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[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 67 points 8 months ago

If they seriously tried to make WW2 a mass-media franchise thing, I'd fully expect some kind of awful clean wehrmacht series before they made anything about the Soviets.

[-] sourquincelog@hexbear.net 52 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

100%. A story about one of the Swing Kids who got drafted into the SS but feels guilty about all the things he sees and does and continues to do, and sometimes helps a cute Jewish girl hide/escape...until she's found and SA'd by the Soviets for some reason

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 34 points 8 months ago

Yo does this mean we're gonna get another bad ass rootin' tootin' call a dooty WWII shooter again?

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 33 points 8 months ago

The plot is that you are the ultimate American patriot on a secret mission deep in Soviet territory as you attempt to take out the true mastermind of the Holocaust, Joseph Stalin.

In an introductory cutscene we see the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Molotov slides a folder over to Ribbentrop and inside it there is document titled "Holocaust Plan-The Final Solution by Karl Marx and edited by Joseph Stalin" Ribbentrop cries as he reads the contents of the folder and states that Hitler could never go through with such a demonic plan. Molotov holds a gun to his head and lets him know he can send the document directly to Hitler with his blood splattered all over it if he'd like. Ribbentrop walks away in shambles.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 22 points 8 months ago

Wow it's like I'm playing the game!

[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

step away from the lathe

[-] sempersigh@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

tbh the Soviet campaign in cod waw kinda freaking slaps

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago

Really got to pirate that some day, same with the CIA one just for the "bad" ending (more like based ending) where you break free from your MK ULTRA brainwashing and kill your handlers before nukingamerikkka

[-] Futterbinger@hexbear.net 27 points 8 months ago

There's finally going to be a movie about the Battle of Castle Itter but they'll rewrite the SS to be Soviets.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

Wasn't that basically the History Channel, or was that the Military History Channel? That basically did exactly that for the 2010s?

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

Not quite. Band of Brothers was more of a narrative focused show based on a book.

The History Channel stuff started as documentaries, but quickly went off the rails and started focusing on Wunderwaffe shit and nazi mysticism - all still in the "documentary" genre.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Oh no I wasn't talking about Bob the show but the channels back in the day that would feature them.

Basically what you wrote about the shitstory channel

[-] Kaplya@hexbear.net 39 points 8 months ago

Band of Brothers universe has the most amazing worldbuilding I have ever seen. So realistic!

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Eh there's no way a place like "The Netherlands" could really exist, let alone be a colonial power. Also ~~"muh strategic strong point"~~ Gibraltar lol, soo contrived. And the false war that came after the invasion of Poland? Like that would ever happen in reality, too disruptive for capital, something would have stopped the Hitler guy.

Not to mention Hitler is unrealistic in himself. Oooh we've got a big bad guy who is so bad he unites all the warring nations to fight him? Lmao okay tell me you've read Tolkien without telling me.

[-] Kaplya@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

Classic “very interesting worldbuilding but the writing was a mess and all over the place” type of show

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 38 points 8 months ago

I love the lore of Band Of Brothers, they wrote this cool war called "War World 2" that happened in an alternate earth during the 40's.

[-] Dr_Gabriel_Aby@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They don’t even have 1 real plane in the show take off. Maybe a few scenes of guys standing outside a real plane and then maybe 1 real interior just recycled for every different crew. The rest is CGI. Why make a video game without letting me play it?

[-] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago

OK but they need to keep some historic accuracy unlike that Shadow in the Cloud crap like a woman could fly a plane get the fuck out

[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago

588th Night Witches?

More like 588 woke genders.

[-] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 27 points 8 months ago

Enough with the woke biplanes real men only need one straight wing

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

Men don't need wings at all

They just lay prone, hold their arms out, and blow raspberries

Come on. They do the helicopter

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 8 months ago

I'm sad now. I thought that's who shadow in the cloud was about

[-] FoolishFool@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago

Hitler will be the Thanos of the BBU, slowly teased and built up til he starts collecting the 5 Infinity Countries.

[-] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 8 months ago

Hollywood try to be original challenge: impossible difficulty.

[-] moonlake@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago

I'm gonna start calling WWII "the Band of Brothers cinematic universe"

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

Whoever wrote this should get purple nurpled

[-] panopticon@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

Also that's a bomber pilot

[-] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

This is like when the sequel to that Tattooist of Auschwitz book came out. It felt like they were making a holocaust literary universe.

[-] whatup@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I’m surprised WWII media is becoming popular again in Hollywood . Most people from that generation are dead and their children will be too pretty soon. The distance between now and 1945 is vaster than that between the end of the Clinton administration and the end of WWI.

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

its evergreen and cheaper than ever, literally every demographic from neocons to reds, less literal neo-nazis can watch a shoot nazis thing. it also reinforces the UK/US as good guys despite that being the literal last halfway decent thing these countries did

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

I feel like most hollywood liberals understand that the US has been the "bad guys" in every war since, so if you want to make some uncomplicated marvel-tier movies, WWII is the only real option.

[-] AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 8 months ago

79>83?

At any rate, hollywood will make WW2 films as long as the public buys war films. WW2 is literally the only war where the US can say they were on the right side without presenting an upside down world.

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