Most Inaccurate Historical Movie/Miniseries

[French Ninja]

In your opinion, what movie, TV miniseries has left you wanting to pull your hair out?

For me it's Atilla, in which Gerard "Sparta!!!" Butler roles as Atilla:

Mostly because he dies in the Battle of Chalons. They cut out the entire part afterwards where he pillages Italy and his death at his wedding party by bread.
Not to mention making Atilla white.

 

[jimbo118]

Braveheart pissed alot of people off with it's inaccuracies particularly the Robert The Bruce ones.

Enemy At The Gates too.

 

[Shift]

Urm, 300 anyone?

 

[The Monkey]

Alexander. Also gets the award for most boring movie of all time.

 

[CptStern]

pretty much every single movie that starred John wayne that dealt with either WW2 or cowboys ...so all of them


oh and those ww2 movies where america saves the world

 

[Asknoone]

Braveheart stupidity.

 

[CptStern]

north americans are unfamiliar with the Beefheart saga ..besides the usual hollywood melodrama and nonsense speeches about freedom what liberties did Mel take?

 

[Cpt Tenacious]

your mom?

 

[Paulaner]

I know that it was not meant to be historical in any way but, omg, in The Last Legion they were not even able to correctly date the end of the western Roman Empire. Just look up the date in every history book. As an italian guy I feel offended

Note: what the hell has Colin Firth to do with a roman military leader?

 

[Raziaar]

Battlefield Earth

:frown:

 

[Absinthe]

Excalibur.

 

[Viperidae]

Pearl Harbour?

HARBOR OK AMERICANS SRRY.

 

[French Ninja]

Urm, 300 anyone?

Yeah, but historical accuracy wasn't the focus of the movie.

Enemy At The Gates too.

Oh yes. Especially the very ending. Zaitsev was not a romantic.

 

[Qhartb]

Pearl Harbour?

HARBOR OK AMERICANS SRRY.

Fastest unnecessary apology ever?
Incidentally, that's spelled "SORRY" in America.

 

[kattmat]

Since this thread is about historical inaccuracies I think it's valid criticism.

And I remember that Attila movie, it was just awful.

 

[The Monkey]

Amadeus.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

Braveheart.

 

[golden_fang]

pretty much every single movie that starred John wayne that dealt with either WW2 or cowboys ...so all of them


oh and those ww2 movies where america saves the world

America did save the world, thanks for reminding me of that.

 

[Shift]

Yeah and the Germans did win the war.

 

[Dynasty]

300??

 

[The Monkey]

300 wasn't trying to be historically accurate.

 

[Lucid]

Gladiator
Fly Boys
Saving Private Ryan
The Alamo
The Great Raid
Jarhead
Black Hawk Down
We Were Soldiers
Hamburger Hill
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

 

[Lucid]

Seeing as it's current - The Tudors
Poke my eyes out now

That show was so god damn boring. D:

 

[Paulaner]

Half-Life. The seven hour war lasted ten hours and Gordon Freeman was a janitor, not a theoretical physicist.

 

[<RJMC>]

300 wasn't trying to be historically accurate.

just like all the movies like based in historical events

 

[jimbo118]

JFK?

10charloze

 

[Bad^Hat]

http://www.cracked.com/article_15014_11-movies-saved-by-historical-inaccuracy.html

 

[lePobz]

I like how you all think this is accurate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0bZ6Idfqt8

 

[Pesmerga]

http://www.cracked.com/article_15014_11-movies-saved-by-historical-inaccuracy.html

Commodus wasn't seen as a "good" emperor by any stretch of the word.

Also, Maximus' ranks never "broke", they were a cavalry unit that were used by the general himself to outflank the enemy barbarians.

Marcus Aurelius publicly named Commodus as his co-Emperor before his gentle death in Vienna. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors".

So this article is bullshit and is filled with hearsay.

 

[<RJMC>]

http://www.cracked.com/article_15014_11-movies-saved-by-historical-inaccuracy.html

lol at the first one

do they made it as a joke or being serious?

 

[Laivasse]

That submarine movie where Americans found the enigma machine.

Or Allo Allo.

 

[jimbo118]

That submarine movie where Americans found the enigma machine.

U-571?

 

[Laivasse]

Yeah that sounds like the one.

 

[Asknoone]

Didn't the guy who pissed all over Terminator direct that?

 

[Absinthe]

Didn't the guy who pissed all over Terminator direct that?

Yeap.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

America did save the world, thanks for reminding me of that.

I think he means the ones where America gets the enigma code and other bullshit like that.

EDIT: Yeah, U-571.

 

[ríomhaire]

Churchill: The Hollywood Years

 

[Dan]

I forgot about U-571. I saw this movie on tv and pretty much burst out laughing when the lone German destroyer and scout plane appeared in the middle of the North Atlantic. And then a single torpedo turns the destroyer into a giant fireball like the whole thing was soaked down in gasoline.

 

[99.vikram]

oh and those ww2 movies where america saves the world

QFTee.

 

[Pesmerga]

We did save the world.

Twice.