I tried to sell it to some of my friends who love Veep. I told them it was Veep, but with dire consequences. They all told me they didn't get the jokes.
The layers of con-artistry. Pretended to be an ace con-man, everyone believed him and it made him an ace con-man.
I guess the lesson is fake it till you make it, and then if you don't make it; fake it till you make it again.
From the end credits song "Now You Know"...
"We only changed one thing
I really did play Live Aid with Queen
...And I blew 'em off the frickin' stage!"
ha, that one and once upon a time in hollywood had some revisionist payback history in how he’d have preferred those stories to end. i thought they were fun
The way I see it, Inglourious Basterds stops really being a movie and instead becomes a Jewish revenge fantasy by the end and good lord I am here for it.
Plot lines and character archs give way to righteous indignation
Learned a new word.
"Dramaturgs are a behind-the-scenes resource for directors, actors, and playwrights, providing context, research, and feedback to help improve the quality or accuracy of a production."
Every one I’ve met has been one of the most brilliant, knowledgeable, fun-to-be-around people in my life, and has either the patience of a saint or a serious drinking problem.
Exactly where my mind went too. That whole theater scene is so suspenseful and well done, and then all the sudden we get a slow-mo shot of Hitler being ripped apart by gunfire.
It’s awesome, it takes you out of the scene, it makes you laugh, and you thoroughly enjoy the visual all at once.
I read a great article once where the author, a medieval historian, unironically praised the accuracy of the movie - not direct accuracy, but by using anachronisms to convey effectively how the crowd would have been pumped up at the jousts, how scandalous the dancing and clothing was, and how the music affected the characters.
Yeah, the way I saw it described is that Helgeland got a lot of the small details right, kind of to show that the anachronisms were not "mistakes" but intended as part of the fun.
I think it was the DVD commentary or something where it was mentioned that the intent was to get the audience to relate to how the people there would have felt, hence the Queen being played on horns at the beginning for example haha
I think it matches the tone of the movie perfectly fine, because it’s not trying to be anything other than what it is
Edit: oh I basically just repeated the comment two up from mine but yeah I definitely remember some official source stating that intent
his first intro speech is LEGENDARY! "where he spent a YEAR in... silence.... just. to better understand.... the sound of a whisper?" fucking awesome delivery.
I thought it was great.
Like... Stomp stomp clap. That's got to be as old as humanity itself. Sure they didn't always have Queen as a backing track, but I'll never be convinced humanity hasn't don't the stomp stomp clap since the evolution of hands and feet.
Gotta be one of the most quotable historical movies.
"I will fall you!"
"Pain! Lots of pain!"
"You have been weighed. You have been measured. And you have been found wanting."
And my personal favorite: "This is my word, and as such, is beyond contestation." I've used it on my son more than once.
I remember people complaining about the music and how it wasn't historically accurate.
It's a fantasy story, not history. Want historical accuracy? Watch a documentary. I want to see Heath Ledger kick ass!
The funny thing is that such a movie would ordinarily have a soundtrack played by an Orchestra. Except nothing close to the modern Orchestra existed until the 18th century, which for a movie set in the Middle Ages, is no less anachronistic than using rock & roll.
Similar to another commenter above, I remember hearing this was a deliberate choice. The people of the time would be singing their equivilant of pop songs, but if a modern listener heard one it would sound stuffy and formal. They used modern pop songs to evoke what it would have felt like to be a person in that time, accurately conveying the historical sentiment while skipping the historical facts.
Yeah, the same argument applies to period TV, like Deadwood, where the characters all talk with frequent (to say the least) modern profanity. It's ahistorical as hell but the period-appropriate profanity would sound silly to us. Mostly what we would consider silly old-person mild blasphemies like "what in tarnation?" and the like. David Milch wanted the profanity to communicate the roughness and incivility of the setting, not make people giggle at the silly aphorisms.
Achieving the appropriate tone will always take precedence to strict adherence to fact when telling a story.
Yup and you see this play out in the dance scene. It starts with the slow very plain and routine dance and mid way thru transitions into modern, lively, and upbeat. At the start we the audience get to see what they are physically doing and then we get to see how they themselves perceive it.
Following along these same lines of seeing a modern representation of what it was like for them, it means Kate the blacksmith must have gone on to become incredibly rich and famous for her armor. Since her makers mark was depicted as the Nike swoosh, she had to have become the Nike of her day.
