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The US military in 2065


I thought this was a very mediocre film seemed to run of ideas half way through. Not one interesting character that you cared about. However, I did notice that the US military was not portrayed in a favourable light. This must be the first time in recent memory where American soldiers are depicted as trigger happy thugs who will gun down or decimate anything to achieve their objective, even if they are robots. In one scene, Buddhist AI robots are shot down in cold computer code!

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Not at all, but usually they restrict it to an rogue General or to a unscrupulous merch contractor business man. But The Creator is not much hiding its inspiration in Vietnam movies like Platoon, Apocalypse Now etc and thats why it is not hiding away the war crimes.
But that's also one of the weak points of the movie. For Vietnam and Afghanistan we know the crimes done by the other side, so not every movie has to show it. But here is the AI only shown from a positive side, except the ice cream delivery (which can be easily explained), that makes a world wide conflict quite unbelievable. The AI is shown to have feelings, so in a modern world, you can't tell me, the US would be unchecked by other world powers. You could compare the US in the movie with Russia today, but to make this believable, they don't show that the US is so highly controlled as Russia. At least it would explain why New Asia can hold up with US for so long, without having any forces.

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Yes. Eventually those "Saint AI" were just ridiculous. It took me out of movie.

Movie tried to show us that humans were bad and AI were just harmless little puppies who were falsely blamed for that nuclear blast. And its just not. Robots will take over world and end humanity. So those military were right.

And honestly they didn't care about shooting robots because for them robots are machines and they view them as we view cockroaches or termites. You don't care about their feelings when you exterminate them.

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Yes, at least no glorification of US military. There never was such thing as a just war...

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So WW II was not a just war, Shaquatta?

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Don't you think that the answer depends on who you ask?

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WWII would be just, if it had not be forced on the Allies, but they had attacked to protect the world. But WWII was started by the Nazis, so in the end it was a war to protect their own ass. The defender side of a war is usually on the right side, at least if its not a rebranded civil war like now in Israel.

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to protect the world

Well, more to protect their hegemony... But you are right, as it was started by the Nazis it wasn't started as a just war.
Have to think a little about the defender side being usually on the right side. ๐Ÿค”

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Its oversimplified of course, wars are not often that simple.

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World War II was started by Germany and Japan. What they did was not just. However, what the Allies did to oppose and defeat them was completely just. If you're attacked, defending yourself and stopping those who attacked you is always just.

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No, I do not.

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WWII was started by Hitler. So Hitler started a just war?

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The war of retaliation that was waged by the Allies against Hitler and Japan was just.

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I bet the Japanese point of view is different... ๐Ÿ˜‰

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I did NOT like that.

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Already in the opening speech of this General(?) you can see who the baddies are. "My" side is not automatically the good side only because it is "my" side...

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