Top 10 Biopics That Are Completely Inaccurate

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  • Unfortunately, "biography" doesn't always mean truth! For this list, we’ll be looking at the worst offenders of erroneous and largely fabricated films that have been inspired by or claim to be based on non-fictional or historical people. Our countdown includes "The Imitation Game", "American Sniper", "Patch Adams" and more! What do you make of fictionalizing real events? Let us know in the comments below!
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  • @WatchMojo
    @WatchMojo  ปีที่แล้ว +23

    What do you make of fictionalizing real events? Let us know in the comments below!
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    • @O-DogKubrick
      @O-DogKubrick ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This video did what you did, I really enjoyed! Thumbs up! In fact, some of these movies should have never won Oscar awards! (Except for “Braveheart, that was cool)

    • @MrRenbeer
      @MrRenbeer ปีที่แล้ว

      Mel Gibson in the patriot has always been a travesty of misrepresentation. In fact some of the atrocities supposedly committed by the English in the film were actually committed by the other side.

    • @michaelmonthey5974
      @michaelmonthey5974 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      All of Oliver Stone’s movies, including Midnight Express, JFK, Platoon, and Born On The Fourth of July, have complete disregard for history, except for World Trade Center.

    • @johnpatterson4816
      @johnpatterson4816 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Every biopic has some fiction to it.

    • @O-DogKubrick
      @O-DogKubrick ปีที่แล้ว

      Next time WatchMojo, can u do Top 10 Anime TV Shows That Got Cancelled Too Soon?

  • @joyunicycle
    @joyunicycle ปีที่แล้ว +122

    Forgot these (feel free to add more):
    - Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
    - Blind Side (2009)
    - Henry the 8th (2003)
    - Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
    - Pocahontas (1995 - I guess that was left out because it's been repeatedly on the list)
    - The Other Boylen Girl (2008)
    - Jobs (2013)
    - Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
    - Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

    • @carastone3473
      @carastone3473 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      All good movies but, yeah, inaccurate.

    • @thepunisherclub6442
      @thepunisherclub6442 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Can't deny that the people who portrayed Queen did a fantastic job though

    • @kendonl.taylor5111
      @kendonl.taylor5111 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @joyunicycle Three Kingdoms: "Am I being ignored?"

    • @jokesonyou5629
      @jokesonyou5629 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kendonl.taylor5111 no people simply just don't care 🙄

    • @michaelburgess3779
      @michaelburgess3779 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The greatest showman but I took it as fictional

  • @TheSnHIMshow
    @TheSnHIMshow ปีที่แล้ว +179

    Make an inaccurate movie based on history nobody bats an eye, Make an inaccurate movie from a fictional book, and everyone loses their minds!

    • @sirtaelellevalerie1056
      @sirtaelellevalerie1056 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      mostly because most people barely know real history, but people who like specific book *will* remember every detail.🤷‍♂

    • @thatonefpsgamer1339
      @thatonefpsgamer1339 ปีที่แล้ว

      I mean like people know history is just manipulative lies, hence they don't bat an eye

    • @dannymoneywell
      @dannymoneywell ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Real life is boring and demands no respect since it exists no matter what.

    • @sirtaelellevalerie1056
      @sirtaelellevalerie1056 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dannymoneywell i disagree. real life has stories which exceed wildest imagination ;)

    • @sirtaelellevalerie1056
      @sirtaelellevalerie1056 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@aleksc1824 dude, just two days ago one of my friends stayed behind in a trench to cover his teammates retreat, was wounded and only survived because reinforcements arrived literally in the last second. If this was movie many people would say it was cliche...

  • @Sunshine_day
    @Sunshine_day ปีที่แล้ว +39

    "Walk the Line," really did Johnny Cash's first wife wrong. They made her look like a money hungry wife who didn't care about him in that movie. They should make a movie about the book she wrote and the documentary, "My Darling Vivian." He wrote so many heartfelt love letters to her, and many of his songs were written about her. His descent into drugs and alcohol led to his history of repeated unfaithfulness before he ever hooked up with June. Really, it was heartbreaking how he treated Vivian later in their marriage. She was a really wonderful person.

    • @freya8133
      @freya8133 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He wasn't a good husband to June either.

    • @jollyolly34
      @jollyolly34 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@freya8133 Says you

    • @freya8133
      @freya8133 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jollyolly34 Says many!

  • @willieholmes1483
    @willieholmes1483 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    “The Untouchables” (1987). Frank Nitti (Billy Drago) did not suffer the fate that befell him in the movie. In fact, it was Nitti who gave the FBI the information that ultimately helped take down Al Capone.

  • @mittinman
    @mittinman ปีที่แล้ว +179

    So you’re telling me there’s a chance Forrest Gump didn’t do all those amazing things? My whole life is a lie!

    • @damemarthafalker6738
      @damemarthafalker6738 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Bite your tongue! Next they'll be telling me there's no Santa Claus.

