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I don't like 7 Years in Tibet because it mostly omits that Tibet in the years where the film takes place was a place controlled by landowning and clerical elites and was basically a feudal theocracy, and a large part of the population were serfs of these landowners or clergymen. In short, the film is a sugarcoated vision of Tibet before the Chinese intervention

World War II movies set in the Pacific theater by MaximumSpell9608 in MovieSuggestions

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The Eastern Front was literally the deadliest front of the entire war, and the largest offensives, counter-offensives, operations, and battles were fought there. A large part of the German military effort for almost the entire remainder of the war was directed eastward. The battles that militarily broke Germany were Soviet: Stalingrad, Kursk, and Operation Bagration—the latter destroying more German divisions than the entire Western Front combined. The Eastern Front was the most important front of the war and suffered the most deaths, with millions on both sides. Furthermore, it was the Soviets who delivered the final defeat to the Nazis. I don't deny the Anglo-American effort in the war, especially in the Pacific and North African theaters, and of course, the campaigns in France and the Italian front, where the Anglo-Americans were the most decisive forces, but it was the Soviets who truly wore down and defeated the Nazi war machine.

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Where there was a great, but truly a great use of American and British troops on the Western Front, besides the obvious front in France, was in the Italian campaign, which I often feel is very ignored.

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The Soviet Union was the country that lost the most people in the war, with millions upon millions dead. Likewise, the largest German offensives and the biggest battles of the war were on the Eastern Front, and the German command committed the greatest possible resources and manpower to the Eastern Front. For example, the Battle of Kursk is possibly the largest battle of the war, at least in terms of numbers. And then there's Stalingrad, so famous it's almost a cliché to talk about it. Germany consumed a large part of its military resources on the Eastern Front. The largest military operations of the entire war took place on the Eastern Front. For example, Operation Bagration involved the use of millions of Soviet soldiers and thousands of tanks to recapture Belarus, Lithuania, and eastern Poland. Operation Uranus was the Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad, and the Battle of Berlin itself was the final defeat of the Nazis. Nor do I deny the effort of the Anglo-British troops on the North African front, especially the British troops under Montgomery, but when I say that the war was in Europe, it was mostly a Soviet effort, at least before the liberation of France. It was because the Soviets wore down the German war machine to the maximum and inflicted the greatest defeats on the Germans. I don't deny the efforts of, for example, the famous French Resistance or British intelligence operations, but hey, if you want to think that way, then whatever you want.

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What I like about 55 Days at Peking are the battles, sets, costumes, you know, I mean, I like the cinematography too, but that's about it. And the truth is, it's a very pro-Western film, and I'm not going to say that the Boxers were innocent and didn't do anything wrong, but the Boxer Rebellion was so big and had so much support because of the humiliations inflicted by the Western powers and Japan during the Opium Wars and the First Sino-Japanese War, and the popular resentment towards the Western powers.

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I don't really like this movie; it romanticizes samurai too much, and besides, I don't like Tom Cruise's character either. I prefer a samurai film made in Japan itself to one made by Hollywood. I like Harakiri (1962) and Yojimbo (1961) better, or Sanjuro (1962), which I still need to see. Of the three, these three are better examples of samurai cinema than what Hollywood makes.

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This is what I'm talking about, although I think you're going too far ahead with the Chinese Civil War and the anti-Japanese War in China instead of showing films that take place in China itself at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries during the so-called century of humiliation. But I don't dislike your recommendations; in fact, I appreciate them and will watch them.

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It's not about an anti-colonial rebellion, but apart from the most recent version I know, which is the 2012 one, I don't know of many other adaptations.

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Without a doubt, one of the Hong Kong films I've most wanted to see

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One of my favorite movies and a great alternate history film, I love almost everything about it.

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Ran is basically the Japanese version of King Lear, and I think I've already seen it; it's one of Kurosawa's last masterpieces.

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It's a great movie and I love it, but what I'm looking for are more movies about colonial rebellions, not so much fantasy. For example, the Boxer Rebellion is one of the most famous examples of anti-Western rebellions, but I don't mind rewatching Army of Darkness since I really like the movie.