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Improbable Lobster posted:Plus the actual story is usually much more interesting than the sanitized, made-up hollywood version This is why I hate The Imitation Game.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Plus the actual story is usually much more interesting than the sanitized, made-up hollywood version I like Braveheart as an example of this. How it happened*:  How the film depicted it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdlL65LD6I4 *Based on a retelling by a dude called Blind Harry a full century after the battle took place. Which also specified Wallace to be 7 feet tall. So probably about as inaccurate as the film version though certainly far cooler and more cinematic. FreudianSlippers fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Feb 5, 2017 |
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Feb 5, 2017 22:41
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MonsieurChoc posted:This is why I hate The Imitation Game. I just didn't think much of that movie, didn't even look up how true to life it was.
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Feb 5, 2017 22:44
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got any sevens posted:I just didn't think much of that movie, didn't even look up how true to life it was. Thank you for the important update
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Feb 5, 2017 22:47
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got any sevens posted:I just didn't think much of that movie, didn't even look up how true to life it was. Hint: Alan Turing did not hide military secrets from Winston loving Churchill.
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Feb 5, 2017 23:03
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I don't fault a movie for being historically inaccurate, even biopics, but The Imitation Game falsely accuses its subject of committing treason, and that's really not cool.
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Feb 5, 2017 23:28
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Also, gives Turing a female partner that is coded as his love interest, and the only thing keeping them from being together is Turing's pesky little habit of being gay.
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Feb 5, 2017 23:39
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I don't dislike the look of Hulk, but as this whole conversation bears out, oscar-winning directors are perfectly capable of making poor decisions. I haven't seen it but that's insanely high praise imo. Easily?
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"Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of, who do the things that no one can imagine" Basically movies are all about making one line that says a kind of generic uplifting platitude that kind of describes the subject & then u repeat it a couple times. Then u add some text over the screen at the end that says "bad stuff happened" & u got an Oscar nominated film.
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Ang Lee generally elevates his material beyond the scope of the average director, bringing new life and wonderful imagery to films that would be far poorer without them. Hulk is fun despite the weak third act with generic absorbing man dad not being compelling of enough of a villain to make the father/son thing pay off correctly. I liked the color and it only looks weird in retrospect because every other comic book movie sucks the color out of everything. Brokeback is his masterpiece, a compelling story that works even if you ignored all the sexuality, but is enhanced by it and helped by amazing performances from the entire cast (even Randy Quaid!) Eat Drink, Wedding Banquet, and Crouching Tiger are great with wonderful visuals, while Ice Storm tries but I don't think the 90s Taiwan movie style works with the 70s US visuals like it should. Lust, Caution was a great return to form, Life of Pi was a magical blockbuster that didn't seem as committee as other big films. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk teched itself out of too many theaters and is probably a great film to watch on TBS some Tuesday evening. I've not watched Ride with the Devil or Pushing Hands, and don't remember a thing about Sense and Sensibility despite knowing I saw it on HBO at some point in high school/college.
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Feb 5, 2017 23:49
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Braveheart inspired what may be the most hated piece of art in Scottish history. It was vandalized so many times that it had to be put in a cage, and was eventually removed in 2008. At one point they attempted to sell it to Donald Trump's Scottish gold course. Don't know why he didn't go for it as everything he owns is tacky.
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Alan Turing was someone who did some really ground-breaking stuff (none of which is explained or conveyed in the movie) and got treated terribly for the crime of being gay (which also isn't shown in the movie).
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got any sevens posted:There was an article in the paper today where the humane society or something reviewed the tape and said it had been edited to look worse and the timing of it going public right before the premiere is suspicious.
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Vegetable posted:It’s the same society that got destroyed for its representative supposedly having been on set and doing absolutely nothing. I wouldn’t totally trust their judgement. Yeah, they are corrupt as poo poo and a lot of the stories I hear about what they turn a blind eye to are shocking.