    • @lifewithlee6298
      @lifewithlee6298 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      That was never a true story , it was more a Parody of the American dream to the extreme

    • @damemarthafalker6738
      @damemarthafalker6738 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@lifewithlee6298 Jesus...

    • @WatchMojo
      @WatchMojo  ปีที่แล้ว +11

    • @mittinman
      @mittinman ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lifewithlee6298 are you sure?…..

  • @brazil2554
    @brazil2554 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Bloodsport deserved at least an honorable mention, since Frank Dux made it all up

    • @kendonl.taylor5111
      @kendonl.taylor5111 ปีที่แล้ว

      @brazil25 You forgot The Three Kingdoms.

    • @jt-bw6qd
      @jt-bw6qd ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He didn't make it up it was completely exaggerated and dramatized.

  • @hisfantasy32433
    @hisfantasy32433 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Jamie Fox as Ray Charles is one of my absolute favorite bio pics. I don't know how accurate it was to Mr. Charles life, but it was an amazing work of art IMO.

    • @abellewis3062
      @abellewis3062 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It wasn't 100% accurate.
      But some of it really happened. Ray Charles's brother really did drowned in a laundry tub. That part is 100% true.

    • @abellewis3062
      @abellewis3062 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And who cares if Ray is not 100%. Jamie Foxx played that part. Nobody can play Ray Charles except him. Enough said.

    • @hisfantasy32433
      @hisfantasy32433 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@abellewis3062 I think it is a beautiful piece of art that more people should view, Jamie Fox was born for that role.

    • @thomaspappalardo7589
      @thomaspappalardo7589 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It’s fairly accurate. Of course it takes a few liberties, but nothing egregious.

  • @danielaf1487
    @danielaf1487 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The 2013 Jimi Hendrix biopic, "Jimi: All Is On My Side" was so inaccurate that Jimi's real-life girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham, sued the filmmakers for its false portrayal of Hendrix's and her character and their relationship. Among other things, the movie portrayed him as violent and abusive towards her, something he apparently wasn't at all. How slanderous is that!

  • @Satirist86
    @Satirist86 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I would say "Lawrence Of Arabia" with Peter O'Toole. While it is a very well-made and impressive movie, the historical accuracy is more than questionable. The same can be said for "The Untouchables" with Kevin Costner.

  • @Mistercline1
    @Mistercline1 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    It’s crazy that you didn’t put Bohemian Rhapsody on here. It should not only be on the list, but in the top 5 at least.
    Great movie with an amazing performance, and the last 20 minutes is one of the best things I have ever seen in a film. But it’s too bad that it was highly inaccurate with it’s timeline, situations, and even made up characters.

    • @bradbarber
      @bradbarber ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Completely agree, good movie, but staggeringly incorrect events

  • @thecunninlynguist
    @thecunninlynguist ปีที่แล้ว +61

    WERID: The Al Y. story is hands down the most accurate biopic I've seen. I'm still amazed how they got it so true to life. I vividly remember the Madonna affair scandal growing up. Straight Outta Compton should've been on here. Cube/Dre took extreme liberties with their story, lol. Especially Dre

    • @rpsyco
      @rpsyco ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I still can't believe all the trouble he went through just because of his amazing and incredibly song "Eat it." Truly an inspiration.

    • @hansyoyo7541
      @hansyoyo7541 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Your forgetting Walk Hard: The Dewy Cox Story.

    • @SgtBilby
      @SgtBilby ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@hansyoyo7541 You realize Weird and Walk Hard are parodies of the musical biopic, right?

    • @hansyoyo7541
      @hansyoyo7541 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@SgtBilby SAY WWWWHHHAAATTT?????????????

    • @isaacgleeth3609
      @isaacgleeth3609 ปีที่แล้ว

      Let's say if Dre directly confronted Suge and his muscle about leaving Death Row Records, people were going to end up in the hospital or in the ground.

  • @gregman05
    @gregman05 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Mel Gibson's "The Patriot" should share the #2 spot with "Braveheart," both inaccurate

  • @2015Drama
    @2015Drama ปีที่แล้ว +19

    What about the most accurate biopics?

  • @onkelsy8001
    @onkelsy8001 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "Amadeus" has never ever been meant as a biography or a historical piece/movie. The author used two historical persons and the myth about them, to express something different.

  • @lls3676
    @lls3676 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Following the trial, on 23 August 1305, Wallace was taken from the hall to the Tower of London, then stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to the Elms at Smithfield. He was hanged, drawn and quartered-strangled by hanging, but released while he was still alive, emasculated, eviscerated (with his bowels burned before him), beheaded, then cut into four parts. Wallace's head was dipped in tar and placed on a spike atop London Bridge. His preserved head was later joined by the heads of his brother John and his compatriots Simon Fraser and John of Strathbogie. Wallace's limbs were displayed, separately, in Newcastle, Berwick, Stirling and Perth.
    Knowing all of this, I don't think William would have been able to shout "Freedom!"

