Pearl Harbor.

Submitter: Japanese critics blast atomic bomb scene

I see what you did there...

Aw crap, *Puts on helmet* Here comes the Lucas haters.....*gets machine gun ready*

I would have thought they'd instead criticize the horrible script and dialog...

I realise Japanese might be a little sensitive about it, but it's Indiana Jones, it's not meant to be realistic, it's meant to be entertaining. If it wasn't then complain about that, don't complain because he didn't die from getting nuked.

The latest installment in the popular 'Indiana Jones' movie series has puzzled some viewers and critics in Japan as it includes a segment showing a nuclear bomb test which they say could give young people the wrong impression about the dangers of radiation and the destructive power of nuclear weapons.

Good grief.

Cues Godzirra ;)

Good god if this is what you are complaining about then you obviously have way too much free time.

Ah yes, whereas the Japanese are all about prudence when it comes to their wars. Step one, "recruit" 10,000s of comfort women to keep moral high...

flucto: Ah yes, whereas the Japanese are all about prudence when it comes to their wars. Step one, "recruit" 10,000s of comfort women to keep moral high...

But does that mean that a Japanese movie which depicts someone with a prostitute should be subject to Chinese protests? No. This whole article is just silly.

fic·tion Audio Help /ˈfɪkʃən/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[fik-shuhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
-noun 1. the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, esp. in prose form.
2. works of this class, as novels or short stories: detective fiction.
3. something feigned, invented, or imagined; a made-up story: We've all heard the fiction of her being in delicate health.
4. the act of feigning, inventing, or imagining.
5. an imaginary thing or event, postulated for the purposes of argument or explanation.
6. Law. an allegation that a fact exists that is known not to exist, made by authority of law to bring a case within the operation of a rule of law.


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[Origin: 1375-1425; late ME
-Related forms
fic·tion·al, adjective
fic·tion·al·ly, adverb


-Synonyms 3. fable, fantasy. Fiction, fabrication, figment suggest a story that is without basis in reality. Fiction suggests a story invented and fashioned either to entertain or to deceive: clever fiction; pure fiction. Fabrication applies particularly to a false but carefully invented statement or series of statements, in which some truth is sometimes interwoven, the whole usually intended to deceive: fabrications to lure speculators. Figment applies to a tale, idea, or statement often made up to explain, justify, or glorify oneself: His rich uncle was a figment of his imagination.
-Antonyms 3. fact.

General Electric lead lined fridge > 1930s Datsun Roadster.
Our nuclear safety technology was ahead of theirs at the time; they are jealous. Let them stew on their Toto toilets till they come to their senses.

/the fridge scene was as realistic as a inflatable boat parachute/cross country sledding vehicle.
//no more parachutes!

I DNRTFA but am i safe in assuming that it was like.. one or perhaps maybe two people who've commented on it being a little "off"? It wouldn't be like the media to completely and utterly blow something out of the water.

RobertBruce: {Stuff}

Well, the story is fictional, yes, but they're complaining about a reference to an historical event which took place. If i wrote a fictional story referencing 9/11 that was entirely offensive and inappropriate i hardly think the "it's fiction, stupid!" flag would help much.

Darth_Lukecash: Aw crap, *Puts on helmet* Here comes the Lucas haters.....*gets machine gun ready*

Make sure to fire in small bursts. Those babies tend to heat up.

/When did you turn into a nutbar?

Clearly anyone born in a country that was responsible for the Rape of Nanjing should stay away from anime.

They'll be saying Free Willy makes whales out to be intelligent cute-ass mammals next.

/maybe not cute

When they stop making cartoons where girls have tentacles violating every orifice then they'll have the right to be "puzzled" at something we do.

They should be blasting the latest Indiana Jones film for being a festering heap of sun-blasted suck.

You guys should take a look at some of the movies that Japanese movie houses pump out nowadays. Trust me. The Japanese are sitting in a big glass house on this one.

Mugato: When they stop making cartoons where girls have tentacles violating every orifice then they'll have the right to be "puzzled" at something we do.

THIS!!!!!

They have a popular comic about a dog with an enormous penis and his exploits with human girl friends.

/just sayin'

Film critic Ken Terawaki criticized Spielberg for including scenes of a nuclear blast "just for fun" at a time when the world is struggling to do away with nuclear weapons as "a common enemy of humanity."

Ken must have popped a blood vessel when he watched True Lies, then.

/sick of waiting in the van

Oh who cars what the Japanese have to say. After all this is the land of dirty underwear vending machines, tentical rape, and dog eaters. Screw em.

Suck it Tojo.

"Nuke the fridge" has replaced the phrase "jump the shark" between my friends and I.

/god, that movie sucked

MDGeist: tentical rape

Is that the ravishing of a campsite?

Yeah, because the guy who directed Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan just doesn't understand how to take war seriously.

How about a new tag for FACEPALM

The Glass Dragon: "Nuke the fridge" has replaced the phrase "jump the shark" between my friends and I.

/god, that movie sucked

You're trying too hard.

Flied lice anyone?

snuff3r: I DNRTFA but am i safe in assuming that it was like.. one or perhaps maybe two people who've commented on it being a little "off"? It wouldn't be like the media to completely and utterly blow something out of the water.

