I am looking for Movies based on real stories ?
06-10-03, 12:28 AM
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Alexandra Nevsky
And the Ship Sails On
Andrei Rublev
From Hell
Ivan the Terrible
Titanic (Can't believe no one mentioned that one)
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Serpent and The Rainbow
Spartacus
And the Ship Sails On
Andrei Rublev
From Hell
Ivan the Terrible
Titanic (Can't believe no one mentioned that one)
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Serpent and The Rainbow
Spartacus
06-10-03, 08:31 PM
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What exactly is your criteria for "real stories?" Because Adaptation and Windtalkers certainly do not belong on these lists.
I'm assuming you mean "based on a true story" like Ali, Murder in the First, and almost everything else listed above? Do you mean something loose with the facts like Young Guns? Or movies that are more serious about the emotions of their subject like Black Hawk Down.
I'm assuming you mean "based on a true story" like Ali, Murder in the First, and almost everything else listed above? Do you mean something loose with the facts like Young Guns? Or movies that are more serious about the emotions of their subject like Black Hawk Down.
What is wrong with you?
07-05-03, 12:38 AM
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Top choice is Lawrence of Arabia.
Second choice is All the President's Men.
My third choice, Queen Margot, is excellent but is historically accurate and inaccurate in equal measures.
And then I suppose I should also mention 1776 considering the holiday.
Second choice is All the President's Men.
My third choice, Queen Margot, is excellent but is historically accurate and inaccurate in equal measures.
And then I suppose I should also mention 1776 considering the holiday.
07-05-03, 11:08 AM
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Brian DePalma's Casualties of War - true story based on a magazine article from 1969.
Oliver Stone's Platoon - based on Stone's real experience in Vietnam
Oliver Stone's Platoon - based on Stone's real experience in Vietnam
07-05-03, 11:19 AM
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Also going to throw in:
Serpico with Al Pacino
X by Spike Lee
Ali by Michael Mann
The Greatest with Muhammad Ali playing himself
Serpico with Al Pacino
X by Spike Lee
Ali by Michael Mann
The Greatest with Muhammad Ali playing himself
07-05-03, 11:21 AM
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I can't believe no mentioned Tombstone
also a forgettable film of the same subject matter:
Wyatt Earp
also a forgettable film of the same subject matter:
Wyatt Earp
07-05-03, 12:22 PM
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Originally posted by jeffkjoe
How about
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
and
PSYCHO?
Both based on the murderer Ed Gein.
How about
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
and
PSYCHO?
Both based on the murderer Ed Gein.
Very loosely based. I wouldn't even count those because the stories are so far from the truth. They only used parts of what that crazy bastard did.
I'd also recommend...
Sid and Nancy
Brubaker (although only loosely based).