    • @LeoSol13
      @LeoSol13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not only that, but in real life, the execution lasted hours and was a huge spectacle. Of course, that would never get filmed in a million years.

    • @georgeray1906
      @georgeray1906 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@LeoSol13 Which is funny considering Mel Gibson produced Passion of the Christ where it had some really gruesome scenes.

    • @Hilz28
      @Hilz28 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@georgeray1906 Old Mel has absolutely no problems torturing Jewish people 🤮😤

    • @thomaspappalardo7589
      @thomaspappalardo7589 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Plus he wasn’t even the one called Braveheart, that was Robert the Bruce!

    • @jabber1990
      @jabber1990 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      wasn't William Wallace based off like 4 people?

  • @danielferrieri7434
    @danielferrieri7434 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Top Ten Good Movies Ruined By Critics

    • @Ted_Sheckler
      @Ted_Sheckler ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That's on you. I don't let somebody else's opinions about a movie dictate my opinion on it.

    • @puhrplestuhff5000
      @puhrplestuhff5000 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The emoji movie

    • @ActuallyHoudini
      @ActuallyHoudini ปีที่แล้ว

      Hook

    • @aryabaditz3092
      @aryabaditz3092 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Ted_Sheckler there are so many movie so little time my friend,,
      Need look some review to decide watch it,,
      But now day i see some comment in in trailer movie, its more accurate for me,,

    • @lestat2558
      @lestat2558 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      First 3 Transformers
      The Lone Ranger (2013)
      Oblivion
      John Carter
      Home Alone 2
      Space Jam
      The Greatest Showman
      Hook
      National Treasure
      Man of Steel & BvS Ultimate Edition

  • @SincerelyJames
    @SincerelyJames ปีที่แล้ว +7

    should’ve mentioned The Greatest Showman. since they tried to achieve a PG rating, they made P.T Barnum a better role model, but his cruel history says otherwise.

  • @SpamEggSausage
    @SpamEggSausage ปีที่แล้ว +10

    also, in the movie Patch Adams, his girlfriend was murdered by an insane patient. in real life, this person was a man who was not romantically involved with him

    • @isaacgleeth3609
      @isaacgleeth3609 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I hated the movie when I found out about that.
      It's bad enough to simplify the main character to a trope, yet it's worse that they changed the sex of a character and added a nonexistent romance to increase the drama.

    • @intorainbowzOG
      @intorainbowzOG ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Real Patch Adams went on the college convocation circuit after the movie. He hated the movie. HATED IT. He wanted a hospital with hiding places and a ban on malpractice insurance

    • @aussieman3021
      @aussieman3021 ปีที่แล้ว

      Patch met and fell in love with a woman named Linda Edquist whom he would eventually marry and divorce, but the character of Carin Fisher wasn't meant to represent her.

  • @warnermccrary9148
    @warnermccrary9148 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Didnt see Woman King on here . The only things that weren’t true about it were the storyline, characters, and plot point

  • @LeoSol13
    @LeoSol13 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Oh for God's sake, how many times is WatchMojo going to get this list wrong? Amadeus isn't even a biopic, it's an adaptation of a stage play which is a work of historical fiction. Same thing for Braveheart, it's based on a medieval ballad. If anything those two works are literary adaptations and deserve to be on a different list.

  • @aoinatafanboy84
    @aoinatafanboy84 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I was hoping they didnt decide to erroneously include 300 and call it a biopic. Most of the time they do mistake it for a war drama based on real events. Its source material is a graphic novel so... you are dealing with fiction in the first place. Just glad they didnt get that dumb

  • @Denis-89
    @Denis-89 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    never expect movies to be completely true. Their main focus in to entertain, not inform. If you want the whole story then either Google or watch documentaries..

    • @BlackDoveNYC
      @BlackDoveNYC ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Better yet, read books on the subject.

  • @LoveHandle4890
    @LoveHandle4890 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Amadeus is a modern masterpiece that has stood the test of time, man.

    • @humorpalanta
      @humorpalanta ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That thing is the shittiest piece of cinema I saw during my school years...

    • @linkbiff1054
      @linkbiff1054 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Amadeus is a play that came from a man’s imagination. A revenge-thriller

    • @lizardog
      @lizardog ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Great film, good fun!

    • @freya8133
      @freya8133 ปีที่แล้ว

      Still inaccurate.

    • @lm_b5080
      @lm_b5080 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Amadeus encapsulates 'don't ruin a good story with the truth'

  • @MichaelPop72
    @MichaelPop72 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What about “Harriet,” and “All Eyes on Me?” Both are full of inaccuracies. Harriet even tried to put a supernatural twist on her life. Just two more that should have been mentioned.

    • @46sn29
      @46sn29 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lee Daniel's: The Butler is another biopic full of inaccuracies.

