Don't get dumbed down

Rating: Null/10 (29 January 2010)

Directors and screenwriters are stupid to think most audiences are not well-educated, or savvy. It's obvious director Wolfgang Petersen did his movie on the cheap because it shows. He didn't ask, or spring for, an intelligent and entertaining re-telling.
So, if you want to feast your eyes on a lot of young and old male actors in wigs, Brad Pitt semi-naked, and waste a couple of hours on a fractured fairy tale, then check your brain at the door and dig in to your bowl of buttered popcorn. Or, you could turn off your idiot machine and just read a good epic!
British accents? That's just plain stupid, lazy and cheap! Good god, they're only actors!! If you can hire some woman with a bull-horn to speak to your non-English speaking Mexican actors while they swing rubber swords on a hot Mexican beach, then you could have hired a Greek to teach your well-paid American and British actors to speak with a more appropriate accent to compliment your story. Duh!