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Old 02-13-2009, 02:46 AM
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I'm just asking cause I felt a bit obgliated to screen cap a movie that shoulds guns and actually has a gun fight, but Black Book wasn't a hardcore WWII movie, it's a movie about the resistance and half the time, you'd be too into the story to care about the guns they were using. That was my problem. If there isn't enough guns firing, I'd just unconciously ignore what guns they are holding cause I can tell at a glace, oh this guy's holding a Tommy, this guy's using an MP40, there's a Bren gun on the table that was never used. I am contemplating in deleting the few picks I was able to grab from this movie and put it to rest. Enough with the WWII movies. It's been done and over to death, another WWII movie isn't going to enlighten us more on what happened.
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Old 02-14-2009, 03:20 AM
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I must remind you that Phoenixent made a good point that imfdb is ultimately attempting to create an unabridged documentation of guns in films (much like imdb is with films), but by ignoring a movie because it is just another WWII film with only a few guns, that becomes a movie we can't claim we have listed on imfdb. Please, by all means, upload your pics.
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Old 02-14-2009, 04:59 AM
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I must remind you that Phoenixent made a good point that imfdb is ultimately attempting to create an unabridged documentation of guns in films (much like imdb is with films), but by ignoring a movie because it is just another WWII film with only a few guns, that becomes a movie we can't claim we have listed on imfdb. Please, by all means, upload your pics.
But I was also in the other camp, not necessarily withholding movies, but making the site 100% complete BEFORE we start adding endless other movies. Also since our scope is so targeted I really don't want viewers to have to wade through pages and pages of movies with just '''one incidental usage of a gun''' in the entire movie. I don't want to, nor think that we ever will, be IMDB with 35 thousand movie entries. THEY have seventeen paid mods plus other staffs as well (they make $$ of banners and IMDB Pro memberships). I prefer to keep the scope within reason, and be 100% complete on each and every page before expansion. That's why I an indifferent to more WW2 movies, but ultimately, I suppose we could list each and every one (since 1940 there have been HUNDREDS including obscure or just really crappy ones).

It's funny. I kinda cringe at the propaganda movies done during the war, the ones that are kinda racist where they portray the Japanese as crazy baboons or stuff like that. Or cowards who threw their guns away and ran away with their hands waving wildly over their heads (any historian of WW2 knows how accurate THAT portrayal is....)
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