Anger as Churchill's home is turned into Hitler HQ for Transformers 5

velox · September 23, 2016, 09:57:48 AM

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The conversion of Winston Churchill’s former home into the swastika-draped headquarters of Adolf Hitler for a Transformers movie has been denounced by veterans’ groups and former military commanders.

Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, has been reimagined as the headquarters of the Nazi leader in The Last Knight, the fifth Transformers film, which is currently shooting.

The set-dressing includes enormous swastika flags, a variety of German military equipment and SS stormtroopers filling the forecourt.

“I know it’s a film,” Col Richard Kemp, ex-commander of British forces in Afghanistan, told the Sun. “but it’s symbolically disrespectful to Churchill. He will be turning in his grave.”

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Churchill is buried around a mile away from the palace in Bladon. Tony Hayes, of Veterans Association UK, said he felt surviving ex-servicemen and women who fought in the second world war would be “appalled by this”.

The house, which is open to the public, is owned by a distant relative of Winston Churchill, Jamie Spencer-Churchill, the 12th duke of Marlborough.

The Last Knight, scheduled for release in June 2017, sees the return of Mark Wahlberg and Stanley Tucci to the franchise. They are joined by Anthony Hopkins and Freya, an epileptic Staffordshire bull terrier once dubbed “Britain’s loneliest dog”.

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Doctor Doom · September 23, 2016, 10:06:24 AM

How shitty.

velox · September 23, 2016, 10:07:17 AM

Quote from: Iberian Husky on September 23, 2016, 10:04:54 AM

Not gonna lie, that is extremely disrespectful.

Maybe it's a parallell time line where Hitler conquered Great Britain ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

challengerX · September 23, 2016, 10:31:49 AM

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ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΩΤΗΣ · September 23, 2016, 10:38:24 AM

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Pippen · September 23, 2016, 10:54:25 AM

Wow, just wow.

MyNameIsCharlie · September 23, 2016, 12:47:00 PM

It's Michael Bay. You expect cultural or historical sensitivity? Count your lucky stars he didn't blow it up

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velox · September 23, 2016, 01:11:47 PM

Quote from: Varg on September 23, 2016, 01:07:02 PM

okay so first of all
>Transformers 5

second of all
>Hitler HQ

what

either there's going to be yet another historical flashback tying into some mcguffin that we've never heard of earlier for some reason, or time travel

Mordo · September 23, 2016, 01:13:40 PM

I don't understand why they couldn't have just built a replica in the countryside somewhere.

velox · September 23, 2016, 01:57:06 PM

found an image of the palace itself

big dog · September 23, 2016, 02:07:42 PM

What I want to know is what in the fuck are Nazis doing in a fucking Transformers film.

Pippen · September 23, 2016, 02:17:18 PM

Quote from: Fedorekd on September 23, 2016, 02:07:42 PM

What I want to know is what in the fuck are Nazis doing in a fucking Transformers film.

Probably the next time transformers influenced earth somehow that went unnoticed completely for no fucking reason

clum clum · September 23, 2016, 02:19:10 PM

So we have Nazi transformers now? Just when I thought the series couldn't get any more tiring.

Super Irish · September 23, 2016, 02:24:19 PM

To be fair that house kinda fits with the whole pillars and statues thing goin' on;

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Hahahaha very funny Zonda · September 23, 2016, 02:35:24 PM

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DAS B00T x2 · September 23, 2016, 02:40:07 PM

Quote from: Iberian Husky on September 23, 2016, 02:30:30 PM

Quote from: Nightrider on September 23, 2016, 01:57:06 PM

found an image of the palace itself
Wew. May as well go and build a giant Hitler statue in Trafalgar Square while they're at it.

There's already a statue of Horatio Nelson. He beat women and had an affair. That's basically as bad as being Hitler.

Jono · September 23, 2016, 03:36:38 PM

Is there gonna be scenes where Autobots are helping the allies storm the beaches of Normandy?

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Dan · September 23, 2016, 04:23:55 PM

Quote from: Fedorekd on September 23, 2016, 02:07:42 PM

What I want to know is what in the fuck are Nazis doing in a fucking Transformers film.

its hollywood, they gotta make the jews the victim every chance they get.

velox · September 23, 2016, 04:47:36 PM

I looked up some more info about the film

we WALL-E now boys

velox · September 23, 2016, 04:49:51 PM

Quote from: Pippen on September 23, 2016, 02:17:18 PM

Quote from: Fedorekd on September 23, 2016, 02:07:42 PM
What I want to know is what in the fuck are Nazis doing in a fucking Transformers film.

Probably the next time transformers influenced earth somehow that went unnoticed completely for no fucking reason

found an early plot description:

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Optimus Prime finding his home planet, Cybertron, now a dead planet, which he comes to find he was responsible for killing. He finds a way to bring the planet back to life, but in order to do so he needs to find an artifact, and that artifact is on Earth .

ding ding ding

Stroud · September 23, 2016, 10:08:59 PM

A fitting home for the Führer.

Stroud · September 23, 2016, 10:12:38 PM

Quote from: Remember The 290,000 on September 23, 2016, 10:38:24 AM

Did you know that Churchill had to be persuaded by family members to not convert to Islam?

Nick McIntyre · September 24, 2016, 09:21:55 AM

Quote from: Fedorekd on September 23, 2016, 02:07:42 PM

What I want to know is what in the fuck are Nazis doing in a fucking Transformers film.

Well in the 80's cartoon series they had a Middle Eastern country called Carbombya filled with terrorists.

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More Than Mortal · September 24, 2016, 12:36:46 PM

Quote from: Remember The 290,000 on September 23, 2016, 10:38:24 AM

>yfw he never said this

velox · September 24, 2016, 01:12:08 PM

Quote from: Meta Cognition on September 24, 2016, 12:36:46 PM

Quote from: Remember The 290,000 on September 23, 2016, 10:38:24 AM

>yfw he never said this

oh shit Meta's alive