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Historically Accurate?
One thing that drives me mad is when people claim that films are not “historically accurate.” This sparks much debate on the forums in sites like IMDb and quite frankly I find it incredibly annoying. If you want to watch a movie for historic facts, get a documentary or enroll in a history class at the local community college. Movies are made to entertain. Unless that particular movie is claming to be based on fact when in fact it is not, please settle down and enjoy the show. We watch films to have a good time. Sometimes movies are based on real events or are offshoots of certain events, but that’s just the power of cinema as a tool of imagination and fantasy. So if you’re going to watch the Da Vince Code or Inglorious Basterds with serious expectations about their accurate portrayal of events, maybe movies aren’t for you.
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about 3 months ago
I agree with you. Movies take reality and make it into something else.
One thing that does bother me about this though, is when movies claim to be based on a true story or true event and you find that just the names or something little like that is actually based on reality.
I like to watch a lot of true story movies. I accept that they twist the truth, I even expect it but I hate it when they use a small detail of the truth. They might as well have made up the entire thing.
about 3 months ago
Oh I know what you mean. The main thing that prompted me to write this was when I was reading boards about movies like Inglourious Basterds. It’s so funny how angry people get when someone wants to re-envision history for a movie. But I know exactly what you mean, many of those ‘inspired by true events’ movies that take a couple small truths and try to play the movie up as being the real deal is very annoying.
Thanks as always for your great comments!