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Good Movies / Re: Historically inaccurate fi...
Last post by claws - Today at 09:48:43 AMQuote from: Trevor on Today at 06:42:10 AMINVICTUS: made me cringe with its Hollywoodized version of the events leading up to, during and after the 1995 Rugby World Cup tournament. It made a nonsense of the post apartheid social cohesion success which was that tournament.
You've been hating Invictus for 16 years (!) on this very forum. Congrats?
Quote from: Trevor on January 23, 2023, 01:57:41 AMI actually walked out and requested a refund (and I wasn't the only person who did that).
QuoteINVICTUS has so many historical errors it's almost embarrassing to watch
QuoteUnfortunately, Clint Eastwood allowed many inaccuracies to slip into the film
QuoteWhen Sean Michael mentioned INVICTUS - which I assisted on in pre production - I went 'yikes' and 'Oy'.
QuoteWhen I watched it in a cinema here, most of the audience got up and left because of the inaccuracies
QuoteI think I am totally on my own when I say that I dislike The Shining, District 9 and Invictus
QuoteRe: What MOVIES do you HATE that EVERYBODY ELSE LIKES ?? - Invictus and District 9
QuoteInvictus (well made but horribly inaccurate)
QuoteReminds me of what I heard some very upset people say during a walkout of an INVICTUS screening
QuoteI will never forget assisting in pre-production research on INVICTUS: not my finest hour, unfortunately.
QuoteI also assisted in pre-production on the Clint Eastwood film Invictus which was riddled with errors
QuoteMe being forced to watch the horror that is INVICTUS.
QuoteI have three sports movies that got almost everything wrong factually:
1. INVICTUS (rugby)
QuoteI was watching a DVD of a documentary made in answer to the inaccurate horror that was Clint Eastwood's Invictus
QuoteI hope after seeing it to be able to forgive him for the inaccurate horror which was Invictus.
QuoteInvictus (not a bad movie at face value: just horribly inaccurate)
QuoteI keep quiet about films like THE SHINING, RUSH, DISTRICT 9 and INVICTUS
QuoteI remember saying that the movie Invictus was full of inaccuracies
QuoteThat's a bit like Clint Eastwood's Invictus: talk about historical flaws!!
QuoteInvictus: although well intentioned, this film is a largely inaccurate
QuoteI never saw the ending of this movie as most of the audience I saw it with got up and left at this point.
QuoteOn the other side of the spectrum, Clint Eastwood's Invictus was laughably inaccurate.
QuoteINVICTUS has so many historical errors it's almost embarrassing to watch
QuoteI walked out of District 9, Invictus
QuoteI was showing how inaccurate the movie Invictus was
QuoteAnother one is Clint Eastwood's INVICTUS: huge acclaim for a film which is a blatant and wholly inaccurate
QuoteI couldn't believe that the IMO inaccurate crapfest known as Invictus was nominated for two Oscars.
QuoteI walked out of INVICTUS with almost half the audience who were moaning about historical inaccuracies.
QuoteI assisted in pre-production on Invictus (horribly inaccurate movie)
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Good Movies / Re: Historically inaccurate fi...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 07:54:06 AMOh man, I feel like I see these all the time. Next time I catch one that I'm sure about I'll post it here.
(I did watch THE BRIDE! last night and there are several historical inaccuracies in that which I suspect are 100% intentional.
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(I did watch THE BRIDE! last night and there are several historical inaccuracies in that which I suspect are 100% intentional.
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Historical Movies in O...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 07:49:00 AMOkay,
102.) BLADE RUNNER 2049
then.
(I hope 22 year jumps are now acceptable, lol.)
102.) BLADE RUNNER 2049
then.
(I hope 22 year jumps are now acceptable, lol.)
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by indianasmith - Today at 07:40:29 AMREPLACE (2017) - A young woman named Kira discovers that her skin is drying out and peeling off at an abnormal rate, and the infected area is spreading. Doctors can't seem to help, but then she realized that even a small piece of fresh skin will instantly bond to and replace the infected area . . . so she starts murdering young women and stealing their skin! This one is rather bizarre and full of plot holes, but I will say it was entertaining. (2017)
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Good Movies / Re: Historically inaccurate fi...
Last post by indianasmith - Today at 07:32:25 AMELIZABETH (1998) contained numerous historical inaccuracies, most notably that Sir Robert Dudley was involved in a Catholic plot to kill Elizabeth early in her reign and was banished from her presence permanently thereafter. He actually was never named in such a plot, and he remained a loyal supporter and close advisor until his death many years later.
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Good Movies / Historically inaccurate films?...
Last post by Trevor - Today at 06:42:10 AMINVICTUS: made me cringe with its Hollywoodized version of the events leading up to, during and after the 1995 Rugby World Cup tournament. It made a nonsense of the post apartheid social cohesion success which was that tournament.
RUSH: the biopic of Formula I racers Niki Lauda and James Hunt. Great performances by Daniel Bruhl and Chris Hemsworth aside, the film portrays them as mortal enemies when they were actually friends off the track, more like brothers really.
THE ALAMO (1960) Indy informed me that this film is almost totally historically inaccurate and that the 2004 version is way superior in terms of accuracy. I have seen both and I agree.
RUSH: the biopic of Formula I racers Niki Lauda and James Hunt. Great performances by Daniel Bruhl and Chris Hemsworth aside, the film portrays them as mortal enemies when they were actually friends off the track, more like brothers really.
THE ALAMO (1960) Indy informed me that this film is almost totally historically inaccurate and that the 2004 version is way superior in terms of accuracy. I have seen both and I agree.
