What's your most ANNOYING film/tv anachronisms/hist. inaccuracy? My vote-The Artist

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The Wook said:
I understand why they used Sing, Sing, Sing in the trailer, because it's one of the catchiest, most memorable songs of all time, and they were relying on the ignorance of the movie-going public to not know any better. But my Dad brought me up on Big Band music, so I knew, and I'm appalled. It's tantamount to having an Elvis Presley song in a trailer for a WWII movie.
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I have not seen "the Artist" myself, shame on me, but the anachronistic use of music in film is about directors' choices, not historical accuracy.
If the director felt that the song best conveys a certain feeling or idea, then it is thoroughly okay to use the song. Even an Elvis Presley song for a WWII film, or, as has happened, to use ragtime music in a film set in 1936.
 
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Jet Beetle said:
I'd like to add Lincoln to the list - so many inaccuracies - actually too many to list. It's like they took Lincoln's greatest hits and shoved them all together and created a few things along the way.
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That's what I was afraid of, a sanitized hero-worship session:(
 
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Dude, it's Speilberg. What'd you expect? :D
 
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Jet Beetle said:
Prince of Egypt - No one was animated back then.
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I dunno...the only records of that time were hieroglyphs...they look pretty animated to me from what I've seen. :lol
 
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again, even if it's on the soundtrack it isn't an anachronism unless the characters hear it.
 
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Titanic - Being a Titanic aficionado, I read all I could about the film (including it being a DOA flop) but what excited me the most was the amount if effort they out into getting all the little details - carpeting and china being done by the same company that made them in 1912, etc. what really intrigued me was the classes they had the BACKGROUND characters go through to get the feeling just right. Awesome!

... Then I saw the film - DiCaprio must've never gone to class. Horrible actor and was a 90s teenager where everyone else was at least making an effort.

Oh, and I agree with the love story, but it was the thing that made the difference between Titanic "doing well" at the box office, and blowing away attendance numbers. And Cameron knew that.
 
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Darth Mawr said:
It's always bothered me when a movie set in WWII has Germans speaking with a British accent. Is it too much to hire actors who can speak with a German accent? It really takes me out of the story.
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I've never been bothered by that, I'm actually bothered by what you suggest. Ig German was their native tongue then why would they be speaking it with a German accent or any other non-English language accent? I remember seeing a WW II movie once where the Germans spoke English accented English when they were supposed to be speaking German and when they were supposed to be speaking English they had a German accent. To me that makes the most sense and it allows the audience to immediately tell what language they're supposed to be speaking without actually changing languages.
 
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TheDoctor said:
Titanic - Being a Titanic aficionado, I read all I could about the film (including it being a DOA flop) but what excited me the most was the amount if effort they out into getting all the little details - carpeting and china being done by the same company that made them in 1912, etc. what really intrigued me was the classes they had the BACKGROUND characters go through to get the feeling just right. Awesome!

... Then I saw the film - DiCaprio must've never gone to class. Horrible actor and was a 90s teenager where everyone else was at least making an effort.

Oh, and I agree with the love story, but it was the thing that made the difference between Titanic "doing well" at the box office, and blowing away attendance numbers. And Cameron knew that.
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Cameron got the stars wrong, too.

Titanic: James Cameron Corrects Stars in 3-D Re-Release of Oscar Winning Movie - ABC News

The Wook
 
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Michael Bergeron said:
That one didn't bother me so much. :lol
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Really??!! Damn, as soon as I saw it I shouted out, "THAT'S BULLCRAP!", before being rudely shushed by a couple hundred angry teenage girls in the audience.

The Wook
 
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Well, regarding League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, one of the many things that bothered me was showing the Nautilus (of any size, let alone a mile long) traveling the canals of Venice --- then showing all of Venice as being absent of bystanders. "Where are the people" and "that's impossible" was all I was thinking during this section.
 
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Nwerke said:
Gladiator... it is astonishingly riddled with visual flubs, some of which *do* take me out of the film... the contrails.
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:eek

What would they be spraying back then!?! :eek :eek :eek


:angel


Kevin
 
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Jet Beetle said:
U-571 - The British took over the German U-Boat
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I've never watched it for that exact reason.


Darth Mawr said:
It's always bothered me when a movie set in WWII has Germans speaking with a British accent. Is it too much to hire actors who can speak with a German accent? It really takes me out of the story.
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Same here. That's why I've always liked The Longest Day because everyone was subtitled.


My addition would be Enemy at the Gates, which if you haven't seen it is about WW2 Russian sniper Vasily Zaitsev. In the movie, and reality, during the Battle of Stalingrad, the Germans sent one of their best snipers to take him out because he was killing lots of Germans. In reality Zaitsev spots the German sniper and shoots the German sniper through his scope, which is a spectacular, near impossible shot. In the movie instead of doing that they have the two snipers step out in the open maybe 40yds apart and do a Wild West shootout. It's completely idiotic.
 
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Sluis Van Shipyards said:
In reality Zaitsev spots the German sniper and shoots the German sniper through his scope, which is a spectacular, near impossible shot.
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Actually not true. Just legend.

There was a three day duel with a German sniper however he was just a regular soldier, not anyone of significant rank. The only indication that he was the head of a sniper school near Berlin is in Vasily's memoirs.
 
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Michael Bergeron said:
Actually not true. Just legend.

There was a three day duel with a German sniper however he was just a regular soldier, not anyone of significant rank. The only indication that he was the head of a sniper school near Berlin is in Vasily's memoirs.
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Not to mention that the whole shot through the scope thing came from Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock during the Vietnam War. I believe that was the first and only recorder instance of a sniper shooting another sniper through the scope.
 
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Sluis Van Shipyards said:
I've never watched it for that exact reason.




Same here. That's why I've always liked The Longest Day because everyone was subtitled.


My addition would be Enemy at the Gates, which if you haven't seen it is about WW2 Russian sniper Vasily Zaitsev. In the movie, and reality, during the Battle of Stalingrad, the Germans sent one of their best snipers to take him out because he was killing lots of Germans. In reality Zaitsev spots the German sniper and shoots the German sniper through his scope, which is a spectacular, near impossible shot. In the movie instead of doing that they have the two snipers step out in the open maybe 40yds apart and do a Wild West shootout. It's completely idiotic.
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I could've swore that was how they actually did it in the movie, pulling a Carlos Hathcock, something that they do in just about every sniper movie.
 
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SSgt Burton said:
:eek

What would they be spraying back then!?! :eek :eek :eek


:angel


Kevin
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Contrails aren't formed by spraying necessarily, it's usually formed by condensation formed on/by the wing tips or by water vapor in the engine exhaust.
 
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