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Thread #109680   Message #2300894
Posted By: Barry Finn
30-Mar-08 - 02:48 AM
Thread Name: BS: Ten films that got it wrong
Subject: RE: BS: Ten films that got it wrong
Sean Connery has never disappointed me, maybe his roles weren't great but he was great for his roles.

I just saw the Other Bollen Girl. Liked it alot, the acting was good, the secenery great, the costumes good, the weapons even had me. Course I'm a sucker for this type of shit too.
What I don't like is forgettin the true history & having to go back & check the facts so I don't remain confused. It's sometimes just worth the effort to go see a flick if I feel compeled to to get it right later. I know some of it was off, like when do they play Trad Irish music at an English wedding & since when was Westin Wind a Trad-getry song & not Burns, timing there was off too. Poor Jane Seymore doesn't see her end coming at all, oh I better just read the real history all over again.

The worst of the lot are the war flicks. Is it because when a film is being made & it gets help from the military & the price one pays is that the military has to ok it if they're donating, that they can't get anything right. The war flicks IMHO are the worst. It's so bad that I can't even stomack the preview or the titles. If they filmed the truth I guess then none of the age group they're showing to (the same age as those that'd sign up) probably would never sign. Maybe if they'd film more of the truth, the rest of us would make enough of a cultural shift that war would be to grotesgue to start but then that would put an end to war films, holywood wouldn't like that

Barry