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It looks like AI. I am generally for live action Disney adaptations (if it's humans and not animals), but I'm not feeling it.

Say what you want (and I do) about Harry Potter movies scripts, but the main trio had great actors.

Many people in Czech Republic and Slovakia (not sure about other countries in the area) keep a carp in bathtub each Christmas and then kill it themselves - I am very grateful my family never participated in this tradition as I consider it barbaric and I would be surely traumatized from it as a kid. Fish is a traditional dish at Christmas Eve dinner which is the main Christmas meal. (We usually had other kinds of fish, often salmon, but carp is traditional.) There has been some talk lately about reconsidering such traditions, but as you can probably imagine, the conversation often gets quite nasty, as some people take any conversations about traditions evolving as an attack on their identity or something.

Xander and Spike sucked and their characters did not age well. (Yes, I know this is a personal forum for few people and unpopular opinions (or any opinions really) that don't pass the screening are not welcome here, I just feel like not caring today.)

Hannah was too good for that show. She was lucky to get away from Booth when she did.

That was pretty interesting. I feel for the OP there (and God, there were some unkind replies, ouch), I have some favorite ships, but I definitely think that romance is overused compared to all other types of relationships, but in all media, not just in fanfiction. Fanfic probably just reflects the rest. Which is one reason why I grew to like AO3 despite having some problems with it. People there understand the difference between tagging the story with "Character A & Character B" for non-romantic relationships and "Character A / Character B" for romantic. So if you like a relationship that is very much platonic in canon and want to read more of that, not any shipping between them thank you very much, it is generally easy to filter that (or at least in fandoms that I read). Before, when I was reading fanfic on fanfiction.net, it was more complicated, because they have only few filter options. So if you filtered two characters, you ended up with everything and even if you skipped fics with Romance as a genre there were still many that were shipping those characters, even if you selected Friendship or Family as genre.

Anyway, 9 movies from this list of top 100 movies are about WW2 at least in some way, 5 from this one and 8 from this one, so I don't think a lack of movies is the problem. I still remember people talking about the facts that Churchill was racist and Hitler was a vegetarian not in terms of how we should judge people as a whole, but as some weird gotcha that maybe history was not so black-and-white as we consider it or something. When WW2 was one of the most black-and-white conflicts in history one can think of.

It is denying of history and reality when somebody says for example that Mary (mother of Jesus) was Muslim instead of Jewish, when she lived centuries before Islam existed. And it stems from similar sentiments as the denial of Holocaust - wanting to rewrite history so that one's favorite group of people is only shown in positive light and the people they dislike are always shown negatively.

Well, there are people throwing hissy fits about Jewish historical figures being played by Jewish actors, so...

Considering all of the misinformation that appears on social media, I would be vary of movies being promoted there. There are tons of movies about WW2, unfortunately our consumption of media has changed a lot and reading some of the internet debates, it seems that people are less willing to watch anything that doesn't support their views 100%, which history is never going to. I am still in favor of things being taught in schools, if it's a problem of time, then we could move move quickly through the ancient times and let people interested in them look it up in their free time and concentrate more on the 19th and 20th century which still have a huge impact on our lives.

Democratic socialism =/= social democracy. In fact, democratic socialism is kind of an oxymoron, because socialism is by its core autocratic. But I give up.

That's not socialism, that's social democracy. Key word: democracy, AKA people can vote for those in charge and vote them out if they don't like them (and they usually do, hence the frequent changes between social democratic and right-wing governments). I know education is underpayed in the US too, but I thought that something as significant as WW2 was still taught? Especially since many US soldiers fought and died in the war.

I can't tell if this is supposed to be joke or not.

I think about this scene often. It's a bit on the nose, but I think some of it is especially relevant these days (it's from 2017): "The minute we forget what we went through to get here is the minute it could all be taken away."

Also Churchill: "You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour and you will have war." And yet, here we are again with western leaders willing to throw Ukraine under the bus to appease Putin, same as their predecessors in the 1930's.