kallend 2,027 #26 January 26, 2014 aphid*** (snip) Argo (snip) Hollywood managed to offend an entire country (Canada) by playing so loose with the facts. What do facts have to do with a movie? Remember U571? U-571 is a 2000 film directed by Jonathan Mostow, and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy, Will Estes, and Tom Guiry. In the film, a World War II German submarine is boarded in 1942 by disguised United States Navy submariners seeking to capture her Enigma cipher machine. The film was financially successful and generally well-received by critics in the USA and won an Academy Award for sound editing. The plot attracted substantial criticism since, in reality, it was British personnel from HMS Bulldog who first captured a naval Enigma machine (from U-110 in the North Atlantic in May 1941), months before the United States entered the war. The anger over the inaccuracies even reached the British Parliament, where Prime Minister Tony Blair stated that the film was an "affront" to British sailors. Even the theater release of The Dambusters in the US had stock footage of B17s inserted into it "to make it more acceptable to American audiences".... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grue 1 #27 January 26, 2014 aphid*** (snip) Argo (snip) Hollywood managed to offend an entire country (Canada) by playing so loose with the facts. Breaking news: people offended by movies not being 100% accurate need to get laid. They are, of course, welcome to make their own movie.cavete terrae. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymama 37 #28 February 1, 2014 +1 on Fruitvale Station. We just watched that and I think that will be one of those movies that I always remember. I say that in a good and a bad way. I feel bad about liking the movie, because...well...you know. (I don't want to write a spoiler.)She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
