Hey, if you’re gonna do that, then you should complain about all the Americans in The Great Escape who got out, when in real life the Germans moved all the Americans out of the compound before the escape*.
And that’s without even mentioning that they gave a lot of the choice positions in the movie to Americans, when they were really British. And anybody who assaulted Germans the way Steve McQueen did would’ve been shot.
The Germans evidently hoped that the Britishj and Americans wouldn’t get along, so their mutual antagonism woul’ve messed up any escapes< but it worked out just the opposite. To their credit, the movie DID hint at this (“They burned your capitol in 1812! I read this!” “Neve happened”)
Nitpick: It’s capital, not capitol. The Capitol is a building. The British burned Washington City (as it was then known) in 1814, in retaliation for the Americans burning York (present day Toronto, ON) the previous year.
In re the abomination known as U-571, IMDb has this to say:
A History Channel review of this movie, which aired soon after its release, included a German World War II U-Boat commander. At the end of the show, he was asked for his opinion of the authenticity of the movie. His response was: “They got one thing right in the movie. There were U-Boats in the North Atlantic during the Second World War.”
The whole motorcycle sequence was thrown in to include him in the cast. Most of the “On the Run” segment (roughly the final third of the movie) was pure fantasy.
Just found out Bushnell, whom Bartlett is based on in The Great Escape, was shot down during the Dunkirk evacs. Will Attenborough appears in Dunkirk.…yet Bushnell isn’t in Dunkirk. A missed opportunity.
Dunno if it counts but I’ve seen Kill Bill 2 on movie lists like “Movie endings you didn’t realize were really dark”. Seriously how can anyone not realize the ending is super dark, just because The Bride did not turn to camera and say “Oh no I’ve killed the only parent my daughter has ever known and taken her away from the only life she’s ever known to an uncertain future” it doesn’t mean that’s not the obvious implication of the ending.
If the capital was burned in 1814, of course the Capitol was burned as well. That goes without saying. The whole damned city went up in flames.
At the time, the Capitol had been under construction since 1793. The original building wouldn’t be finished until 1826, and the dome was added between 1855 and 1866.
Who do you think the descendants of those useless folks are?
Tom Hanks pees in every one of his movies.
That one, I think was just sloppy filmmaking. Yeah, the creatures are clearly advanced robots. But if you want to show them as being advanced robots, why the heck would you choose to make them look exactly like stereotypical Grays? It’s inevitable that people are going to be confused by that.
Certainly Pickens’ bomb explodes, because if it hadn’t, it wouldn’t have triggered war. Given that, does it even matter if that particular explosion is one of the (multiple) specific explosions shown at the end?
I realize no one is ever going to change their minds on this one - the camps have been firmly established, the lines drawn in permanent marker. And no one is ever going to know the “correct” answer because it’s, you know, fiction. All that said: Dottie absolutely dropped the ball on purpose.
Honestly, that there was even a collision at home plate at all is evidence that Dottie was taking it easy on Kit. By the time Dottie has the ball in her glove, Kit is barely halfway down the third base line. She is out by an eternity. If Dottie were a fierce, win-at-all-costs, remorseless Mariano Rivera robot, she’d have taken two steps up the third base line and tagged Kit out without a collision. Risk free victory.
But she didn’t. Because Dottie has been established throughout the film as a person for whom winning and competition are not the be-all and end-all. She tries to quit the league altogether or get herself traded rather than continue to frustrate Kit. She bails on the team for most of the final series; if she hadn’t done that it wouldn’t have come down to the final play at all. I think she loves baseball, but she’s deeply ambivalent about its importance.
And yeah, she gave the Peach pitcher an accurate scouting report on Kit. I’d argue that in that moment, she didn’t see a need to protect her sister. But once Kit rounds third base through her coach’s stop sign, Dottie has to step up and save Kit one last time from the consequences of her own stubbornness - and she does.
I have heard several people, including some of the actors, claim that Kull was Conan’s father.
No! No! No!
Kull was Atlantean. Conan was Cimmerian. The Atlanteans were distant ancestors of the Cimmerians.
The Conan stories take place after the fall of the Atlantean civilization. In the Kull stories, the Atlaneans are primitive savages who have not yet begun to build a civilization.
The Conan stories take place after the Great Cataclysm destroyed the continent of Atlantis. In the Kull stories, Atlantis is a string of tiny islands that have just begun to rise out of the ocean.
Yes, I am aware that human timescales and geological timescales don’t work that way. If you insist on being pedantic, we can say that the Atlanteans spread out of their islands, conquered the Thurian continent, and re-named it.
And then Vito went and did the exact same thing to Signor Roberto the landlord, preying on his own people (well, a Calabrese, anyway). Meet the new don, same as the old don.
Roberto is not in the game. He’s a regular person, a civilian victimized by Vito. Just like Vito doesn’t want other people interfering in his business, neither does Roberto. Using his reputation as a murderer to force Roberto to let the widow stay when Vito has already offered to pay to help the widow move doesn’t sound like a benevolent force to me.
Did the innocent murdered prostitute have it coming, too?
Except for Roberto, the prostitute and Frankie Pentangeli’s brother.
It could also be because the GF series is mostly told on a grander scale than street-level business like in Goodfellas or The Sopranos. The people the Corleones involve themselves with are movie producers, corrupt police captains, drug kingpins, senators, archbishops, international bankers, other bosses, horses, etc.
I know. I’m not the one arguing Vito is a good man. Just that a lot of people see him that way because Coppola, and maybe Puzo in the books, deliberately avoided showing the Corleone family hurting regular people. If you disagree with that assessment, okay, but please don’t get me confused with someone who thinks the Corleones are good people.
I get you’re not arguing Vito is a good man, I just don’t understand how you can say Coppola deliberately avoided showing the Corelone family hurting regular people when I just listed three examples. Like, did you read an interview with Coppola where he says he did this?
As for Puzo, the book was even worse. You don’t want to know the things Luca Brasi did to completely innocent regular people.
I remember a few people at the time of Top Gun Mavericks release were all going in unison THE ENEMY NATION IS IRAN, THEY’RE THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WHO STILL USES TOMCATS and that this was some coded anti-Iran message.
Completely forgetting this nation also has access to SU-57s which are only currently used by Russia, and besides Iran is currently developing it’s own “5th Generation Fighter” and is buying up older model Russian fighters to bulk up it’s fleet not top-of-the-line SU-57s. Also forgetting the fact Top Gun takes place in a world with MiG-28s which never existed in our world. The Enemy Nation is deliberately meant to be ambiguous in every single way.
Sorry I wasn’t clear, I was referring to Signor Roberto the landlord, Frankie Pentangeli’s brother and the prostitute. None of them were in the game, not even the prostitute. They were all regular people who weren’t in the Corleones way until Vito or Michael stuck their beaks in.