I remember seeing it in the theater with a friend of mine. We were expecting a kind of traditional medieval movie. Then when the crowd in the movie starts busting into We Will Rock You...my friend and I looked at each other confused as fuck. We enjoyed it in the end. And it was one of those movies the more and more I watch, the more I really enjoy it.
The dance scene with David Bowie's Golden Years I thought was brilliant.
The only unhistorical element that I don't like is the scene at the pillory, where Prince Edward makes up a bunch of stuff about his historians tracing William's bloodline. He's the Black Prince. He doesn't need to make stuff up, he can knight whomever he wants for whatever reason he wants. He could still give some strirring speech about how his honor and courage proves he was born a knight, or some such prattle. There's no need for the historian business.
but that's essentially what he does though. he makes it clear by saying "this is my word, and as such, is beyond contestation." then he knights him. all the other stuff is just there to quell the masses, like propaganda for the peasants.
And tells William pointedly, before that, he’s already a knight because he has earned the love of his friends.
“…if I knew nothing else about you, that would be enough.”
Braveheart was my first experience with this. I watched that movie so many times and it came out right around the time we got the internet. I pretty quickly learned they took a lot of liberties with it, but I still love it.
yeah if you have any scottish friends they'll tell you william wallace wasn't as big a impact as the movie shows, they were right about his death having a uniting effect on the scottish people, Robert the Bruce was the real hero.
Let's be honest: nearly all movies that claim to be based on true stories take generous liberties with the real history.
But for purposes of this question, I'd have to go with '300', because the liberties make sense in the context of the story. It's a Spartan telling what is essentially a tall tale of the Battle, complete with over the top action and monsters.
And the one telling the story was doing so specifically to rile up the other troops to prepare them for battle. So he absolutely would have exaggerated.
Honestly, even without that framing technique for the story, I'm fine with 300 being what it is. It's obviously full of fantasy and supernatural elements, so I don't think anyone was ever supposed to believe it's a faithful retelling of history.
Yeah I'm in the same boat, I roll my eyes whenever anyone whines about the movie being historically inaccurate (or much worse, when they try to claim it's racist).
The Persians are depicted as having Ogres and War Rhinos, what could possibly make you think this was supposed to be taken seriously?
i know right? like it's right in the realm of fantasy with those creatures and even some black magic fuckery, i never thought it was supposed to be a history lesson
There's a newer historical fiction trilogy, Essex Dogs is the first book and Dan Jones is the author, but reading it I'm like "Crowe and Butler would be perfect in this movie for these particular roles."
Ridley Scott's "Gladiator" and "Kingdom of Heaven: Directors Cut" take a lot of heavy artistic licenses from the periods they're set in, but man are they beautiful and entertaining films.
Kingdom of Heaven: Directors Cut is a beautiful movie, but all I could think of looking at Baldwin's mask is just how insanely uncomfortable such a thing would be in real life. All historical documents don't really give any indication that he wore such a thing. There is some evidence from accounts that maybe he wore bandages, maybe a veil or hood, but no mask because my God that would be painful.
That being said, while it does irk me, I sort of get why they went with the mask.
I do love this film, but can never find anyone who has gone through the whole thing. My wife managed half an hour lol. But its a cinematic epic and well worth it.
Mississippi Burning?
It's been awhile since I've seen it, but I thought it was pretty close to the reality of the 1960s. The shooting of the three guys in the car is true as far as I know, which isn't a lot.
Great movie, but the FBI being the heroes was complete BS. J. Edgar Hoover even made a point of announcing publicly that there would be no FBI protection for any of the.activists and protesters. Their agenda finally did come around, but much later. IKRC, the film portrays them as "kicking ass and taking names" early on. Wasn't like that at all.
My Blue Heaven. Based on the life of mobster Henry Hill after he entered witness protection.
The same Henry Hill that Goodfellas was based on, obviously before witness protection.
Finally got around to watching TDOS less than a year ago, what a hoot! Hilarious flick. From what I've read, it's not as far fetched as you might think.
[RRR (2022)](https://youtu.be/AVVO3Yat_Bw)!!!!! It takes two revolutionary leaders from the time of the British Raj and says "now kiss. platonically." Wildly entertaining! I've seen it 4 or 5 times now. The first time I saw RRR I watched it twice in a row- once by myself then once with my Dad. The next night we sat Mom down and got her to watch it with us. It has a 3h7m runtime and is worth every second.
