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Yeah, but that's what they're calling it.

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I want to know if he lived through the dive off the top rope or not.

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dude that's the magic of the end, leave his fate to your imagination

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In my imagination he survives the Ram Jam, get's the three count then goes back to his trailer and butt fucks Marisa Tomei all night long.

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In my imagination he survives the Ram Jam, get's the three count then goes back to his trailer and I butt fuck Marisa Tomei all night long.

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I forgot which movie I watch, I think there were 2 of them.

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It's history. How much of it can you fudge anyway?

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It's history. How much of it can you fudge anyway?

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Ask Oliver Stone.

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Fatty, you are leaving yourself wide open on this one...the amount of 'historical' or 'based on a true story' films that have no relation to reality is literally endless.

U-571, for example.

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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 movie, 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's plot, though a work of fiction, is partly based on real events. It attracted criticism for two reasons: first, it was British personnel from HMS Bulldog who first captured a naval Enigma machine, from U-110 in the North Atlantic May 1941, before the United States entered the war. Second, German U-boat crews were portrayed in a negative light.

The real U-571 was never involved in any such events, was not captured, and was in fact sunk in January 1944, off Ireland, by a Short Sunderland flying boat from No. 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.

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Americans didn't capture the Enigma decoder. Britain did...but it's an American movie, so, you know what happens. It's more appealing to an American audience this way.

Hollywood never lets the facts get in the way of a good story. It's always best to remember that these are dramatisations, not documentaries (even though no documentary is 100% unbiased), and it's best to avoid taking what you've seen as a historical fact, because more often than not it isn't. Hollywood routinely changes works of fiction to make it 'better' for the screen (for example, the ending of Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale"), and it does the same thing with historical and/or factual material too.

Sadly, there are still some people walking this earth who believe that Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet's characters in 'Titanic' were real people, when they are in fact both nothing more than literary inventions.

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I just Popped this Pakistani horror flick into the DVD player.

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Fatty, you are leaving yourself wide open on this one...the amount of 'historical' or 'based on a true story' films that have no relation to reality is literally endless.

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True enough. Most Americans know no history so it doesn't matter to them when it's fudged up. But, still, I'd really hope they'd notice if somehow Hitler got killed instead of survived ... but, in a country where many morons think the Bible is a science textbook, I guess anything is possible.


Hollywood even makes "political" alterations like the one in U-571, in historical-fiction works as well. In the book "Master & Commander" the British are chasing an American frigate. In the movie, it's the hated French.

I guess if they did the burning of the White House in a movie now it would be the French or maybe a Bin Laden ancestor.

The one that annoyed me the most in recent years was "Troy". Paris surviving and running off with Helen. Agamemnon dying there instead of at his wife's hand upon his return.

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But it is a science textbook...it's Christian Science.

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This is only kind of off topic.

Can any of you folks recommend any awesome car movies along the lines of Duel or Vanishing Point.

If that doesn't help I am looking for another movie where vehicles are sort of "characters" in the story. (In "Duel" the truck was a character and in "Vanishing Point" moving the car was the plot).

Also, Damnation Alley fits into the kind of thing I am after.

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Can any of you folks recommend any awesome car movies

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Just watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Awesome movie.

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I loved this one!! I got a screener a while back, very well designed horror film. Did you like it?

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I thought a lot of it was good. The ending was a bit of a let down, though.

I saw this one last night.

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A lot of Jason Statham lately:

Yesterday, Revolver, which was OK, but I liked RocknRolla a lot better.

Today:



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Nip/Tuck is not a movie.

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Who gives a fuck? Whoever started this thread just wanted to know what non-porno shit you watched.

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Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship is actually a Nazi torture ship which has sailed the seas for years, luring unsuspecting sailors aboard and killing them off one by one.

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