[I still care]

I went and looked over my movie collection, to see if I could find more accurate ones other than the ones I’ve mentioned already.

One is Apollo 13, which I heard one of the original astronauts say was pretty accurate except for the language - we just didn’t “talk that way” (profanity) then.

Another I thought in the battle dogfights might be “Flyboys” - there are some inaccuracies - one of the most notable ones was the color of the german planes (admittedly made because the bright red added “pop”) but while the lives were all made up supposedly the “feel” of the WWI brigade was authentic.

Also Miracle was supposedly true in a lot of ways, even down to the late night skating scene. The original coach Herb Brooks was a major consultant.

[mnehring]

Good call on all of those. There is supposedly a recent one about the Red Barron that is supposed to be very accurate albeit a couple of characters were composite. I do recall a WWI one about trench warfare that was so accurate it disturbed vets.

[boatbums]

We watched Apollo 13 recently and I noticed a lot of cigarette smoking IN THE CONTROL CENTER. With all the critical computer terminals dealing in life or death matters, were they REALLY allowed to smoke in there? I noticed that in the movie War Games, too. I worked in the computer room of a data center in the late '70s and early '80s and NO ONE could smoke in there.

[Betis70]

“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).