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Originally Posted by Gunmaster45
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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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....)
02-14-2009, 04:59 AM
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