hollywood world war 2 films they seem to downplay every other countrys part in the war to piont its almost none existant
Worst historical film?
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Oooh... Gladiator is not going to bode well. It heavily implies at the end that they return to the Republic. But still... this is a lot of criticism for these movies. I find it kinda odd that for a person who likes history (I'm assuming that's why you're on this forum) that you don't seem to like the genre of historical fiction altogether.
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Anatolia
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The Dustbin, formerly, Garden of England
Co-incidentally it was on TV last night and I watched it for the first time in God knows how many years. It was brilliantly acted. As far as history is concerned, having never been inside a Turkish prison run by psychopathic, homosexual rapists, I cannot comment on its accuracy: what do you think? Is that how people carry on in Turkish jails?
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Belgrade
In the three posts of this topic I've read ''Braveheart'' has been mentioned four times.
Aside from that, I saw it when I was a kid and when I didn't really know that much about history, especially Scottish one. And I must say I liked it. A lot. I did. I really did.
On the other hand, when ''Alexander'' came out I was in my teens, and I hated it right away. And I still think having Colin Farrell play Alexander is like having Dolph Lundgren play Malcolm X. It just won't work.
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Wales
A toss-up between this:
Ah you see your error here is that you and others assumed this was some sort of real world historical movie, when infact it is a product (secret one) of Games Workshop, a movie about Chaos Knights/Marauders fighting Wood Elves in the Warhammer setting.
Listen closely and Im sure you will hear them declare blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne.
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Albion (twinned with Numenor)
Billy Hayes, the American prisoner, later complained about the changes made to his story (he didn't kill anyone, or bite their tongue out, no guard to tried to .... him, and he escaped from a different prison). Oliver Stone eventually apologised for his script and the portrayal of Turkish people.
As a work of cinematic fiction, it is a great film, though. Alan Parker and David Puttnam at the height of their alliance. (We Brits get a share of the blame for this one).
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seychelles
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Oregon
Always interests me how this standard only applies to the American film industry
Definitely....
And all they needed for the first battle was a bridge!!
And a calendar with the death of Wallace and the birth of the Princess of Wales
Edit: On another forum I had a hard time convincing someone that Wallace did not actually capture the city of York.
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UK
People actually think he captured York?
I bet people think he really looked like Mel Gibon's portrayal too rather than the fact he was a knight.
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troy and the last legion.
troy was just plain out stupid, but the last legion was a disaster. The last legion was so full of inaccuracies it made braveheart look like a documentary.
troy was just plain out stupid, but the last legion was a disaster. The last legion was so full of inaccuracies it made braveheart look like a documentary.
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I know it probably wasn't. But I don't think it was meant to be a good movie either.
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