Mistakes in movies that bug you

Oct 13, 2017 21:42:27 GMT RiP, IMDb said:

Oct 13, 2017 21:39:50 GMT drystyx said:

All those movies that are supposed to amass the most evil people in the world, yet not one of them is the guy who takes the pictures for driver licenses.

What a crock!

What do you think about all the historical inaccuracies in historical Westerns?

Historic inaccuracies can be ranked in the ways they are most detrimental. Slander against the innocent would be worst, and that was avoided in most older Westerns by making up names for the bad guys, almost always white guys starting wars between pale face and red skin. I'm sure some people may actually have the names of those fictional names, so it's understandable if they have problems with those. Almost no "famous name" was ever libeled in a way that made the famous name look like a wimp or dork.

Other than that, the worst inaccuracies are in order of "atrocity spurred by inaccuracy".

From worst to most meaningless inaccuracy"

1. Inaccuracy of character.

2. Inaccuracy of event.

3. Inaccuracy of setting

4. Inaccuracy of props.

Best examples are the OK Corral movies. I don't think any of them get the events even close, but they can still be acceptable if the characters are credible. That's why the earlier ones are better than the later ones. MY DARLING CLEMENTINE had the most credible characterizations of the real men of Tombstone Arizona in the late nineteenth century. Some were even on hand to speak with the director, so even if the "real men of the West" weren't accurate in their telling of the story (e.g. the dust from the stage was cited by Wyatt Earp himself as a factor at the Corral), the personality and character of these "real men of the West" were obvious to earlier film makers. GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL ranks second in character accuracy. From then it goes downhill to fit mores of Hollywood. DOC, HOUR OF THE GUN, and WYATT EARP are basically just Hollywood mores forced into History. Then, we get the pathetic TOMBSTONE, in which we get zero credibility of characters. It looks like guys who play video arcade games and do internet blogs dress up in Western outfits. Totally first grade drop out stuff.

As for settings, no one cares if it is set in Arizona and filmed in California, or set in Texas and filmed in Nevada.

Even more so for props. No one cares if a certain rifle was made a few years later, as long as they're not using rifles before rifles were invented, or guns before guns were put into use.