    • @mattalan6618
      @mattalan6618 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@46sn29 yeah even the guys family said that half the film didnt happen to him at all

  • @glencollins2395
    @glencollins2395 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Elephant Man ruined biopics for me. It's a beautiful movie to be sure, but the real story is, if anything, even more tragic and inspiring. Hell, they even got Merrick's first name wrong!

  • @trinaq
    @trinaq ปีที่แล้ว +34

    One biopic that I enjoyed of late was "Weird", which functions as a parody of the genre, befitting of a parody artist.

    • @thecunninlynguist
      @thecunninlynguist ปีที่แล้ว +7

      lies. it's the most accurate biopic. Al himself will tell you that. You must be too young to remember the madonna affair, or when he really went to see Escobar. It was national news for gods sake!

    • @theredguy4845
      @theredguy4845 ปีที่แล้ว

      You should try a movie called The Professor and the Madman. I don't know how accurate it is but it is still a good movie.

    • @aussieman3021
      @aussieman3021 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thecunninlynguist Al himself was heavily involved, which was why it turned out that way.

    • @thecunninlynguist
      @thecunninlynguist ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aussieman3021 I know.

    • @thomaspappalardo7589
      @thomaspappalardo7589 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you like music biopic parodies, check out Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. One of the funniest movies ever made.

  • @michellerindal8836
    @michellerindal8836 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I know Beautiful Mind isn't accurate, but it's still a wonderful movie to watch

  • @henrybelman7424
    @henrybelman7424 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    to be fair, Amadeus had an unreliable narrator. also, if you are basing your story on a con man's retelling of his own life, I think believing it is more on everyone else.

    • @filmgirlLisa
      @filmgirlLisa ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Seriously! The idea that movie studio heads, publishers, screenwriters and a director believed in the stories of admitted liar says much more about them.

    • @fenian123
      @fenian123 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It is based on a play that was intentionally fictionalized, it was not intended to be a biopic

    • @SmallSpoonBrigade
      @SmallSpoonBrigade ปีที่แล้ว

      It's Hollywood, they probably forgot that this conman was supposed to be telling the truth this time.

  • @darcsteel
    @darcsteel ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I gotta ask. How is Bloodsport not on this list 🤔 😄🤣

    • @SmallSpoonBrigade
      @SmallSpoonBrigade ปีที่แล้ว

      The same reason that Richard III isn't. Unless, there were Nazis in England centuries ahead of time.

  • @spudbone2003
    @spudbone2003 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    They should do a top 100 list of how many times they've repeated material on here.

  • @lifewithlee6298
    @lifewithlee6298 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    First one , Chemical castration may not have been the main cause of him killing himself, if he did. But it Was still humiliating an awful experience who wouldn’t be depressed afterwards

  • @kennethpeterson4068
    @kennethpeterson4068 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I remember Jim Morrison wandering around the stage with a bottle of Black Jack, at The Warehouse in New Orleans...at his last I.S. concert...Kansas was the opening act...

  • @BlueEyedMatt42
    @BlueEyedMatt42 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So, people seem to forget what "based on" means, and the fact that movies are entertainment.

  • @aaronslater470
    @aaronslater470 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is hard subject.
    If you want to make a product based completely on fact and history then that would be a documentary. If you are creating a film to entertain then the primary objective is to entertain not to inform. In my opinion some embellishment is alright but once you attempt to change a major character trait then that becomes dishonest and misleading.

  • @davidsecord6412
    @davidsecord6412 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I never understood the idea of just where "Patch" Adams became a physician, as he was expelled from the West Virginia School of Medicine. I assume that he became a graduate and was licensed somewhere, but I find it hard to imagine that he was ever granted privileges at a facility, given his very unprofessional behavior. Odd.

    • @grant9214
      @grant9214 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dude, I have honorary medical doctorate, because I took the medical exam and passed (and my dissertation, of course). I didn't even go to school. But I still have and can work in a hospital as a doctor intern who can prescribe drugs with his mouth.
      And since that's real. I don't really see an issue with patch adams being a doctor.

  • @rexlumontad5644
    @rexlumontad5644 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    *thumbnail*
    "Time to set myself free!" - Robin Williams from Epic Rap Battles of History

  • @TCWRebelsResistanceWords
    @TCWRebelsResistanceWords ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I don’t care if Braveheart is completely false, it’s still one heck of an amazing film!!!

    • @jasonpatrick5660
      @jasonpatrick5660 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      This channel shits on that movie whenever it has a chance.

    • @nsasupporter7557
      @nsasupporter7557 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes, those are my exact thoughts on Patch Adams… it might not be accurate because even the the real Patch Adams hated it, but it’s got Robin Williams so damn if I’m not gonna watch it and like it! If something has Robin Williams in it it’s gonna be good… RIP

    • @TCWRebelsResistanceWords
      @TCWRebelsResistanceWords ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@nsasupporter7557 fun fact: that’s exactly what nearly everyone feels about the “original” Willy Wonka film starring Gene Wilder. Author Roald Dahl absolutely hated it because of how much that film deviated from his novel. If he was alive today, he would’ve liked the Johnny Depp version better because it’s actually “far more accurate” towards his novel, despite the fact that nearly everyone hates it. I know this due to lots of these WatchMojo fact videos & having the book been read out loud to me and having to do projects on it in both second AND third grade

    • @lizardog
      @lizardog ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TCWRebelsResistanceWords Dahl is so much darker than most people realize.