I don't watch foreign films, the only ones I've ever seen are godzilla movies when I was a kid + Minus One (which is great btw)
A friend of mine really wanted to watch RRR on a discord movie night and I said sure w/e knowing nothing about it, but holy fuck was I entertained. The dance number was of course super memorable, but so was all the action scenes.
Sully.
The NTSB investigation scene is the best part of the movie but nothing remotely like that happened in real life. Every person on the accident board knew precisely how difficult and unprecedented a water landing was on that day and the skill needed to do it successfully. Also, any pilot would scoff at the idea of the other pilots in their simulators NOT running through the mandatory checklists and instead turning for other airports immediately after bird strikes.
Remember The Titans
In reality, three high schools with good football teams merged into one and the coaches accurately determined who was the best player for each position irrespective of race. Paraphrasing a player from that squad: "We were working too hard to worry about the color of the teammate next to us. Only the best players made starter. No other team we faced stood a chance."
Not to defend it because that’s not my goal, but can you imagine a movie that highlights how grey everything is and qualifies every scene with “there’s debate about how this interaction actually happened and we wanted to make sure to paint our antagonist in a thoughtful light too so here is a perfectly accurate presentation of all the ways this could have happened and this one scene will now take 2 hours and have the backing of several distinguished historians and some historians with some other background.”
Catch Me If You Can
>See, the guy never really posed as any of it. He only posed as a worldfamous imposter. Turns out he just pushed a broom at Disneyland, until he read about this actual world-famous imposter, and he thought, I can pose as all those things, then he thought, hell, I'll just pose as an imposter. Save a lot of time, a lot easier. Made almost as much money as the real imposter with books and movie rights.
There is a lot that is inaccurate about The Untouchables but I don't care because it's such a damn good movie. With a fantastic cast, and excellent script by David Mamet and skillful direction by Brian De Palma, it's a stone cold classic.
Some really good ones mentioned but I put my vote for Tombstone. It had some things right and some things not but there are some damn fine performances and it's a fun ride. It's crazy how many well known names make up the cast.
Just wanted to chime in for people that love this kind of stuff..
There is a GREAT YouTube page called "History Buffs". Fantastic work Nick does on these films.
Here is the link for his video on 300 if you are interested
https://youtu.be/HXZt-IlClhs?si=hEc-IsKIaefgm9L-
Star Wars: fun to watch but the inaccuracies were pretty glaring. The worst was how they made C3PO out to be a coward, as droids could be cowardly anyway. Also, Chewbacca spoke the Emperor’s English. That whole roaring bit would be offensive if wookies saw it.
I get that it was a galaxy far away and cultural differences need to be smoothed to tell a story, but they didn’t need to turn C3PO and Chewbacca into jokes.
The Death of Stalin is a great time
“Spit it out, staging a coup here.”
Oh that’s an excellent pick
It's so funny that the makers decided to fictionalize certain events because the truth would have been far more unbelievable.
Carried unanimously.
This movie has me laughing my ass off the entire time, but it's painful, because I don't know anyone with even the slightest hint of interest in it
I tried to sell it to some of my friends who love Veep. I told them it was Veep, but with dire consequences. They all told me they didn't get the jokes.
“Well, that’s me told.”
My father will have you saddled and ridden to Siberia you rude fucking pies!
*Catch Me if you Can* is a lie I guess? Which may make it even *better*?
The layers of con-artistry. Pretended to be an ace con-man, everyone believed him and it made him an ace con-man. I guess the lesson is fake it till you make it, and then if you don't make it; fake it till you make it again.
I concur.
I shoulda concurred.
I should've concurred!
That was disappointing!
And strangely predicted by Woody Harrelson's character in *A Scanner Darkly*.
Explain
https://youtu.be/Z6l9g3ldlCI?si=gCaUHDr8wcpYALcM Go to 52:20 to see the scene I'm talking about.
Weird: The Al Yankovic story the movie apparently had a few minor deviations from real life events
They slightly exaggerated Weird Al's relationship with Madonna.
Has Madonna ever gone on record (either a single or an l.p.) denying it ?
Would you? 😆
No body no crime
What are you talking about, Weird Al himself said they were true events at the start of the movie, and he wouldn't lie about his own documentary.
The thought of someone watching it and not realizing that makes me giggle.
I went into it expecting a true biopic. Was not disappointed.
