That’s such a great moment. B&BDA was really a lot more clever than it should have been.

Uh, I’m fairly certain it WAS Franklin Pierce. Remember the episode where he signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act and Chang was hanged in effigy? 

Hey now, are you implying that Jagger’s bravura performance in Freejack isn’t a celluloid treasure for the ages?

It’s kind of weird to me how the expectation that people conform to rigid gender identities/stereotypes has gotten stricter over the last decade or so. When I was in college the idea was to completely disconnect gender identity from arbitrary signifiers like wearing dresses or using makeup or having gender-appropriate…

“So why doesn’t that charisma, that spark, that sense of connection, seem to carry over to the silver screen?”

On the romance side, IIRC, the verdict was that the romance with the female sniper was probably true, but the love triangle with the jealous political officer (Joseph Fiennes), which drives the last act of the movie to a surprising degree, seems to have been made up.

You would think but I presume if they dug into the Troubles too deeply the queen and England will look rather bad.  So they just go Ireland is a thing they blew up Mountbatten and they are still mad, and fast forward through everything else.  They don't even mention Margaret Thatcher almost getting blown up.

I’ve had 3.5 years...

You’re mistaken, the Robot Chicken people DON’T do that and have no legal obligation to (Weird Al does, but only because he’s a shining beacon of how to be an upstanding human being).

To add to what you’ve said - I’m sure there are many films that ignore the Founding Fathers’ contribution/attitudes towards slavery, but I can’t imagine that many of these would portray them as actively campaigning against slavery. And I certainly can’t imagine any of those being made nowadays.

Same here! And if we start counting voice-over batmans that will take us well into the teens right, even without the serial guys. 

People here claiming that ‘historical movies have always been inaccurate’ are missing the point. It’s not the presence of inaccuracies, its what those inaccuracies mean and why they exist in this particular movie.

I don’t know, 1776 goes out of its way to discuss the various sordid compromises required to bring the slave states on board with independence, and even addresses Northern hypocrisy in denouncing the slave trade with one hand while profiting massively from it with the other. It’s far from perfect—Thomas Jefferson in…

To be fair, this is the most normal Miller has looked in any of the AVClub articles posted about them

Yeah, but it’s better this time. (I hated Zack & Miri.)

Baby’s got blue eyes…and a howling accent.

Yeah, just type in Joker fan film on YouTube and you get a lot of options.

Is the Manic Margot Robbie Going Crazy thing getting a little exhausting?

Don’t forget the hard to decipher hologram!

It’s not a great flick, but I appreciate ‘Bumblebee’ for making its eponymous hero a Beetle again. Apparently that wasn’t a cool enough car for Bay, hence the Camero-fication of the original movies’ Bumblebee.