[PJ-Comix]

These are just a few samples. Feel free to post your own examples of incredibly inaccurate historical movies.

[skeeter]

Re: #5 I cringed through the entire movie - “who taught you to fly like that?” cut to Ben Affleck, silhouetted in the sunset, scarf fluttering in the breeze.

Awful.

[abb]

Oliver Stone’s JFK

[Campion]

Battle of the Bulge was filmed in Spain, I assume b/c it was cheap. There are lots of places that look more like the Ardennes than most of Spain.

[wally_bert]

Battle Of The Bulge is just too problem ridden for me to watch.

[mnehring]

Wouldn’t it be easier and much shorter of a list to post accurate historical movies? (still can’t think of one).

[Baynative]

[Stepan12]

Sometime in movies you have to sacrifice strick accuracy for people to go to see it. How many people would flock to Civil War moves if they had Confederates dressed as accurately as you said instead of those snazzy grey uniforms they had?

p.s. Before you jump down my throat, I would like to commend your remarks on the Battle of the Bulge movie. It wasn't a Henry Fonda, American detective type, that predicted the Battle of the Bulge, but a female British spy having an affair with Eva Braun's brother-in-law.

The female British spy's warning about the Battle of the Bulge was ignored. Just as the pro German spy Cicero's warning about the date of D Day was ignored.

[Doctor 2Brains]

for later

[wideawake]

King Arthur starring Clive Owen takes the prize.

The writers went out of their way to get every last detail wrong and the costumes and tactics matched. Absolutely a disgrace, especially for a film that went out of it's way to claim historicity.

[Drew68]

Patton. Great film but full of anachronisms, mainly regarding the military equipment the filmmakers utilized. Not much to do about that though. There just wasn't a surplus of serviceable WWII-era German tanks. Today they could digitalize them. Couldn't do that back in 1970. No other choice but to paint modern tanks as WWII ones and hope most viewers wouldn't be bothered.

[skeeter]

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.

my problem is with the confederates inside the uniforms - in reality these guys walked from the deep south to the battlefield. They chewed tree bark and drank creek water.

You'd hope the producers of civil war films could find extras that didn't look like they lived inside a Hometown Buffet.

[digger48]

[Huck]

Life of Brian :-P

[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.

[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...

[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.

[Salamander]

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