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RE: Amazing movies that are terrible biographies
July 13, 2017 at 3:12 pm
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So this isn't exactly what you asked but my sister won't let me watch the Disney Hercules with her anymore after taking a mythology course in high school. Apparently going "Pffft Hera did not have Hercules she tried to kill him" and other 'sassy' remarks are unnecessary during a children's movie about things that never actually happened. lol
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RE: Amazing movies that are terrible biographies
July 13, 2017 at 3:15 pm
Hey, that fits right in. She's right. Disney does horrible biographies. Pocahontas? What the fuck were they thinking?
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RE: Amazing movies that are terrible biographies
July 13, 2017 at 3:16 pm
(July 13, 2017 at 3:15 pm)Shell B Wrote: Hey, that fits right in. She's right. Disney does horrible biographies. Pocahontas? What the fuck were they thinking?
I'm not allowed to watch that movie with her anymore either...  lol
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RE: Amazing movies that are terrible biographies
July 13, 2017 at 3:19 pm
Haha, see, I can enjoy them, but know that Disney just writes random shit and names it after historical characters.
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RE: Amazing movies that are terrible biographies
July 13, 2017 at 5:13 pm
(July 13, 2017 at 3:02 pm)Shell B Wrote: Alex, we loved Imitation Game, but Tibs had the same complaints. Nonetheless, his real life was equally heartbreaking.
Oh it was. Humanity didn't deserve him...
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RE: Amazing movies that are terrible biographies
July 13, 2017 at 5:23 pm
Not exactly fitting in with the general theme.
This is a Terrible movie and a Terrible biography:
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RE: Amazing movies that are terrible biographies
July 13, 2017 at 5:27 pm
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(July 13, 2017 at 2:20 pm)Whateverist Wrote: (July 13, 2017 at 2:02 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: I'm drawing a blank on Rob Stark . . .
Blasphemer! You claim to be an atheist and yet know not Rob Stark. Do you not read? I'm sorry, but I am going to have to report you. In fact, you're a mod, I'll report you to you. Please flog yourself immediately.
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RE: Amazing movies that are terrible biographies
July 13, 2017 at 5:29 pm
(July 13, 2017 at 5:27 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (July 13, 2017 at 2:20 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Blasphemer! You claim to be an atheist and yet know not Rob Stark. Do you not read? I'm sorry, but I am going to have to report you. In fact, you're a mod, I'll report you to you. Please flog yourself immediately.
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RE: Amazing movies that are terrible biographies
July 13, 2017 at 8:59 pm
(July 13, 2017 at 2:34 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Can't believe Braveheart hasn't been mentioned. Fun movie, but I think it was actually voted as the most historically inaccurate movie of all time. Lemme see if I can grab a source for that.
EDIT: Hah, the source quote is great.
Quote:In 2009, the film was second on a list of "most historically inaccurate movies" in The Times. In the humorous non-fictional historiography An Utterly Impartial History of Britain (2007), author John O'Farrell notes that Braveheart could not have been more historically inaccurate, even if a "Plasticine dog" had been inserted in the film and the title changed to William Wallace and Gromit.
Funny! The same actor was responsible for a movie every bit as inaccurate historically by non-fundamentalist standards anyhow. I never saw The Passion of the Christ but it has to be a lot of malarky.
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RE: Amazing movies that are terrible biographies
July 13, 2017 at 9:08 pm
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(July 13, 2017 at 3:15 pm)Shell B Wrote: Hey, that fits right in. She's right. Disney does horrible biographies. Pocahontas? What the fuck were they thinking?
Psh, so judgy...but can -you- paint with all the colors of the wind? I didn't think so.
Commodus in Gladiator- Yeah, he was a baller who fought for amusement in the arena..and there the historicity ends. Just and well loved, strangled by his lover and trainer...Narcissus (a wrestler)....in his bathtub...or during the act of coitus..take your pick.
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