pull as Earth

[Berzerker]

Hollywood is a propaganda arm of the govt

[N35t0r]

Hollywood is a propaganda arm of the govt

Is that why so many in the industry were blacklisted during the red scare?

[-Jrabbit]

It's perfectly possible - actually, quite likely - for the government to use entertainment to encourage its preferred views while, at the same time, the rest of the entertainment industry does whatever they damn well please.

[Ming]

When bad guys outnumber the hero, they always seem to attack him one at a time


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[Berzerker]

Is that why so many in the industry were blacklisted during the red scare?

yes

[N35t0r]

yes

If they were working for the government, why were they blacklisted?

[Berzerker]

They didn't work for the government, they were fired by Hollywood on behalf of it. The red scare was the narrative Congress wanted Hollywood to promote and John Wayne epitomized it. In the 20s and 30s with the rise of fascism in Europe many Americans sided with the communists, big business did not. Hollywood was new and largely untapped as a tool of propaganda but after the war the neocons and military industrial complex needed new enemies and Hollywood was recruited to the fight. That meant trouble for all those Americans who supported the commies, hence the red scare. It was largely over by the time Vietnam produced enough cynicism toward the neocons Hollywood felt safe enough to make anti-war movies. Kubrick's Dr Strangelove was '64 I think so the tide was turning, course the Cuban Missile Crisis played a big role.

[-Jrabbit]

Apparently you learn your history from the movies as well. Fun fact: Not sure what you mean by "after the war," but there was no such thing as a "neocon" or the "military industrial complex" in the 1940s and 50s. Those terms did not even exist in the post-WW2 era. So while your contention that 'they' (the government? big business?) "needed new enemies" likely has some truth to it, your indiscriminate use of these terms to describe things like McCarthyism and the "red scare" of the 50s using terminology from the 60s and 70s is both conveniently misleading and historically inaccurate.

[ricketyclik]

JR, the terms didn’t exist, but the phenomena did.

[Dauphin]

Makes sense. Every time I see an Adam Sandler movie trailer I figure it was made as part of some CIA torture program.

[Berzerker]

Happy Gilmore II will be out soon