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Nevermind JD. There are a lot of people on the net who take themselves way too seriously. And I might even say they even do it from sheer goodwill.

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd

I see we're going back to the usual "stereotyping" that goes with so many threads nowadays...way to go...you know who you are.

Stereotyping is fine as long as we don't insult eachother for our tastes.

More stereotyping:

Speilberg is to film what The Beatles are to music. Scorcese is The Stones. Kubrick is Frank Zappa. George Lucas is The Bee Gees. All very successful even if different levels of talent. And they've all hit some bad notes.

Terrence Malick thinks he's Miles Davis but his films are so dull and pretentious that AT BEST he comes off as the finale of a G3 tour. Where 4 or 5 great guitarists try to impress and outdo each other and only manage to produce a pile of crap. He completely lost me after Days of Heaven. New World was TRL at half speed.


My pet peaves for things out of place in movies:

American Indian tribes in the wrong geographical location. Nothing like having the Sioux attacking Old Tucson to make me start questioning the film makers. At least have somebody say "WTH are they doing here?"

Another one is songs in movies that had yet to be recorded.

I realize these are both petty things but they do break my immersion. They are also so easily researched that it's pretty unforgiveable to get them wrong IMO. I can understand the difficulty of procuring the right WW2 tank, or knowing the proper call of an unladen African Swallow , but how hard is it to change the names in the script or use a Buffalo Springfield song instead of Led Zepellin?

When I enjoy a movie, I tend to watch them more than once because I like to  analyze them. That is when I tend to see the small mistakes. Like in The Longest Day, one of the American Paratroopers carring a Thompson Submachine gun but is wearing an ammo belt with pouches for M-1 Garrand stripper clips.
In Saving Private Ryan, toward the end of the movie there is the sniper in the bell tower. He fires his bolt action Springfeild seven times with out reloading. (that particular rifle had a 5 round internal magazine)
In Enemy at The Gates, the german sniper fires at the russian when he lowers his rifle to observe the effect of his shot, the bolt of his rifle is half way open. (bolt action rifles are not cocked until the bolt is completely closed)
Granted minor points all and I would not pan any of the above mentioned movies for these points.
Then, of course, with the older WW2 films it is always American half tracks being used for German vehicles.

As to The Thin Red Line, I think that film made the critical mistake of being boring (at least it was to me). The problem with artists is that sometimes they get so carried away with being artsy you sometimes have to take art classes to understand what they are doing. That is when I think the artist looses touch with the audience. And for The Thin Red Line, that was proven at the box office here in the US. If I remember rightly, the DVD came out about 6 mo's after it was released in theaters and shortly thereafter it was released one in those two dvd sets attatched to a better movie. I don't mind watching something that makes you think, but how many times do you have to see the same shirtless actor, drenched in sweat stand up in front of some hut?