Ignore the rantings of the fool on the front page who completely missed the point. Sorry, buddy, but the movie is not about "white ignorance" and "a modern feminist perspective". In fact, it was excessively kind to your apparent heroes, the colonialist British. Crack open a history book and be forced to admit the truth (or, more likely, continue to wallow in ignorance).
The true stories in this movie were about a man (Fawcett) trying to make his family name mentionable in polite society again (by pursuing glory at all costs) and the struggle of a woman forced to raise their children alone in the face of this. It's told subtly, yes, so any viewers expecting robot cars smashing things may be let down or, as in the case of that reviewer, confused.
Any concessions made by the filmmakers to modernize the film were clearly done to make it understandable to a person such as peter-stead-740-486963. Again, to dumb it down for him, the movie WASN'T ABOUT "the people of Z" or "how they operate" (?). Looks like somebody didn't stick around for the postscript of this movie. Dear Pete: the movie is based on a true story. "The people of Z" were never discovered, so "how they operate" can sadly never be explained to you. How does IMDb choose which reviews are featured on the front page when such an ignorant review is prominently featured?
Was it a great movie? No. Was it better than average? Yes. Was it a "massive let down" (chuckle)? To Petey, perhaps. To a critical thinker, it was a good movie. Stick with this year's Spiderman, Pete, and you won't have to worry about any political correctness, or any ideas at all.
The true stories in this movie were about a man (Fawcett) trying to make his family name mentionable in polite society again (by pursuing glory at all costs) and the struggle of a woman forced to raise their children alone in the face of this. It's told subtly, yes, so any viewers expecting robot cars smashing things may be let down or, as in the case of that reviewer, confused.
Any concessions made by the filmmakers to modernize the film were clearly done to make it understandable to a person such as peter-stead-740-486963. Again, to dumb it down for him, the movie WASN'T ABOUT "the people of Z" or "how they operate" (?). Looks like somebody didn't stick around for the postscript of this movie. Dear Pete: the movie is based on a true story. "The people of Z" were never discovered, so "how they operate" can sadly never be explained to you. How does IMDb choose which reviews are featured on the front page when such an ignorant review is prominently featured?
Was it a great movie? No. Was it better than average? Yes. Was it a "massive let down" (chuckle)? To Petey, perhaps. To a critical thinker, it was a good movie. Stick with this year's Spiderman, Pete, and you won't have to worry about any political correctness, or any ideas at all.
