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Shakespeare In Love. They completely fabricated a love story as the inspiration for Romeo and Juliet. Also, they gave it the Oscar for Best Picture over Saving Private Ryan, which was a nearly criminal act by itself.

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May 28·edited May 29Liked by Vince Guerra

I'm sure there are worse ones out there that I (thankfully) haven't seen, but I couldn't stand The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, supposedly a biography about Gladys Award, the missionary to China. First, they took God out the entire picture almost, maybe mentioning Him or anything related to Christianity a couple of times (as I've noticed Christian movies sometimes tend to do). What made me so mad, though, was that they invented an entire love story that never, NEVER happened (Gladys Award herself was devastated to hear about it) and made the movie all about that instead.

I feel better now. I've been waiting to publicly trash on that for a while 😅

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Good one! Totally thought you'd run with Braveheart though. 😂

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May 29·edited May 29Liked by Vince Guerra

Inn of the Sixth Happiness hurt me first 😂 I was maybe 14 or 15? and still knew enough about Gladys Award to get mad 🙃 Probably my first experience seeing history skewed by Hollywood.

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I'm always amazed when people think movies are accurate depictions of the truth. Hollywood is out to entertain, not educate. The worst true story I've ever seen from Hollywood is Catch Me If You Can, because it is now generally accepted that Frank Abagnale Jr spun the "events" of that movie out of whole cloth. He has to be the greatest con artist who ever lived; there aren't many who can say that their lies were perpetuated by a Steven Spielberg movie!

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He gets paid pretty handsomely now by banks as a fraud consultant, I believe.

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People crave stories more than they crave the truth. I have read that tourists still go to Hearst Castle and ask to see the sled.

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😂

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Geez, there’s SO many to choose from! You already mentioned the best example out there— Braveheart. Although I will say, if you can trick your brain into ignoring how little it matches the true historical facts and treat it more like “inspired” by true events, then it’s passable as entertaining.

I’m going with Pearl Harbor. The list is long as to why that movie is a waste of good film. Besides the historical inaccuracies, the whole love triangle thing just irks me to no end 👎🏻

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The scene with Josh Hartnett flying, holding his hands in front of him like he's flying using an Atari joystick always bugs the tar out of me. Ironically that's one of the more accurate sequences in the movie.

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I never noticed that one 😁… and it occurs to me you probably see even more of the inaccuracies than I do.

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"I think World War II just started!"

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Cringe.

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Peter's choice reminded me of Hidalgo. Yeah, not only did he run a horse race in Arabia, he also rode in one from Texas to Vermont, which somehow there were no reports of.

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I don't remember much about that movie except being underwhelmed by it.

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