Most Inaccurate Historical Movies (Name films with the most glaring lack of historical accuracy)

self | September 24, 2011 | PJ-Comix

[skeeter]

i know. But put the chunky guys in the back, at least.

[TruthHound]

[Tijeras_Slim]

I remember that!

[wolfman]

The Da Vinci Code.

[Williams]

Patton. Loved it when it came out but I’ve learned it was a caricature of the real man. No much better than Battle o the Bulge. patton was a brilliant modern general, not a cartoon figure romantic stuck in the past.

As for Battle of the Bulge, it’s a cartoon but oddly it contains the main elements of what happened. There was a single general who was warning of an impending counterattack, etc.

[skeeter]

At least Midway tried to maintain a thread of historical accuracy.

The final scene on the pier was kinda depressing though. Two dozen tourists in aloha shirts greeting the fleet returning from one of the most epic victories in naval history. Prolly shoulda ended the movie differently.

[gorush]

The Confederates were so emaciated that their dead didn’t stink nearly as bad as the well-fed dead of the North, or so I’ve read somewhere.

[God luvs America]

“Munich”- there’s a scene towards the beginning where one of the Israeli hostages/athletes takes a knife and jams it into the skull of the of the terrorists after pushing him against the wall- never happened- none of the pali terrorists were killed in the olympic compound and none of those who died did so at the hand of any Israeli....

completely and totally unnecessary scene- glad i never paid to see the flick...

[guido911]

Inglourious Basterds. I keed. I keed.

[BerniesFriend]

Man on the Moon; The People versus Larry Flynt; say..Milos Foreman made those..I see a pattern..

[Argus]

My favorite is KING RICHARD AND THE CRUSADERS, with Rex Harrison all corked up as Saladin. Hilarious.

[skeeter]

Generally speaking, I don’t know why Hollywood insists on inserting fiction into movies based on historical events when the facts themselves would make fantastic films. Midway and the Patriot are examples. There was no reason at all to embellish the truth.

[TruthHound]

Hirohito’s order to switch ordinance from torpedos to bombs. But for that one decision, this world would look quite different today.

[Salamander]

Robin Hood; Prince Of Thieves with Kevin Costner playing the “Yankee hick version”.

[BerniesFriend]

“I liked that movie and Midway too.” Did you happen to see it in the theater? It was shown in SENSOROUND which would almost knock you out of your seat during dogfight scenes.

I remember it quite well..we all laughed when a disclaimer was announced before the flick..too bad I dislocated my spine..but it was worth it!!!!!!!

[Billthedrill]

Battle of the Bulge was truly painful, although I thought Robert Shaw vass an awesome Nazi. I have a certain affection for Black Shield of Falworth since in it a very young (An)Tony Curtis blurts in a Bronx accent, "Yonduh lies da kingdom of my faddah." Enemy At The Gate, alas, one heck of a gripping movie, portrayed a duel that didn't happen. We'll have to forgive certain spectacle movies for historical flaws: Cleopatra, Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments, etc, etc, because they weren't actually supposed to be perfect and the middle one was fiction anyway. Gladiator was more Hollywood Rome than ancient Rome but it was still a great flick.

But The Conqueror was historically immaculate. Genghis Khan was too from Texas.

[PJ-Comix]

Mission to Moscow: According to that movie Stalin was correct in his paranoia about Trostkyite spies working for the Germans and sabotaging factories.

[skeeter]

The result of one malfunctioning catapult delaying the scout plane which was assigned to search the sector the US carrier was in.

Like I said, the truth was fantastic enough.

[Salamander]

I agree but Clive is mega-hot so who cares?

LOL

[TruthHound]

Pop quiz (don’t Google it!):

Name two other films shown in SENSOROUND.