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What do you feel are some of the worst movies based on actual events?
Off the top of my head I can think of two.
One is the 2012 Ben Affleck movie Argo. The movie was actually a good box office performer, and was also a critic's darling that won the Academy Award for best picture that year (and was Roger Ebert's favorite movie of the year).
I actually hated it because Mr. Affleck felt it necessary to insert fictional sequences in order to up the suspense level. Like the entire ending sequence with the guards chasing after the people all the way to the runway. I rolled my eyes at that. It's almost as if they felt the true story was not riveting enough without sticking in tired cliches to make it more 'thrilling.' Stupid.
And similarly, Marky Mark's Lone Survivor was also a manipulatively cliche movie that ended with an absolutely ludicrous and totally fictional action shootout sequence. How the real life lone survivor approved this nonsense is beyond me.
The guy who save the Marcus Luttrell stated that the story of the Lone Survivor was extremely overplayed and over dramatic. In fact his version of how it happened did not even come close to Marcus Luttrell's story, especially about the enemy forces. Marcus got all butt hurt about it and turned his back on the guy who saved his life. Fortunately, he was able to come to the US after alot of strings were pulled but currently struggling to make ends meet in the US.
JFK is a unique example, cause it's about conspiracy theories of a real life murder, but other filmmakers are never interested in making conspiracy theory movies on real life historical crimes. For example, a lot of people that O.J. Simpson didn't do it, but no one wants to make a movie, that say that anyone else did it, and a lot of people believe in 9/11 conspiracies, but no one wants to make a movie about those.
Do you think if they made movies about other conspiracy theories, in real life history crimes, that they would not do well, compared to JFK?
I'm glad that my wife and I weren't the only ones.
I think I slept in the theater.
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