Complete Rubbish.......

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Jesus people, IT IS A MOVIE!!!!! If you want reality (or close to it) watch documentaries. The constant harping about reality it utterly ridiculous. Moreover, when I am asked by a foreigner where I am from I say the United States. Even after that they sometimes say "oh, an American" even though technically speaking "America" takes up a lot of countries in North and South America. Only after the ask for more detail do I give my state of origin. BTW, are you affronted when foreigners portray US nationals in our movies? Happens all of the time. Mostly with the Canadians but a lot of times with Euro's too. I don't lose sleep over it for one minute but neither do I run around with thin skin looking for something to be offended about. Stop whining for goodness sakes, makes you sound like babies.

I found that Far And Away was a decent movie, not a great one but not as bad as others may have found it. It is hard sometimes to watch a movie and not let poor accents get in the way of enjoying it, but I don't think that should be a reflection on where the actors are from but rather how good an actor they are and how well they can get into their characters. For example you mentioned a couple movies above that had Daniel Day-Lewis in them, and I find that he is an exceptional actor. But the whole thing about it being an Irish movie made with Irish actors seems silly to concentrate on because even though Daniel Day-Lewis became an Irish citizen and has partial Irish ancestry, wasn't he born in England, grew up there and learned his trade there, as well as doing numerous roles based on American characters. Seems to me that a great actor learns many things and many life lessons from a number of places and people and that is what makes them great, not necessarily the county they are from. For the record I think he could learn and do about any character or accent he wanted too, Irish or otherwise.

My 2 cents - about what it's worth :-)

Liam Neeson is actually Northern Irish.

I'm of Irish descent and I liked the movie for the reason that I could very well imagine my great grandfather doing much the same things as Joseph. He did, really. He and a brother left Ireland for the US, he made his way across the country with a cattle company prior to homesteading in Nebraska. Once the homestead contract was finished and he owned the land, he sold it and bought another piece of groud a few miles away - a farm that remained in the family until 1972 when my family sold it, my grandpa retired and we moved into town. I grew up in a small town about 10 miles from the original homestead.

Sorry for the woolgathering - I know that the Irish may not have liked it due to the bad accents and portrayal of the Irish people of the time, but I like the movie because of how my great grandfather did similar things in order to carve out a new life, thousands of miles from where he was born.

You've got to admit. Tom and Nicole are the biggest strength of this movie
Without them, this movie wouldn't make it this far.

I love this movie but I see your point. I'm not Irish but Swedish but I know how it feels to see your country and language being completely killed in American movies. It's not just that they get the language completely wrong but in Hollywood movies Swedes are often portrayed as stupid as well. I think almost every country in the world can relate to this more or less. American movies tend to have little respect for the other countries they portray. Of course there's errors, of course there might be hard to find a actor of the right nationality sometimes. Still I feel like too often they don't even try to get things right.


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