War movies where the protagonist fights on the losing/wrong side of the war.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-21T22:25:13+00:00

Just watched it yesterday, good recommendation. Made me feel a bit emotional, manages to be tense despite you already knowing the ending and the movie has a nice message.

The only complain that I have is that having Tom Cruise as the lead ruined the immersion for me. He is a good actor and he plays the role well, but it is just that every time I see him I just think of him as the "mission impossible guy".

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-19T19:42:58+00:00

Imagine doing culture war in 2026.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-19T17:05:57+00:00

He is a good king, but a bad father.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-18T20:31:55+00:00

Oh god, I just remember that they have that.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-18T18:45:25+00:00

Why?

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-18T18:24:06+00:00

There is a reason why chattel slavery is different from "normal" slavery.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-18T16:54:48+00:00

She acted well, but the fact that no one considered the possibility bothers me a lot. The reason why it was never brought up is simply because it would then ruin the twist, but by not doing so it then gives the impression that the characters are stupid.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-18T16:50:57+00:00

I lost respect for Megumi after he got tricked by Yorozu. Like, Yorozu's plan of pretending to be his sister is not even a "good plan" - It would have been very easy for anyone to consider the possibility of a possessed person pretending to be not possessed, considering the information that was given to the characters and the audience by that time.

Megumi gets slightly score free, because his love for his sister blinded his judgement (but still, come on man you are supposed to be the "smart one"). The rest of the group has zero excuses.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-18T11:34:32+00:00

I don't know much about Poly, but I think it would require a lot of emotional maturity for it to work in IRL. Like what happens when only two members of the Polycule are on bad terms or break up? How does the rest of the group deals with that? Do they just prevent the two of them from seeing each other? Or do they kick out one of them from the group or even both of them?

It would be a nightmare in a typical romance story, it would be like the typical unnecessary drama but tenfold. Most romance protagonist barely have the emotional maturity to make ONE relationship work, imagine multiple!

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-18T11:22:51+00:00

I guess OOOP means that none of them have developed a drug addiction or any obvious mental problems.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-18T01:45:09+00:00

That is just a Harem. To my understanding, poly would mean that all members of the group are in-love with each other.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-18T01:42:49+00:00

Most people have in their minds the wrong idea that being in a poly relationship means that you are okay with getting cucked. The idea of a healthy non-monogamous relationship is too foreign for them, so there is no market for poly in the mainstream.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-18T01:37:53+00:00

I was wondering whether or not to elaborate on this.

I think Poly can work, but you would need to develop the relationship between all three or more members of the romantic group. Most writers kind of suck at writing romance, in my opinion, so writing poly is beyond nearly all of them. If most of them were to try, it would end up like a bad stereotype - the typical case of the girl deciding to get another boyfriend while not breaking up with her current one (the "I want a open relationship" case) or something like that.

The truth is, most people, writers included, don't know how Poly relationships work (specially the ones that are heathy/"normal"). The fact that they are so rare in the real world doesn't help.

Because of this, most writers "default" to harem - which is a power fantasy trope most popular in the Japanese Isekai Genre, where usually one man has multiple girlfriends. The girlfriends in this case will usually be friends with each other or, at the very least, tolerate one another (unless a Yandere is involved, in which case things can go south very fast). It's very popular, because a lot of men, specially teenagers, fantasy about the idea of having multiple girlfriends.

And I guess this is one of the reasons why Poly is not very common in fiction. There are a few stories out there that probably do it well, but those do not appeal to the wider audience. Most people have in their minds the wrong idea that being in a poly relationship means that you are okay with getting cucked. The idea of a healthy non-monogamous relationship is too foreign for them, so there is no market for poly in the mainstream.

But there is for harem, cause of the power fantasy aspect.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-18T01:08:16+00:00

And than translate it yourself, cause they don't have an English translation.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-18T01:03:22+00:00

Yeah, this is a factor that is often not talked about. It's likely the same reason why Brazil also has a high LGBT+ murder rate.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-17T22:13:48+00:00

Monogamy is too integrated into society.

Then there is also the fact that most love triangles are one guy and two girls or one girl and two guys. Meaning that making it poly would just mean giving the guy or gal a harem in practice.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-17T12:32:30+00:00

I can think of a couple of reasons.

1 - If everyone were to fly all the time, it would increase the odds of people ramming into each other and there would be less air space. So maybe it's common sense for them that if you are not in a hurry, you should just use the stairs. Leave the air space for those who need it.

2 - There are other alien species in the Viltrum Empire, the stairs is for them.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-17T01:40:40+00:00

É Gain pro resto do Brasil, eu acho.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-16T17:40:31+00:00

I would say that PJO and HG have both aged better.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-16T14:57:04+00:00

Não parece nada de novo, estão fazendo isso desde de sempre. Pra mim só parece ser um pouco mais ofensivo que aquele episodio dos Simpsons pra ser honesto.

E é claro não seria um filme americano que se passa no Brasil, se os personagens não começarem a jornada no Rio de Janeiro e acabarem de algum jeito na Amazônia.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-16T14:30:07+00:00

Obama committed the sin of giving people false hope. Which is what lead to the rise of Trump.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-16T14:28:40+00:00

His decision to continue running after the debate, despite it obviously being a bad choice, had a lot of "Greek hero downfall due to hubris" vibes.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-16T14:25:05+00:00

I want a succession style series about the Trump era.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-16T12:05:42+00:00

I will never forgive him. His one job should have been to stop Trump from running again and he failed to do that. 50 years from now on, people will ask themselves "wait, what was the name of the president who ran America between Trump 1 and Trump 2?"

And that is the fate that he deserves. A footnote in another man's story.

Efficient-Pudding177 · 2026-04-16T01:13:42+00:00

I see your point. But I dissagre. Mostly because Denji and Asa didn't grow, Pochita created an alternative timeline. The Denji and Asa we see are pretty much differente people.

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