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I feel obligated to mention the American Humane Society=/=American Humane Association. The former are cool dudes who do cool things for animals the latter are purely funded by the movie industry to plaster "no animals were harmed on camera (off camera is fair game!)" at the beginning of movies
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Feb 6, 2017 01:26
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That's shady as hell
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FCKGW posted:That's shady as hell filmindustry.txt
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Casimir Radon posted:Braveheart inspired what may be the most hated piece of art in Scottish history. That is amazing
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Casimir Radon posted:It was vandalized so many times that it had to be put in a cage, and was eventually removed in 2008. At one point they attempted to sell it to Donald Trump's Scottish gold course. Don't know why he didn't go for it as everything he owns is tacky. Paint it gold and he will put it up where the Lincoln Memorial stands now.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I like Braveheart as an example of this. Now that's a clusterfuck.
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Feb 6, 2017 08:57
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Nobody ever wins a battle in a movie by actually being smart. They're smart enough so that when the rad charge happens, it's sort of understandable why the good guys won. But most military victories are won by making sure the other guy can't fight the way he wants to.
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Snowman_McK posted:Nobody ever wins a battle in a movie by actually being smart. They're smart enough so that when the rad charge happens, it's sort of understandable why the good guys won. 
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That movie owns and that charge was real  Not sure if they actually came up with the bugle charge there though.
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got any sevens posted:That movie owns and that charge was real Thank you, crazy billionaire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL-5uyp44WA
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Snowman_McK posted:A mistake that an Oscar winning director specifically insisted on. You don't have to look much farther than the 4K/120fps/3D disaster of cinematography that was Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk to see that Ang Lee is perfectly capable of making dumb decisions. Baronash fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Feb 6, 2017 |
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Feb 6, 2017 17:55
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Tag yourself I'm the fat reenactor who immediately"gets shot" and goes down
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What movie?
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fat bossy gerbil posted:What movie? Gettysburg.
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Feb 6, 2017 18:47
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Somewhere in an alternate universe there is a 50 Shades of Grey movie directed by Steve McQueen and starring Michael Fassbender and it's shot and written as a thematic sequel to Shame and I'm really bummed that we don't have that.
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Baronash posted:Gettysburg. Which you should definitely watch. In general it's one of the greatest war films ever made and that scene in the screenshot is the most memorable moment in the film (and the line is what he actually said). The character in the shot is General Pickett and if you know even a tiny bit of Civil War history then you know what has happened. The sequel, OTOH, you can ignore.
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Random Stranger posted:Which you should definitely watch. In general it's one of the greatest war films ever made and that scene in the screenshot is the most memorable moment in the film (and the line is what he actually said). The character in the shot is General Pickett and if you know even a tiny bit of Civil War history then you know what has happened. Pretty sure that's Joshua Chamberlain, not Pickett.
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Pickett was a dumb Confederate guy who led his troops to slaughter.
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Random Stranger posted:Which you should definitely watch. In general it's one of the greatest war films ever made and that scene in the screenshot is the most memorable moment in the film (and the line is what he actually said). The character in the shot is General Pickett and if you know even a tiny bit of Civil War history then you know what has happened. Pickett with that blue rear end shirt for a confederate.
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Random Stranger posted:Which you should definitely watch. In general it's one of the greatest war films ever made and that scene in the screenshot is the most memorable moment in the film (and the line is what he actually said). The character in the shot is General Pickett and if you know even a tiny bit of Civil War history then you know what has happened. If you know even a tiny bit of Civil War history you know that General Pickett was a Confederate general who is best known for commanding a division in an infantry assault that had the poo poo blown out of it by Union artillery.
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I'll have you all know that I am blue/gray color blind and you are all oppressing me by pointing out that shameful error.
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Random Stranger posted:I'll have you all know that I am blue/gray color blind and you are all oppressing me by pointing out that shameful error. https://youtu.be/rGv1VKAybcI Gettysburg is a bit long and overdramatic but I still love it
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Random Stranger posted:The sequel, OTOH, you can ignore. Gettysburg II: the Ghost Dimension?
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Gettysburg II: the Ghost Dimension? 2 Gettys 2 Burg
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Even at the time this actually happened it was described as being "not a typically textbook maneuver" which is a really dry way of historians saying that they had no clue how the gently caress he came up with that idea on the fly.
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Anonymous Zebra posted:Even at the time this actually happened it was described as being "not a typically textbook maneuver" which is a really dry way of historians saying that they had no clue how the gently caress he came up with that idea on the fly. I think you have that a bit backwards, it's a pretty classical drill maneuver, but not one that you would typically see on the battlefield in that day and age.
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