Most terrorists of any type are idiots. It’s why the TSA can be a completely joke and planes generally don’t get hijacked or blown up .
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Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 months agoYeah, the middle eastern/arab/persian terrorists are repeatedly portrayed as bumbling idiots, which is I think what I am getting at, vs. them simply being the antagonists.
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I mean everything in the movie is given a silly spin.
Half the things Arnie and the “good guys” are bumbling also, they just come out ahead because they’re the good guys …
Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Kinda yeah but kinda no. In that it’s meant to be a funny action movie that wasn’t taking itself seriously.
And that there are bros like this in those groups. reddit.com/…/somewhere_in_afghanistan_abu_hajaar_…
best_username_ever@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It was based on a French movie, and at the time we both had our fair share of islamic terrorism way before Bin Laden, so it was obvious that terrorists would be islamists.