When the movie was released, there were rumors that there was an alternate ending where Jack didn’t die and that’s why teenage girls were seeing it dozens of times.
What about the Civil War where the South DID suffer defeat and conquest? Do southerners view the subject differently from northerners?
But why watch all 11??? 
Stranger than Fiction is quite good- but not a comedy.
He won 4 Emmys and two Golden globes noms.
But his Emmys were not for any of his silly films= *Live in Front of a Studio Audience: “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons” and Succession. in 2019 and 2020.
So, he can certainly act, but he aint funny.
Having opinionated a few times in here, and read with interest many other posts of opinionated people, I wonder what it would have been like if I had taken a major in theatre or film and really gotten into creating the thing. I mean, I don’t know if I’d have any talent but if I’m this opinionated I must have a notion of what the results ought to be when you do it good. And that sense of “hey, what if I could try my hand and create a good one”?
Anyway, can’t fault anyone for trying at it. Some of them sucked at it; some of them shone. And not linked in a quality one-for-one relationship or anything, but the ones that managed to make a go of it, recorded distributed shown and even made a social splash with it, I mean, to be able to do that?? Jealous of that. The folks who know how to deal with markets. That’s a form of communication too. Youve got to admire someone who does that well.
So hurray for your movie that got out there for us to see (even if I didn’t like it), and to you for doing the stuff to get it out there.
the book it was wasnt much better …
and the real patch adams was accused of ripping off desperate people for an idea he had
Really? Any more details?
supposedly he had some sort of idea of a ST jude type of hospital based on humor or something like that it never really got past the conceptual stage but he got a lot of donations via his foundation for it and a lot of people felt ripped off
its hard to find anything about it because the mayor in NYC is in trouble over campaign donations
He probably is hurting for money, given the continual harassment he has received from the government.
Sure. Even if you had a flawless vision that would have won awards, you still have to work with people and people suck. I can’t be the only one that turned in a high school group project for a C grade that I personally bled over.
Not anymore. The Virginia writer Florence King, who made a career out of explaining the South to the rest of the country (sort of a Virginian Molly Ivins; she didn’t view it through rose-colored glasses), thought that the experience of being occupied did influence the Southern psyche - she thought it contributed to redneck machismo and us-versus-the-world tribalism - but that lasted only up to maybe the generation born in the 1950s. Most Southerners born since the 60’s grew up with the South transforming into the Sunbelt; lots of internal migration from the North, Fortune 500 companies moving to Atlanta, Houston, Raleigh, Atlanta’s airport becoming the world’s busiest. My cohort I don’t think views the South as defeated or scarred by Reconstruction. IMHO
For a lot of really good reasons, we don’t need a second take on that particular story.
p.s. Is that a typo? Did you mean “12 year old girls”?
There was some bad alien-invasion movie that showed up on Roku or Hulu. I was in a mood for something junky, so I watched it. Only, the description / picture was from movie A, while the actual movie SHOWN was from movie B.
Movie B was pretty dreadful. the plot was some alien species that looked very human was threatening Earth with massive destruction unless they turned over a million or so people to be rendered into “human extract”, as the only possible treatment for some kind of disease that was killing the aliens.
Movie A, which I think involved the President hiding somewhere because he had information that would drive the aliens away, so the aliens were hunting him, was likely not any better. I guess I got my money’s worth either way.
It’s depressing that there are so many instances where a plot summary could apply to any number of movies of the same sub-genre. That are often released about the same time…
Coming soon to two or three theaters in your mall’s multi-plex:
Attack Of The Interchangeable Plots!
Reminds me of two films in 2011. Battle: Los Angeles was a $70 million alien invasion film with some A-list actors. Battle of Los Angeles as a cheapo SyFy channel alien invasion film (with some time travel thrown in for good measure). Both started streaming around the same time and both were pretty bad.
This irredeemable piece of garbage was difficult to sit through in the theater. Atrocious characters, especially the main one, who dies face down in the mud.
God I hated this thing.
There’s a whole genre of these called “mockbusters,” where a small studio puts out a cheap, direct-to-streaming version of a major film. Shape shifting robots invade the Earth? That’s Transmorphers. Did Leonardo Da Vinci leave a secret code to a mysterious treasure? Learn about it in The Da Vinci Treasure. Giant mecha versus kaiju? Atlantic Rim. Are you sick of all these legless reptiles on mass transit? Snakes on a Train.
In your case, Battle: Los Angeles (2011) was produced by Columbia, starred actual movie star Aaron Eckhart, and had a theatrical run that did decent (but not great) box office. Battle for Los Angeles was made by noted schlock house The Asylum, starred nobody you’d ever heard of*, and was released directly to streaming the same month Battle: Los Angeles hit theaters.
*That’s a little unfair: it starred '80s pop-star Nia Peeples and the less famous actor from Kenan and Kel. Both are definitely people I’ve at least heard of.
Yes! I can’t believe I didn’t see that before I posted.
Actually, it was his just-different-enough-to-avoid-a-lawsuit adaptation of Vaughn Bode’s Cobalt 60 and The Cheech Wizard. But yeah, it works as an audition to do LOTR.