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Could use some research about COLOMBIA!!

posted 19 years ago by juanpa1-1
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I've waited for a looong time to take this out of my chest. This movie is ok, it's entertaining blah blah blah, but it kinda started the Colombian subject on every movie dealing with stereotypical drug dealers. Just to quote some there's the Harrison Ford movie, recent Mr. & Mrs. Smith... you know there's a lot.

It would be nice if Hollywood people did some research about Colombia. I live in the capital city Bogota. Remember they had to take a funny bus to go to Bogota? well guess what, Bogota has an airport! also, like some dumb UnitedStatian asked me several years ago YES we wear shoes. We don't have monkeys on trees even if you travel from one city to another. Bogota is not some hot tropical city as they depict, it's average 13 celsius. We have some pretty amazing stuff that never gets mentioned in any movie that takes advantage of us! They don't even bother shooting those movies here, because it would take all the stereotype down, and they claim it's dangerous blah blah blah. Every foreign person that I know who have been here has left in love with Colombia. If you're out of places to say bad things about, at least make it up somehow!!

[–] avortac4 (3669) a year ago

"Just to quote some there's the Harrison Ford movie, recent Mr. & Mrs. Smith... you know there's a lot."

I suggest you research what the word 'QUOTE' actually means. You weren't quoting anything there.

Furthermore, you point to TWO things, one of which, you don't even mention the name of, and you say 'there's a lot'?

To add, what you are talking about is quantifiable, so you can't use 'a lot' (although I have to commend you for at least typing it correctly, instead of 'alot', which is an error you see.. well).

You need to use the word 'many'. You could use 'a lot' when talking about non-quantifiable things, for example, liquid, gas, energy, interference, or some kind of abstract flow.

So before criticism a movie for depicting something wrong, perhaps you could correct your own representation of the english language, first.