>Mr Oppen, I'm afraid to inform you that your creation, "Japmelter 3000 Megaladon Ultrakill" has been used in...an unexpected manner.

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[–] 24 points 19 hours ago (15 children)

Pretty sure different people made the film. What, are they supposed to be proud so it's more fun to hate them?

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  • [–] 27 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    I think the film would have been much "better" if we showed the horror and devistation that we caused. American media purposefully hides the death and destruction that we do, and paints ourselves as the good guys.

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  • [–] 12 points 17 hours ago* (3 children)

    On the one hand, yes, it's different people. That said, this particular movie specifically chose to hide the damage to victims and solely focus on the emotions of the man who enabled the tragedy. I'm all for stories of people trying to redeem themselves, but deliberately ignoring the victims was a bad choice, imo.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 hours ago

    One gripe I have with the film is that none of it focuses on the poor, mostly Hispanic, population that lived in New Mexico at the time. These people had their land taken from them (their sole source of generational wealth) and died of horrific cancers post-tests. I think most of history just pretends nobody lived out there.

    Here's just one article about it

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  • [–] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    Really?

    ...Shit, I guess I need to actually see this film before I talk about it. I assumed it was mere Oscar-bait and just absorbed information about it osmotically. I wasn't even mad at them, just thought oh, they found a guy who looks exactly like David Byrne, of course they wanted him for their Oscar bait film.

    Those are not the choices I would have made if I was telling a story about the guy who built the bomb. I would have probably drawn a lot more from sources like Barefoot Gen, myself.

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  • [–] 3 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

    They're not supposed to melt the civilians.

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  • [–] 10 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    Pretty sure Christopher Nolan did not, in fact, melt any civilians.

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  • [–] 7 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

    You're conflating the people who did that and the people who made a movie, if you want to throw a "nukes are a war crime" party I'm already on the guest list, but your comment reads like you're talking shit about people who don't like nukes and didn't nuke anybody, are you confused about that?

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