137 Uncomfortable Plot Summaries of a wide variety of movies, TV series and even a couple books, from varying points of view (whatever is the most uncomfortable). A treasure trove of pop culture redefinition.
posted by wendell
on Apr 14, 2009 -
425 comments
You know the trouble with Historically-Based Movies? Unless you're an uneducated, ignorant moran, you know how they're gonna end. At least that's the argument of this
Premiere article on
10 Movie Endings Spoiled By History. Of course there are ways to avoid that problem, as Cracked.com's (yeah, them)
11 Movies Saved by Historical Inaccuracy declares. Books have been written about
Historical Movies' accuracy or inaccuracy, and
everybody has an opinion on what
the Best Historical Movies are, but if you want your History purely entertaining, there's only one
mandog you can count on: here are Mr. Peabody, Sherman and the
original Wayback Machine dropping in on
Cristopher Columbus,
Pancho Villa and
Francisco Pizarro and the Incas (sorry, no USA History episodes on YouTube).
[more inside]
posted by wendell
on Jan 6, 2009 -
36 comments
Mike Meyers deserves a medal for having the guts to admit that the character he created for a five-minute sketch wasn't going to carry a full-length movie. He gave up a 20-million-dollar payday and saved us all from another "SNL spin-off" movie.
posted by wendell
on Jun 19, 2000 -
10 comments
