History has shown time and time again, the Academy of Old Semi-Racist Geezers with Little Grasp on Reality who Like the Odd Motion Picture Now and Again really couldn\'t give half a crap about historical accuracy. And, you know, for as much as they\'re suckers for blatant Oscar bait of a social justice persuasion, they seem to be able to do fine without seeing \"yucky\" non-heteronormative intimacy. Unless it\'s wimmins. Then it\'s aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall right, looks like.
My point is, the film\'s ambitions were bastardized to cater specifically to these people who make up less than a fragment of a percentage of the world\'s population. You have to wonder why they didn\'t take the bait more \'n they did.
See, I think you have a bit of a point in there, but at the end of the day, our views on what a \"historical\" movie is or should be are simply too different to be compatible.
And, honestly, your review is a very poor one. I could get literally everything of substance in it by taking the first sentence of the second paragraph and putting it in front of the fourth. The rest is just angry ranting about how much it sucks, which is even worse than spending the entire review nitpicking out individual things in it that suck. (And that is bad reviewing too.) It doesn\'t add anything.
I don\'t think it\'s so much that they changed history. The Sound of Music, for example, is very loose in its telling of events.
The problem is that they made alterations to history for reasons that don\'t make it a better movie. For example, with SOM they change it from them just boarding a train to Italy to them having an escape from a concert, through a church, and over the mountains. It makes for an exciting climax.
In The Imitation Game we have stuff like the rest of the team being pretty much pointless while Turing does everything himself. I don\'t see how this improves stuff. A fiction like the whole thing with crossword puzzles is an okay addition, because it\'s adding a neat little motif that you can tie to his characterization (cracking codes is like solving puzzles).
Also, while the acting is good, the acting is also Benedict Cumberbatch just playing a variation on Sherlock.
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I happen to agree, but that\'s not what the *review* said. The review on which I am commenting is just variations on a theme of \"It sucks! I hate it! We should kill the idiots who made it! Why are morons allowed near these movies?! How much does it suck? A lot!\" for several paragraphs.
Ok, what the fuck is up with the \"\" symbol.
Reviews and review comments got borked when Tropes changed its system.
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Well Acted, but why do they screw with History?
I'm someone who is a bit of a history buff, and films like this make me fume.
It's very well acted and is an interesting and involving tale. But the writers should be taken out and shot.
This movie bears as much resemblance to the truth as Appocalyse Now tells the story of Vietnam: if you squint hard enough, somewhere there's a fact buried in the mess of melodrama and ludicrous "artistic license" that lays over the film like shit on a shingle.
We have a duty to tell history the way it was, not butcher it for "entertainment". If you want to fictionalize history, fine, then DON'T try to sell it as a "biopic" or "based on a true story". The film does a huge disservice to pretty much all historical characters referenced. Maybe not on the order of Stone's JFK, but pretty damned close.
Frankly, if I were the heirs to anyone portrayed in this film, I would have sued the producers for millions in libel, and forced them to put a huge disclaimer at the front of the movie which said:
"The contents of this movie are the imaginings of stupid screenwriters who never bothered to read a history book, and are obsessed with lying to you and distorting critical historical facts because they think you, the audience, are to stupid to find the real story entertaining."
Really, it was a well done film, except, well, for the plot, storyline, and characterization of everyone. Which is a shame, because there were very strong acting performances by at least a half-dozen leads.