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Not before I posted, no . But I just did...
Kind of funny, but on a more serious note Hollywood is totally inaccurate when it comes to historical movies.
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What does Independance Day have to do with Hollywood being generally crummy with historical films?
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I was hoping for something more substantial. When I read it was Eric D. Snider, I was hoping the jokes were going to be more substantial. He usually does better than this. As it is, I think he could have just said, "all those who complain about the innacuracies of Hollywood movies take Hollywood too seriously."
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Personally, he was just doing humor of the absurd...in this case, rattling off "errors" in historical films that were obviously in error.
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It needed some indication that he knew the "errors" were errors. There wasn't anything there that tipped you off he wasn't a totally clueless 12 year old. So maybe it was supposed to be satirical of 12 year olds... but, again, there needs to be some indication of intent, and I didn't see any.
It COULD have been hilarious. Instead, it just seemed like a 12 year old wrote it.
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quote:Originally posted by Paul Goldner: There wasn't anything there that tipped you off he wasn't a totally clueless 12 year old.
If you can read a line about Burt and Mary doing meth in "Mary Poppins" and -not- think "Hmmm...this author is just being silly", then I think you're missing some anvil-sized tip-offs!
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quote:Originally posted by Satlin: It was the best historical film that ever came out of Hollywood.
No, no, no... You're referring to Hudson Hawk, the movie that made Leaonardo da Vinci rise from the dead and say "wait... I did WHAT?"
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