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Tuesday 6 October 2009, 16:47
So you like Joy Division in Control and Jeremy Northam at Gosford Park but Michael J Fox on stage in Back to the Future movies stirs up all kinds of reactions. And what about all those accordion movies, eh?
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Comment number 1.
TheConciseStatement6th October 2009 - 17:38
You heard it from The Doctor first people :
STOP FINGERING THE WRONG WAY!
I can't stress enough how cross he gets when you finger it the wrong way! (Well HE said it.)
Actually more annoying than any of this is the over-steering car gaff when the optical background is clearly just going straight ahead, but the actor deems it necessary to HEAVE the steering wheel round to the left or right to show that they definitely ARE driving the car.
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Still_loving_movies6th October 2009 - 18:20
I actually don't notice bad musicianship so much. What gets to me is lousy fighting. As a martial arts student, I can't help but wince when I see the likes of Uma Thurman pretending to be a skilled martial artist as in Kill Bill. Ha! Sure! Don't get me wrong, I appreciate she did a pretty good job at training into a moderately decent level of craftmanship, but she's nowhere near mastering any of it. I can see it from a mile away and really distracts me. The movie wasn't that good either, anyway.
Another example: Star Wars episode 1. Stumbling Liam Neeson and even more stumbling Ewan McGregor pretend to fight against an absolute graceful master, and at the end they WIN! Because the script says so! What a bad joke!
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Duncan McCurdie6th October 2009 - 19:03
Elvis Presley movies were the best. No matter where he was: a ski lift; on the beach; or at the carnival, he always had perfect reverb. What really annoys me is when people have conversations, and can be clearly heard, when in clubs or when a live band is playing. Something that is impossible in reality.
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floyd75dylan6th October 2009 - 19:56
Like I said before, they're actors, they're paid to act, we complain endlessly when singers try to act, such as Bowie (man who Fell to Earth wasn't really a stretch for him), Sting, and Jagger, who no matter what time period they're in, they still want to keep they're 80s hair style, (Bowie in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence), which I find even more annoying, than actors pretending to play instruments.
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TheAstronomer6th October 2009 - 20:44
If I remember correctly from the DVD documentaries for Back to the Future, Michael J Fox was concerned that it wouldn't look like he was realistically playing the guitar so tried to take some crash course lessons before filming.
At least he recognised the problem, even if it didn't turn out 100% realistic.
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