Most annoying/stupid or inaccurate films of all time

[Dutch_guy]

I aint seen Alexander...is it any good? Also trying to say troy is/isnt historically accurate isnt a good thing to do, seeing as it is based on a book.....also what did you guys think of the second Jurassic Park film, The lost world?

well imo I thought the second JP was worse than the first.
The whole idea of the second was rather far fetched if you know what In my opinion

[Ianofsmeg16]

Yeah, the third was even more worse. The only good thing i like (in the lost world) is that bit where the poachers are running through the field and the super-raptors are stalking them, starting at the back and working their way foreward. also aother crappy film......A series of unfortunate events, absolutly b*****s

[ShadesPanther]

my choice....Jurasssic Park
The book was amazing and the film could have been equally awesome, but (speaking from somebody who could pronounce the word Palaeontologist at five) they got everything wrong about the Dinosaurs wrong! Since when was a T-Rex a loveable hero that jumps in at the last minute to kill the raptors, the raptors would've kiled those idiots before they could move! And the Raptors themselves are about five feet tallier than they should be, the Biggest Velociraptor palaeontologists have found came up to your waist, these dudes were not Velociraptors they were more likely Utahraptor or Deinonychus as they were bigger.

The Utah raptor hadn't been discovered but Spielburg asked an expert if it was possible for them to be that big and he said that it was. So they did the film and just after they discovered the utah raptor.

I would have to go with The Patriot, Brave heart and U571

"I know lets have a WW2 story with the Americans saving the day.Lets say they capture the enigma code and therefore help end the war quickly. Although it was only the Royal navy that captured them
It looks really stupid at the end when they mention all the people who captured it and it is all RN

[Lazul]

*Braveheart
*Patriot
*the Enigma (fecal matter-BKS)
*The Core
*I saw JP 1 when I was little and I never loved a movie so much, but I was really in to Dino's back then
*Alexander was boring but accurate.
*Altho nicely made and accurate probably, Black Hawk Down somehow didnt work for me. A movie about the US (screwing-BKS) things up and just shoot down around 1000 africans just doesnt work for me.
*Postman- such crap
*Kingdom of Heaven was ok, but if they had based the plot on the "Arn" books by Jan Guillo it would have ROCKED!... read them!

[Puzz3D]

I aint seen Alexander...is it any good?

If you are going to watch it, get the director's cut. It's much better as a movie than the theatrical release. The movie isn't an action picture as the battles only take up about 20 minutes of the 167 minute running time. It's done in the style of a Greek tragedy rather than a Shakespearian drama. There are some inaccuracies in the two battles shown, but overall the movie is quite accurate. It has quite a few speculative private scenes common in historical movies.

A bad movie I can think of is Luc Besson's "The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc". It's a disgrace to the memory of Jeanne d'Arc. The premise is that Joan was motivated by revenge on the English for raping and killing her sister. The problem is that it never happened.

[Steppe Merc]

Question about Alexander: Are the Persians showed accurately? I can just imagine them casting people of Arabic or Turkic descent for Iranians...
Then again, if Alex was a bleached blond, I wouldn't be suprised to see Darius an Arab...

[Tricon]

Actually the persians looked pretty authentic, for the most part. But I only saw it once, so I couldn't get a frame by frame look.

[ShadesPanther]

IIRC they were quite brightly coloured and looked appropriate

[Efrem]

I loved both Brave Heart and The Patriot...

They were greatly enjoyable movies set in history and areas I didn't know too much about. Its hollywood you can't expect accuracy. Gibson did a reasonable job on these two.

[Zalmoxis]

Though I liked the sword slashing... The Last Samurai.

[Strike For The South]

king arthur

[Ianofsmeg16]

king arthur

Yeah, it hads some good scenes (with Kiera Knightly in a makeshift shower ) but overall quite inaccurate

[Dutch_guy]

Though I liked the sword slashing... The Last Samurai.

I didn't think TLS was that bad , I liked that movie.
Why didn't you like it ?

[King Henry V]

Well anything about King Arthur is going to be inaccurate.

[Ronin]

Windtalkers - the worst war movie ever!

not a great war movie true....but i think that U-571 takes that particular title as the worst war movie ever

[Puzz3D]

Question about Alexander: Are the Persians showed accurately? I can just imagine them casting people of Arabic or Turkic descent for Iranians...
Then again, if Alex was a bleached blond, I wouldn't be suprised to see Darius an Arab...

Alexander hair was apparently wavy and fair.

[Gemenii XIII]

GLADIATOR---> the only thing that was historically correct about that movie was in the beggining when Commodus kills his father Marcus Aurelius to become caesar. Everything else was hollywood BS.

