(September 20, 2025 at 9:35 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(September 20, 2025 at 7:14 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I’ve never been one to insist on 100% historical accuracy in films, but yeah - there’s a limit. I recall someone bitching about the casting of Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln, because Lincoln was 6’4”, but Day-Lewis is only 6’2”.
If the producers had cast an albino Chinese dwarf in the role THAT would be a valid complaint. Otherwise, stfu.
Boru
Right, I have tolerance for industry needs and time constraints, I get it. But Vichy and American troops having a two-minute firefight and then hugging and dancing on the beach? Yeah, no. The other thing was that the squad's sergeant did about everything. Lead by example is one thing, but no, you have a squad so that you don't have to do everything. Carradine did a job job as the sergeant, and other actors did serviceable work, but the scripting and directing, bleh.
I’m actually a bit more snooty about film adaptations of works of fiction than about ‘historical’ films. I will never forgive Peter Jackson for leaving out Tom Bombadil.
Boru
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