Anyone seen the sainsbury's christmas advert yet

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I don't remember the advert telling me exactly which soldiers it featured - the specific real German and English soldiers, which exact area of the front.

If it didn't, it is every bit as fictional, merely the tone is different. They are actors playing fictional soldiers in a fictional trench, in the context of a real event.

But anyway there are LOTS of films and TV shows - documentaries even - which DO try to tell true stories from the war. They were all created for commercial purposes one way or the other - whether to make money directly or to attract viewing figures.

[minestrone]

I don't remember the advert telling me exactly which soldiers it featured - the specific real German and English soldiers, which exact area of the front.

If it didn't, it is every bit as fictional, merely the tone is different. They are actors playing fictional soldiers in a fictional trench, in the context of a real event.

But anyway there are LOTS of films and TV shows - documentaries even - which DO try to tell true stories from the war. They were all created for commercial purposes one way or the other - whether to make money directly or to attract viewing figures.

It is a real event and they know which soldiers were involved and where it took place. So on that you clearly don't have a clue about what you are talking about.

So knowing that now are you still saying you don't think that this advert released on the 12th of November on the centenary of the start of the war by a major supermarket in the run up to the biggest retail period of the year is cynical and crass. Or are you still a complete fudnut?

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Also, many (maybe even most) of the British soldiers in WW1 would have read the bible and/or attended church, and believed they were serving God by giving their lives for chumps like you. That's partly why there were so many volunteers, they believed in a greater cause beyond their own lives - a concept you'd sneer at.

Get your facts straight, you classless hypocritical bore. You're complaining about people using WW1 for their own purposes, while using WW1 as a way to belittle and insult others. I bet most of the WW1 soldiers would have given you a smack, you bitter jumped up little man.

edit: added tag, we haven't had a good spat for a while and it used to be every Friday. You'd think everyone would be most grumpy on Mondays!

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It is a real event and they know which soldiers were involved and where it took place. So on that you clearly don't have a clue about what you are talking about.

I bet Blackadder had historical researchers too. As did Saving Private Ryan, Das Boot, etc, etc.

You're full of it. Sainsbury's are of course using WW1 to make money but that's been happening for decades and is nothing to single out.

[minestrone]

I bet Blackadder had historical researchers too. As did Saving Private Ryan, Das Boot, etc, etc.

You're full of it. Sainsbury's are of course using WW1 to make money but that's been happening for decades and is nothing to single out.

Blackadder was a complete work of fiction, as was Das Boot. I am sure Saving Private Ryan had input from the Ryan family.

Again, you seem not to understand the difference between make believe and real life events, but you base your life around telling yourself a work of fiction really did happen.

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Blackadder was a complete work of fiction, as was Das Boot. I am sure Saving Private Ryan had input from the Ryan family.

Again, you seem not to understand the difference between make believe and real life events, but you base your life around telling yourself a work of fiction really did happen.

Das Boot was based on U-96 which actually existed and although it is a work of fiction does have its base in fact...The techno remix was tulip though

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I'm torn its effective and thought provoking but advertising for primarily commercial profit based on one of the most tragic events of the last century somehow seems wrong.


Yes Blackadder & Allo,Allo were for profit but they also were in part educational & reverent.

[d000hg]

I'm torn its effective and thought provoking but advertising for primarily commercial profit based on one of the most tragic events of the last century somehow seems wrong.


Yes Blackadder & Allo,Allo were for profit but they also were in part educational & reverent.

Isn't the whole point in favour of the advert that it IS done in a reverent way?

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Again, you seem not to understand the difference between make believe and real life events, but you base your life around telling yourself a work of fiction really did happen.

Oh do give it a rest. You're like a stuck record, playing a record nobody liked to begin with.

[minestrone]

Sadly I think it really just comes down to a matter of taste and in this day and age it is tellingly lacking in a great many people.