ATTILA---> HUNS THAT LOOK LIKE WESTERNERS (including Atilla)????? everyone knows Huns looked oriental. (due to Flavius Aetius's historical encounter)

ALEXANDER---> They could have left the awkward gay scenes out. Just because Hephaistion was Alexander's most trusted childhood friend does not make them fags like in the movie (no disrespect any gay people). + they only filmed 2 battles, his greatest battle at Guagemala and a battle in northwestern india. They could have filmed the battle of Issus or another great one equal to that of Guagamela: Chaeronea. This could have made the movie more interesting, instead I was so bored and disgusted by the movie I had to turn it off and watch the rest the next day.

TROY---> wasn't the Trojan war supposed to last for 10 long years? (not 2 weeks)

ARTHUR---> In the beggining they displayed a map of the Roman empire in 450 AD and they showed Dacia and "Sarmatia" as part of the Roman empire. The Romans abandoned Dacia in 271 AD (Aurelian retreat). At that time the Roman empire was being invaded by huns, visigoth and other barbarians, how the hell are they gonna say that the Roman empire was still expanding????? BTW Sarmatia was never part of the Roman Empire

In conclussion all of these movies are historically inaccurate but I guess you cant really make a movie that pleases all historical facts.

[ichi]

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Man, was that movie ever wrong about candy factories!

[Taurus]

king arthur

King Arthur is definatly one of the worst films ever. I hated it.

[ShadesPanther]

king arthur

I agree The british celts with Trebuchets? (it could just be plain catapults I havent seen it in a while)

[The Stranger]

hhahaha, it was inacurate but i liked it. i didnt expected a accurate movie but alot of blood. i expected to see that in alexander to instead i get bleugh scenes. very accurate but it sucked YIHAA. what would people do to me if i nominated Lord of the Rings all the 3 movies.

[Kagemusha]

You asked for crap so i give you crap.Kongo and Anaconda.Hairy super monkeys and intelligent snake.AAAAARRRGHH!!

[Meneldil]

Actually the dinosaurs portreyed in JP were deinonychus (i ?), but since the name was quite crappy and hard to pronounce, they went with velociraptor.


WindTalker
Pearl Harbor

[Ianofsmeg16]

Actually the dinosaurs portreyed in JP were deinonychus (i ?), but since the name was quite crappy and hard to pronounce, they went with velociraptor.

Yeah you spelt it right....a hard name is a crappy reason, they should have just gone with the smaller Velociraptor model. Now every kid (or teenager as they would be now) who watched Jp thinks Velociraptors are as tall as a man, thats a whole generation misdirected!

[The Stranger]

no i dont think that, but on the other hand i cant remember anything of Jp, i saw it though

[lancelot]

I forgot 'Enemy at the gates' What a beauty that movie is.

My main beef/inacuracy with that film is the god-damn accents! No one sounds russian...least of all Bob hoskins playin a general!

[Soulforged]

I really liked Gladiator.

But despite being Scottish, I must admitt Braveheart is a joke. William Wallace is Australian, and they didn't even bother putting in a bridge or river for the battle of Stirling Bridge!

Yes but the thing is that they tried to perform that battle on Stirling Bridge, the wheather was so bad that they moved to Ireland. The rest is a result of time and budget. So i don't blame them for that. But i do blame them because this is history, it happened to real humans, you don't have to do it a "movie who gives a menssage" (as the productor said). It's one of the best opportunities to portray real evidence so people can know it and entertain themselves, but not almost every hollywood movie based on historical facts that i know was innacurate. If you can't do it right then don't do it.
I think if you let me chose one then it would be "The Last Samurai", it's ok when americans make fantasy of their own history (they know it) but saying that the last samurai was american is . It's one of that classical movies of reconciliation beetween nations (like "Black Rain")

[Puzz3D]

But i do blame them because this is history, it happened to real humans, you don't have to do it a "movie who gives a message" (as the productor said).

I think movie directors are almost always trying to "give a message", and maybe they feel doing it in a movie based on historical facts gives their message more impact or validity. To me a movie is just a work of art similar to a painting, and that's how I view them. I try to extract my own personal meaning from them while understanding that the person who created it is also trying to convey his/her meaning to the viewer.

[BDC]

King Arthur.

My ancestors could take some skinny Welsh woman wearing hardly anything, no problems.

[dgfred]

You asked for crap so i give you crap.Kongo and Anaconda.Hairy super monkeys and intelligent snake.AAAAARRRGHH!!

Oh man, both of those blow bigtime .