Is it just me, or is this a troll thread?
Nope. Not at all:
Link to video.
This movie actually kept me interested over the course of two nights, as opposed to this thread. And I really don't make time for stupid movies.
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Nope. Not at all:
Link to video.
This movie actually kept me interested over the course of two nights, as opposed to this thread. And I really don't make time for stupid movies.
I heard it wasn't very good.
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Leonel
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HAHAHAhehehehe what?
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I thought it was really good!
But then again, I'm biased since I pick up all the smaller details that is probably hard to translate and not intuitively understandable for non-Norwegians.
For instance, the guy who plays the Troll Hunter is a Norwegian comedian who usually portraits and plays "unfriendly" types - he was the Norwegian voice for Manny the mammoth in Ice Age. The guy working for the power company is another famous comedian. And the pointers to Norwegian topics of discussion such as Countryside-policy and power lines are also things foreigners probably won't get.
And of course, we've heard all the stories of the different types of trolls since we were children - it's fun to actually get a story where they pretend that the trolls are real!
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I've seen the trollhunter. I thought it was very good. Not a classic by any means but if you take the time to watch it, it's worth it 
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Not required. But it helps a whole lot.
I don't like movies aren't plausible. I *hate * movies that waste my time.
TRROL HUNTER passed my tests.
One of my most relevant tests is "do I think about themes, ideas, or scenes from this movie long after seeing it?"
By this measure, Troll Hunter is among the better movies I've seen in the last 5 or 6 years.
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Normally I am against derailing threads by going off topic, but since the movie "troll hunter" is not one of the overdone cliched topics that people go to in every other thread, and also the OP post is a strawman, I whole-heartedly approve. 
Really? I've never heard of that statistic. Actually, I've never heard any statistic on the Norwegian crime rate since 1950... SSB stat I suppose?
Do you happen to have a link? (Yes, I know I'm lazy...)
Take a look at rape statistics in Scandinavian countries. Real eye openers.
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Without demographics to say who is doing the raping (i.e the native Scandinavians versus the immigrants) that means nothing in itself.
No, seriously, the high rates of sexual assault in official crime statistics in a place like Sweden are almost certainly a reflection of a better legal and judicial situation for rape victims.
It's estimated that in the UK for example, between 70% and 90% of rape goes unreported. If a country has a better legal environment and less stigma against rape victims, and under-reportng is lower, then it's going to show up as having higher statistics in th eofficial records. Doesn't mean that it's more prevalent, though. To draw that conclusion is exactly wrong.
Comparisons based on crime victimisation surveys as opposed to official records show Nordic countries as pretty average within Europe.
It's estimated that in the UK for example, between 70% and 90% of rape goes unreported. If a country has a better legal environment and less stigma against rape victims, and under-reportng is lower, then it's going to show up as having higher statistics in th eofficial records. Doesn't mean that it's more prevalent, though. To draw that conclusion is exactly wrong.
Comparisons based on crime victimisation surveys as opposed to official records show Nordic countries as pretty average within Europe.
I thought it was really good!
But then again, I'm biased since I pick up all the smaller details that is probably hard to translate and not intuitively understandable for non-Norwegians.
For instance, the guy who plays the Troll Hunter is a Norwegian comedian who usually portraits and plays "unfriendly" types - he was the Norwegian voice for Manny the mammoth in Ice Age. The guy working for the power company is another famous comedian. And the pointers to Norwegian topics of discussion such as Countryside-policy and power lines are also things foreigners probably won't get.
And of course, we've heard all the stories of the different types of trolls since we were children - it's fun to actually get a story where they pretend that the trolls are real!
I've seen the trollhunter. I thought it was very good. Not a classic by any means but if you take the time to watch it, it's worth it
Hehe, you guys actually make me want to see it now! My friend who's a movie nut was the one who warned me that it wasn't very good, but I assume it wasn't one of those movies that was meant to be good in the first place.
Yeah, I think it does. Scary.
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No, not really. Urban gang violence and crime has been a periodically recurring problem since forever; in Oslo, for example, it was particularly bad in the 1930s, 1950s and 1980s. The absolute numbers may be higher now but adjusted for urban population I suspect that wouldn't be the case. Casual violence among the general ("non-criminal") population has been slowly declining over the past many generations, you don't have to go back very far at all to find a time where fistfights were common as dirt and knife fights were barely worth remarking on.
You assimilated into a racist culture? Wow, that's hard-core. I didn't know there WAS a racist and pseudo-objectivist country out there, that was bringing in the weak huddled masses and successfully assimilating them into people like you. Amazing!Or should I credit your parents, molding you from a susceptible youth into the poster you are today?
Especially when we speak about Finland...
