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Re: CBA #25
Cheers,I never imagined them to be great art,but it's nice to hear of someone who's actually seen one.I can vaguely remember a series on TV a few years back about film turkeys and one episode was about the mexican wrestler movies.
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29/10/03, 9:53
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Since this seems to have turned into a general DVD,film thread I might as well post this here.I see Hollywood is up to it's old rewriting history tricks again.In the new film Master and Commander Far side of the World.The American Frigate of the book FSOTW has been changed to a French one.
The original book was set in 1812 when as well as been at war with France the British were also briefly at war with the U.S.(sad but true)At this moment in time the American Frigates were superior to the British,and were a cause of concern for the Royal Navy.And the main gist of the book was a British ship taking on a superior ship and defeating it.
Obviously at the moment with Britain and the U.S. been the best of friends,the U.S. could not be seen as the bad guys (and hey the films is financed by the U.S.)and France not been in the"good books" with either country guess who gets to be the villains of the piece.
Still if Mel Gibson had made the film it would have been about the plucky little American ship taking on a villainous British captain aboard a Man O War.
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13/11/03, 10:37
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