Top 5 Historical Films (sort of) imho

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All this just reminded me of when Disney's Pocahontas came out and some folks were griping about the historical inaccuracies. I remember Mel Gibson was doing an interview during the press junket and said something to the effect of, "Historical accuracy?? There's a ****ing talking raccoon in this movie!"
 
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Notorious B.E.N said:
Reservoir Dogs isn't even a top 5 QT movie and Fight Club is way overrated. Never seen the other 3,i doubt im missing anything based on these 2.


I agree with OP about The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, good movie.
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Plenty of people would list Reservoir Dogs and Fight Club in their top 10, me included.

Back on topic, I thought Zero Dark Thirty was very good.
 
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What about that movie with the Mississippi recruit with Fulmer in it? Was that any hood? I guess that's not really "history" though. Still drawing a blank other than the war movies mentioned.
 
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Notorious B.E.N said:
Reservoir Dogs isn't even a top 5 QT movie and Fight Club is way overrated. Never seen the other 3,i doubt im missing anything based on these 2.


I agree with OP about The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, good movie.
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Top 5 qt films:

1. True Romance
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Pulp Fiction
4. From Dusk till Dawn
5. Inglorious Bastards
 
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Historical era?
Historical events?
Historically accurate?
Based on actual events?

Blazing Saddles fits the era, not the others.

A League of Their Own Fits a couple.

M*A*S*H

The African Queen
 
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landscapingvol said:
During my Christmas break vacation I had a bit of the flu virus so I watched a lot of movies, hard to argue with these 5 films:

1) The Gladiator
2) Braveheart
3) Saving Private Ryan
4) We Were Soldiers
5) Last of the Mohicans (Daniel Day Lewis version)

*if you have never seen the "Boy in the Striped Pajamas" it is a relatively recent film that wasn't highly publicized but is a great movie*
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I always felt Gladiator was just Braveheart in Rome. Overrated film imo.

Never watched We Were Soldiers but otherwise I mostly agree with your list. Would probably swap Spartacus for Gladiator and Apocalypse Now for We were soldiers.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
I always felt Gladiator was just Braveheart in Rome. Overrated film imo.

Never watched We Were Soldiers but otherwise I mostly agree with your list. Would probably swap Spartacus for Gladiator and Apocalypse Now for We were soldiers.
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Another good movie was 300 Spartans from 1962.
 
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I never heard anything good about Alexander, so I didn't see it. Maybe will give it a shot.

I just like Gladiator more because the coliseum battles are so awesome and the villain is awesome. The villain in Braveheart is just there.
 
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landscapingvol said:
It is a completely fictional event from a book written about imperialism and has nothing to do with the Vietnam War or based on any semblance of actual events.
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I mentioned AN to a friend in conversation once and he said that movie pissed him off because it was a total ripoff of Heart Of Darkness. I was a bit speechless.

Fwiw, I liked that movie a lot.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
I always felt Gladiator was just Braveheart in Rome. Overrated film imo.
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I agree wholeheartedly. Never cared for Gladiator and your comparison is dead on why. Spartacus was better than Gladiator, but I still didn't think it was anything special.

If Alexander really is a lot more accurate, looks I have a movie to watch this weekend.
 
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