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Offline Gulliver

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Re: 300
« Reply #15 on: November 23, 2007, 04:44:49 PM »
Delfos, I'm not sure how pragmatics work in Portuguese, but in English if you say "I was DEEPLY disappointed by this movie." and then immediately say "Beyond being American all the way," really the only way to interpret that is that "I was disappointed in the movie partly because it was American." That is to say, anti-Americanism. It's not that people are refusing to understand you or being ignorant. People are just making the only interpretation that's possible based on what you've said. Not to mention that it's being said by you, who has never been shy to make his anti-American attitudes well known on the forums. So if you have indeed been misunderstood then it is a problem of language, so don't go around labeling everyone as ignorant and closed minded just because of it.

I also find it funny that anyone ever expected historical accuracy from that movie.

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Re: 300
« Reply #16 on: November 23, 2007, 06:58:34 PM »
I actually like those army action movies the Americans do

I've had it with your pro-american propaganda  :-P
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Re: 300
« Reply #17 on: November 23, 2007, 07:07:34 PM »
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Delfos, I'm not sure how pragmatics work in Portuguese, but in English if you say "I was DEEPLY disappointed by this movie." and then immediately say "Beyond being American all the way,"

There's a period "point" in between those sentences, in Portuguese, and I assume anywhere in the world, when you say something like 'Beyond' after a point that Beyond will have to do with the rest of the sentence. Notice i didn't sat 'being American', but 'being American all the way', I wasn't referring it was made by Americans, I was stating the looks and influence of the movie. Sean Penn makes movies that look like Swedish expressionist movies, as example, and he makes movies in America with Americans, nothing to do one thing to the other.

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Beyond being American all the way, and not minding the history inaccuracy where they could keep at bloody least legend accuracy, the action was too damn short, caring mostly to wonderful (idiotic) pictures of hugeness (of the army, of landscape, of concepts).

The action was too damn short, caring mostly to wonderful (idiotic) pictures of hugeness (of the army, of landscape, of concepts), beyond being American all the way, and not minding the history inaccuracy where they could keep at bloody least legend accuracy.

I'm talking about a movie here...

Taco I'm sorry, sometimes i like those movies. I must admit i rather the ones doing the opposite, actually with allegoric critics, Apocalypse Now, Born in 4th of July, etc.

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Re: 300
« Reply #18 on: November 23, 2007, 07:53:40 PM »
Taco I'm sorry, sometimes i like those movies. I must admit i rather the ones doing the opposite, actually with allegoric critics, Apocalypse Now, Born in 4th of July, etc.

Meh. I was just bugging you from the other end of the spectrum  ;)
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Re: 300
« Reply #19 on: November 23, 2007, 08:22:13 PM »
and I was joking about it.

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« Reply #20 on: November 23, 2007, 09:04:14 PM »
Then everybody wins

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Re: 300
« Reply #21 on: November 23, 2007, 09:11:22 PM »
yes, that's the fantasy of Internet, we can joke at everything we know and they will always be pissed off thinking we were serious.

If you figure out ice melting doesn't kick ass, then...

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« Reply #22 on: November 23, 2007, 09:15:43 PM »
then someone gets their ass kicked by melting ice
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Re: 300
« Reply #23 on: November 23, 2007, 10:14:30 PM »
i got my assed kick by ice...i slipped on it...
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« Reply #24 on: November 23, 2007, 11:04:17 PM »
I melt ice
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« Reply #25 on: November 23, 2007, 11:04:46 PM »
i slipped on it.
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« Reply #26 on: November 24, 2007, 12:10:33 AM »
Exactly.
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Re: 300
« Reply #27 on: November 24, 2007, 06:23:50 AM »
then someone gets their ass kicked by melting ice
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Re: 300
« Reply #28 on: November 24, 2007, 12:37:42 PM »
I was going to use Titanic reference instead of the ice melting...but then some might like Titanic and think I was saying 300 was a good movie...

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Re: 300
« Reply #29 on: November 24, 2007, 01:18:28 PM »
i didnt like the movie. Too many dead people....
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