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Fast Girls (2012)
Not an accurate picture of elite athletics
I recently came across this movie on an online movie site. As a 30 year veteran of track and field officiating in the US and with at least 35 years experience as a competitor, I thought the movie might be interesting. The plethora of errors about the sport of athletics (track and field in the US) were more than I could tolerate after watching about 30 min. The US relay squads DO NOT practice and run together for years as one British national coach asserted. That is why they fail to finish or are disqualified from so many World Championship and Olympic 4 x 100 meter relay races. The 4 x 200 meter relay is almost never run in international meets as was pictured in the film. At least one, and usually several field events are being contested in the infield during meets. That the infield was conspicuously void of athletes during the meet in Spain seemed to prove that the movie had a very small budget and couldn't afford actors to portray jumpers, vaulters, and throwers, or the writer(s) knew next to nothing about the sport. I won't even try to go into the plot and acting shortcomings.
The White Princess (2017)
Review of the reviews
I just finished reading Philippa Gregory's The White Princess while viewing this series. The TV series deviates dramatically and irritatingly from Gregory's book. To those viewers who wondered why the queen appeared to warm to Henry VII so quickly, she didn't't...not in the book. Also, when I wrote this review, 21 reviews were listed on IMDb. I added up the scores given by these reviewers and got an average. It was 5.2, not the 7.9 listed on the website. I guess all the other reviewers who rated the series highly were too embarrassed to write a review, or the producers "encouraged" quite a few positive ratings. IMDb is getting as bad as Netflix with their ratings. If the website is not going to publish an accurate rating, what is the purpose of a rating? Apparently Netflix has recently discovered this.