Casino is generally regarded as pretty damn accurate. However Goodfellas is generally regarded as pretty much the last word on a mid-level mafia member. based on this book, it follows very closely. The movie is not only one of my top 3, the book is also right up there. I find I re-read it about every 6 months or so.
Star Wars has portrayed the battle between the Empire and the Rebels with 100% accuracy.
Also, the Indiana Jones films were 100% accurate about his adventures.
:rolleyes:
I agree that it’s very close, except for one glaring error - you’d never be able to keep that asteroid a secret for as long as they did. Never. There’s too many amateur eyes looking at the skies every night that the news would’ve broken long before.
Otherwise, it was very good.
One of my personal faves that I like to plug whenever I can is Hiroshima. The actors in gerneral looked a lot like those that they played. Of course, a lot of the dialogue may be speculative but from what I can tell (and I’m no historian) this seemed to be a pretty honest effort to be true to history.
Not mentioned for the Civil War is Gods and Generals. One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, I nominate it for being as long as the actual Civil War.
Yes, but was he saying the movie was inaccurate or was he saying that seeing the movie does not equal an understanding of the Viet Nam expierence just as seeing Look Who’s Talking does not equal the child birth expierence.
Plus, FMJ is divided into two parts. Part one of the film is boot camp and the second half is in Viet Nam at the battle of Wey. (sp)
When I saw this film in a theatre, during part two there was a gentleman sitting down the row from me. He was a bit older so he was Viet Nam Vet age.
When a GI was going through a destroyed house on screen he bent down to pick a teddy bear. The guy down the row let out an audible “NO!” and the bear was a booby trap. The guy down the knew it was trap. Now I don’t know if he knew it was a trap because it was a film convention or if during his Viet Nam expierence he saw people killed in this mannor.
That would be Hue City. A minor nitpick but I always saw it as three acts: boot camp, Saigon and Hue City.
What an idiot! Weren’t they told about them in boot camp? Hell, I knew enough not to pick up teddy bears from reading Popular Science.
For look and feel I recommend “Enemy at the Gate.” The town square was a precise reconstruction and the “off the boat, charge the enemy unarmed, and grab a gun off a dead guy,” combat was real.
How accurate was
The Valachi Papers?
(Damn Storebought Fingers…)
Anyone here see the comedy I Wanna Hold Your Hand, now out on DVD? As someone old enough to remember Beatlemania, I thought the screenplay barely contained any exaggeration. Young people were really that crazy.
And the movie is a delight. It would make a good double bill with Almost Famous.
Therein lies the irony I noticed. It goes on forever and yet doesn’t do a particulary good job of covering the events. 2 years, 3 battles in three hours and it feels like it’s missing a lot.
The problem was that it wasn’t focused enough and even Robert Duvall couldn’t save it(even though I felt he made a great lee).
"You see? You see? Your stupid minds. Stupid! Stupid! "
Sounds not unlike a lot of Democrats talking to red state voters… Hey, maybe “alien colonization of the earth” DOES explain the last election!
What, we’re NOT going to spend most of our time in the future? How dare you criticize such a prophetic work!
I just won a copy of Ed Wood (the Tim Burton movie, not the mouldering corpse) today. The only thing better than a free movie is a free movie that you love!
Fuckin’ A
WWII on land - The Longest Day.
Is this a joke? I can’t speak for the combat scenes, as it’s been a while, but the overall environment was farcically halfassed IIRC (not to mention thoroughly ridiculed in every Russian review).
Certainly it is more accurate than any other asteroid impact movie I’ve ever seen, but it was irritating the way they indicated that the ocean impact was just going to result in a big wave, while the land impact would be planet-killingly horrible. Everything I’ve read on the subject indicates the opposite – that a land impact is bad for the people under it, but allows the energy to radiate back out into space fairly quickly, while a water strike sheaths the planet in clouds and causes lots of rain, wiping out crops and bringing about famine and pestilence and the like, and possibly triggers a new ice age by drastically increasing the planet’s albedo. Your basic collapse of civilization, and all that.
Couple of British nitpicky objections: the Charge of the Light Brigade was nothing to do with the Raj, it was the Crimean War.
Saving Private Ryan was very affecting, especially in the opening and closing battle scenes, but how likely is it that they could be that deep into continental Europe and not meet any British soldiers?
Yes, indeed: “Can you prove it didn’t happen?”