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Judas (2004)
The Passion of the Beach
The retelling of the Gospel events was accurate enough, but as though told by a bunch of "actors" they found on a California beach. Jesus especially looks and talks like surfer boy. Not much here.
Walk the Line (2005)
THAT was Reese Witherspoon? WOW!!
I am a longtime Witherspoon fan since "Legally Blonde" but in this movie I forgot that was her as June Carter. I had heard that Joaquin Phoenix did his own singing as Johnny Cash--which was very good, I'm a longtime Cash fan--but I hadn't known that Witherspoon would do her own singing as Catter which was equally good, and I was watching the credits at the end thinking, "Who WAS that?" Story did drag a little at times but was true to that part of their lives as I am familiar with it--and yes, Cash was indeed that self-destructive, and Carter was that much a part of his survival. As much as a story of rags to riches, this is a story of love and redemption.
The Legend of Zorro (2005)
Good story but some MAJOR historical boo-boos
OK, it's fiction but a "historical fiction" should get its history right. I'm surprised the site didn't list the following as "goofs":
1. A key component of the plot involves the "Confederate Army" and references are made to the "Confederate States". This story takes place in 1850 and certainly at that time there was already a looming crisis between North and South, however there was no "Confederate" anything until 1861.
2. California being welcomed to the Union by Abraham Lincoln in 1850? Lincoln was not elected President until 1860.
3. "We're Pinkertons--Federal agents": Alan Pinkerton was the first head of the Secret Service but that agency was not founded until 1862. Only then, and briefly after the Civil War, would "Pinkertons" have been federal agents. For the rest of its history the Pinkerton Detective Agency has been a private company. BTW I looked it up and the Pinkerton Detective Agency was not even founded until 1852.