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Just seen the trailer for Spotlight:
and it got me to thinking, what are your recommendations for best films based on a true story?
Sound of music .
All the Presidents Men
Apollo 13
U571
Life of Brian
Death Race 2000
Every day's a school day
I never knew Sound of Music had even the remotest connection to reality...
Debbie does Dallas.
A beautiful mind
The intouchables
Changeling
Midnight Express
Touching the void - one of the few occasions that a film > book
Midnight Express +1 .
Fargo... 🙂
Ah yes the intouchables was fantastic
Deep throat? No?
Goodfellas. Obviously.
Rush
And Star Wars
Machine Gun Preacher
Cry freedom.
Come on the right stuff is literally out of this world, mostly true.
Schindlers List
Chatty chitty gang bang
Forrest Hump
Natural born drillers
Pump friction
Chatty chitty gang bang
Forrest Hump
Natural born drillers
Pump friction
Shaving Ryan's Privates
Munich
Good topic. The answer has got to be Goodfellas. It's an immense film. But there are so many great films based on or inspired by real events. Where to start...
Midnight Express is a great film but apparently takes massive liberties with the actual events?
Raging Bull. Papillon. Badlands. Salvador. Platoon. Mississippi Burning. Zodiac was very good. I feel like i'm forgetting something really obvious. Citizen X was good too.
Max Manus
for jivehoney, surely it's
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Walk the line.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was well done.
ET
The Right Stuff. Even if you just watch the last scene.
Driving miss daisy
Robocop. ok it's a true story that's yet to happen, but so is Predator and that's pretty awesome too.
Max Manus
I keep forgetting I worked on that - must get round to seeing it
Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd
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GET OUT!
No based on true story bollocks.
Dredd.
Ghandi
Apollo 13
All The Presidents Men
Bridge Too Far
The World's Fastest Indian is a good one.
Chopper
Into the wild is worth a watch. Has a pretty cool sound track written by Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam)
was that the one that was based on the story of the capture of the Enigma machine during WW2, at which point all reality was suspended?U571
The Enigma machine had already been deciphered months before the US entered the war, U571 was never captured, etc, etc
Anyway, my vote is The Final Countdown, where the nuclear-powered USS Nimitz travels through a timewarp to tackle the Japanese who are about to attack Pearl Harbour. F14 aircraft taking on prop fighters, seriously great for aircraft buffs
That was the point in picking U571 timba, Hollywood takes massive liberties with the phrase based on a true story. 😉
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