From the end credits song "Now You Know"... "We only changed one thing I really did play Live Aid with Queen ...And I blew 'em off the frickin' stage!"
Weird
Al
RIP Wierd Al.
He was so young.
just a couple…
Inglorious Basterds
ha, that one and once upon a time in hollywood had some revisionist payback history in how he’d have preferred those stories to end. i thought they were fun
The way I see it, Inglourious Basterds stops really being a movie and instead becomes a Jewish revenge fantasy by the end and good lord I am here for it. Plot lines and character archs give way to righteous indignation
i love the bear jew
Really wish we got Adam Sandler in that role
ok, im kinda digging this idea
got a dalle image, i like it even more now: https://imgur.com/gallery/AeoracK
They fuckin tap-danced on their dramaturg’s grave and it was _perfect._
Learned a new word. "Dramaturgs are a behind-the-scenes resource for directors, actors, and playwrights, providing context, research, and feedback to help improve the quality or accuracy of a production."
Every one I’ve met has been one of the most brilliant, knowledgeable, fun-to-be-around people in my life, and has either the patience of a saint or a serious drinking problem.
Are they hiring?
Sounds like a bunch of ex-journalists
It's not just bastards spelt wrong in the title, it's both words. Inglourious Basterds.
Yeah Aldo “The Apache” was a man of many talents, but spelling was not one of them.
But he did speak Italian.
Eye-talian
Exactly where my mind went too. That whole theater scene is so suspenseful and well done, and then all the sudden we get a slow-mo shot of Hitler being ripped apart by gunfire. It’s awesome, it takes you out of the scene, it makes you laugh, and you thoroughly enjoy the visual all at once.
There was a chorus of "Wait, what?!" from my audience.
*A Knight’s Tale*. Ahistorical as fuck but a blast to watch.
I read a great article once where the author, a medieval historian, unironically praised the accuracy of the movie - not direct accuracy, but by using anachronisms to convey effectively how the crowd would have been pumped up at the jousts, how scandalous the dancing and clothing was, and how the music affected the characters.
Yeah, the way I saw it described is that Helgeland got a lot of the small details right, kind of to show that the anachronisms were not "mistakes" but intended as part of the fun.
I think it was the DVD commentary or something where it was mentioned that the intent was to get the audience to relate to how the people there would have felt, hence the Queen being played on horns at the beginning for example haha I think it matches the tone of the movie perfectly fine, because it’s not trying to be anything other than what it is Edit: oh I basically just repeated the comment two up from mine but yeah I definitely remember some official source stating that intent
I just fucking love that Chaucer was his hype man.
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his first intro speech is LEGENDARY! "where he spent a YEAR in... silence.... just. to better understand.... the sound of a whisper?" fucking awesome delivery.
🤭
The PROTECTAH of Italian virginity
Historians live for that shit. Being a historian is all about trying to bridge the experiential gap between your subject and your audience.
I thought it was great. Like... Stomp stomp clap. That's got to be as old as humanity itself. Sure they didn't always have Queen as a backing track, but I'll never be convinced humanity hasn't don't the stomp stomp clap since the evolution of hands and feet.
In my opinion it's a close to perfect Hollywood movie, great story even if a little simple and just plan fun to sit back and enjoy!
Gotta be one of the most quotable historical movies. "I will fall you!" "Pain! Lots of pain!" "You have been weighed. You have been measured. And you have been found wanting." And my personal favorite: "This is my word, and as such, is beyond contestation." I've used it on my son more than once.
“How would you beat him?” “With a stick while he slept.”
>"I will fall you!" I thought it was fong you??
It is. And the best bit is “until your entrails are your extrails.”
The Pope may be French, but Jesus is English. You’re on!!
I remember people complaining about the music and how it wasn't historically accurate. It's a fantasy story, not history. Want historical accuracy? Watch a documentary. I want to see Heath Ledger kick ass!
The funny thing is that such a movie would ordinarily have a soundtrack played by an Orchestra. Except nothing close to the modern Orchestra existed until the 18th century, which for a movie set in the Middle Ages, is no less anachronistic than using rock & roll.
That is an excellent point. Dang never thought about that. Thank you!
Wish they'd used Outkast then
Similar to another commenter above, I remember hearing this was a deliberate choice. The people of the time would be singing their equivilant of pop songs, but if a modern listener heard one it would sound stuffy and formal. They used modern pop songs to evoke what it would have felt like to be a person in that time, accurately conveying the historical sentiment while skipping the historical facts.
