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Old 09-23-2005, 04:15 AM   #1
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"Based on a true story"

I was thinking about that just now, and how I don't like when movies put that tagline on there.

Two movies that come to mind are "Open Water" and "The Perfect Storm." It's just.. haha, I think it's dumb.

If you haven't seen Open Water, it's the movie about about the couple that goes out scuba diving, gets left by the boat, and they die. haha, that's how it ends. I actually thought that they get rescued in the end because.. this movie is based on a series of actual events or something like that, and I figured they had re-counted their story to someone.. which is where the movie was born.

They also have some camera with them or something, I dunno, maybe they took some pictures of critical shit and that's how they pieced together what happened? I don't even know if their bodies were even found. So, you see where I'm goin with this? They make it out that they were eaten by sharks at the end, but they take the entire movie to get to that point. See.. everything that happens after the point where no one is around to corroborate "actual events" is just pulled out of some writer's ass. For all we know they swam to Haiti and became drug kingpins, or more logically they turned into a cough drop and an umbrella and attacked dolphins for the rest of their days.

Same deal in The Perfect Storm, they die at the end.. sooo everything inbetween is just gibberish.

I... I got nothing going for me right now, I only have cereal to eat, and I really don't feel like driving somewhere to get some real food, haha.. cause cereal is fake food.. as we're all aware.
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Old 09-23-2005, 04:45 AM   #2
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loser, I was in Denton a week ago. Had to hit up Salsa night at the garage.

But you have a point, I think.
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Old 09-23-2005, 04:48 AM   #3
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Yes, that one movie about an alien abduction was "based on a true story"

Base: there was a crazy crazy person.
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Old 09-23-2005, 06:05 AM   #4
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Based on a True Story
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/e...milyrose/site/
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Old 09-23-2005, 06:35 AM   #5
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Yeah, haha.. exactly Jiggles.
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Old 09-23-2005, 09:37 AM   #6
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Based on a True Story
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/e...milyrose/site/
It should be LOSELY based on a true story. You can find the real deal on google. It didn't even take place in America.
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Old 09-23-2005, 09:54 AM   #7
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The Passion of Jeezy Chreezy - Based on a true Story!!
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Lord of War is apparently "based on actual events."
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Old 09-23-2005, 10:08 PM   #9
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Actual events is what most people SHOULD say.
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Old 09-23-2005, 10:18 PM   #10
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Lord of War is apparently "based on actual events."
Actual events in terms of the cold war ending, the selling of guns afterwards to gunrunners whom resell the guns, the civil wars within countries in Africa, etc. And the fact that the U.S., U.K., France, China, and Russia; being the 5 permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and the top gun sellers in the world...

Twas a good movie.
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Old 09-24-2005, 07:00 PM   #11
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Re: "Based on a true story"

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If you haven't seen Open Water, it's the movie about about the couple that goes out scuba diving, gets left by the boat, and they die. haha, that's how it ends. I actually thought that they get rescued in the end because.. this movie is based on a series of actual events or something like that, and I figured they had re-counted their story to someone.. which is where the movie was born.

They also have some camera with them or something, I dunno, maybe they took some pictures of critical shit and that's how they pieced together what happened? I don't even know if their bodies were even found. So, you see where I'm goin with this? They make it out that they were eaten by sharks at the end, but they take the entire movie to get to that point. See.. everything that happens after the point where no one is around to corroborate "actual events" is just pulled out of some writer's ass. For all we know they swam to Haiti and became drug kingpins, or more logically they turned into a cough drop and an umbrella and attacked dolphins for the rest of their days.
Open Water was based on an Australian couple who were stranded in the ocean, quite similar to the way it was protrayed in the movie. Many of the locals reported sightings of the couple walking about, but none confirmed. Thus there have been theories of them having faked their deaths. Officials say they were eaten by sharks or drowned at open water. CourtTV recently had a show about the story, which showed some of the evidence officials found. Can't remember it exactly.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre is another that was tagged as being based on a true sotry. It was, indeed, very loosely based of the life of Ed Gein, as have been many other movies like American Psycho. Ed Gein was Wisconsin farmer convicted of murdering a woman, and admitted to murdering another, and using their skins for macabre items (lamp shades, etc.). He's also suspected of robbing graves' (of their bodies), and storing them in his freezer for eating them at a later time.
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Old 09-24-2005, 07:18 PM   #12
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Here's some interesting Ed Gein trivia, including a photo of his kitchen.
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Old 09-24-2005, 09:49 PM   #13
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I know that they have a camera... which they found in a sharks stomache that contains pictures of the couple alone at sea.

Most of it is logicle deduction. For example, they found the woman's life vest. Just the vest. No body parts, clothes or anything. That means that she and the vest became seperated. There would be blood on it if it were ripped off by a shark or lost because of a lost limb. The fact that there was no vest means that she took it off volentarily. As depicted in the movie, that would mean she gave up and took it off to let herself die.

It's also possible she took it off because she was faking her death. That much can't be said. However, it is known that the vest had to be volentarily taken off.
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Old 09-24-2005, 10:06 PM   #14
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You confused me with...

"For example, they found the woman's life vest. Just the vest."

"The fact that there was no vest means that she took it off volentarily."

Por que es sesto?

haha, I don't even know if that's right, maybe it's... por que es esto.

Du haba?

While I agree that some amount of logical intuition has to be applied in order to try and develop a "probable" series of events... it's stupid to precursor a movie with a tagline that ultimately leads to be useless as the actual events will never be known if said movie ends with the demise of the characters the movie was about to begin with. I realize that there's reason's why movies are promoted with such things, and it's probably similiar to the situation where people like hearing the word "free," and all that other psychological stuff but I like naked women.

If they did indeed actually find her life jacket, then the only concrete thing they know is that, "Hey, we found her life jacket." A lion and a tiger could've been in a race across the ocean, to start their lives over in Mexico, and found that couple and had a tea party. The more I think about it, the more I think that is what happened because my African penpal, Zwaneeshalima, told me that her two pets, which happend to be a lion and a tiger, had left her a note about the race they were gonna have.
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Old 09-25-2005, 05:35 AM   #15
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por que es esto <-------is the correct way

Blair Witch Project anyone?
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Old 09-25-2005, 06:52 AM   #16
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Ok, but what does "por que es esto" mean, or does it not mean anything, haha..

I just remember Jon and I sayin' it.
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Old 09-25-2005, 06:55 AM   #17
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it means "why is this?"
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Old 09-26-2005, 01:18 PM   #18
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BLAIRWITCH PROJECT, BASED ON A TRUE STORY.

BLAIRWITCH PROJECT 2, BASED ON A SECOND TRUE STORY.

BLAIRWITCH PROJECT THE GAME, BASED ON...ah fuck it.
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Old 09-26-2005, 08:17 PM   #19
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I liked the Blair Witch project, really spooked me. I'm not sure what all the whining was about, I enjoyed it.
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Blair Witch was about as scary as a cable access show. About as boring too
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