RobertBruce: {Stuff}

Well, the story is fictional, yes, but they're complaining about a reference to an historical event which took place. If i wrote a fictional story referencing 9/11 that was entirely offensive and inappropriate i hardly think the "it's fiction, stupid!" flag would help much.

But the historical event they're referencing is a nuclear test, not one of the bombs dropped on Japan. Your analogy would be more apt if you said that, because of 9/11, any reference to skyscraper disasters - no matter how unrealistic - was off limits. It would be like saying "The Towering Inferno" is now offensive.

If that scene was offensive to anything, it was offensive to plausibility.

MDGeist: Oh who cars what the Japanese have to say. After all this is the land of dirty underwear vending machines, tentical rape, and dog eaters. Screw em.

now, now, it's the koreans who are the dog eaters not the japanese.

First thing that came to mind...

tru_m4n: OMG OMG OMG i got all his stuff!
tru_m4n: NUKES! HOLY f**k I GOT NUKES
Stalin: d00d gimmie some plz
tru_m4n: no way i only got like a couple
Stalin: omg dont be gay gimmie nuculer secrets
T0J0: wtf is nukes?
T0J0: holy f**kholyf**khoylf**k!1
*T0J0 has been eliminated.*

Remember Nanking!

What, you don't remember Nanking because it's been purged from your history books? Alrighty then.

Need I remind them that "They started it?"

Oh, go hide in your refrigerators.

Wow. Someone's got their Kimono in a wad...

tru_m4n: OMG OMG OMG i got all his stuff!
tru_m4n: NUKES! HOLY f**k I GOT NUKES
Stalin: d00d gimmie some plz
tru_m4n: no way i only got like a couple
Stalin: omg dont be gay gimmie nuculer secrets
T0J0: wtf is nukes?
T0J0: holy f**kholyf**khoylf**k!1
*T0J0 has been eliminated.*

I am so disappointed in myself for being able to follow this.

I am more disappointed that I lol'ed a bit.

ndotseth: Pearl Harbor.


I'll go you one better:

Rape of Nanking (NSFW)

ndotseth: Pearl Harbor.

Speaking of lack of prudence, there . . . .

/"I fear we have done nothing but awaken a sleeping giant, and fill him with a terrible resolve."

blank" href="http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3779736&IDComment=43065 685#c43065685">SpinStopper: The latest installment in the popular 'Indiana Jones' movie series has puzzled some viewers and critics in Japan as it includes a segment showing a nuclear bomb test which they say could give young people the wrong impression about the dangers of radiation and the destructive power of nuclear weapons.

Good grief.

Cues Godzirra ;)

History shows again and again...

nuttmegx: The Glass Dragon: "Nuke the fridge" has replaced the phrase "jump the shark" between my friends and I.

/god, that movie sucked

You're trying too hard.

Yeah, you're probably right but it still makes us laugh.

The Glass Dragon: "Nuke the fridge" has replaced the phrase "jump the shark" between my friends and I.

/god, that movie sucked

Nuke the fridge already jumped the shark.

Also, Japan, who started WWII in the Pacific again? I forget.

ndotseth: Pearl Harbor.

But wasn't that the Germans?

Uncorrect: But the historical event they're referencing is a nuclear test

Yeah. Key word "historical" too - what, are movies set in the 50's supposed to ignore the fact that at the TIME, yes, the US and the Soviets were testing willy-nilly and at least in the US[1], telling the people that really, anyone can survive the bomb in their basements because fallout just wasn't a big deal?

I suppose they can complain that "if you show nukes, you should show the real dangers," it would be a legitimate complaint but one alongside the "if you show violence in movies, you should always show the consequences and grieving families" or "if you show smoking, you should show the sickness" requests, which come up from time to time but are regularly laughed off. I.e, not a war thing.

Plus it's Indiana Jones. Not exactly known for realism...

[1] Probably in the USSR too but I don't read Russian, so haven't seen their version of such propaganda

Plus I'd bet money that there's some chat somewhere in the US that says YES, "The Towering Inferno" is now offensive. Would it be taken seriously? No.

Same deal.

Of course there's still no excuse for the gophers of monkeys, but you can't reaaly get upset about over-the-top things like the fridge or the aliens.

An tSaoi: Of course there's still no excuse for the gophers of monkeys, but you can't reaaly get upset about over-the-top things like the fridge or the aliens.

Haha, that graphic is brilliant. I've said many times that the Crystal Skull haters don't remember the original films as well as they think they do.

"You can't survive a nuclear explosion in a fridge! You can, however, use magic to pull a man's heart out of his chest without killing him."

ingineervt: Flied lice anyone?

It's fried rice, you plick.

An tSaoi: Of course there's still no excuse for the gophers of monkeys, but you can't reaaly get upset about over-the-top things like the fridge or the aliens.

Sure I can. You'll get over it, though.

Also, yeah yeah, blah blah, WWII Japan was so horrible. It was, no doubt about it. So what. Ignoring the debate about the first atomic (Saved lives? We had no timetable for a mainland invasion any sooner than 10 months), there is almost no valid reason for the second aside from proving to Stalin that we had more than one. That's a lot of dead civilians just to prove a point. In either case both the atomics and the fire-bombing of germany fit the profile of similar attacks on civilian production centers that the US had previously declared war crimes. It's good to be the winner.