Shaken Up

[moose_man]

But does this film actually try to back up the conspiracy theory or is it just using it as a "what if" premise to write a fictional story from? I can't really work it out from the trailers. To me it sounds more like the latter. I hope that's true.

More than anything else, I believe it is the first one, but it's not super in-your-face Aesop about it.

 

[Iron Lightning]

Fuck this stupid, elitist piece of shit. The whole Oxford conspiracy theory only stems from the horribly offensive assumption that the son of a glover could not possibly be a great artist. There's absolutely no evidence to back it up and it's an absolutely absurd thing to base a film upon. By the way, it's made by Roland Emmerich and that means something.

Bob, you disappoint me regularly and this article was no exception. How could you possibly miss the terribly elitist theme of this film that should insult anyone bellow the current social elite. This article is almost as stupid as the time you claimed that [a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/8010-Game-Changer]the one-up deus ex machina in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World would become a trope of movies as common as the establishment shot or the breaking of two sides of a phone conversation with a diagonal line[/a].

 

[cefm]

So it's kind of like what the History Channel's "ancient aliens" shows are like. If you actually care about the material itself you'll hate it. If you just want a fun fluff piece set in an era that you find intriguing, then you might like it - as long as you don't mind being lied to.