Friday, November 14, 2014

This years movies


Well it's been a bit of a poor year movie wise, really good films have been a bit thin on the ground.
For some reason 2014 has been the year of the rom-com with dozens of romantic/comedy films, it seems once one studio brings out a movie all the others gasp out loud and rush out similar films, all made in someones garden for fourpence and a cornetto.
Take tank movies for example, we've had four or five now, pretty much all awful and low budget, or look that way, and worse most get all the military stuff wrong.  As someone who has been a soldier it really annoys me to see stuff like that wrong.  It's history you idiots!  You can look it up, or better still theres plenty of WW2 vetrans around to ask.
Getting even the simple stuff like the guns wrong is terrible, it shows the movie company couldn't care less, as long as they can bang out a movie in seven minutes for the price of a garden gnome!
I watched a bit of one movie this morning, the "hero" was a soldier my age for Gods sake, how many sixty year old soldiers fought on the front line in the invasion of France/Germany, the answer is bugger all, most of the generals were younger than me, and they didn't spend any time firing machine guns at the Germans in the middle of the combat zone.  Why do they do it, I mean come on there must be actors under sixty, remember the average age of WW2 soldiers was nineteen and a half.
So whats next. Well theres supposed to be a new version of Swallows and Amazons in the making, although it seems to be hitting problems and has been delayed.  Theres an Avatar sequal in the making, DC are planning a load of movies, with superman, flash ect, someone said theres eleven films planned.  Time Warner are talking about more Harry Potter films.

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