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This movie is incredibly ignorant...

posted 13 years ago by MidEastBeastL337
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.. The opening commentary in the movie is something along the lines of "This is the only night in the year where the whole world comes together to celebrate"

Anyone who knows anything about different cultures knows that there is not just the Gregorian Calendar and in those different cultures New Years is not only on a different day, but in a completely different time of year. They aren't even in the year 2011.

Obviously this movie doesn't speak for all Americans, but this shows how freaking stupid the writers of this movie were.

With how many times different people go over the script at different times, I'm not sure how the opening line of the movie has a factual error as huge as this. It set up the rest of the movie for failure.

In journalism, when a writer has any sort of factual error in their article they no credibility. This movie has the same problem.

[–] Sm5454 13 years ago

If it means anything, myself and millions of other Americans think this film is a steaming pile of *beep* Nobody should have to watch such schlock. Shame on the filmmakers for throwing this mess together and calling it a film.

[–] Scribblenaut 13 years ago

New Years is celebrated on the first day of January by most major countries in North and South America, Europe, and Asia (which is probably where you're basing this stupid assumption from).

Do a lot of cultures have separate celebrations for their traditional new year? Sure, but most still recognize January, first as the beginning of the new year.

[–] dbwilyumz 13 years ago

I agree, they are talking about the regular New Year when the standard calendar turns over from December 31 to January 1. For ordinary purposes, the Julian calendar, the 24-hour day beginning at midnight, and so forth have been adopted for common purposes around the world.

[–] OldSchoolRecords 13 years ago

I'm pretty sure at least ONE person had pointed out that "New Year's doesn't fall on the same day for everyone" or "there are other holidays which the whole world celebrates"..

But they needed an opening line that would sound powerful, in order to captivate the viewer's attention (I'm not saying that it was or did). But I'm pretty sure it would still sound better than "New Year's is a different time of year for several different countries because of the different time zone and calendar.."

[–] katspajamas22 13 years ago

This film is a very trite attempt at making New Year's Eve more sentimental than it actually is. Who cares that much about the holiday or celebrating with the whole world, really? You make a good point about there being different calendars, but I just thought about how that's not really true given the vast time differences and how some regions are even a day ahead of us. The film is just loaded with dumb quotes.