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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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.
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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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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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09-23-2005, 09:37 AM | #6 | |
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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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09-23-2005, 09:17 PM | #8 |
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Lord of War is apparently "based on actual events."
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09-23-2005, 10:08 PM | #9 |
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Actual events is what most people SHOULD say.
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09-23-2005, 10:18 PM | #10 | |
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Twas a good movie. |
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09-24-2005, 07:00 PM | #11 | |
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Re: "Based on a true story"
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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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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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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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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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09-25-2005, 06:55 AM | #17 |
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it means "why is this?"
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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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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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09-26-2005, 11:18 PM | #20 |
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Blair Witch was about as scary as a cable access show. About as boring too
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