Guess what made the "Top 10 Historically Inaccurate Films" list?

[greenguzzi]

I remember when 2001 came out, and the difference it made. you actually had to pay attention to try to understand, because there was not much "said".

That was one of the first movies I ever saw. I saw it when it premiered in London, 1969 I think it was. I was eleven. I loved it, and it spoilt me for the rest of my life. I want every movie to live up to it.

[davedove]

I find when I watch a movie that's supposed to be based on historical events, I tend to do research afterwards to see what really happened. It always amazes me how much is left out or just completely changed in so many movies. Although, sometimes it does amaze me how much a particular movie gets right (it doesn't happen often though).

But then I am a seeker of knowledge. Too many people just accept what Hollywood throws at them as gospel.

[sharpdressedscot]

I'm a history geek, so when I go see movies that are based on a true story, after I see the movie (I don't want to spoil anything) I go look up and see what's accurate and what's not.

[macwilkin]

I'm a history geek, so when I go see movies that are based on a true story, after I see the movie (I don't want to spoil anything) I go look up and see what's accurate and what's not.

Guid on ya, but you are certainly the exception in the general public.

T.

[sharpdressedscot]

Of course I am! I'm not the general public, I'm ME!!

[Sheep In Wolf's Clothing]

Some of us archaeology students went to go see that movie. EVERYTHING in that movie was wrong. We couldn't stop laughing! The other people in the theater must have hated us... I mean, come on!
-The earliest pyramids were not built until 2,500 BCE
-In the movie, there are no stone tools whatsoever
-They use LOCKS and KEYS
-Mammoths were EXTINCT before 10,000 BCE
-The sail boats in the movie, the way their sails were arranged, would've just spun like a top
-The people in the movie use advanced iron tools, but the Iron Age begins around 1,200 BCE
-Every tribe in that movie was multi-ethnic, which would've been very wrong
-The giant birds they were attacked by were probably Phorusrhacidae, which lived in South America around Cenozoic Era
-And why does the old medicine woman sleep with her jewelery on?



That is cute, but Graham Hancock is a writer. His theories have been shot down more times than I can count, and although he is entertaining, every archaeologist I know can list the ways he alters "evidence" and invents facts.

I have a friend’s wife who will no longer watch any historical movie with me. Even the trailer made me shudder.. Pyramids and Mammoths.. really?
Sara
Who wishes she had more friends like Greg's