Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I thought this was a very compelling movie and yet during the entirety of it I kept asking myself how much of it was true. Turns out most of it was very true....except for the single most glaring aspect which is that the real live participants were two MEN NOT ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN!!! As soon as the movie was over I researched the true event and when I found that out the movie became an immediate flop to me. If you're going to retell the historical tale of an event, AT LEAST get the genders accurate. Are we so desperate to include and encourage our girls and women in so called modern society in everything that we change history just to accomplish that? Why aren't we telling the real stories of real women who displayed courage and discipline and love and remarkable integrity in the face of or in the midst of horrible conditions and situations? Why aren't we telling the stories or taking so long to tell the stories of these incredible women? When they made the Harriet Tubman movie, when I saw the trailer for it, I yelled out "FINALLY!" b/c I couldn't believe it took this long to get her story on the big screen. Why aren't we telling the story of Bertha "Grandma" Holt and her husband's choice to adopt Asian children after the Vietnam War and then create a successful (possibly the most successful) international adoption agency for children all around the world? People don't even know about her in general. Or Mother Theresa's story? What about the multiple women who joined up for war dressed up as men in how many different time periods over how many continents during how many different known and unknown wars and battles? Where are their stories? Mulan is only one of them but there are surprisingly quite a few others. What about the story of the first female fencer? Or ice-skater? Or scientist? What about Helen Keller? What about Rosa Parks? Where's her story? What about the first women who were allowed to join our military? What about how and when the WNBA was established? Or the first female astronaut? IF we REALLY want to give our little girls examples to follow and admire then why aren't we telling these stories? Personally I think it's a bit much with all these movies coming out with basically the same message which is that women are better than men or women are equal to men but given the political landscape of our time I get it. That being said, the people who believe in that message and are responsible for getting that message out via film and media are STUPIDLY missing out on AMPLE opportunities to get this message out. So what do they do? They take a real story and change out one character's gender for another. And interestingly it's the one who showed the most physical prowess and mental fortitude while the equally heroic meterologist in real life was shown on screen as somewhat weaker since it was he who in real life passed out. The acting was great but since it wasn't accurately depicted it also is irrelevant if you're interested in a historical piece b/c this isn't historical. It's like telling the story of George Washington but with Santa Claus as his replacement. Asinine. I have spoken.