Movies that you stopped watching because of inaccuracies

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Unrealistic things in movies just ruin them and there's a handful where I just stopped watching. The latest was that I tried to watch Die Hard: A Good Day to Die Hard. I got maybe 15mins in and they had a Reaper drone over Moscow and then McClane interrupts a CIA plot involving his son. So you're telling me that when he tried to leave the country the State Dept. didn't flag him to keep him from screwing up their operation?

Another would be Where Eagles Dare where I got about 3 mins in and they had a helicopter that wasn't around in WW2. I did go back and watch it recently because, well Clint Eastwood.

 

[VanPersie]

U-571

 

[Riceball]

Company of Heroes on Netflix.

 

[batguy]

U-571

I never understood why that one got so much flak.

The story isn't real (it was Brits, not Americans) but, I mean, the movie openly declared that during the credits. 'Das Boot' was a fictional story too. Half the good war movies out there are fictional.

I can see why people were pissed about the Germans gunning down survivors in the water. But on the other hand the Germans weren't portrayed as being happy about it. I think the point of that scene wasn't so much to bash the Germans, but to show the kinds of ugly things that war forces people to do. In 'Private Ryan' the Tom Hanks character deals with the same issue.

 

[VanPersie]

I never understood why that one got so much flak.

The story isn't real (it was Brits, not Americans) but, I mean, the movie openly declared that during the credits. 'Das Boot' was a fictional story too. Half the good war movies out there are fictional.

I can see why people were pissed about the Germans gunning down survivors in the water. But on the other hand the Germans weren't portrayed as being happy about it. I think the point of that scene wasn't so much to bash the Germans, but to show the kinds of ugly things that war forces people to do. In 'Private Ryan' the Tom Hanks character deals with the same issue.

I didn't mention the plot.

 

[Halliwax]

Fast and the furious

 

[Laspector]

While we are at it, lets stop watching all science fiction movies. Those things are full of inaccuracies!!

 

[batguy]

I didn't mention the plot.

Oh. So your feeling really is down to technical goofs?

 

[joberg]

I would've worded the thread as "I stopped watching because of BLATANT INACCURACIES!! Too many to list

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

U-571

That's one I never even tried to watch because I know the real story is Brits. I don't know why U.S. studios think that if they did that awesome story the way it really happened, Americans wouldn't watch it.

 

[batguy]

That's one I never even tried to watch because I know the real story is Brits. I don't know why U.S. studios think that if they did that awesome story the way it really happened, Americans wouldn't watch it

I agree, a legit accurate version of that story might have sold just as well or better.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

I never understood why that one got so much flak.

The story isn't real (it was Brits, not Americans) but, I mean, the movie openly declared that during the credits. 'Das Boot' was a fictional story too. Half the good war movies out there are fictional.

I can see why people were pissed about the Germans gunning down survivors in the water. But on the other hand the Germans weren't portrayed as being happy about it. I think the point of that scene wasn't so much to bash the Germans, but to show the kinds of ugly things that war forces people to do. In 'Private Ryan' the Tom Hanks character deals with the same issue.

Even Glory is full of a ton inaccuracies.

 

[AJK001]

If you are going to stop watching movies because of inaccuracies you might as well never watch another movie again.

 

[joberg]

If you are going to stop watching movies because of inaccuracies you might as well never watch another movie again.

^^
So true

 

[Darth Lars]

The story isn't real (it was Brits, not Americans) but, I mean, the movie openly declared that during the credits.

From what I have read on IMDB, the declaration was added after the film had already got very harsh criticism, from veterans, historians and some influential British people.

It is one thing to make something up. Another to misrepresent actual events, especially about things that happened in a war, that people still remember first- or second-hand.

 

[dascoyne]

Any film with Alec Baldwin handling a firearm with any degree of competency.

 

[pengbuzz]

Ghostbusters; I don't think plasma streams cause the end of the world when you cross them.

 

[JPH]

Any film with Alec Baldwin handling a firearm with any degree of competency.

Id say any movie that shows his acting range,

He kinda plays himself in just about everything

 

[dascoyne]

Id say any movie that shows his acting range,

He kinda plays himself in just about everything

Yeah, but this thread is really about the capacity to suspend disbelief, which is somewhat subjective.

Also, I was just taking a cheap shot at the actor, to be honest.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

If you are going to stop watching movies because of inaccuracies you might as well never watch another movie again.

Yeah, but I'm just talking things that personally bug you so much you shut it off. There's things I can live with that I know were probably done for Hollywood reasons and then there's things too stupid to be real (like the Reaper drone in my OP).