    • @nsasupporter7557
      @nsasupporter7557 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TCWRebelsResistanceWords … and then Gene Wilder hated the Johnny Depp movie, did you know that?

  • @mistermattmoose
    @mistermattmoose ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i was 15 when the buddy holly story came out. the surviving crickets (buddy's bandmates) had a whole list of stuff they stated was untruthful.

  • @FatMarioHeads
    @FatMarioHeads ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Speaking of Patch Adams, anyone hear that he lost a foot to MRSA a year ago? Despite that he still has a positive attitude about it. I don’t think I could feel the same if I lost a limb

    • @Bigmoney1984
      @Bigmoney1984 ปีที่แล้ว

      I meet patch a few years back when I was at the north Chicago va he came in with a bunch of clowns that were veterans who went around the world to bring happiness to some of darkest saddest places in the world they did him completely terrible by the movie no shame to Robin Williams he got his cookyiness to a tee... I didn't hear about that but I wouldn't doubt for a second his attitude would be nothing but positive... I have a photo with him being silly as hell... he is a one and a million human and I wished people got his story right he deserves so much better

    • @txaggievet
      @txaggievet ปีที่แล้ว

      Dude was actually a scam artist, took millions in donations and never built his clinic or came close to it.

  • @SpamEggSausage
    @SpamEggSausage ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I saw a movie about Jimi Hendrix that portrayed him as an abusive boyfriend. His girlfriend at the time is still alive and says that movie is bullshit, he was not abusive at all and certainly didn't beat her for no reason as he's depicted in the movie. (there were a lot of other problems with that movie too but I'm not going to get into that)

    • @yudhabagaskara98
      @yudhabagaskara98 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The one with Andre 3K doesn't have Jim's music though

    • @fromthehaven94
      @fromthehaven94 ปีที่แล้ว

      Upon further thought, the allegations of abuse wouldn't fly with a reverent biopic that would have the approval of Hendrix's surviving family members.

    • @SpamEggSausage
      @SpamEggSausage ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@yudhabagaskara98 another reason it sucked

  • @DaNewACKisBACK
    @DaNewACKisBACK ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Surprised you didn’t put Bohemian Rhapsody on here

    • @LadyUsakoB
      @LadyUsakoB ปีที่แล้ว +3

      mhm, still a great movie though

    • @jeffbebe5085
      @jeffbebe5085 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I hated it. I forced myself to sit through it but when he had Aids before Live Aid I turned it off. The Elton musical was 90% better.

    • @aussieman3021
      @aussieman3021 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jeffbebe5085 It wasn't until after the Magic Tour that Freddie announced he had AIDS to his bandmates.

  • @Vcaceres76
    @Vcaceres76 ปีที่แล้ว

    The 4 things that always “get me” from Braveheart:
    1. William Wallace was a noble, not a farmer.
    2. Scottish people didn’t wear kilts back then.
    3. The princess of Whales sat foot on England years after Wallace’s death.
    4. In the battle of Stirling Bridge, where the hell is the bridge? 😂

  • @troyevitt2437
    @troyevitt2437 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The employees at my local Walgreens showed their stupidity last time W/G had Red Nose Day by not being able to reference the Patch Adams connection which is why Comic Relief started the promotion.

  • @mickeyrube6623
    @mickeyrube6623 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How could Fargo not be number 1??
    The WHOLE movie didn't even happen...

  • @michaelmonthey5974
    @michaelmonthey5974 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All of Oliver Stone’s movies, including Midnight Express, JFK, Platoon, and Born On The Fourth of July, have complete disregard for history, except for World Trade Center.

  • @jabber1990
    @jabber1990 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    a conman wrote a fictional autobiography about him being a conman?
    what a badass!

  • @bethanyauble7934
    @bethanyauble7934 ปีที่แล้ว

    10: The Imitation Game
    9: The Doors
    8: American Sniper
    7: Marie Antoinette
    6: Alexander
    5: Patch Adams
    4: Amadeus
    3: A Beautiful Mind
    2: Braveheart
    1: Catch Me If You Can

  • @VIGLounge
    @VIGLounge ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Amadeus should not be shown in History Class."
    My grade 8 music Teacher *shows Amadeus* At, least it wasn't in History class.

  • @zooropa04
    @zooropa04 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Salieri and Robert the Bruce got royally screwed by Hollywood.

  • @egan189
    @egan189 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hidalgo should have been number 1.

