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Wooly mammoths building the pyramids??
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So, using mammoths to build the pyramids gauls them (get it, gauls?) yet they are OK with the people speaking the English 10,000 years ago?
How about all those movies about them there foreign cultures, yet they all speak freaking English?
If they want historical accuracy, then they should hit the roof any time Nazis speak English when they are alone in a scene, or wonder how Mozart managed to speak fluent English in his daily life in Austria.
We should be "reading" along the bottom of the screen for most of the movies we see, if we demand "accuracy."
Anyway, how about "Knight's Tale," the one with Heath Ledger where they play rock tunes during jousting matches?
Yeah, that's a good one.
I think you're missing the point. Speaking English in film does not detract from accuracy since the audience is aware that while they are speaking English that is not the language they really spoke.
As for films being passed off as historical films such as the Patriot - they are a little more dangerous as most people get their history from the movies. That film above all the ones there is the one to worry about because it tries to create patriotism through false propaganda turning a cruel insensitive intolerant nasty person into some sort of a hero and painting the British in a light that simply was untrue.
And before you think that the population base would not be fooled - well more than 1/3 of Americans believe the earth is 10,000 years old which is 100% Factually proven to be completely and absolutely wrong. Nevertheless, they still believe it because some guy at a podium trying to collect money to buy his Private Jet tells them so.
Going to the movies to get history is virtually always not the way to get it. The Ten Commandments is a nice fiction but it's passed off as actually being true.
People stop believing in the easter bunny and Santa Claus but continue to believe in the Christian or other religion sky God -- all movies about that should be on this list - they're the dangerous movies - and movies like the Patriot which teaches patriotism through lying.
reinvented Custer, but was still a pretty good old Warner Bros. movie.
Another old Warners picture. Had Custer and Jeb Stuart serving together on the frontier and made arresting John Brown at Harpers Ferry look like the Charge of the Light Brigade.
Ahh, but Raymond Massey giving John Brown's fiery speech on the scaffold, that makes the picture worthwhile.
Speaking of the Charge of the Light Brigade....
Oh, hang on, of course it was those brave, resourceful Americans who recovered the Enigma machine, wasn't it?
The only real surprise is that Jeremy Irons wasn't cast as the German commander, for, as we all know, Englishmen in film are BAD GUYS, with their posh accents and their royal family and all.
Some parts of that seemed a little iffy.
"The InquisITION...Let's begin!"
Baba-Booey to you all!
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The closing credits made a point of stating it was a work of fiction even though it was based on what happened when Henry VIII split with the Catholic church.
-------------Call it, friendo.
kept remarking how historically inaccurate it is. Soon we were both asleep however, so it really wasn't that much of an issue.
Another major Hollywood snoozer that I expected MUCH better from. What a wasteland of writing and a waste of talented actors.
"...You're all welcome to stay for the next set...we're going to play all the same tunes, but in different keys..." -Count Basie
...because it was released in 1968. You would have to include every science fiction film every made.That makes your top ten list of inaccurate films totally inaccurate!
....er, maybe not then.
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Chris redmond.
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... and a prediction of the near future from the viewpoint of 1946 I do not think it too inaccurate.
The change was as I understand it made on the advice of the publisher who thought people were too pleased the war was over to buy into such a bleak view of the future so soon.
Anyway, you can only call a film historically inaccurate if it is based on real events in the past.
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If they want to include 2001, then they should also include to Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Talk about total inaccuracy! None of that stuff happened at all! At least we have a space station now.
Don't even get me started with where Cars is inaccurate; let me just ask you if you know of a community of sentient cars.
Silent Running? All untrue.
JFK, Silverado, all those movies with fictional Presidents, Die Hard, Terminator...all much less historically accurate than their list.
I swear.
The city he builds shall bear my name, the woman he loves shall bear my child.
Moses! There is a man among the sheep!
And even very much cattle.
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I just hated it. The entire conflict reduced to cartoonish good guys/evil Brits.
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An interesting list. The only thing that bothers me is including 2001, since for one thing it's Sci-Fi, and another it was included for innacurately predicting the future.
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