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re: 7 Movies Based On History That Lied
Posted on 7/18/14 at 3:37 pm to Byron Bojangles III
Posted on 7/18/14 at 3:37 pm to Byron Bojangles III
Glad Ten Commandments isn't listed or I'd have to question everything I know about ancient Middle East history
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Posted on 7/18/14 at 3:48 pm to Byron Bojangles III
No Inglorious Basterds? 
Posted on 7/18/14 at 3:55 pm to Byron Bojangles III
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"Gladiator" What is surprising about this historically inaccurate movie is that a historian helped work on it. In the movie, the character Maximus is fictional and several of the battles never even took place.
I don't think this is really as bad as the others. I don't think it made any pretenses to being actually based on history like some of the others. At least I didn't take it like that. I always thought of it completely as a work of fiction. The historian would have just made the setting truer to the period where it is supposed to have been set.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 3:59 pm to Byron Bojangles III
This list is shite, most of these do t even claim to be true. You mean Maximus isn't a real person who killed emperor Commodus in a Gladiator battle? No shite
Posted on 7/18/14 at 4:04 pm to Byron Bojangles III
quote:
"Gladiator"
What is surprising about this historically inaccurate movie is that a historian helped work on it. In the movie, the character Maximus is fictional and several of the battles never even took place.
wat?
Its a fricking movie.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 4:05 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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I'd rather see a list of historically accurate movies. They're harder to find.
Even Schindler's List isn't accurate.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 4:08 pm to Byron Bojangles III
How did Cool Runnings miss this list?
Posted on 7/18/14 at 4:21 pm to BluegrassBelle
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Even Schindler's List isn't accurate.
Most historians don't agree with that biographer's assessment.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 4:33 pm to Carson123987
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my favorite. they try and make the british look like nazis. executing colonists and burning people in churches
Wait this didn't happen? I got all my revolutionary war knowledge from this movie.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 4:42 pm to alajones
quote:Because it was 100% completely accurate! WTF are you implying, sir!?
How did Cool Runnings miss this list?
Posted on 7/18/14 at 5:02 pm to Byron Bojangles III
Since it won a recent Oscar I'll add Argo. None of the last interrogation or Hollywoody tarmac chase happened.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 5:23 pm to Backinthe615
Not only that, but the Americans who were hiding in the Canadian ambassador's home weren't as stressed or as scared as the movie portrays them as. They never really felt endangered and the Iranians never came close to finding and capturing them.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 5:31 pm to alajones
quote:Because nothing about that movie is inaccurate.
How did Cool Runnings miss this list?
Posted on 7/18/14 at 5:44 pm to Carson123987
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Carson123987
we must protect the Movie/tv board against those who would claim the Patriot as halfway decent
Posted on 7/18/14 at 5:45 pm to Byron Bojangles III
Lawrence of Arabia takes its share of liberties as well
Posted on 7/18/14 at 5:56 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 7/18/14 at 6:00 pm to REG861
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we must protect the Movie/tv board against those who would claim the Patriot as halfway decent
Personally I find it hilarious.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 6:03 pm to Byron Bojangles III
Do any of these movies claim to be anything more than very loosely based on the truth?
Where's Abe Lincoln vampire hunter? He was a real person, obviously it's based on a true story...
Where's Abe Lincoln vampire hunter? He was a real person, obviously it's based on a true story...
Posted on 7/18/14 at 6:28 pm to TexasTiger1185
Argo spent ten minutes congragulating itself on the accuracy of it's cinematography at the end. It didn't open with a corresponding disclaimer, but maybe it should have since it won best picture over ZD30.
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