Audio Reviews - The Impossible - Audio Review

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  February 01, 2013 at 11:50 PM, said ...

  This movie left me speechless. It was so good

• January 14, 2013 at 12:10 AM, James said ...

  A lot of people in my country, England, seem to stereotype Americans as dumb and ignorant, and this always gets to me because it's ignorant in itself to say this and generalise an entire country and its population but DAMN!

  The number of people in this comment section complaining about 'White Washing' in this movie is, frankly, embarassing, especially from the Spill Crew, some of whom seem to be pretty well travelled to say the things they do.

  Seriously stop equating Spanish with Mexican, they are two completely different countries, just because they share the same language does not make them anymore the same than Nigeria and Scotland, both of which have English as the national language.

  Mexicans are a mix of Spanish and Amerindian peoples, mostly Amerindian, while Spaniards are Europeans from a completely different continent, and a far, far older country.

  I clicked on the review expecting comments about 'white washing', but saying Ewan McGregor doesn't look Spanish...wtf...?

  
  
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  January 05, 2013 at 12:16 AM, said ...

  This review was horrible on many levels. So much ignorance that it got me really pissed. It seems Spill grew thinks that Mexican = Spanish. Well in reality Mexicans are about 50% Native American. People in Spain dont look like people in Mexico. George Lopez does not look Spanish. Speaking some language does not change your looks. Are Nigerians or Indians "white" because they speak English? This "race talk" was just total face palm to me. I understand that part of this ignorance is because America has some crazy racial classifications. 

  Also just to note that most tourists killed in the Tsunami were from Germany and Sweden (more than 500 each). 9000 foreign tourist were killed. Its true that they could have more locals in the film, but I mean lots of tourists were killed. Very few Spaniards were killed so in fact it made more sense to have North-European looking people in the lead roles. Just because most tourist killed looked like them.

  Maria is very common name in Finland were I live. I just cant believe some comment you guys made. Unbelievable.

  Other thing is that they could have had more locals in the films, but it might be that it would have made film worse because you can only tell one good story in one film - or film gets too long.

• December 24, 2012 at 5:35 AM, said ...

  oops sorry jus found ur review lol. cheers

  
  
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  December 24, 2012 at 4:54 AM, said ...

  The life of pi! please review it guys :D

• December 24, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Luis said ...

  You know, people in Spain are actually white. McGregor and Watts could easilly pass as Spanish.

  
  
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  December 23, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Witten said ...

  This is a travesty! The studios are clearly showing racial vibes in their casting! cos we all know that Spaniards are darker and 'browner' than Ewan McGregor.  He looks nothing like any real Spaniard...oh wait. 

  

  That prequel Obi Wan Kenobi looking mofo is Xabi Alonso, one of the best Spanish football/soccer players around.so boom, there you go. And If you're thinking i picked him out cos he was the one famous Spaniard that had light features then no, i picked him out because he looks like Mr. McGregor. if i were to just provide an example of a blonde Spanish person then that would be even easier because, hell, 4 out of 11 of the Spanish players in their starting football team alone, are blonde. Modern Spain probably looks almost as blonde and blue eyed as modern France. 

• December 23, 2012 at 8:08 AM, said ...

  I agree they should have got the more common looking spanish type looking actors for the roles but it seems to get the story across so its ok.

  Im mexican and people think im white in America people think latino is darkish looking when I went to mexico a few years ago my mind was blown walking through a mall I thought I was a rarity lol not true we are white to brown.

  
  
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  December 23, 2012 at 12:33 AM, said ...

  you guys do know that spaniards are Europeans as in white? 

• December 22, 2012 at 12:16 PM, said ...

  I saw Eastwood's Hereafter and I thought that was a decent enough insertion of the Tsunami so as not to have to endure 2 hours of it...Horrible disaster, yes, but if you're going to make a movie about it, might as well donate 100% of the proceeds to the families there who suffered the most by it. And you know that's not gonna happen. 

  
  
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  December 22, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Johnny Hsiao said ...

  Man, where is Jet Li in this movie? They should have Jet Li in it.

• December 22, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Mike said ...

  This isn't playing anywhere near me.

  
  
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  December 22, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Jon said ...

  this movie scored 81% on RottenTomatoes 'The screenplay isn't quite as powerful as the direction or the acting, but with such an astonishing real-life story at its center, The Impossible is never less than compelling.'

  it sounds really good

  I discovered I was Mayan descent a few years back and learned about my heritage, my parents told me that the Spainards integrated with the MesoAmericans, so yeah I am half Spanish, born in Guatemala but raised in the U.S.

• December 22, 2012 at 1:37 AM, said ...

  @David Lofton

  You clearly don't even know what Caucasian is, technically Mexican people are Caucasian. Spanish people are white, they're European. There are even several blonde Spaniards. 

  
  
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  December 22, 2012 at 12:45 AM, said ...

  while that may be true, that is your opinion :-) your entitled to it, and i have no right to take it from you. Just as you have yours I have mine, and as i said before there is no need to discuss this, since I'm not going to change my mine and i doubt you will either. We'd just be wasting each others time :-)

• December 21, 2012 at 11:01 PM, said ...

  Spanish people are white because Spain is in Europe.

  
  
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  December 21, 2012 at 10:34 PM, deSmedt said ...

  I really don't care what color the 'spanish' people are.

  I just think it's kinda shitty that they're taking a huge disaster in Thailand and making it about a couple tourists who lost their suitcases.

• December 21, 2012 at 10:30 PM, said ...

  @ David Before you're throwing a hissy fit, you might want to look at the comment TWO comments below you. And for the record, there are plenty white people in northern Africa, due to colonialism in the 19th century. Image search Zinedine Zidane (from Algeria). There are diverse ethnicities all over Europe.

  
  
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  December 21, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Alex Thompson said ...

  Wow, this wasn't even on my radar but I'll have to check this out.

• December 21, 2012 at 8:25 PM, said ...

  This is the type of movies that i love to see, movies that are mature not because of sex and violence, they are for mature audiences because of the delicate subject matter that they deal with , and im glad to hear that this one is able to do it well, i will be sure to head out and see it.

  
  
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  December 21, 2012 at 7:52 PM, SJDrummer said ...

  Everyone rushing to point out that there are white Spanish people, lmao! They just talked about this on ACOCO or LDT, can't remember which.

  Seriously though, knock it off, get off your high horse, and stop trying to lecture the spill crew. They say shit I don't always agree with, but I don't write a short novel explaining how they are wrong and how much more than them I know. The fact that YOU, the comments saying "spanish people are white", only reveal your personally held racial ignorance on who is what color and who is not. The color of the actors skin didn't bother me, it was the British accents. That shit throws me off like Tom Cruise and the rest of the cast in Valkyrie.

• December 21, 2012 at 7:51 PM, said ...

  am I pleased with the white washing? no, but I can get over it since I'm a Mexican who happens to look white.

  
  
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  December 21, 2012 at 6:51 PM, said ...

  Spanish people are like slightly darker Italians, they are not all Berber, there is a great variance in their looks, I've seen some blonde haired blue eyed bitches from Spain, for real! Also same with Mexicans, not all Mexicans are short and brown, I've seen a lot that could pass for being European.

• December 21, 2012 at 6:33 PM, said ...

  In 2005 I was in asleep in my basement when a flood hit my hometown, the water was a mixture of sewage and more critically oil and gas. I had to run through it barefoot. Not a fun experience but luckily no one died during the flood so as disasters go it was not so bad; thanks to the Search and Rescue teams.

  
  
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  December 21, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Lunatik said ...

  

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