  • @abellewis3062
    @abellewis3062 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You forgot The Blind Side. (2009) The REAL Michael Oher hates that movie because of it's inaccuracies. Enough said.

    • @KenMasters.
      @KenMasters. ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He even hated how they nerfed his size
      and given a Forrest Gump-like behavior.

    • @abellewis3062
      @abellewis3062 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@KenMasters. I heard that.

  • @lediashields9611
    @lediashields9611 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    If they are going to do a bio-pic it needs to be as accurate as possible, let's face it sometimes the end result is great but the process leading up to it is a drag at times, introducing non existent characters really burns me

    • @lizardog
      @lizardog ปีที่แล้ว

      Right? At that point, it's no longer historical, it's fanfiction.

    • @Crewgasm
      @Crewgasm ปีที่แล้ว

      I think someone made one of Kurt Kobain of the last 4 hours. It was actually 4 hours and real time, no edits.

    • @jabber1990
      @jabber1990 ปีที่แล้ว

      the problem with Biopics is true fans already know the truth, so you're just telling the audience stuff they already know

  • @Rusty3659
    @Rusty3659 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What about Good Morning, Vietnam? There's absolutely nothing true in the entire film other than Adrian Cronouer was the first person to play rock and roll over AFRS radio and that he taught English classes to the Vietnamese. The other 99% of the film is nothing but the screenwriter's imagination.

  • @kiciaharleyofalabama6105
    @kiciaharleyofalabama6105 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    10. The Imitation Game
    9. The Doors
    8. American Sniper
    7. Marie Antoinette
    6. Alexander
    5. Patch Adams
    4. Amadeus
    3. A Beautiful Mind
    2. Brave heart
    1. Catch Me if you Can

  • @manoftheusajones5147
    @manoftheusajones5147 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    TOP 10 BEST Quality Products

  • @NiVi192
    @NiVi192 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ok, I'm not entirely on board with your own "storytelling" in this video, but thank you for creating this ranking and pointing out these films' inaccuracies in the first place. I mean, a certain amount of changing facts for dramatic purposes is fine in the world of storytelling, but this is a list of films that are just so off-track and even an insult to the real circumstances. Amadeus, Alexander, Braveheart, The Patriot... just to name a few. Always begs the question of why Hollywood + all its ceremonies reward inaccuracy to such a degree (it's a dream factory - fine, but rewriting reality whilst claiming to adapt it - that's irresponsible).

  • @devincreislerstudios
    @devincreislerstudios ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My mom used to hang out with the real Patch Adams and thought the movie didn’t come close to reality.

  • @KevyNova
    @KevyNova ปีที่แล้ว

    The Buddy Holly Story with Gary Busey is almost complete fiction. Buddy’s widow Maria was behind it and she had every single important person in Buddy’s life, except for herself, completely erased.

  • @a.champagne6238
    @a.champagne6238 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How did Stone's JFK miss the list? Jim Garrison was the polar opposite of how he was portrayed in the film. The real Garrison was the Alex Jones of his day.

    • @freya8133
      @freya8133 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah but he still proved that there was more than one shooter.

    • @a.champagne6238
      @a.champagne6238 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@freya8133 no he didn't. Look at the actual Clay Shaw trial and not the movie version.

  • @timothyivey5497
    @timothyivey5497 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    You do know the film Amadeus is based on a play, right?

    • @merriemisfit8406
      @merriemisfit8406 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So is 1980's "The Elephant Man", which is atrociously error-filled. The problem is that people go to see these movies -- and these plays -- and come away thinking they have witnessed a series of vignettes from real life strung together. There is no commentary to let them know when or how much fanciful embellishment is taking place. The world is full of people convinced that Salieri mentally tortured Mozart until it destroyed him, and that the man who exhibited Joseph (not John) Merrick in England was a drunkard who abused him in every way possible.

  • @sasamichan
    @sasamichan ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I know there are others you could add to the list. a LOT if you go back far enough. Just can't recall titles. Only 3 on the list I actually saw.

  • @JC_wonderland
    @JC_wonderland ปีที่แล้ว

    The drop out was very accurate, Elizabeth Holmes dancing may have been a stretch, but it was the bit of comedy that did it a great justice

  • @joemalinchalk1314
    @joemalinchalk1314 ปีที่แล้ว

    The most bogus part of Catch Me If You Can is the model airplanes soaking in the tub to remove the decals. I can't believe that no one in the production of this movie had ever built a model plane. The decals come on a sheet that you have to apply, not on the plane.

  • @kairinase
    @kairinase ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well... that's why it's called Artistic "Lie-cense"! (Ba-Dum-Tss!!!)

  • @michaelmonthey5974
    @michaelmonthey5974 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lawrence of Arabia should have been mentioned for this list. It’s considered one of the greatest movies of all time, yet its depiction and portrayal of T.E. Lawrence were inaccurate.

  • @Puppet_Gamer
    @Puppet_Gamer ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Accurate or inaccurate, some of these movies are still good in the sense that we not so secretly love them.

