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Sophomore wide receiver Carl Morris, who came into the game as the second-highest-rated receiver in Division 1-AA, averaging over 140 yards per game, was bottled up as Lafayette (1-3, 0-1 Patriot) used two defenders to limit Morris to one catch and three yards...
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...hard to produce a movie about The Revolutionary War that actually maintains a shred of historical accuracy and dignity? Why are filmmakers so afraid of complexity? Those were just a few of the torrent of questions that flooded my brain while enduring the mind-numbing Mel Gibson epic, The Patriot, over the Fourth of July weekend. I didnt hate the movie, I just didn't understand the point of it. Why make an American Revolution epic if you aren't going to imbue it with at least a semblance of the truth? According to Mel's version, one man basically...
...Otherwise known as the Mel Gibson tutorial in American history. The Patriot is a big, rousing cornball of a movie, rampant with cliches, bombast, and historical inaccuracy. It was also one of the best movies of the summer. Far closer to a colonial Braveheart than the American Revolution of tea and powdered wigs and declarations drawn up with quill-feathered pens, The Patriot is epic in every sense of the word. It's robust form of sweeping, old-fashioned entertainment that knows exactly which buttons to push and has, unlike the much more remote Gladiator, an honest-to-goodness heart...
...night. Why would we? The Perfect Storm had absolutely nothing going for it-no character development, no suspense (we all knew the real story), no payoff. It would have played better as an IMAX two-hour CGI wave fest. And just as I tuned out in The Patriot to start asking myself important questions about the film's subject matter, I did the same for The Perfect Storm. Did they slaughter real fish for the packing sequences? Did the PETA get upset - or are fish fair game for slaughter? Can you ever rid yourself of the fish stench...