Post by Dark Cloud on Jan 7, 2011 14:10:45 GMT -6
On the other board a determined deep pocket (the sole requirement for being an 'executive producer,' by the way) is trying to get his 'award winning' caliber (a thrilling new term: award winning caliber.....) movie on television, which somehow he cannot do. There is a trailer, and I can suggest why.
On screen, near everyone is fat, fiftyish, and fabulous, a near perfect illustrative example of how Re-Enactors deform history. Nobody can act whatever absent Charlton Heston, who is a narrator only and likely deep in his Alzheimer years when this was made.
There is no dust, no dirty uniforms, Custer does not wear what he wore that day, cheeks vibrate seemingly in the breeze of distant butterflies, and the action scenes offered in the trailer have little to represent action. Further, there never was a trial of Marcus Reno for the LBH, nobody at the inquest gave the quote about 'being led by a coward', and it seems to be derived from and inspired by the Jones novel of Custer surviving and being court martialed. Again.
Which is to say, the reason this never made it to an audience was a highly refined combination of pseudo history, bad performance, and laughable action. If it were worse, History Channel would certainly take it, but if as the title suggests, it's fiction and ineligible. Barely.
Like books I review, I haven't seen it, but based upon its own publicity, it's weak.
On screen, near everyone is fat, fiftyish, and fabulous, a near perfect illustrative example of how Re-Enactors deform history. Nobody can act whatever absent Charlton Heston, who is a narrator only and likely deep in his Alzheimer years when this was made.
There is no dust, no dirty uniforms, Custer does not wear what he wore that day, cheeks vibrate seemingly in the breeze of distant butterflies, and the action scenes offered in the trailer have little to represent action. Further, there never was a trial of Marcus Reno for the LBH, nobody at the inquest gave the quote about 'being led by a coward', and it seems to be derived from and inspired by the Jones novel of Custer surviving and being court martialed. Again.
Which is to say, the reason this never made it to an audience was a highly refined combination of pseudo history, bad performance, and laughable action. If it were worse, History Channel would certainly take it, but if as the title suggests, it's fiction and ineligible. Barely.
Like books I review, I haven't seen it, but based upon its own publicity, it's weak.