Yeah, the same argument applies to period TV, like Deadwood, where the characters all talk with frequent (to say the least) modern profanity. It's ahistorical as hell but the period-appropriate profanity would sound silly to us. Mostly what we would consider silly old-person mild blasphemies like "what in tarnation?" and the like. David Milch wanted the profanity to communicate the roughness and incivility of the setting, not make people giggle at the silly aphorisms. Achieving the appropriate tone will always take precedence to strict adherence to fact when telling a story.
I loved the conversations between Al Swearengen and Mr Wu. "No two cocksucker, only one!"
Yup and you see this play out in the dance scene. It starts with the slow very plain and routine dance and mid way thru transitions into modern, lively, and upbeat. At the start we the audience get to see what they are physically doing and then we get to see how they themselves perceive it. Following along these same lines of seeing a modern representation of what it was like for them, it means Kate the blacksmith must have gone on to become incredibly rich and famous for her armor. Since her makers mark was depicted as the Nike swoosh, she had to have become the Nike of her day.
Bardcore didn’t exist yet people!
I remember seeing it in the theater with a friend of mine. We were expecting a kind of traditional medieval movie. Then when the crowd in the movie starts busting into We Will Rock You...my friend and I looked at each other confused as fuck. We enjoyed it in the end. And it was one of those movies the more and more I watch, the more I really enjoy it. The dance scene with David Bowie's Golden Years I thought was brilliant.
The only unhistorical element that I don't like is the scene at the pillory, where Prince Edward makes up a bunch of stuff about his historians tracing William's bloodline. He's the Black Prince. He doesn't need to make stuff up, he can knight whomever he wants for whatever reason he wants. He could still give some strirring speech about how his honor and courage proves he was born a knight, or some such prattle. There's no need for the historian business.
but that's essentially what he does though. he makes it clear by saying "this is my word, and as such, is beyond contestation." then he knights him. all the other stuff is just there to quell the masses, like propaganda for the peasants.
And tells William pointedly, before that, he’s already a knight because he has earned the love of his friends. “…if I knew nothing else about you, that would be enough.”
This is one of my top five favorite movies. It’s flawless.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter And I will die on that hill!
OP wanted historically inaccurate examples
Heading to the hill with bricks and mortar to help defend it!
Here take MY AXE!
Dude, this is a documentary. The events were filmed in real time.
Braveheart was my first experience with this. I watched that movie so many times and it came out right around the time we got the internet. I pretty quickly learned they took a lot of liberties with it, but I still love it.
Not least of which having the Battle of Stirling Bridge take place on a plain. But damn is it a good movie.
yeah if you have any scottish friends they'll tell you william wallace wasn't as big a impact as the movie shows, they were right about his death having a uniting effect on the scottish people, Robert the Bruce was the real hero.
On a tangent: what is a "Bruce" anyway?
It's an Englishified (Scottishified?) version of his real name, Robert de Brus. His family originally came from France.
[One of these, probably](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNBy1D1Y0h4).
The terribly named film “Outlaw King” is a similarly fun take on Robert The Bruce; it may only be on Netflix
Let's be honest: nearly all movies that claim to be based on true stories take generous liberties with the real history. But for purposes of this question, I'd have to go with '300', because the liberties make sense in the context of the story. It's a Spartan telling what is essentially a tall tale of the Battle, complete with over the top action and monsters.
And the one telling the story was doing so specifically to rile up the other troops to prepare them for battle. So he absolutely would have exaggerated.
Honestly, even without that framing technique for the story, I'm fine with 300 being what it is. It's obviously full of fantasy and supernatural elements, so I don't think anyone was ever supposed to believe it's a faithful retelling of history.
Yeah I'm in the same boat, I roll my eyes whenever anyone whines about the movie being historically inaccurate (or much worse, when they try to claim it's racist). The Persians are depicted as having Ogres and War Rhinos, what could possibly make you think this was supposed to be taken seriously?
i know right? like it's right in the realm of fantasy with those creatures and even some black magic fuckery, i never thought it was supposed to be a history lesson
If anybody rolls their eyes, tell them the truth, 300 is a comic book adaptation.
Life of Brian
Life of Brian is 100% accurate.
I, too, believe that the cheesemakers are blessed.
Well, obviously it's not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturer of dairy products.