  • @sonicjrjr14
    @sonicjrjr14 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No honorable mentions? How can you make a list like this and NOT include The Greatest Showman or Pearl Harbour?

  • @youtubeuser5173
    @youtubeuser5173 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Blind Side is also know to be inaccurate.

  • @booksteer7057
    @booksteer7057 ปีที่แล้ว

    To go way back, the 1941 Errol Flynn movie "They Died With Their Boots On", a biopic about George Armstrong Custer, is supposed to be horribly inaccurate. Particularly when it comes to portraying his attitude toward Native-Americans.

  • @salemslotandmore8278
    @salemslotandmore8278 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for the List & Video 😀

  • @glazdarklee1683
    @glazdarklee1683 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Pretty much any movie that involves Oliver Stone falls into this list. And yet many don't realize this, or care if they do. This is a problem because some of his most egregious movies involve some very important events and people.

    • @filmgirlLisa
      @filmgirlLisa ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I've been watching some historical documentaries from him and now I'm questioning the validity of them.

  • @michelleallred8521
    @michelleallred8521 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I loved Robin Williams in Patch Adams

  • @dtcarpediem
    @dtcarpediem ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I get that Frank Abignal stretched the truth about his life as a professional liar, but the fact that he was able to con publishers and pretty much everyone (until they finally did some digging) into paying him millions of dollars tells me that even if they are stretched the man was certainly a competent con artist 🤷🏾‍♂️.

    • @lizardog
      @lizardog ปีที่แล้ว

      And there are a lot of gullible people out there.

  • @Denter_g
    @Denter_g ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This channel is still up?

  • @MegaPianoplayer1
    @MegaPianoplayer1 ปีที่แล้ว

    The biggest problem with these is the audience. People for some inexplicable reason think that a biopic is going to be a straight by the numbers telling of the person's life. If you want that, watch a documentary, and even those may not be entirely accurate. Movies are about storytelling. Some events have to be changed, condensed, or even entirely skipped over to fit the story into the run time. Some of these, like The Doors and Marie Antoinette, were never really intended to be a real biography, but a stylized story about a historical person.

  • @yudhabagaskara98
    @yudhabagaskara98 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dishonorable mentions:
    Bombshell (2019)
    Green Book (2018)
    Argo (2012)

  • @michaelbiscay9836
    @michaelbiscay9836 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes, Catch Me If You Can is mostly total bullshit, but I will always feel that it contains one of Christopher Walken's best, most underrated performances.

  • @nactrumofficial5450
    @nactrumofficial5450 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another HORRIBLY inaccurate film was Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. He never had his back broken, was never in a rotating machine while he healed, as the machine never existed at that time, he never had hallucinations of a Japanese Samurai Spirit haunting him, was never named Sai Fong as a child or raised as a girl, and sooooooooo many more examples of historic vandalism for "story's sake and drama". I simply can't imagine his widow, Linda Lee Cadwell, and daughter Shannon Lee, EVER signing off on or giving permission to portray the man in such a way, considering Bruce and Linda were together through almost the entirety of the film once he came to America and started college.

  • @julianaylor4351
    @julianaylor4351 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Mel Gibson is actually too small to play William Wallace. The real man was very tall, even for the time.

    • @mattalan6618
      @mattalan6618 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      wasnt he like over 6ft?

    • @canadasleftcoast.5744
      @canadasleftcoast.5744 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He was also about 10 years too old. Wallace was about 35 when he died.

  • @michelleallred8521
    @michelleallred8521 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I loved Amadeus!!!!! I actually did a report on him in high school. Love Mozart's music

  • @jaytender4949
    @jaytender4949 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    For Amadeus I’m actually gonna defend it because we have to keep one important thing in mind! The story was told from Salieri’s point of view! So yeah the elements that aren’t accurate or misleading do makes sense in his perspective since he did consider Mozart a "rival"

    • @fenian123
      @fenian123 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It was also based on a play that was itself intentionally fictionalized, it was not intended to be a biopic

  • @O-DogKubrick
    @O-DogKubrick ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Next time WatchMojo, can u do Top 10 Anime TV Shows That Got Cancelled Too Soon?

