While historical movies can be most enjoyable, and a window onto another time, they are commonly inaccurate, which can spoil the fun. Some inaccuracies are designed to increase suspense or add exposition, in short, for dramatic reasons, and these are easy to forgive. In some cases movies may be both extremely realistic and contain many […]
Author: James Wilson
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10 Famous Movies That Totally Condescend To Women
In the history of the world sometimes changes come awfully fast, and sometimes they move at the speed of glaciers. Some people claim that change is always good, but tell that to the people of Jerusalem when the Crusaders or the Romans were outside the walls. All through history, most men and women were not […]
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The 10 Most Inaccurate Period Movies of All Time
Movies are a thing of fantasy. They let us leave the dreary now and enter a world that isn’t really, but might be. We can imagine for a little while that we’re in the far future, or on another world or in another dimension, or that we’re living in the exciting past when adventures were […]
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The 10 Craziest Movie Plot Twists of All Time
Plot twists are lots of fun, because movies are nothing if not predictable. If you see a giant vat of boiling wax big enough to fit a person, somebody is going to fall in. If the guy and girl hate each other at the beginning, they’re sure to fall in love. If a character says […]
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The 10 Most Realistic War Movies of All Time
Defining a realistic war movie is no easy matter. In some cases there will be excellent realism mixed with complete fantasy. Other try to be extremely gritty and bloody, but miss on the attitudes, tactics, even the weapons! Some are so close to an individual soldier or small unit that it’s impossible to get the […]
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The 10 Most Scientific Sci-fi Movies of All Time
Before we try to find a science fiction movie that is entirely scientific, let us agree that science fiction, by its very nature, will include fantasy elements that are definitely not scientific. Most of the time these will be standard tropes like suspended animation and hyperspace travel, but sometimes there will be other elements that […]