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

self | September 24, 2011 | PJ-Comix

[TruthHound]

After scanning the bulk of this thread (sorry, PJ, didn’t mean to tangent with the Sensurround posts), I’m surprised to not see mentions of “JFK” or any other Oliver Stone celluloid colon ooze. The artistic license he took (golden-painted Clay Shaw nipple-pinching scenes et al) only prove that the most lauded in Hollywood are truly mentally ill. He even made Alexander look fruitier than Boy George.

[BerryDingle]

I guess I used a bad example. “sigh”

Not at all. Major passages of "Roots" were plagerized from "The African" written in 1967. Haley's lawsuit settled for $650,000, and he admitted it.

[boatbums]

Yeah, I know y’all did. I really liked it when I could go home and not smell like an ashtray. Seeing a house where smokers used to live with the walls and curtains and furniture covered in a sticky, yellowish substance, I knew that their lungs probably looked far worse. I don’t know how any computers could hold up under that kind of residue and function for very long. I was glad nobody smoked in the computer rooms but the offices were another story. I rejoiced when that was forbidden, too.

[boatbums]

The technology of the time (Apollo) was more forgiving. When Winchester drive technology was introduced, I was told that smoke particles could induce head crashes. The gap between the head and the platter was that close. No more smoking in the machine room.

Either that, or they finally understood why they were getting failures and crashes. I remember coming on to the start of my third shift week on Sunday night - all alone - and the system had crashed. A disk drive had a broken read/write head and it was "dancing" and "skipping" along the surface of the disk pack! Cold boot time! What a fun way to start a week.

[MasterGunner01]

Those Germanic warriors were doing chants from SOUTHERN Germany (near Rorke's Drift, Natal, South Africa). LOL
Germans develop great tans in southern Germany.

[eclecticEel]

The Far Horizons, a pretty good romantic tale about a supposed relationship between Lt. Clark and Sacajawea ... other then that whole never having happened part.

[kiryandil]

Last but not least, historically, there was a lot of begging during Wallace’s execution, but no heroic cry of “freedom”.

I found it interesting that a biography of Wallace by a sympathetic contemporary didn't survive the years...

[boatbums]

What IS it will Mel Gibson movies???!!! I just sorta, kinda watched Apocalypso last night on TV and the bloodshed and brutality made it unwatchable. Hubby had it on and I kidded him that after watching the whole Game of Thrones first series, he had to have had enough gore to last a long while. NOT my thing.

[boatbums]

What IS it with Mel Gibson movies???!!! I just sorta, kinda watched Apocalypso last night on TV and the bloodshed and brutality made it unwatchable. Hubby had it on and I kidded him that after watching the whole Game of Thrones first series, he had to have had enough gore to last a long while. NOT my thing.

[Stonewall Jackson]

Have you noticed a young Tom Selleck in the movie? He plays the Midway garrison commander’s aide.

[driftless2]

"shoot from the hip"

Yes, guns from the twentieth century. The ones made in the nineteenth had to aimed carefully to hit anything.

[driftless2]

Everybody knows about the John Ford westerns made in Monument Valley with the cavalry fighting the nasty Navajos or other Indians and protecting all the settlers. In reality, the Navajos were one of the tribes that didn’t fight the army. And there were few to no settlers, or Indians for that matter, in Monument Valley anyway (I’ve driven through it a number of times), because IT’S A DESERT!!! for crying out loud. No good for farming unless you wanted to grow sagebrush or cactus. Ford loved the backdrops...that’s why he made so many movies there.

[Rocky]

Anything by Oliver Stone.

[eartrumpet]

THE MANEATERS OF TSALVO. I read it many times. the movie is very much like the book except for the addition of the Michael Douglas character, and the lions were maneless males.

That should read Tsavo. And you got my point exactly... the addition of the Michael Douglas character. Imagine Gunfight at the OK Corral with all of the historical figures, plus Paul Bunyan or some other totally fictional character tossed in for no apparent reason. The real events happened without him, why is he needed in the movie?

[count-your-change]

Thanks for the background. I know where Superior is, use to travel about Az. quite a bit.

[WePledge]

Most of the movie Jeremiah Johnson is taken from the true story of Liver Eating Johnson.The real guy was a vicious SOB.

[allmendream]

Kingdom of Heaven.

The actual story would have made a much better movie.

[Mike Darancette]

[Salamander]

Apocalypto just sucked.

By the end, I didn’t care if everybody on earth died brutally.

[Salamander]

Say it ain’t so, Joe!

Redford played him as such a sweet, sensitive MYOB guy who goes “Mad Max” because his “family” got murdered.

[and they say he’s up there, still!]