  • @kev3d
    @kev3d ปีที่แล้ว

    True, that Amadeus is not historical per se, but it's not as groundless as the video presents. Yes, Salieri was not chaste. He was married with children. he was also regarded as kind and liked to joke. Mozart too had several children (most dying in infancy) instead of the one son in the movie. But Mozart did complain to his father in his letters that "Italian Cabals" were preventing him from reaching his full potential as a composer. It was also true, as in the movie, that Mozart could be extremely crude and used scatalogical humor. He was also buried in a mass grave, not so much out of poverty, but as it was the custom at the time for middle class people to be buried together.
    And it was also true that Mozart had a close, complex, and difficult, relationship with his father who constantly pressed him to success.
    As for Alexander, the complaints about the Persians is a little silly. "They didn't wear turbans" Neither are the actors in the movie. They are wearing cowls. Cowls fit around the neck, up the back and over the head (like a hoodie without the torso or sleeves), turbans are only on the head. Where would the filmmakers get such an idea? The Roman Mosaic depicting the Battle of Issus, shows the Persians wearing more or less what is shown in the movie with at least some of the Persians sporting facial hair. The mosaic was made over 200 years after the battle, however it is believed to be based on an older Greek painting that was made much closer to the battle chronologically. "We don't know if they had uniforms" The contemporary Persian art depicts Soldiers almost always wearing some kind of headdress or headwear and with beards and similar dress. In other words, uniforms. "They (the Persians) didn't have arabic words yet" Well no shit. The Greeks didn't speak English either. What a stupid criticism.
    Yes, the film omits or glosses over things like the Siege of Tyre, the Gordian Knot, and Alexander in Egypt, but what do you expect? The film takes place over 20 years including the childhood flashbacks. One can argue whether or not it is a "good" movie, but to say it is "totally inaccurate" is ridiculous.
    -Alexander he was a conqueror. While he had many close calls, he never lost a campaign.
    -His march through the Gedrosian Desert was exceptionally deadly.
    -His father was indeed assassinated, and probably one-eyed.
    -His empire was divided upon his death and Ptolemy did become Pharaoh of Egypt
    -Alexander defeated Darius in battle but did not capture or kill him. Darius was betrayed and killed by his own men.
    -Alexander's campaigns ended in India
    -Alexander married Roxana
    -Alexander almost certainly had a complex sexuality, and likely had a relationship with Hephaistion, one of his companions and generals.
    -Alexander died in Babylon for reasons that are still debated.
    All of this was in the movie.

  • @matthewbaduria
    @matthewbaduria ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Bonnie and Clyde and Great Balls Of Fire,are two of the most completely accurate biopics.

  • @rileyduncan3927
    @rileyduncan3927 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You have to admit, despite it’s inaccuracies Braveheart is a really good movie.

  • @michaelmonthey5974
    @michaelmonthey5974 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Many have also called the accuracy in “Munich” into question.

  • @FujishimaAkiko
    @FujishimaAkiko ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm not sure why people expect accuracy out of "historical" movies. It's meant to entertain you, not educate you. That's what documentaries are for. If anyone believes "history" told by a film, well maybe common sense is a lesson they need as well.😉

  • @sheilarough236
    @sheilarough236 ปีที่แล้ว

    The mannerisms that Russell Crowe exhibited while portraying John Nash , especially during the height of his delusions and hallucinations, are very similar the mannerisms exhibited by the schizophrenic residents I took care of for almost 20 years

  • @KawaiiNeko333
    @KawaiiNeko333 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was not prepared for the actual Patch Adams to look like Revolver Ocelot.

  • @alessandrosantacroce9610
    @alessandrosantacroce9610 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bohemian Rhapsody should have been there too. Full of historical inaccuracies.

  • @micahcaraballo5917
    @micahcaraballo5917 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) had quite a bit of inaccuracies

  • @kevincurpheymusic
    @kevincurpheymusic ปีที่แล้ว

    I love how so many of these channels are parroting the whole "frank abagnale most likely made up a lot of his story" and "he never worked with the FBI" ... when infact, there is very solid proof that he did work as a consultant for the FBI, he did receive early release for his contributions, and he did remain close friends with one of the key FBI agents who pursued him, when he was on the run. These are well documented things.
    Side note... I watch many of your videos, some more than half way, some I turn off before 2 or 3 minutes, and whether I finish the video or not, I refuse to click 'like' on any of them that have incredibly annoying, and highly distracting music between every single clip (which is nearly every video you post). Maybe sometime this channel will actually realize the extra distracting music is not needed at all.

  • @maggiegarber246
    @maggiegarber246 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I’m surprised that woke Hollywood didn’t cast a minority to play Marie Antionette

  • @aelfredrex8354
    @aelfredrex8354 ปีที่แล้ว

    "The sniper kills with injurious vision."... Jim Morrison

  • @brichan1851
    @brichan1851 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I’d put “The Woman King” as the number one. That’s just me.

    • @sirtaelellevalerie1056
      @sirtaelellevalerie1056 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      not just you, most historians would.

    • @fromthehaven94
      @fromthehaven94 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's why I'm waiting for that to show up on Netflix.

  • @TV-Tony
    @TV-Tony ปีที่แล้ว

    The movie The Hurricane is also wildly inaccurate.

  • @tiananesbitt7156
    @tiananesbitt7156 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Top 10 times Mojo repeated themselves!

  • @jordanlacombe4318
    @jordanlacombe4318 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jim Morrison's alcohol abuse was exaggerated for the film???? Could've fooled me.

  • @billslover90
    @billslover90 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where does straight outta Compton fall? I’ve heard their were a handful off ppl saying that films plot has some inaccuracy