Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Jorge wrote:It is silly to care about historical accuracy in movies anyway
One of the most amusing lectures of my college career was a medieval warfare course where the prof passionately tore apart most everything in Braveheart.
If you’re going to deviate from history in a movie, better make it big and all encompassing.
It’s more annoying if nearly everything in a movie is historically correct, and then they change one or two minor things, to be blatantly different. Like some guy had two sisters, but in the movie he had one brother and one sister, and everything else is the same as it was. Or he had three long relationships, but in the movie he only had two.
Jorge wrote:It is silly to care about historical accuracy in movies anyway
One of the most amusing lectures of my college career was a medieval warfare course where the prof passionately tore apart most everything in Braveheart.
This type of shit is what turned me off of Neil Degrease Tyson.
there's a load of reasons to get as close as you can to well-researched (even if you'll still make mistakes): I'd rather watch anything by Robert Eggers than Braveheart any day of the week
Ello Sailor wrote:I don't think I've ever disliked a Ridley Scott joint. Haven't seen Kingdom of Heaven though. I'm in no hurry, mostly due to Orlando Bloom's suckitude.
The theatrical cut sucks, but the director's cut is one of his best movies.
This seems to be a common take
Where can I guy like me find the director's cut? Whenever I look for it, all I can find is the theatrical version.
He's not only a great actor and director, but a great person too.
He’s a great actor and director. As a person he is certainly controversial, has been accused of anti-semitism (against Jews) several times. He’s apologized of course.
I’m sure in general, he’s a nice guy to be around.