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  • I’m not going to tell folks to rewatch the first two X-Men movies, but I’m fairly certain you can piece that together from the cultural osmosis of that series. The opening scene of the first movie clearly states Poland and it is clearly identified as a concentration camp.

    Plus I’m fairly certain it was also revisited in First Class.

    EDIT: Don’t rewatch X-Men or X2 because of Bryan Singer.

    EDIT 2: Singer has had multiple lawsuits and allegations thrown at him for sexual abuse, most notably of children.

    Apt Pupil - Don’t Watch the Movie and Better Skip the Stephen King Novella

    The movie Apt Pupil is where these specific allegations come from. To make it worse, that is an adaption of a Stephen King novella about a teenager who blackmails a Nazi solider that worked in a concentration camp into telling him stories about the war. I of course never watched the movie but I read the novella (part of Different Seasons). The striking part is the teenage boy has explicit dreams about raping girls who are imprisoned in the concentration camps. Yes, you read that right. A character fantasizes about raping Jewish girls.









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    No, and that is based on the novel Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar which people thought was a rip off of Project Haily Mary by Andy Weir (which I read and loved). When the trailer for Spaceman was released, Weir had to go on social media and tell fans Spaceman of Bohemia was published before his novel.

    EDIT: I did not read Spaceman of Bohemia.



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    Or worse, you meet the super intelligent giant spider your human ancestor left behind, and you accidentally start a war with them because no one realizes the computer on the ancient satellite is made to behave like the project founder is trying to make first contact.

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    The project founder accidentally died, the computer AI fails to keep them alive and the spiders start to think the satellite is a god. Then they enslave the native ants.

    The big problem is no one remembered to tell the humans on Earth about the experiment. Or the humans on the generation ship that knew died centuries ago.

    EDIT: If you haven’t figured it out, I’m describing the novel Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.