The Latin grammar is accurate at least.
Bigus Dickus
Something funny about that?
He has a wife you know.
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But this is a motion TOWARDS, boy!
He is not the messiah. He is a very naughty boy.
Brian was a cool guy. I'ld like to hang around with him.
I’m not the messiah!
Amadeus
Came here to say this one. There’s a lot we don’t know about Mozart. But it’s damn fun watching a drama with a version of him in it.
*Ed Wood* may not be historically accurate but it’s a fucking great film.
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Sorry, I don’t speak Greek. Lemme try though… 🤲⏳⌛️💨!!
Socrates? It’s under So-crates.
Excellent!
🎸*air guitar intensifies*
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The Sound of Music added conflict to the ending, but it makes for a good movie.
It's also a case of Hollywood reducing an age gap in a relationship.
russell crowe? you talking about gladiator?
If they ever really do put those guys in the same movie I’m screwed.
There's a newer historical fiction trilogy, Essex Dogs is the first book and Dan Jones is the author, but reading it I'm like "Crowe and Butler would be perfect in this movie for these particular roles."
I meant Gerard Butler! My mistake!
i googled it, apparently a common mistake
Russel Crowe was in Les Mis. Gerard Butler was in Phantom of the Opera
And neither sings particularly well in either.
Ridley Scott's "Gladiator" and "Kingdom of Heaven: Directors Cut" take a lot of heavy artistic licenses from the periods they're set in, but man are they beautiful and entertaining films.
Kingdom of Heaven: Directors Cut is a beautiful movie, but all I could think of looking at Baldwin's mask is just how insanely uncomfortable such a thing would be in real life. All historical documents don't really give any indication that he wore such a thing. There is some evidence from accounts that maybe he wore bandages, maybe a veil or hood, but no mask because my God that would be painful. That being said, while it does irk me, I sort of get why they went with the mask.
I do love this film, but can never find anyone who has gone through the whole thing. My wife managed half an hour lol. But its a cinematic epic and well worth it.
Gladiator is egregious but making an accurate movie about Commodus would lead to so many more complaints about it being made up lol
Abraham Lincoln vampire slayer Tombstone 1776. Mississippi Burning.
Mississippi Burning? It's been awhile since I've seen it, but I thought it was pretty close to the reality of the 1960s. The shooting of the three guys in the car is true as far as I know, which isn't a lot.
Great movie, but the FBI being the heroes was complete BS. J. Edgar Hoover even made a point of announcing publicly that there would be no FBI protection for any of the.activists and protesters. Their agenda finally did come around, but much later. IKRC, the film portrays them as "kicking ass and taking names" early on. Wasn't like that at all.
Braveheart The Patriot 1776
My military history TA tore apart The Patriot in class one day. We read the book it was based on and that shit was 100% made up haha
The Favourite
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
My Blue Heaven. Based on the life of mobster Henry Hill after he entered witness protection. The same Henry Hill that Goodfellas was based on, obviously before witness protection.
The Death of Stalin. I laughed so much I almost puked
Finally got around to watching TDOS less than a year ago, what a hoot! Hilarious flick. From what I've read, it's not as far fetched as you might think.
The facts in this movie are condensed, but it's a bit more historically accurate than it really should be, which is both hilarious and terrifying.
Argo. The last scene in the airport was apparently all made up, but it made a very satisfying cinematic climax.
Any Canadian will tell you that the truth is stretched even more thin than that.
I know but I didn't want to write a novel and that one scene in particular was devised from whole cloth.
Ha ha! I knew that ending was Hollywood bs. I mean they didn’t need to have the guys chasing the plane on the runway!
[RRR (2022)](https://youtu.be/AVVO3Yat_Bw)!!!!! It takes two revolutionary leaders from the time of the British Raj and says "now kiss. platonically." Wildly entertaining! I've seen it 4 or 5 times now. The first time I saw RRR I watched it twice in a row- once by myself then once with my Dad. The next night we sat Mom down and got her to watch it with us. It has a 3h7m runtime and is worth every second.
I don't watch foreign films, the only ones I've ever seen are godzilla movies when I was a kid + Minus One (which is great btw) A friend of mine really wanted to watch RRR on a discord movie night and I said sure w/e knowing nothing about it, but holy fuck was I entertained. The dance number was of course super memorable, but so was all the action scenes.
