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dangermousieSo bad. So horribly bad. So bad it was MST3K worthy and transcended badness and amused me.
Cheesy enough for a heart attack. And that score. It tried to drown the movie but unfortunately didn't succeed. The child bits were awful (I wanted for that obnoxious kid to fall smack on Mimi's heroin-filled, AIDS-infected needle). Screen-writing by committee indeed. A pity, the first one wasn't bad.
And the history? What history?
This is set in 1850s, right?
OK, someone seems to have dragged Lincoln away from his Illinois law practice to be there for the signing of CA to be a state.
Zorro is pro statehood and up, up, up with USA! Right. Mexican war just ended. Whose side do you think Mexican Zorro would be on? It's documented how spanish-speakers didn't want US understandably.
The Pinkertons are an old-time FBI who coerce Mrs. Zorro. Small problem: they weren't even founded until after the Civil War, as Pinkerton's biggest selling point was being on Lincoln's staff.
Nitroglycerine? Stable nytroglycerine? Decades before Nobel invented the way to keep it stable? Yeah.
Oh, and the whole thing will be shipped to the Confederate army. What Confederate army? This is before freaking Confederacy even existed, and most of the future statesmen and generals were serving with the US government. They would have been thrilled with the strike on Washington. Indeed. Bye to any hopes of Confederacy.
Alejandro and Elena getting divorced. Hello, Catholic? Also, I doubt even civil law in California (which was still probably in untranslated Spanish) allowed it. I doubt law in most states allowed it. And forget the part where in most circumstances a woman couldn't initiate it, and there'd have to be specific proof of adultery when a man initiated. Also, divorce would be contested. But hey, it's academic, because not allowed in CA and they are Catholic anyway, as I mentioned. Not to mention she'd be viewed as a social leper, not on a Count's arm. There also were no such things as inviting unrelated married women as dates unless they were whores.
Even little things, like Elena shopping in a ready-made-goods stor for a dress. Hello, completely wrong social class. And walking by herself without servants in the street.
It was DREADFUL! Like poking yourself in the eye with a rusty nail.
Cheesy enough for a heart attack. And that score. It tried to drown the movie but unfortunately didn't succeed. The child bits were awful (I wanted for that obnoxious kid to fall smack on Mimi's heroin-filled, AIDS-infected needle). Screen-writing by committee indeed. A pity, the first one wasn't bad.
And the history? What history?
This is set in 1850s, right?
OK, someone seems to have dragged Lincoln away from his Illinois law practice to be there for the signing of CA to be a state.
Zorro is pro statehood and up, up, up with USA! Right. Mexican war just ended. Whose side do you think Mexican Zorro would be on? It's documented how spanish-speakers didn't want US understandably.
The Pinkertons are an old-time FBI who coerce Mrs. Zorro. Small problem: they weren't even founded until after the Civil War, as Pinkerton's biggest selling point was being on Lincoln's staff.
Nitroglycerine? Stable nytroglycerine? Decades before Nobel invented the way to keep it stable? Yeah.
Oh, and the whole thing will be shipped to the Confederate army. What Confederate army? This is before freaking Confederacy even existed, and most of the future statesmen and generals were serving with the US government. They would have been thrilled with the strike on Washington. Indeed. Bye to any hopes of Confederacy.
Alejandro and Elena getting divorced. Hello, Catholic? Also, I doubt even civil law in California (which was still probably in untranslated Spanish) allowed it. I doubt law in most states allowed it. And forget the part where in most circumstances a woman couldn't initiate it, and there'd have to be specific proof of adultery when a man initiated. Also, divorce would be contested. But hey, it's academic, because not allowed in CA and they are Catholic anyway, as I mentioned. Not to mention she'd be viewed as a social leper, not on a Count's arm. There also were no such things as inviting unrelated married women as dates unless they were whores.
Even little things, like Elena shopping in a ready-made-goods stor for a dress. Hello, completely wrong social class. And walking by herself without servants in the street.
It was DREADFUL! Like poking yourself in the eye with a rusty nail.
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Date: 2005-11-30 06:52 pm (UTC)BTW, I finally saw Dil Se yesterday and I loved it... it's so tragic *sobs*
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Date: 2005-11-30 06:55 pm (UTC)There were moments in this one I liked - the conversation between Zorro and Joaquin out by the lake (the one that was entirely subtitled) I actually found quite sweet. And some of the humor was spot on. "Prison changes a man, son." So Alejandro.
But such moments were few and far between, and wrapped up in such a ridiculous plot - I just remember thinking "7 years and this is the best they come up with?!"
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Date: 2005-11-30 06:57 pm (UTC)It really was screenwriting by a committee. Of monkeys. Sort of "lets throw this in for this demographic" type thing.
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Date: 2005-11-30 09:02 pm (UTC)Or maybe her twin brother Antonio :P
This may require my ditzy icon.
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Date: 2005-12-01 12:20 am (UTC)...Or you could have seen Rent again. :D
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