I encourage you to watch “Aguirre the Wrath of God”, see it here: https://lemmy.world/post/17030774

the design is intended to resemble that of a spaceship, in order to give users the feel that they are traveling to the “great beyond”.

It’s based on an illustrated novel by an artist [from Sweden] named Simon Stålenhag.”

These are great illustrations btw.

Fun fact: modern Coca-Cola contains cocaine-free coca leaf extract. Do Coke-flavored Oreos?

If you’re interested in these kinds of stories, check out Admiral Cloudberg, the one from September 2 is also about an icing incident.

Not quite the same, and it sounds kind of hellish, but check out Polyphasic Sleeping.

To be fair, he did lead the Expedition of the Thousand during the Unification of Italy, in which he won several battles and conquered Sicily.

Last I heard, Hulk Hogan is no longer a heel. BUT he is kind of a racist, homophobic Trump-supporting heel in real life. Maybe that is his Achilles’ Heel? Wow, there really are layers to this.

I’m like: “I only have a work phone, I can’t do things like that on it.”

“Until the end of time / I’ll truly adore you…” -Prince.

Top-tier humblebrag.

August Landmesser (German: [ˈaʊ̯ɡʊst ˈlantˌmɛsɐ]; 24 May 1910 – 17 October 1944) is suggested to be the man appearing in a 1936 photograph conspicuously refusing to perform the Nazi salute.[2][3] Landmesser had run afoul of the Nazi Party over his unlawful relationship with Irma Eckler, a Jewish woman. For this, he was imprisoned and eventually drafted into penal military service, where he was killed in action.

Yeah, not the same thing and a couple decades earlier but Wilde’s “De Profundis” is a useful contrast.

Oh I don’t know, the one on the left looks like she’s smiling with her eyes. The one on the right just looks kind of disdainful, like: “why is this low-class non-Yomut person erecting this box in my presence?” And I bet the clothes look better in person. Not sure why they’re leaning like that, though.

What happens if you have a Sinful Thought during “The Great Snatch”? Do you get un-Snatched? What if you immediately Repent? Do you get Snatched again? Will there be people bouncing back and forth indefinitely?

“Read The Fisherman Matthew”?

They should make it a tourism thing. I unironically want to go Garf-phone picking at Le Mer du Chat in France.

You’re right, my comment was pretty condescending, I apologize. Your points are well-taken, thanks for giving me something to think about.

Well I’m glad you found a movie you like. But I gotta say, “the movie is bad because it was made bad on purpose” just seems like copium.

Since you’re interested in history: Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace” also makes an anti-Great Man point about Napoleon, both in Tolstoy’s depiction of the Battle of Borodino, as well as in historical thoughts that are usually collected at the end of that novel. I don’t remember if Bondarchuk’s movie adaption of War and Peace retains that theme, but you can see it on youtube. The best Napoleon movie is arguably Waterloo which is somewhat critical of Napoleon. Likewise, the Napoleon miniseries has him act like kind of a doofus at times (and has an interesting depiction of the Napoleon-Josephine relationship).

I guess I’m just kind of bitter about this film because most of us in the US don’t have a lot of knowledge about European history since our teachers are underpaid, our academics are ridiculed, and because our historical movies and TV shows are generally ahistorical cartoonish BS like this one.