Sorry, I'm seeing the comedy "God's Not Dead."

How do we know the good guys from the bad guys....If their shooting at you their bad! Lol this movie looks much better then the first Captain America. Mavel does a great job with their moves unlike DC comics who ruined man of steel. The only thing they do well with is batman.

Meh - Batman is overrated.

Last movie was soooooooo boring...good lord, wrap it up already. It's like Obi wrote the danged script it was so bloated and awful.

krellin have you seen Serlock Homes a game of shadows?

I started to watch a Sherlock Holmes movie once...was bored and didn't finish it, if I recall correctly. Just doesn't really interest me (previews with lots of fighting -- i.e. sherlock Holmes meets Iron Man didn't seem to fit...)

Maybe I'll give it another go, though.

Serlock Homes a game of shadows is much more fun then you may think.You start the movie and 10:1 you won't want to get up until its done. I have not seen the first Serlock homes so I can't say whether or not it's any good but you don't need to in order to watch the second.

Cool - thanks. I'll check it out.

Meh. I've been disappointed with where the Captain America movies have gone. Cap should be capping Nazis during WWII, not fighting fantastical supervillains in the present day. He was conceived as a morale booster during WWII, and that's where he belongs. He's a super soldier, not a super hero. Stop trying to make him into one. I picture Cap leading a fictionalized charge on Omaha Beach with a 1911 and his shield, not screwing around with whoever the hell the villain was in the last Avengers movie.

Today's youth don't give a crap about WWII.

Which is understandable as they don't know anyone who fought in it...

@Oct - and very few of them were taught anything about it of substance.

That doesn't mean it isn't an important historical event to understand...but I don't blame kids for not caring about what they don't know.

That being said, it's a hell of a historical read, both from a pure history standpoint, as well as reading a good war story, such as "Guadalcanal Diary"

World War II, yeah, I've heard about that. Isn't that when the Normans invaded England?

Important bit of history, certainly, but without knowing a grandparent or parent who was in it, just one of several important bits. I'm surprised they don't get taught about it over your way though.

Having said that, what I learned from history class and what I was told by my grandparents were so far removed from each other they might as well have been different events.

Just got back from seeing Capt America - Its a good film, without being a great film, worth a watch, I won't spoil it for you all.

Octavious - several important bits, yes...but pretty damned significant inasmuch as the current political make-up of the world was shaped a great deal by the war, as there has been no major war since to disrupt any of the alliances formed there...which includes things such as the strong US/Japanese ties, ironically enough. It is that war which distributed US troops around the globe, and extended the US sphere of influence dramatically, which it is only now starting to lose some of. So, I'd say that it is a pretty damned important piece of history, necessary to understand the world today.

Well 10 years ago when I was a kid I loved reading about ww2, read book after book of it.

My problem with today's youth is that they have never been exposed to elements of history that they would enjoy learning about. Back when I was in high school, my less-historically-astute friends always responded positively whenever I started a conversation with an obscure anecdote about the Battle off Samar, the Aleutian Islands Campaign, or Operation Neptune. They'd always say something along the lines of "How come they never teach us anything that cool in history class?"

We wonder why kids say "I HATE SCHOOL!" when we try to shove boring bullshit down their throats. Sophomore boys should be reading Tom Clancy, not Shakespeare. They should be analyzing the Guadalcanal Campaign, not the fashion of the Civil War era. There is no point in trying to teach kids shit that they have no desire to learn about. They'll learn the information well enough to regurgitate it on a test then forget it as soon as the course is completed. We'd be better off letting students study what they want, and trust their curiosity to lead them to knowledge. The kid who's reading Clancy instead of Shakespeare right now might get hooked on English as a subject and will happily study Shakespeare 10 years from now, but if that same kid tries to read Shakespeare now he'll get turned off and never learn to appreciate English.

amen GF

http://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Stand-Sailors-Extraordinary/dp/0553381482

http://www.amazon.com/Four-Stars-Valor-Parachute-Infantry/dp/0760339058

Anyone who likes reading about WWII should read these two books. The first one is a combat history of the American 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division. The second is an extensive analysis of the Battle off Samar.

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everything gunfighter said IMO

If you can find a 16-year-old that appreciates Shakespeare or can give a comprehensive discourse about the ramifications of the Teapot Dome Scandal, take a fucking picture because you have encountered a critically endangered species.

Put simply, the more "badass" parts of subjects should be used as a vehicle to get young adults interested in historically despised subjects. Kids these days would fucking love President Theodore Roosevelt if they knew as little as 10% of his life story.

now that's one of the few things I remember from D-Day: the importance of the 82nd Airborne division.

I've been a study of WWII and find most all literature and movies and documentaries about the subject fascinating.

"If you can find a 16-year-old that appreciates Shakespeare or can give a comprehensive discourse about the ramifications of the Teapot Dome Scandal, take a fucking picture because you have encountered a critically endangered species."

he used to post on the forum but he's not 16 anymore

also Oct is right, todays youth don't know anyone who fought in it.

they might know some Vietnam vet, but even Korean vets are hard to find these days

I'm done ranting after this post. but I'll say one more thing:

This concept works for any subject. Let's say you have a kid who likes hiking and you want to teach him geometry. Get him a map and a protractor and ask him to figure out how to find his position by triangulation. Let's say you get a kid who loves working on cars and you want to teach him algebra. Ask him to make a formula that estimates his car's 0-60 time based on horsepower, torque, mass, et cetera. Let's say you get a football player and you want to teach him introductory physics. Have him calculate his acceleration during his 40-yard dash. Let's say you have a kid who always doodles during lectures. Teach him English by having him write a story about a struggling artist.

Number of personally known living veterans is irrelevant. There are plenty of Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq veterans alive and kids still don't know dick about any of those wars. Hell, I'd bet that not even 5% of all high schoolers could point to any of those three places on a globe.

the knowledge of those wars are given as anecdotes from the people who fought them,where the fuck do you think most of the stories came from about WWII.

also korean war was only 9 years after WWII, theres not a lot left

I know of a couple WWII veterans. My wife's uncle is one of them. They are getting old , but there are still some around.

i did not say they were all gone--i said there are not a lot left

Originally, you said nothing about WWII vets which kind of implied they were all gone.

@ ssorenn

I was responding more to Oct's insinuation that today's youth don't care about WWII because they don't know any veterans.

Did anyone else laugh at the thought of Krellin on a date night?

After watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. this week, now I *must" go see it this weekend. The ep referenced lots of spoilers from the movie (damn it! I was hoping they'd handle it more like they did Thor: The Dark World).

I found it more entertaining that Krellins 'date night' was planned by his daughter

It's cause he is dating his daughter's teacher and they want the easy A.

Did he ask her out during the parent teacher conference and does his daughter know that her teacher might end up being her mother...

@Draug - it was a decent movie - not unhappy I went to see it (at the cheaper matinee on Saturday).

HaAven't watched Agents since about episode 4, and just happened to watch it the other day....damn, now I'm gonna have to go back and torrent the whole season....the movie tie-in was sweet.

At Dr. Oct - I find it sad that you can't grasp parents letting children plan a family event. How sad for you. How sad for all the children around here who can't understand this. :(