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Charred Knight wrote:

penguintruth wrote: Charred Knight wrote: Here's the thing the movie was supposed to happen in OUR world, not something like our world. You can't have technology that doesn't exist, nor can you have a nonsensical plotline like a secret society with like a thousand members trying to invade a country that's military probably numbers in the ten thousand. It takes place in our world in the same way that Indiana Jones movies do, using our history, but sort of stretching things a bit. Also, the head of the Thule Society believed they had the proper technology to fill in the gaps between any possible difference in their militaries. She had no reason to believe that a so-called paradise would have such a large military force. By the way, Dietlinde Eckhart was a female version of Dietrich Eckart, a member of the real Thule Society in history. Here's the thing, the movie claims that this is our Earth, that this really happened. I would have no problems if it was like indiana Jones, a movie that is just trying to be fun, but the movie tries to be relevant to go beyond goofy Nazi movies like Indiana Jones, and it suffers from it because they try to fudge history while claiming this really happened.

It's not making any more claims that it's our Earth any more than Indiana Jones movies. They're both in "our world", but not really, since it's not likely the Ark of the Covenant is real, or can melt your face off, nor is it likely that Diethart was a woman, the Thule Society was using psychic gypsies to get to a parallel world, or that the uranium bomb came from that world.

It's fantasy with a historical fiction tinge. Personally, I was pretty impressed with the amount of research that Bones staff did into the time period. You should see the booklet in the limited edition release of the movie.

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