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I think it's laughable to see various film critics who write for legitimate newspapers who say this film has some historical basis!
The movie is horrendously inaccurate, more laughably, even, than "Gladiator" (which is at least a well-written script whose historical errors are articulate and correspond well to the story).
Take away the fact that the movie has no historical truth it, and it is still the worse movie ever found in a video store.
Needless to say the film's very badness also provides an historical insight into bad, or simply evil, filmmaking as a propagandist's tool.
Well first off I'd like to add that I myself is somewhat of a historian so what I look for in a film that is based upon historical events is that it is actually based upon historical facts.
Flemming, in his 62-minute documentary, asserts that Jesus was not a historical figure but a legend based solely on Pagan traditions.
As a historical note, watch Galactica, the original Star Trek, and then the revival Trek series, and you'll see the difference in quality between network-produced sci-fi and syndicated sci-fi.
I guess it's useful for historical purposes only, or only to demonstrate how stupid and unimaginative Hollywood writers can be.
Don't blame historical inaccuracy for the fact that you just didn't dig it.
Mike Meyers was good, and the historical recreation of late 70s decadence was well crafted, but overall, this movie was a big waste of time.
As we all know Hollywood enjoys changing historical events around for our enjoyment, and 44 minutes is one of those hollywoodized movies.
To me it was rather a disappointment, especially the combination of historical facts, fantasy and the main character's internal turmoil does not work at all (in Vonnegut's book Slaughterhouse Five and even in George Roy Hill's adaptation for the screen it does).
This may have been based on historical events, and we know that the makers of this TV docu-drama took liberties to make it more dramatic - I can live with that - but it was just so badly done!
The Renaissance was a historical and artistic burst of color and life.
"Algie, the Miner" is pretty awful, but fascinating from a historical viewpoint.
As a history nut who is particularly interested in this particular historical event, I was very disappointed with the movie.
It is a classic historical romance set in the 1600s when the west country was several days' journey from London and law and order was much harder to enforce.
The only problem is that this Viet Nam is long gone and when "The scent of the green papaya" had a historical background... trying to project this kind of ambiance (muffled sounds and the slow pace of life...) on modern days leaves a feeling of fake.
At least "Bride & Prejudice" was taken out of the historical & locational settings and was fun to watch, as was "Clueless".
This was not an enjoyable family film with a good historical background.
Gramps remembers something about a historical document, and the rest of the movie is about the last 36 hours when Arnold and Jamal must find the document with the undercover aid of Helga, whose father is hoping to become rich thanks to Shenk's Mall.
Look at the historical details, if you can find them.
The acting is awful, it is far too patriotic and its historical accuracy is not always at its best (Historians would have a field day).
Basilisk, although based on fantasy, with elements of horror and largely exaggerated is splendid and has so much more depth in its characters, storyline, historical value and it is, may I say, heartbreaking.
The historical subject of giants is a good one, but pour in the goon milk and you end up with a giant wheel of cheese.
The goal of this movie was to tell Smith's life in a way that would be "comfortable" to the LDS Church leaders, historical accuracy seems to have been of little concern.
The book "Panzram: A Journal of Murder" by Thomas E. Gaddis and James O. Long, which came out the better part of a century after Panzram's death, gives the historical context to a first-generation American's account of running away from home to go west and be a cowboy, getting caught, thrown in the boy's home, getting away repeatedly and thrown into prison over and over all the time getting tortured and sodomized.
The only possible way to sit through this movie and enjoy it is for it's historical cheesiness quality.
I rented this movie, thinking it looked like a wonderfully delightful historical piece.
One can deal with historical inaccuracies, but this film was just too much.
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