Sick and Wrong!

Well, this past week was the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, one of the most grizzly and atrocious of the Nazi death camps. However, I like to think that something good came out of the whole mess, namely that we will forever have a human movie villain who may be mowed down without qualms by the hero. That's right, if it weren't for the Nazis, action heroes could only fight stupid robots and maybe the undead. Nazis make the perfect cannon fodder because they are really just so horrid that really, committing what would ordinarily be considered mass murder is now just a public service. You don't have to explain to anyone why you killed a Nazi. You just point to the swastika on his arm, and everybody just goes, "Oooh. Carry on then." Let's be honest here. Would Raiders of the Lost Ark have been as cool without Nazi villains? Nope. Hellboy? Nope. The Rocketeer? Nope. Hell, even Bulletproof Monk had Nazi villains going for it, making it semi-watchable. So let's all raise a toast to those wacky fascist bastards who have given American film audiences an oh-so-hateable villain for over 60 years.