Or, better put, "**** you Hollywood, you idiotic sacks of catshit."

The Few is set around one of the handful of Americans who aided the RAF in the battle of Britain.

So, let us look at it like this. American, in American WWII movie made by Hollywood, who has a track record of crapping over English history.

Bets it'll be how Mr. Fiske saves Ol' Blighty from the Evil Germans? Odds are high.

So, in advance, I'd like to tell you all how disgusted I am that such an inpsiring piece of English history is being rewritten by Hollywood to appeal to American audiences. Like U571.

I hope the writers choke on their own feces.

Yes, I am annoyed.

@#$% YOU HOLLYWOOD!

Thats almost as bad as the cube...where the whole movie takes place in ONE ROOM.

No, it's not.

That didn't shit over English history, rewriting it so that some dumb bastards who know nothing about history or indeed the world beyond their own town will see it. It's dumbing down of an important turning point in the Second World War.

To sell tickets. It's making peoples sacrafices seem nothing to this Wonderful All-American hero who beats back the Nasty Germans and saves the Poor English single-handed.

This is a travesty. Nothing short of an utter travesty.

Yeah, your right. I mean how far will one person go to make money? One thing is to have some fiction about a war such as Hellboy and such but I mean thats kinda crossing the line. Just to show you how money has once again corrupted the minds of man...

agreed. there have been very few films where ANY history hasnt be crapped on from a great height. but as you know, its about what makes the money to them, not about whats right... money corrupts people..

I'm sure if a movie was made in..lets say..Canada,it would be made about a canadian man.


Hollywood does have a history of crapping up history,but Its really a low blow to be 'bashing' on us like that...

Sorry if you weren't bashing us,but....Yeah. I'm done.

I think you might be jumping to conclusions a little bit early here, East.

This could be a good movie. Good actor (Tom Cruise) and a great director (Michael Mann) can overcome even the worst scripts. I'll reserve judgement until I see the whole movie.

I'm bashing Hollywood and their track record of screwing my heritage. Kinda justifed, eh?

Shake - Hollywood + American Hero + World War II = Yank flag-waving festival in my experience. Unless something amazing happens, it'll be yet another piece of revisionist history.

Weee.

Also consider that these are the same writers who wrote 'Last Samurai', a film that did not paint a rosey picture of the Americans (showed them as imperialist and highly racist).

^Yes, but during much of that movie, the Americans as a whole were the foes. Not the hero obviously.

However, in WWII, the Americans were on the side of the Allies. This movie is set during one of the most important conflicts in English history, where the hero is American, and the Americans are the allies of the British.

Hoo boy. This doesn't look good.

And now the conundrum...

Do I go to the movie to see if it really IS Uberpatriotism for a country that hadn't gotten off its fat ass to fight facism when the movie was set, so I can comment on how bad it is,

or do I not go and rely on critics so I can deny them my $7?

Decisions, decisions...

BobCat

There is a theory that says that All of California and most of the West Coast will collapse under the ocean if a powerful enough earthquake happens.

While I do hope everyone will be able to evacuate the area before disaster strikes, I will say this.

If this happens within my lifetime, I will NOT miss Hollywood one bit.

**** you, Hollywood....**** you Hollywood indeed......

Ruined so many things.... :rawr:

Actually, that's a common misconception. What's gonna happen is that over the next few million years, part of California (which is on the Pacific Techtonic Plate, as opposed to the North American plate) which include Hollywood is going to slide northward and eventually become its own landmass. By eventually, I mean MILLIONS of years.

Sorry to burst your bubble; Hollywood deseves to be destroyed or have some kind of Quality Dictator, but Geology isn't going to save the world from that tripe.

It's great to learn...

CAUSE KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!
And power corrupts...

LEARN AND BE EVIL!

BobCat :mwa: :mwa: :mwa:

*gives Bobcat the evil eye*

Now who's revising history?

Okay, maybe I did word it too strongly. But still, as of the Battle of Britain, all that Congress was willing to do was Lend/Lease, and even that they resisted.

Duh, because they're politicians.

I've been thinking of a way to keep some things pure: comics should stay as comics, books should stay as books, history should stay as history -- NOT as movies.

With looking at the original product, one can know it has been complete and utterly butchered, giving the real product a face of SHAME. I know about this, because they're about to make a Live-Action Evangelion movie, and I'm worried to see my favourite anime/manga of all time being completely changed -- almost as pissed off as Eastwood, except by the fact he is worried about a butchered version of his Nation's history.

I share thy pain, Eastwood.

has anyone noticed hollywood like @#$%ing up films endings like t-3 50 1st dates and the end of van-helsing why god-damnit :plot:

if they need to make a movie with a American hero why don't they do G.I. joe? =P
better then takening a shit on the history bookes.

Let us not forget that Hollywood can do whatever the hell they want with anything. It’s just like in Troy. Paris was supposed to be killed but since Bloom was playing the part, they decided to be morons and change it. They just gave him some arrows and suddenly he was shooting like Legolas...

they need to leave history aloune and be original! the iteads thinkit's ok to rewirte history

I couldn't have said it better. Hollywood is just there to make money. They don't care about history. They just want money, and don't care about the facts. Also, they don't care about the INTELLIGENCE of our country. Take a look at Reality TV, for example. It dumbs us down, makes us think srugs, sex, etc. is good, and encourages us to almost be thugs. I don't have a problem if it is done in a humorous way (comics, flash movies), but on TV, usually it is degrading. Take "Survivor" for example. It encourages lying, deceit, and selfishness. Everyoe tells kids to "Always tell the truth", but yet their parents sometimes lie to them and to each other (not saying that mine do that, I'm saying what I see with my friends parents.) I am getting a bit off topic now, but I hope I get my point across.

EDIT: Sorry, I didn't loook at the date. I realize I was gravedigging. Sorry. Don't spam me with posts saying I was gravedigging.

*sigh*

It's going to be Saving Private Ryan all over again. Where apparently there were only american and german soldiers in that war >O_o< what? Well they seemed to be the ones getting any screen time.

Don't get me started on Holywood right now. THEY @#$%ING DESTROYED HELLBLAZER! WHY? WHyyy? *cries*

It would be abso-@#$%ing-loutely wonderful if hollywood could portray ANY of history right. It's always altered to sell @#$%ing tickets.

Is it any wonder I'm usually found in sci-fi films?

I'm pretty sure that should count as slander. But then again, if Michael Jackson can get away with paying off kids, then...well, it just shows that if you're in Hollywood (or around it), you can get away with anything.

**** Hollywood, indeed. They just get stupider every day.

Well, why would the American government send a British team to find a group of American paratroopers in what was primarily a Public Relations mission? That and mostly American troops hit Omaha Beach aka the beach in the opening firefight.

Am I the only person here who's seen 'Enemy At The Gates'? British accents aside, that's about the least-Hollywood 'Hollywood war movie' I've ever seen.