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The Ten Most Historically Inaccurate Movies

posted March 29, 2008 - 7:09am
The Ten Most Historically Inaccurate Movies

10 Movies that are painfully historically inaccurate

I read an article recently about the ten most historically inaccurate movies of all time. I bookmarked it so I could come back to it and possibly share it with you.

It seems to me that movies are only getting worse at stretching the truth and mutilating history in the attempt to tell a juicy, entertaining story.

Recent tv shows come to mind like The Tudors, which pretty much just used the outline of King Henry and Anne Boleyn. The movie the Boleyn Girl seems a little the same to me. I haven't seen it, but I can imagine it's not that accurate.

See the full article at yahoo here: http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html

Here's the list of movies that made the top ten movies that portray history inaccurately:

10,000 BC - This is the most recent one. This movie is currently out in theaters.

Gladiator - This movie stretched the truth considerably, even mangling it in some aspects, but you know you liked it. I did.

300 - I don't even need to comment on this fanboy fantasy tale with absolutely no story. I don't think this movie was based on anyone who existed outside of someone's imagination.

The Last Samurai

Apocalypto

Memoirs of a Geisha

Braveheart

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

The Patriot

2001: A Space Odyssey

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Author: Chris Crow
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You're right. I didn't

Chris Crow - Sat, 2008-29-3 5:58 pm
You're right. I didn't really pay attention to that last entry that much. How can a science fiction movie be classified as historically inaccurate? It can't. They must have run out of movies to choose from, which seems ridiculous. I can think of several other historical themed movies that would be considered inaccurate. Like, for example, the recent sequel to National Treasure where there's a revisionist (in other words, totally made up) history of Lincoln's assassination. Watch movies online here

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2001

Idlewild - Sat, 2008-29-3 5:19 pm
Exactly... how can a movie be judged on being "historically accurate" if it's based not on history but on events in the future? Every other movie on that list is an interpretation/reinterpretation/misinterpretation of well-known historical events. Yahoo was cheating by including 2001 on this list.

In all fairness to 2001: A Space Odyssey

jdubhub - Sat, 2008-29-3 5:08 pm
The movie was released on April 6, 1968 from a collaborative script written by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. Even then, many of the core ideas for the movie came from a story Clarke wrote in 1948. For anyone to compile a list TODAY and say that this movie is HISTORICALLY INACCURATE is to stretch the definition of "history" until it is basically unrecognizable. In addition, something that was written about something in the future can hardly be taken to task for historical inaccuracies. There are many other movies that come to mind that should be on this list, including any movie about 9/11 produced in Hollywood, that Pearl Harbor movie with Ben Affleck, and so on. DO YOU HAVE THE WRITE STUFF?

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Hmmm... I thought Braveheart was pretty close

LuvToSurf - Sat, 2008-29-3 11:52 am
to being accurate. I read the history in my "Britannica" encyclopedia after viewing the movie and the movie was accurate as to what the events were at that time in history. Of course, movies always take what they call "poetic license", I think. We can only imagine the day-to-day happenings of the main and secondary characters displayed from real life. Yeah, a lot of these movies are historically inaccurate, but they're fun to watch. Thanks for the blurb...+1. I read the article at "Yahoo Movies." Boy, did they ignore a lot of historical facts! Well, now we know. Join Xomba

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