Dear Hollywood,
Thank you for listening to me gripe. I want you to do something for me that may be very, very hard for you; make a movie where the dialogue script is written before the stunt portion of the script.
Also, no bullet time, quasi-Chinese martial arts wire-fu, poor costume design/research, shoddy backdrops, bullet rigs, gasoline powered explosions, the incredible shots from a single weapon that could miss the broad side of barn when fired en masse or mixing of historical tropes with modernization. Yes I realize that women used to be looked upon as second-class citizens in society, but many of the plays of that day still gave their leading women (or at least the men who played their parts) interesting things to do, say and act upon. You should try reading some of it sometime, it's really very good.
I'm sure that naval combat can be interesting without the addition of the captain that cannot miss or the single vessel that can take on a fleet. It doesn't happen in real life all that often, and when it does, it usually turns out badly for the single ship. Sure a fantasy movie should have whimsy, but a movie that claims to be based on historical events should at the very least have a technical director that didn't fail high school social studies.
I realize this may be hard for you to understand, as most everyone in Hollywood is telling you "yes, yes, that's a great idea, JB", but trust me, it's not. I find that cartoons and animated movies are much more enjoyable and in many cases believable than the crap you put on cellulose. It's a shame they can't win real Oscars anymore, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs did just fine.
Your truly,
The non-brain dead ticket buying public.
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