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KoedKevin t1_jdwfd43 wrote

Reply to comment by dino_niggets in Any good historical type movies? Like Mudbound, Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Wolf of wall Street, and The highway Men? by dino_niggets

It is probably the most accurate movie depiction of life on a sailing warship. It is also a great, great movie. And if you'd like more there are 20 books in the Aubrey/Maturin Series, which are widely regarded as the best historical fiction. I think the NYTimes calls it the best series ever.

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cardamom_peonies t1_jdwcg1p wrote

Reply to comment by kberson in Any good historical type movies? Like Mudbound, Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Wolf of wall Street, and The highway Men? by dino_niggets

To put a bit of a caveat on this one, there's definitely a bit of whitewashing. I think one of the white dude upper brass types in the movie is shown going to bat a fair bit for the women against his colleagues but iirc, that definitely didn't happen irl and it seems like they really had to wrangle with ugly office politics more than was shown in order to get taken seriously.

Like, it's a cool movie about a chapter in the history of space flight that definitely doesn't get as much attention as it should, but I saw it and looked it up the historical details afterwards and it definitely made me question some of the choices the script writer and director went for to make it more palatable, I guess, to general audiences?

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Fargeol t1_jdwb7y2 wrote

Reply to comment by theprotector7 in 'Signs' is really great by The_Cyberbard

I heard that the first version of the scenario had the alien become visible thanks to the water sticking to it, thus allowing Merrill to swing away. It was ditched since the CGI was too poor at that time to carry an "almost invisible" alien.

That would make more sense than the ending we got, obviously.

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