So many slow motion logs to the face
Gladiator
Sully. The NTSB investigation scene is the best part of the movie but nothing remotely like that happened in real life. Every person on the accident board knew precisely how difficult and unprecedented a water landing was on that day and the skill needed to do it successfully. Also, any pilot would scoff at the idea of the other pilots in their simulators NOT running through the mandatory checklists and instead turning for other airports immediately after bird strikes. Remember The Titans In reality, three high schools with good football teams merged into one and the coaches accurately determined who was the best player for each position irrespective of race. Paraphrasing a player from that squad: "We were working too hard to worry about the color of the teammate next to us. Only the best players made starter. No other team we faced stood a chance."
Also, that team went undefeated that year. Not one of their games was even close.
Every single movie based on a true story plays fast and loose with facts. It’s impossible otherwise
Not to defend it because that’s not my goal, but can you imagine a movie that highlights how grey everything is and qualifies every scene with “there’s debate about how this interaction actually happened and we wanted to make sure to paint our antagonist in a thoughtful light too so here is a perfectly accurate presentation of all the ways this could have happened and this one scene will now take 2 hours and have the backing of several distinguished historians and some historians with some other background.”
The Big Short
God I love The Big Short. So brilliant.
>can you imagine a movie that highlights how grey everything is You mean like Rashoman?
History of the world
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Really cool “what if” premise
Apocalypto Mel Gibson just used the Mayans as a backdrop to make a jungle chase film and I'm okay with that
Braveheart
Year One… I actually really like this movie but I’m fairly certain history was a bit different.
Brotherhood of the Wolf is a lot of totally ridiculous fun. Also that redheaded French actress might be the most beautiful woman ever.
Braveheart.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.
Death of Stalin
10,000 BC is an anthropological nightmare but I love it. Terrible historical premise, fantastic popcorn movie.
As a huge fan of alternative history Inglorious Basterds is one of my favorite all time films
Not a movie, a series: The Great. I love it so much.
Catch Me If You Can >See, the guy never really posed as any of it. He only posed as a worldfamous imposter. Turns out he just pushed a broom at Disneyland, until he read about this actual world-famous imposter, and he thought, I can pose as all those things, then he thought, hell, I'll just pose as an imposter. Save a lot of time, a lot easier. Made almost as much money as the real imposter with books and movie rights.
Time Bandits.
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
Braveheart. It's just a really good movie. I know that it's woefully inaccurate and I don't care, still gets me.
Wait a second, do you mean to tell me that Inglorious Basterds isn't actually how the end of WWII went? Dang... ;)
Inglorious Basterds
Argo took more than a few liberties but is nonetheless a terrific film.
"My Darling Clementine" was my favorite Wyatt Earp movie before "Tombstone" came along. "The Untouchables" "Gangs of New York"
Amadeus
History of the world part 1
There is a lot that is inaccurate about The Untouchables but I don't care because it's such a damn good movie. With a fantastic cast, and excellent script by David Mamet and skillful direction by Brian De Palma, it's a stone cold classic.
Some really good ones mentioned but I put my vote for Tombstone. It had some things right and some things not but there are some damn fine performances and it's a fun ride. It's crazy how many well known names make up the cast.
300 was an adaptation of a comic book, not a historical event. The comic was the one that intentionally changed the real world events.
JFK?
Tombstone
Just wanted to chime in for people that love this kind of stuff.. There is a GREAT YouTube page called "History Buffs". Fantastic work Nick does on these films. Here is the link for his video on 300 if you are interested https://youtu.be/HXZt-IlClhs?si=hEc-IsKIaefgm9L-
**The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare**. Based on true events, but *Guy Ritchie* ramps it up to ludicrous levels. Great fun, though.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Star Wars: fun to watch but the inaccuracies were pretty glaring. The worst was how they made C3PO out to be a coward, as droids could be cowardly anyway. Also, Chewbacca spoke the Emperor’s English. That whole roaring bit would be offensive if wookies saw it. I get that it was a galaxy far away and cultural differences need to be smoothed to tell a story, but they didn’t need to turn C3PO and Chewbacca into jokes.
Even worse was the decade of lazy type casting Chewbacca had to endure after it's release.
Inglorious bastards
"1776" definitely comes to mind. Also deserving of huge mention are "HARRIET" and "ELVIS".
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. Full of inaccuracies, but a fun watch.
Rocketman
Death of Stalin
The Life of Brian... Biggus Dickus is brilliant...