American Primeval
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Jimbolini
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God Damnit, how some of this shit gets made past production meetings is beyond me.
Great direction, great scenery, some actual interesting characters bogged down by silliness in basically the second half of the 6 episode arc.
Just unbelievable lazy writing.
I had high hopes, but JFC. On to the next show I guess.
Great direction, great scenery, some actual interesting characters bogged down by silliness in basically the second half of the 6 episode arc.
Just unbelievable lazy writing.
I had high hopes, but JFC. On to the next show I guess.
Aldarion
Egg Nazi
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I hope someday the pendulum swings and they get to make movies about how Indians actually treated white people (and other tribes of Indians).
They'll have to be in the same genre as Saw and Human Centipede, and I probably won't have the stomach to watch them, but it would be a much needed correction of the record.
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Not really, there are many exceptions, one such is Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Apocolypto had a great depiction of whichever central/south american indian empire that was
It's slow, but I think we're getting to some truth.
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Arden
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Apocalypto is such a great fucking movie. That part at the end where you suddenly realize how the little girl's prophecy will come true is
Cybsled
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People forget that a big reason the Spanish conquest of the Central/Southern Americas was able to even happen is because there were lots of smaller tribes/civilizations that were getting fucked over by the Maya/Aztec/Inca and they decided to side with the Spanish. The indigenous people in the Americas weren't a murderous hivemind monolith. If they were, the Conquistadors or early settlers would have all been wiped out.
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Daidraco
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All this deportation shit Ive seen lately has been really entertaining to watch, too. Apparently the Spanish Conquistadors were White Men, too! But yea, I cant remember what it was that I watched. But it was the history of some guy and how he journeyed inland with a woman translator and there was a king that was a mix of south American and Spanish that had a small nation there? And then they worked together to overthrow some other douche nozzle Aztec person. Etc. etc. It was interesting to follow along because all this time I had never once been curious how just a handful of the Spanish laid waste to a supposed millions+ of people. I knew the plagues probably had the most impact, but that didnt just automatically transfer into a half dozen ships worth of men being able to take over vast swaths of a continent.
Cad
scientia potentia est
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I'm three episodes in, and man, if the frontier were this violent, nobody would have survived. This is like active war zone ethnic cleansing type violence. In reality the rate of death for the Oregon Trail and California trails was a little under 1 in 10, so greater than 90% of the people made it.
These shows would have you believe that 95% died. I like the show it's good but it is portraying violence way way way out of line with reality of course.
These shows would have you believe that 95% died. I like the show it's good but it is portraying violence way way way out of line with reality of course.
BrutulTM
Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.
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Yeah I felt like the number of people that were in the area and all of them being bloodthirsty murderers was a little much. I know that it was rough but just bumping into people non-stop and all of them trying to kill you seems unlikely. The 1883 series portrayed the frontier as being deadly as hell but even that pales in comparison to this.
I dunno if i'd watch the show if it was just a pleasant country ride to the west. Sounds kinda boring.
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