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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

now Im back to my Brazilian lawyer show on Netflix called Habeas Corpus. #hatm

Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Final Thoughts: I wouldn't trust any facts beyond the barest outlines of the history in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. It's way too stylized to be credible but its expert direction, stellar cast, and solid production values make it a fine movie. A winner even if it flopped. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

From what the Wikipedia page on Operation Postmaster says, this movie shouldn't have been so fictionalized. The real story is even more heroic. #hatm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...

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Operation Postmaster - Wikipedia

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

True fact: warships had jails. I saw one on the U.S.S. Alabama. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can understand firing the rifles and machine guns, but a Sten is useless at that range #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not only does Eiza look absolutely amazing in that dress, she's about to kill a Notsee. It's a dream come true. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

uh, fighting indoors with a bow and arrow isn't going to work - but Allan and Guy made it look awesome. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I like how there are two teams killing their way through the scene - all in one take. Ritchie knows his business. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Scenes like this resemble video games like Sniper Elite. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have the Criterion DVD of the German sound version of The Threepenny Opera. What a great film. Lotte Lenya starred as Pirate Jenny, singing this song. We saw her in From Russia with Love. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Churchill should have said "which one" when it comes to special operations. He had ideas for many, a few even became a reality. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wow, Admiral, what a huge breach of operational security! Saying their real names in the clear over the radio is a very bad idea. Serves the plot perhaps. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So the British in London can hear them but not the Germans??? #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh if only we could bring back clubs like this. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Underwater sabotage was done by both sides in WWII. Best known operations: Jaywick, vs. Singapore 1943; Frankton, 1942 vs. Bordeaux; and the Italian operaiton against Alexandria 1941 - the latter would have been the greatest special operation ever if the divers hadn't been captured. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Danny Sapani was in Black Panther and Siege of Jadotville. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Beginning of a beautiful friendship" - well if you're stealing the setting, you might as well steal the lines. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A casino bar run by a man named Richard with an international clientele including Notsees. Where have we seen this before? #hatm needs to do Casablanca.

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah the music of Der Dreigroschen Oper - the Three Penny Opera. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Speaking of Inglorious Basterds, it's Til Schweiger! He played Hugo Stiglitz in that movie. He said that he'd never play a Notsee but made an exception when Q. T. let him kill them. #hatm

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Til Schweiger: Angry and Upset

ALT: Til Schweiger: Angry and Upset

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hm, why wear a heavy cloak in the Canary Islands??? #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know a #hatm movie suggestion: The Wild Geese. Who's up?

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Notsees definitely had a distinctive clothing style - if you are evil, it helps to dress the part. Of course, we just want to unalive anyone who wears those uniforms. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Uh, Alan, you made War Machine after this. It's a big reach-er to call you an observer. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh nothing would upset a Notsee officer than an African man help a white lady. But them speaking English should have tipped him off. Oh well, plot. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We haven't seen Babs Olusanmokun in anything before - but he was in Dune. C'mon #hatm let's ride some worms.

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is why I always research menus before I go to a restaurant - I hate wasting servers' time. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hmmmmmm, I wonder what railways were like in West Africa during this time. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Henry actually hates smoking. He had do smoke a cigar in the Deadpool and Wolverine movie and just hated it. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These teams are always made up of the literally perfect people, whose flaws actually complement rather than conflict with each other. Anders Larsen later won a posthumous Victoria Cross. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Eiza, who is just stunningly beautiful, is actually Mexican but went to English schools - hence her fluency. She also speaks Italian. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Henry had of course worked with Guy Ritchie on the underrated Man from Uncle movie. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fernando Po was the Spanish name for Bioko, part of Equatorial Guinea in west Africa. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wonder of Quentin Tarantino let Ritchie steal his style when making this movie. This has shades of Inglorious Basterds - which is a good thing. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Those German sailors are wayyyyyy too old. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hmm, German was common among Swedes of the pre-WW2 era. But meh. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jerry Bruckheimer and Guy Richie. What's not to like. "Based on at true story" is a bit of a stretch for this movie. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is our second Henry Cavill movie after Enola Holmes, but it's a first time for both Alan Richson and Eiza Gonzalez. She made a movie in my city a couple of years back called Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice. I saw Vince Vaughn outside the main hotel one day. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Final Thoughts: Teen Wolf is not much of a film. It clearly capitalized on Michael J. Fox's fame. It borrowed every cliche imaginable from high school sports movies to show how a werewolf wins the game and the girl. Yet it became a hit that started a franchise. Best watched with friends #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

See kids, you don't have to be a werewolf to be a basketball star who gets the prettiest girl in school. Who are we kidding? Only in the movies. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wait: does Pam's boyfriend play for the opposing team???? #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And of course it comes down to a free throw penalty shot. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Note how the movie couldn't afford to show the Beaver's away games. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I swear that I heard the "wolf wolf wolf" air punch in another movie, but I can't think of it. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I see the Union Army captain as the hero in this scene. He's obeying General Sherman's orders to "make Georgia howl" for supporting secession and maintaining the enslavement of African American people. #hatm

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Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Again, another affordable transition. They spent all the money on Fox's salary, the Beach Boys song, and these 20-something extras playing high schoolers. #hatm

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