posted
Hollywood films have never been overly concerned with adhering to established facts (if you can call the story of the siege of Troy a 'fact'), but this summer's films are particularly wide of the mark. The siege of Troy lasted ten years? Bo-ring! About a month should do it. Ice ages don't start overnight? Well, the punters have never seen an ice age start so they won't know the difference!
posted
So you like almost all Hollywoood movies then?
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Registered: Aug 2002
| IP: Logged
-------------------- "This is why you people think I'm so unknowable. You don't listen!" - God, "God, the Devil and Bob"
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
posted
But.....it was made by the guys that brought us Independence Day! It had to have been at least as scientifically plausable as, say, The Core.
That was only slightly less plausable than Flash Gordon.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Registered: Aug 2002
| IP: Logged
Cartman
just made by the Presbyterian Church
Member # 256
posted
Yes, and The Core was only slightly less painful than jabbing urine-dipped needles into my eyes.
Registered: Nov 1999
| IP: Logged
quote: The siege of Troy lasted ten years? Bo-ring! About a month should do it.
Originally posted by Topher:
quote: Another thing about Troy... I can't believe they killed Menelaus!
WTF?!?
Why make a movie about the Trojan war if you're not going to make a movie about the Trojan war??? Didn't they learn anything from First Knight?
I was gonna scrape up the $8 to see this, but now I think I'll just go to the library and check out Firebrand instead. It's been a few years since the last time I read it.
quote:Originally posted by Ultra Magnus: I like movies that make people mad about things that the people who made the movies cared < 0 about.
Obiously a certain amount of dramatic license can be used. I live with medical students, and one of them has an annoying habit of pointing out everytime a TV show or movie gets some medical practise wrong.
But there is a limit before people will be saying "that's just stupid". And an ice-age starting overnight is pretty stupid.
-------------------- Yes, you're despicable, and... and picable... and... and you're definitely, definitely despicable. How a person can get so despicable in one lifetime is beyond me. It isn't as though I haven't met a lot of people. Goodness knows it isn't that. It isn't just that... it isn't... it's... it's despicable.
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
posted
If you (general) get upset at anything other than the movie's ability to entertain you (general), you (general) should go outside, and find some young lady who is willing to flash you (general).
Registered: Oct 1999
| IP: Logged
quote:Originally posted by MarianLH: Originally posted by Lee:
quote: The siege of Troy lasted ten years? Bo-ring! About a month should do it.
Originally posted by Topher:
quote: Another thing about Troy... I can't believe they killed Menelaus!
WTF?!?
Why make a movie about the Trojan war if you're not going to make a movie about the Trojan war??? Didn't they learn anything from First Knight?
I was gonna scrape up the $8 to see this, but now I think I'll just go to the library and check out Firebrand instead. It's been a few years since the last time I read it.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Registered: Aug 2002
| IP: Logged
Plus, I get a penny from Satan for every minute of your life I make you waste online.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Registered: Aug 2002
| IP: Logged
Topic Closed
![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic