10 most historically innacurate films

[thunderbolt]

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

Wow, what a list.

[Bizarro Amy]

Sure am glad I caught this one before it disappeared.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I think it's fun to catch modern items in historically set movies. Like a wristwatch on a guy in "Glory". Or one of my favorites, a modern telphone pole in the mini-series "Centenial", which was filmed just up north of me in Augusta, KY.

Chris

[Mikey]

Sure am glad I caught this one before it disappeared.

That's true.....
Wasn't this thread at least 3 pages long this morning ?
Suddenly, it's down to 2 ......

This THREAD is historically inacurate

[The Bat]

Well...I've read "Ceaser and Christ", by Wil Durant....and the only thing made up in "Gladitor"...was the character of Maximus...and the fact the the Romans never actually defeated the Germanians. The rest of the Characters were pulled from History. One Critic stated, that it was rediculous the a Ceaser would actually fight in the Gladitor Arena...but in fact, the REAL Komodus did enjoy fighting in the Games.

But who cares if they moved History around a little bit to tell a story...it was a GREAT Movie!!

[toys2cool]

yeah but most of them are still bad *** if you ask me

[johnmiic]

I don't think 2001 should have been included either but I guess what they are really saying is things didn't turn out like we expected. We have a space station but it is not the exciting, rotating, wheel in space like the film had. We have a space shuttle but not the reliable hypersonic space plane like the Orion clipper. Space travel is mostly for astronauts and not commercial passangers like many think it should be by now. We haven't sent people to Jupiter but if the moon Europa has oceans under the ice we might send people there to check it out. NASA does have plans on the table to send astronuats to survey Earth orbit crossing comets and asteroids. This was proposed in Arthur C. Clarke's third book in the series: 2063.

Mike, JFK is not meant to be history but theory. Think of it like a murder mystery. There are many theories regarding the Kennedy assasination. This film is just the one favored by Oliver Stone. Only a small percentage of the American people think Oswald acted alone because there seems to be too many inconsitencies in the Warren Commission Report; mainly the Magic Bullet Theory.

I'm surprised these films were not included as critics have cited them as being glaringly inaccurate and having oblvious gaffs:

Mississippi Burning

The Insider

Pearl Harbor, starring Ben Affleck.

[grayhank]

I'm surprised these films were not included as critics have cited them as being glaringly inaccurate and having oblvious gaffs:

Pearl Harbor, starring Ben Affleck.

No, that one's true...Ben Affleck was there...he's actually really really really old.

[Bo8a_Fett]

I don't mind inaccurate movies when they are made purely as entertainment as in something like "Master and Commander"or even "300" which was based on Frank Miller's take on the battle rather than a historically correct rendition. Artistic lisence is fine as long as they don't change the facts too much, but when they are deliberately showing a historical event and get it wrong it really bugs me.
How about ...
U 571
Marie Antoinette
Sands of Iwo Jima
First Knight
Robin Hood :Prince of Thieves
Titanic
Flyboys

[Bizarro Amy]

If 2001 is on the list, shouldn't the movie version of 1984 be there too?

[Bo8a_Fett]

What really bugs me is when kids fall for the "hollywood" history and believe what they've seen is fact rather than learning proper history in school.
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[Hector]

Well...I've read "Ceaser and Christ", by Wil Durant....and the only thing made up in "Gladitor"...was the character of Maximus...and the fact the the Romans never actually defeated the Germanians.

Well, Romans did indeed defeated them in spurts, meaning the Romans did manage to "pacify" certain regions of Germania.

So that battle in Gladiator could've been one of those successes.

However after the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (were three Roman legions were crushed)...Rome abandoned all further attempts to conquer Germania.

[johnmiic]

What really bugs me is when kids fall for the "hollywood" history and believe what they've seen is fact rather than learning proper history in school.
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That's OK because if they watch the film instead of studying the real history they'll just fail the test at school. That'll learn 'em!

[Vortigern99]

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

I'm starting to appreciate your dry wit, MegoRonin.

[Evel KMego]

Why is Meatballs not on this list?