Very few cave women had auburn hair.
Posted on 09/24/2011 4:19:32 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
I am a huge history buff so and enjoy watching movies about events in the past. However, many of these movies really irk me because they are incredibly inaccurate as to the historical facts. Here is a sampling of movies that have bugged me due to their historical inaccuracies:
1. Battle of the Bulge: So just how inaccurate was this 1965 movie? So inaccurate that former President Eisenhower who was Supreme Commander of the Allies in Europe denounced this film in a press conference. To watch this movie you would think that some Boston detective was able to predict all the German tactical moves based on such police work as shutting off the engine of a spotter plane in the middle of a fog bank in order to hear sounds of tank treads. Oh, and the German Panzers looked exactly like M47 Patton tanks which is what they were. As to the heavily forested Ardennes forest, at times it looked like a deforested western prairie.
2. Gunfight at the OK Corral: Couldn't Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp have bothered to grow a mustache or at least wear a fake one? The cleanshaven Earp in that movie is a slap at the intelligence of anybody with even a little knowledge about Wyatt Earp. Also the real life gunfight took just a few seconds, not at all like the extended gunfight in the movie which did not take place at the OK Corral but NEXT to it.
3. Huns. Why is it that every movie depicting Huns make them look like white guys? In actuality the Huns were a nomadic tribe from deep inside Asia who looked like ugly Mongolians with scarred faces. And the movie Attila the Hun looks like Jack Palance which is just wrong.
4. Confederate uniforms. This really bugs me. Civil War movies which depict Confederates late in the war wearing immaculate uniforms. Only officers had uniforms at that stage of the war that were in decent shape. The uniforms of the average foot soldiers were either one step up from rags or were stolen Federal uniforms dyed a beechnut color. And even those latter uniforms were usually in bad shape.
5. Pearl Harbor: Did anybody else cringe when Franklin D. Roosevelt rose from his wheel chair and walk a few steps to make a point? Guess what? That never happened.
6. The Alamo: Final Mexican attack took place in the dark before daybreak not in the middle of the day as depicted in the film. Also Col. Travis in the movie spoke with a clipped British accent. Oh, and the character of supposed frontiersman Smitty from Tennessee looked and sounded like he was an urban guy from South Philly.
“Miracle” is my favorite sports movie. I became a hockey fan as a nine-year old watching Team USA win the gold medal after beating the USSR and Finland in the medal round (they never played Sweden, who got bronze. Strange rules back then).
He told me a deal was cut between FDR and Joe Kennedy but the man never found out what it was. However,what he did know was the truth behind JFKs drunken fiasco that night.
Prince John: "And why should the people listen to you?"
Robin Hood: "Because, unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent."
I think the last Ryan basically got a discharge letter, packed his bags and went home.
Very few cave women had auburn hair.
***LOL, that was just good Nazi killing catharsis in no way accurate, but as fun as hell.***
The d**ned people who did the subtitles didn’t leave them up long enough to read! I had to stop the DVD and back up till I got them read. Over and over and over again.
needed that laugh
Reminds me of a movie. It had Tony Curtis in a final scene getting shot with a pistol while wearing full armor. In the background sound there are racecars going around a track or something. Read about it years ago. Yule Brenner also in that one? Sorry can’t remember.
***The only Gary Cooper movie I detest. Utter rubbish.***
Have you seen GARDEN OF EVIL. Decent movie but the Apaches look like Mohawks.
U-571 with the whole sub torpedoing another sub with both being underwater.
Also, not a historical film, but Crimson Tide with the boomer taking on water at 1300 feet, um, yeah, right...
SAGE (Semi Automatic Ground Equipment) was the first computerized continent-wide air defense system, designed and first operated in the late 1950s.
On the operator's console, there's an ashtray at the rear left of the desk surface.
Go the the Wiki on the SAGE computer system to see it. (I tried linking to the image as I have always done, but today it comes up on my preview as a red X, so no embedded image in this post. Sorry.)
When my father and I saw Pearl Harbor, he laughed right out loud at the scene with the Japanese naval officers using model ships in a pool.
He said that was an old coastal gun battery casemate in San Diego.
The pyrotechnics over the modern superstructures made me vomit. All the CGI and they couldn’t even get that right.
Very few cave women had auburn hair.
Excuse me but given that it was Raquel in skimpy clothing who really cares?
My personal favorite movie is not accurate. EL CID takes quite a few liberties with historical truth but it is still worth watching! Beautiful film!
FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE also takes lots of liberties with historical truth.
One should compare FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE with Russell Crowe in GLADIATOR as they are basicly the same time period.
SPARTACUS is also very historicaly inacurate. Howard Fast’s novel did not have the Tony Curtis character and Spartacus was not crucified but killed on the battlefield. His body was never found. The movie is more Dalton Trumbo than Howard Fast.
I’ve often wondered why there weren’t more big-budget movies about the Rev War. That would be a great subject, as would the Battle of Yorktown or the Battle of Kings Mountain.
The Buddy Holly Story
Earthquake and rollercoaster?
***If you’re going for historical accuracy concerning westerns, you might as well rip the whole lie about quickdraw gunfights,****
How true! I live the old westerns of the 1950s even though they are inacurate. I enjoy the Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea movies better than John Wayne.
I saw one western not long ago in which Indians who were always friends with the US were on the warpath with the US. They even named the tribes! Poncas, Pawnees, Otoes, all joining their traditional enemies to fight the US. I couldn’t believe the inacuracies but it was still a fun movie!
SAGE (Semi Automatic Ground Equipment) was the first computerized continent-wide air defense system, designed and first operated in the late 1950s.
On the operator's console, there's an ashtray at the rear left of the desk surface.
Go the the Wiki on the SAGE computer system to see it.
If you take the “historical” Cape Canaveral tour - the one that goes inside the old missile launch stations from the first launches through the Appolo era ... You'll see the desks and chairs left “as-was” ... including cigarette butts still inside the original ash trays beside each console in the launch control rooms.
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