I enjoyed -both- Braveheart and Rob Roy. I've heard plenty of complaints from the Tarantino=God-crowd about Rob Roy being too slow, and poorly paced, etc, and a few less about Braveheart being the same, and the ACT-UP Mel's-a-homophobe-for-portraying-Eddie-II-as-femme spiel, but IMO the movies were both pretty darn good for taking the pulse of ***Mythic*** Scotland. I admit that I found Mr. Gibson's 1st-time-director-over-reliance-on-the- slo-mo-sequence mildly irritating. BUT!!! I enjoy it when a movie takes its time to tell its story, instead of pandering to the supposed 90-minute-maximum- attention-span of most audiences, and so both of these made me quite happy. With both movies I was happy to experience the full story (however historically inaccurate it was, and who f*cking-well cares about historical accuracy anyway, what the bloody-bollocksy-balls is this a documentary?!) instead of getting a chopped up and incomprehensibly mangled version for Hollywood's target audience of morons (remember _Blade Runner_ and _Dune_, anybody?).
End of Glorantha Digest V1 #312
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