Curse you! Now I won't bother seeing it . . . oh, wait.

On topic: Yeah, I read the list, too. The Last Samurai, Memoirs of a Geisha, Braveheart, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and The Patriot were honest-to-Gods bad-to-horrible history. (Though, again, even some of those were hardly the worst history ever shown on screen. I could start listing, if people liked!) Gladiator and 300 were historical fantasization, and perhaps Apocalypto as well, though I suspect not.* Maybe 10,000 BC is intended to be; with stuff that far back in history, it's hard to tell. Sometimes, it's that the filmmakers really do think that, oh, the Pyramids are that old. And, of course, if we're going on about "Where's our flying cars?" there are better movies to use as examples. However, 2001 is pretty specific about when it happened, which a lot of sci-fi isn't.

Further . . . the list seems to be "the most historically inaccurate movies that I expect people to have heard of, mostly from the last 10 years."

Off topic: I saw 2001 for the first time about a year or so ago. I was quite impressed by it and wished I'd seen it on The Big Screen^TM instead of just my TV. However, I do not think it's the best movie I've ever seen. Or in the top 10. Or the best Stanley Kubrick movie I've seen.

*The difference between history and historical fantasization, to me at least, is one of intent. 300 chose to give us a stylized, imaginary Sparta. Braveheart was trying to teach us history. Gladiator was creating a "maybe it happened this way." Memoirs of a Geisha, while fictional, was creating a this is how it was for this one woman." And while I haven't actually seen Memoirs, I am morally certain that there are worse examples of the genre.

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