Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

Alex · 02-03-2011, 02:05 PM

Unless it is an area I know reasonably well independently I just treat biographical and historical films as completely fictional.

If it requires a patina of reality to be entertaining then, frankly, it fails as a movie in my opinion.

To an extent this is even true of documentaries. I assume that there is not intentional distortion but unless I'm familiar with things I assume that the filmmaker could be so unintentionally distorting things as to be a useful document, but it can still be an entertaining film.

02-03-2011, 02:05 PM	#11
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Unless it is an area I know reasonably well independently I just treat biographical and historical films as completely fictional. If it requires a patina of reality to be entertaining then, frankly, it fails as a movie in my opinion. To an extent this is even true of documentaries. I assume that there is not intentional distortion but unless I'm familiar with things I assume that the filmmaker could be so unintentionally distorting things as to be a useful document, but it can still be an entertaining film.
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