The Day After

'The Patriot' (AKA Braveheart II...This time its Colonial ) Christ, I feel like throwing a fecking brick through the telly every time I see it. Outrageous!

'U-571', but at least Levey eventually apologised for it lol. 'It was a distortion...a mercenary decision...to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience. Both my grandparents [sic] were officers in World War II, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements.'

Even Bill Clinton wrote an apology too! 'Merikins, eh?

It would be much more difficult to name ONE movie that does NOT concoct history. Especially if it's from Hollywood (or Bollywood lol).
Please do not tell me you believe what is shown in .. films ??

The ones that Hollywood make.

All theatrical movies rewrite history for the sake of entertaining some are really good for preserving a few history or acurately portraying the written personanities of state of the world at the time,but if you want history lesson read a fcking book or watch a documentry

Hot-tub Timemachine!

Pearl Harbor; for the love of all that is humane, wtf?

Titanic; "Third Class Passenger on deck!" (security arrives with batons to "correct" the situation). Plus they're waist deep in arctic water for an hour without dying of hypothermia.

Apollo Thirteen; perpetuates the myth that the Apollo missions were something other than a propaganda program filmed on a Hollywood stage.

JFK; the stupidity of the conspiracy theories can't be deflected even by the thickest tin foil hat.

Oh, in case someone isn't sure, there's a smiley face that goes on one of these...

Wait what? I thought U-571 was a documentary!


Troy
'Loosely' based on The Iliad - I was shocked to see the many changes from the source, too many to recall...Menelaus dies? wtf? LOL alt ending with Paris (still alive!) and Helen of Sparta escaping! among many. i mean, WTF! LOL
my head was spinning during and after the film! LOL

Actually I thought Titanic followed the book "A Night to Remember" very closely, including details of the lifeboats, the smokestack collapsing, and even the quartet playing right up to the end. I was surprised at it's accuracy.

And therein lies the problem. 90% of your Country probably thinks so, too!

Point taken (lol), but you can understand people who were actually involved personally and still alive being a bit irked by it....No? If you're making a film about a historical event, at least make some effort to contain a bit of truth. A good start would be not blatantly lying about who did it, its the 'little things' like this that can make all the difference.

RE: 'The Patriot', don't get me effin started.

I remember a Battle of Britain film was mooted and supposed to star Tom Cruise as 'Billy Fisk'....mercifully it appears to have been shelved. I can see it now.

Fisk: Get me the Goddamn President....Of Britain on the phone!!!

Churchill: Fisk? I don't like this guy....HE'S DANGEROUS. However, we need every swinging d*ck in the air to save Blighty, and this kid is good. He just might swing the balance......

Fisk: You're GODDAMNED RIGHT I'M MUTHA-F*KKIN DANGEROUS!!! Hold tight President Churchill, here comes the Cavalry, tuh save all O' Y'all asses!!! WHOO-HOO!!!

Etc etc....Fisk shoots down 42 Huns and saves Britain single handedly, US audience believes it, you get the picture.