We love the underdog don't we ? We love it when a pub team of footballers beats a team full of multi-millionaire household names , we like to see the top dogs humiliated and if the underdogs are nice guys so much the better because it gives us a nice happy , warm , feeling . This extends to fictional cinema . I can't help thinking a lot of films are hideously overrated because of their feel good factor . THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION is a great example which astonishes me that is the top rated movie of this website . Likewise THE FULL MONTY which broke British box office records a few years . A feel good story seems to equate with a good story but this isn't necessarily the case in my humble worthless cynical opinion . SPARE PARTS is probably another example of what I'm talking about
In its favour SPARE PARTS is based on a true story about a bunch of high school students with zero experience and little knowledge of engineering building a robot to take part in an annual underwater robotics competition That said anything this "Based on a true story" the operative word is "based" and not "true" . While watching the film I did have a nagging suspicion that things had been embellished , characterization changed and history rewritten in order to create a happier story . As it turns out someone on the message board of this page has posted a link to Wired magazine telling the true story of La Vida Robot and the story behind the four high school students from Phoenix Arizona . Reading the article it becomes very clear that some liberties have been taken with the story and paradoxically some these liberties haven't in anyway improved the story . Indeed the film ends with a brief resume of what happened to the students in real life and Oscar's story seems as if there's another bio-pic on him just waiting to be told . If we get a that sequel hopefully it'll be better than this rather bland film
In its favour SPARE PARTS is based on a true story about a bunch of high school students with zero experience and little knowledge of engineering building a robot to take part in an annual underwater robotics competition That said anything this "Based on a true story" the operative word is "based" and not "true" . While watching the film I did have a nagging suspicion that things had been embellished , characterization changed and history rewritten in order to create a happier story . As it turns out someone on the message board of this page has posted a link to Wired magazine telling the true story of La Vida Robot and the story behind the four high school students from Phoenix Arizona . Reading the article it becomes very clear that some liberties have been taken with the story and paradoxically some these liberties haven't in anyway improved the story . Indeed the film ends with a brief resume of what happened to the students in real life and Oscar's story seems as if there's another bio-pic on him just waiting to be told . If we get a that sequel hopefully it'll be better than this rather bland film