Ok, this may shock some people here (boy do I hope so.
) but I occasionally disagree with Bill Maher.
Lately he's had a bug up his butt about comic books and comic movies and how people need to "grow up" and watch more realistic movies. He cited avatar and xmen movies as unrealistic and movies like gone with the wind and the godfather as realistic movies.
Oh,
really? Are the happy, contented, well treated slaves and genial, kindly "massas" of Tara
any less of a fantasy than beautiful blue alien catpeople?
Are the soft spoken, genteel, refined mafiosi of the corleone family any more unrealistic that super mutants with metal claws and laser eyes?
GWTW is so unrealistic a woman wrote an alternative look at slavery in the civil was called "The wind done gone" and was sued by people who hold the rights to GWTW despite the fact their grandparents weren't born when it was written....
The author hod to fight and pay tribute to get a more truthful book printed.
The godfather...Yeah, look at john gotti for a realistic mafiosi...
It came to me that the vast majority of movies were largely fantasy whether they admitted it or not. Jaws was a fantasy as the shark in the movie could not exist in real life or do what the movie monster did.
So then the flip side of that thought came automatically: What movies are actually realistic? What movies are more real than fake?
So I started thinking..
First off I think "In cold blood" was a very hardcore reality movie.
Also, "The longest day" was a movie that insisted on as much reality as possible in it. The things seen on the screen generally happened, and yes, in italy groups of nuns did calmly march into open combat zones and began providing medical aid to both sides. Yes, a german officer tried to fire a flare from on a bridge, the flare hit an overhead girder and bounced back to the deck.
According to a marine in vietnam, full metal jacket was about as much reality about vietnam as a movie audience could take.
So, do you have any movies you consider to be very realistic? Let us know...