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

[highlander_Daz]

Thats Braveheart 5 "the beginning" -"This time -Its for Money"!!!

[sharpdressedscot]

And that's also when they find out Stonehenge was used for space aliens!

[WarpedBishop]

... come on ... why isnt titantic on here not only was it wrong ... i sucked

I agree wholeheartedly, I thought that movie was utter rubbish and couldn't wait for leo to die!

[slohairt]

But it's so obvious!

The aliens who built the pyramids sped up human technology to make them and resurrected the mammoths to help! But when the slaves revolted, the aliens destroyed everything, sending mankind back to the stone age, and killed the mammoths, and erased peoples memories!

They just came back in 2,500 B. C. to build the pyramids again, allowing the aliens to create images that would mind-control King Solomon when the Queen of Sheeba visited him, causing him start the freemasons. The masons were then used by the aliens take over the world as part of a cabal with the trans-dimensional lizard people who live beneath Los Angeles!

The crash at Roswel was obviously part of the master plan, because it allowed them to take over the American Government! It all makes sense now!

And so another script for a future Hollywood blockbuster is born...

[slohairt]

Okay, I have to comment on "The Patriot" as a member of the Brigade of the American Revolution (BAR) -- which were heavily involved as extras in this film, (& two of my compatriots "managed" the reenactors for this film).

The studio made a big deal of its hiring of Smithsonian historians as consultants for this picture, to the point that you almost got the feel that you were seeing history played out on the screen. You weren't.
And this really is the crux of the whole issue.
I even have a copy of the Smithsonian's magazine that came out at the time w/ Mel on the cover, where they lauded the film as a very historically accurate telling of the period.

I could go on all day & cite all the inaccuracies, including that Tarleton ("Tavington" in the film) never burned down a church full of civilians, nor did the Crown forces as a whole.

I remember a story told many times on the BAR board at the time about how the afore mentioned reenactor "managers" (both historians in their own right) tried to inform the production team that the cut & color of the uniform of the British Dragoons were all wrong: Tarleton's men wore green sleeved waistcoast (or white linen frocks in the South) and natural colored buckskin breeches. The coats seen in the film are War of 1812 fashion, not Rev War (as are also the black colored riding breeches).
The response from the costume designer says it all when she replied "I just won an oscar for Titanic, you don't tell me my job!"

They would say "1812 or 1776. Close enough." No, it's not! It's 36 years! Would you make a movie about WWII and outfit the actors in garb from the Vietnam War?

[Coemgen]

And so another script for a future Hollywood blockbuster is born...

Quick! Call my agent! I want Mel Gibson producing, Mel Brooks directing, and Tom Hanks for the lead!

Think of the prestige! The respect! The Oscar!

Let's see, must get sex into it somehow. Wait, I see the scene at the climax right now- There's this nude woman in a bath talking to the aliens. That's great, great, but we need a doctor, got to have a medical opinion. There's a nude woman in a bath with a doctor--that's too sexy. Put an archbishop there watching them, that'll take the curse off it. Now, we need children and animals. There's two kids admiring the lizard people, and a dog admiring the archbishop who's blessing the mastadons. Hmm… international flavor's missing … make the archbishop Greek Orthodox. Why not Archbishop Iakavos? No, no, he's dead … never mind, we'll get his brother, it'll be cheaper … So, there's this nude woman …

[BoldHighlander]

They would say "1812 or 1776. Close enough." No, it's not! It's 36 years! Would you make a movie about WWII and outfit the actors in garb from the Vietnam War?

Exactly!

[McClef]

I agree wholeheartedly, I thought that movie was utter rubbish and couldn't wait for leo to die!

I liked it and still do despite the innacuracies! My father once acted with Bernard Hill who played Captain Smith and went on to play King Theoden.

[Mark]

Quick! Call my agent! I want Mel Gibson producing, Mel Brooks directing, and Tom Hanks for the lead!

Think of the prestige! The respect! The Oscar!

Let's see, must get sex into it somehow. Wait, I see the scene at the climax right now- There's this nude woman in a bath talking to the aliens. That's great, great, but we need a doctor, got to have a medical opinion. There's a nude woman in a bath with a doctor--that's too sexy. Put an archbishop there watching them, that'll take the curse off it. Now, we need children and animals. There's two kids admiring the lizard people, and a dog admiring the archbishop who's blessing the mastadons. Hmm… international flavor's missing … make the archbishop Greek Orthodox. Why not Archbishop Iakavos? No, no, he's dead … never mind, we'll get his brother, it'll be cheaper … So, there's this nude woman …

Monty Python! I am probably the only other person alive that is aware of the "String" sketch

[Warlock]

But it's so obvious!

The aliens who built the pyramids sped up human technology to make them and resurrected the mammoths to help! But when the slaves revolted, the aliens destroyed everything, sending mankind back to the stone age, and killed the mammoths, and erased peoples memories!

They just came back in 2,500 B. C. to build the pyramids again, allowing the aliens to create images that would mind-control King Solomon when the Queen of Sheeba visited him, causing him start the freemasons. The masons were then used by the aliens take over the world as part of a cabal with the trans-dimensional lizard people who live beneath Los Angeles!

The crash at Roswel was obviously part of the master plan, because it allowed them to take over the American Government! It all makes sense now!

I'm sorry, but you know too much. I'm afraid we have to take you to a special center. There you will have your mind altered so that everything you say, no matter how true or false it may be, will come out as insane gibberish.

Again, I apologize, but you brought this on yourself.

I will warm up the Poly-Mnemonic Anylizer at once. When the fine Men in Black knock upon your door, do not be afraid. Come quietly and you won't remember anything! We Only Want To Live In PEACEFUL Co-Existance!