I think there's a big difference between making a movie and making a documentary. The real danger is when someone makes one and passes it off as the other. The worst culprit for that to my mind is Braveheart, however even that made a lot of Scots go learn their own history so it wasn't all bad.
Kingdom of Heaven I know we disagree on. I can see why some wouldn't like it and I can see where history buffs might find fault, but I thought it was a really good movie, especially the extended cut - but I certainly didn't leave the theatre thinking I knew All About The Crusades. I did leave thinking that it was a fairly balanced view of two sides, neither of which could claim to be The Good Guys and a vague intention that it was an area of history I'd like to know more about. I shall take your word for it that the history's more than a little off - I assume that with historical movies anyway because it's par for the course.
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Date: 2007-06-11 06:18 pm (UTC)Kingdom of Heaven I know we disagree on. I can see why some wouldn't like it and I can see where history buffs might find fault, but I thought it was a really good movie, especially the extended cut - but I certainly didn't leave the theatre thinking I knew All About The Crusades. I did leave thinking that it was a fairly balanced view of two sides, neither of which could claim to be The Good Guys and a vague intention that it was an area of history I'd like to know more about. I shall take your word for it that the history's more than a little off - I assume that with historical movies anyway because it's par for the course.