| My feeling is that movies about history are only bad if that is the ONLY way that people are learning about history. Movies tend to overplay the drama of events or even sacrifice the facts in favor of drama. A very good example of this is the movie Braveheart. While it's a very good film and makes the Scots look good (we don't need a movie to look good though...), it's just plain not very factual. For one thing, the Battle of Stirling Bridge, ought to have a friggin Bridge! I very much enjoyed the movie the first time I saw it but now I cannot watch it because the history is soooo screwed up. If it's a movie like Tora Tora Tora, or The Longest Day (yeah I know they weren't totally accurate either) or the like then it's cool, but Pearl Harbor and Braveheart were not historically responsible IMHO. My wife just rented Alamo - so I don't know about that one yet... I guess my answer really is - It depends on the movie... |