worst films youve ever seen

[Penfold]

Of course the next changing of history to suit will be the remake of the Dambusters.

Guy Gibsons dog will be called digger.

I guess this one will annoy/please depending on which side of the PC gone mad divide you stand.

And of course Guy Gibson will also be an American and 617 Squadron will consist of B-17 Flying Fortresses.

 

[Tonyblack]

Actually, there were quite a few historical inaccuracies in the original movie.

 

[Penfold]

Have any historical movies ever been 100% accurate?

I was just having a bit of a pop at a film released a few years ago where the Americans took over the British roles and became the heroes (can't remember the name). If I do remember correctly, the glaring inaccuracies caused quite a bit of a stink at the time. :twisted:

 

[deldaisy]

The one about the capture of the enigma code breaking machine Penners?

 

[pip]

Have any historical movies ever been 100% accurate?

I was just having a bit of a pop at a film released a few years ago where the Americans took over the British roles and became the heroes (can't remember the name). If I do remember correctly, the glaring inaccuracies caused quite a bit of a stink at the time. :twisted:

bloody Bon Jovi

 

[poohcarrot]

I refused to watch World Trade Center with N. Cage because of the historical inaccuracies. :twisted:

 

[DaveC]

I refused to watch World Trade Center with N. Cage because of the historical inaccuracies. :twisted:

I haven't seen that, United 93 was very well done and moving, though.

 

[poohcarrot]

I wouldn't watch that either because I have serious doubts about that being the truth. :twisted:

 

[Dotsie]

My earlier rant wasn't about the historical inaccuracies, it was about the fact that the studio deliberately destroyed the reputation of a man with surviving relatives for the sake of a 2 minute scene in a film. They could have taken it out, but they figured they'd be better off financially if they just flew over to say sorry. There's a big difference between that (ethically wrong) and artistic license (more entertaining). Or am I the only one to see that? Hmm?

 

[poohcarrot]

Isn't it ethically wrong to say that the US found the Enigma machine, or that Iraq was responsible for 9/11?

 

[pip]

The British have been happy enough to claim they found and cracked it as well which is also wrong and therefore unethical.

 

[Sjoerd3000]

The poor Poles never got any recognition

 

[poohcarrot]

Who found it? The Germans? the Irish? The Swiss?

 

[poohcarrot]

Sjoerd's doing what Tony did to me recently.

He's answering my question before I post it.

 

[pip]

The Poles as our Dutch friend pointed out.
They handed it all over to the french and english but had captured and cracked machines and codes from 1932 on . So pooh historical inaccuracies can crop up everywhere

What your probably thinking about are the short code or weather code books captured from two seperate U Boats which helped crack Shark which was the encoding used for U Boast Communications

 

[The Mad Collector]

I just posted roughly the same thing as Pip, oh well

 

[poohcarrot]

What your probably thinking about are the short code or weather code books captured from two seperate U Boats which helped crack Shark which was the encoding used for U Boast Communications

I'm pretty sure I'M NOT thinking about that because I've never heard of it.

 

[pip]

Well thats the incident the film you were saying was incorrect was based badly on so your correction of the incorrectness was incorrect as well

 

[Sjoerd3000]

Sjoerd's doing what Tony did to me recently.

He's answering my question before I post it.

Maybe I can predict the future

 

[fids]

Actually, there were quite a few historical inaccuracies in the original movie.

which I'm led to believe will be put right this time around. No dancing girls and floodlights for instance