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Games / Re: p**sed Off Chickens
Last post by bob - Today at 01:00:39 AMBetter to be a p**sed off chicken then a p**sed on chicken
#9
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - August 22, 2026, 10:24:30 PML'INHUMAINE {THE INHUMAN WOMAN} (1924):
Another check in the Win column for Marcel L'Herbier, director of the staggering L'ARGENT and the earlier, passible ELDORADO. I don't know if I adore the film as a whole, but it has lots of admirable elements. A famously influential early French director, one could see L'Herbier's potential link to Scorsese in L'ARGENT... but it's anyone's guess how many filmmakers might've seen and semi-consciously held on the images of L'INHUMAINE: Fellini? Kubrick? Lynch? Tsukamoto? One more timely name that's almost a certainty: Fritz Lang, whose METROPOLIS definitely seems indebted to a ton of the scenic design elements in L'Herbier's film.
A bunch of pompous windbags (an Oligarch, a Maharajah, a western guru who broadly promotes "humanity", and others) queue up at a nouveau mansion to court a famous diva. The fact that the diva mostly comes off as a drag queen alternately impersonating Meryl Streep, Bette Midler, or Shirley MacLaine might constitute a "bug" in other movies, but somehow in this one it's basically a "feature".
The most consequential suitor is an unassuming young dude who the other characters regard as an "engineer" - though as it turns out he's actually a full-blown mad scientist.
The first hour of L'INHUMAINE required some patience, as it is essentially romantic melodrama, though with a bunch of odd flourishes (visually and sometimes narratively). Gradually as it enters its second half, the film briefly seems to flirt with supernatural horror before it finally settles comfortably into Science Fiction with some suspense-thriller flourishes. There are twists and I could only predict the final one (which wouldn't be an unusual plot point if it wasn't 1924) a couple minutes in advance. There's also a lengthy sequence towards the end where it's revealed that the mad scientist has essentially invented Zoom or Skype. Again, there's plenty of old B+W genre films where a bad guy has video conferencing technology, but L'INHUMAINE spends 10 solid minutes portraying pandemic-era themes like screen addiction and FOMO and the digital liveness debate. This is one of those films that's truly ahead of its time.
Devo could've rescored the last 5 minutes and played it on MTV in the early 80s. Those last five minutes also look like they're out of a Tsukamoto TETSUO flick (or one of my earlier experimental college editing projects). The film ends with one of L'Herbier's signature moves - the willfully out-of-focus shot. They appear here and there throughout L'INHUMAINE to signal feverish emotions or confusion, but in the finale the soft focus delivers a self-consciously overwrought sentimentality, the kind that I usually struggle to swallow outside of Lynch's work. L'INHUMAINE is kind of a shambling crazy car of a film, but moments like this one put it over for me. 4/5
Another check in the Win column for Marcel L'Herbier, director of the staggering L'ARGENT and the earlier, passible ELDORADO. I don't know if I adore the film as a whole, but it has lots of admirable elements. A famously influential early French director, one could see L'Herbier's potential link to Scorsese in L'ARGENT... but it's anyone's guess how many filmmakers might've seen and semi-consciously held on the images of L'INHUMAINE: Fellini? Kubrick? Lynch? Tsukamoto? One more timely name that's almost a certainty: Fritz Lang, whose METROPOLIS definitely seems indebted to a ton of the scenic design elements in L'Herbier's film.
A bunch of pompous windbags (an Oligarch, a Maharajah, a western guru who broadly promotes "humanity", and others) queue up at a nouveau mansion to court a famous diva. The fact that the diva mostly comes off as a drag queen alternately impersonating Meryl Streep, Bette Midler, or Shirley MacLaine might constitute a "bug" in other movies, but somehow in this one it's basically a "feature".
The most consequential suitor is an unassuming young dude who the other characters regard as an "engineer" - though as it turns out he's actually a full-blown mad scientist. The first hour of L'INHUMAINE required some patience, as it is essentially romantic melodrama, though with a bunch of odd flourishes (visually and sometimes narratively). Gradually as it enters its second half, the film briefly seems to flirt with supernatural horror before it finally settles comfortably into Science Fiction with some suspense-thriller flourishes. There are twists and I could only predict the final one (which wouldn't be an unusual plot point if it wasn't 1924) a couple minutes in advance. There's also a lengthy sequence towards the end where it's revealed that the mad scientist has essentially invented Zoom or Skype. Again, there's plenty of old B+W genre films where a bad guy has video conferencing technology, but L'INHUMAINE spends 10 solid minutes portraying pandemic-era themes like screen addiction and FOMO and the digital liveness debate. This is one of those films that's truly ahead of its time.
Devo could've rescored the last 5 minutes and played it on MTV in the early 80s. Those last five minutes also look like they're out of a Tsukamoto TETSUO flick (or one of my earlier experimental college editing projects). The film ends with one of L'Herbier's signature moves - the willfully out-of-focus shot. They appear here and there throughout L'INHUMAINE to signal feverish emotions or confusion, but in the finale the soft focus delivers a self-consciously overwrought sentimentality, the kind that I usually struggle to swallow outside of Lynch's work. L'INHUMAINE is kind of a shambling crazy car of a film, but moments like this one put it over for me. 4/5
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Historical Movies in O...
Last post by Rev. Powell - August 22, 2026, 10:12:59 PMFeel free to keep going with ones set in the future. E.g.
101. Children of Men (ends in 2027, I'm told).
101. Children of Men (ends in 2027, I'm told).