10 most historically innacurate films

[Hector]

Yahoo! Movies Presents: The 10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies

[jwyblejr]

2001? Why put that on the list? I suppose when the 23rd century rolls around,all of the Star Trek movies will be on that list.

[grayhank]

I didn't realize that any of those movies were supposed to be factual. It appears that the person who made the list has a problem distinguishing between reality and fantasy. Why aren't any of the movies about Jesus there...because I'm sure that Jesus was actually a blond haired blue-eyed man as he is often portrayed in the movies.

[Hulk]

2001 was obviously tongue in cheek as a selection.

[wyldpny]

10,000 B.C.
Gladiator
300
The Last Samurai
Apocalypto
Memoirs of a Geisha
Braveheart
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
The Patriot
2001: A Space Odyssey

Ok, I can see the critics point in some areas of any of these films but the fact remains that these are movies meant for entertainment. If the critics or anyone want accuracy from beginning to end then they need to watch the history channel. Someone could also easily research more films and find others where most would agree were even worse than these.
Not to get into a long winded counter argument but 300 for example wasn't based on history as much as it was based on a graphic novel (ie a fancy comic book) by Frank Miller.

[BlackKnight]

Yeah,.. Well I enjoyed,

The Last Samuri
Gladiator
300
BraveHeart
The Patriot

So whatever,... I guess It doen't bother me about ''historical facts" when watching these movies,.. it's not like I was watching the History Channel. I was just looking for some sorta entertainment,.. & I got it from all these.

[Joe90]

10,000 BC is basically a Robert E Howard pastiche; but that's like panning 1 Million Years BC as being inaccurate... No Kidding!

Mmmmm, Racquel....


Gee, I'm glad they didn't mention the Hundreds of World War II films that have anachronistic equipment featured.

Battle of Britain -- Late war Mark IVX's were used.
In Harms Way -- Vietnam era Ford M151's were used.

We could go on and on...

[Brue]

As stated some of these films made no attempt to be accurate. But one of the reasons I disliked 10,000 BC is because, to me, it seemed like they were billing it to be.

I also agree that the 2001 inclusion here is tongue in cheek.

As far as whether comments on moore's films are political or not I can't say because I do believe that commentary on political commentary is political.

[SUP-Ronin]

I watch movies to be entertained. Accurate or not.

When it comes to accuracy, I like an objective and balanced source of information like FOX news or the Onion.

[Seeker]

I didn't realize that any of those movies were supposed to be factual. It appears that the person who made the list has a problem distinguishing between reality and fantasy.

I totally agree with this.

Way to close this thread with your own political views.

Exactly

[csstuba]

Here are a few that come to mind:
Peggy Sue Got Married
Starship Troopers
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Showgirls
The Blob (1958 Version). McQueen the bomb though.
They Live

[4NDR01D]

If the changes are made to the facts for entertainment purposes, then that's fine, BUT!! I don't want to see cavemen wearing Nikes and drinking Coke LOL.

[Mikey]

JFK (Oliver Stone)


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[Flynne]

How can "King Arthur" not make this list? For goodness sakes they had a half dozen literary conventions leading 6th Century Picts into battle rolling out man portable versions of 13th century French Trebuchets. I get anachronistic but can you land somewhere closer than plus or minus a millenium? "Lancelot" - yeah, that sounds like a Sarmation name.

[Captain]

What about the 57 film version of the gunfight at the OK corral...that thing was all over the place, and as inaccurate as they come. Probably a boatload of westerns that could make this list!

A lot of critics are on 10000 BC's case about the setting with the Pyramids, etc., yet there are several soild theories about the Pyramids being older than originally thought....part of an earlier culture, and Egypt just kind of adopted them. I believe Graham Hancock even wrote a book and made a documentary or two on this.