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neckspike's review
3.0
A few entries were pretty weak (A fantasy movie about King Arthur, really?) but overall it was very interesting.
meags's review
4.0
I really enjoyed this book, not because I'd seen every movie, but because it's interesting to think about the real life stories that we think we know are really changed in the telling. I never really considered that a lot of things in movies based on a true story are full of fiction. Several characters are smushed into one composite, random "inciting incidents" or motivations are given that never really happened, and timelines are completely switched around. Fascinating! The best part about this book for a busy mom of a toddler is that the chapters are only a couple of pages and it was easy to read one or two in between building with Legos and reading books. I definitely recommend for bibliophiles.
eyelit's review
3.0
I would have liked this a lot more had the authors treated the subject in a less judgmental manner. It was sometimes hard to glean fact from the incessantly derisive commentary (the subject pretty much speaks for itself and is interesting enough without the unnecessary commentary that tended to be far too mean-spirited). I was expecting a "here's what really happened" and I got "here's why producers/directors/writers/actors are asshats when it comes to adapting true accounts to film" which, fair enough, is often the case... but still... more fact and less judgment would have made the book more enjoyable to me.
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