POLL: When movies are made about historical figures or historical events, how important is it to you that they be historically accurate?

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Jan 9, 2018
11:30:09am

chilango All-American

POLL: When movies are made about historical figures or historical events, how important is it to you that they be historically accurate?

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chilango

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POLL: When movies are made about historical figures or historical events, how important is it to you that they be historically accurate?

chilango

1/9/18 11:30am

Depends on whether the movie purports to be an accurate depiction.

1/9/18 11:32am

Wait. You mean he's not a vampire hunter??

buffgato

1/9/18 11:41am

In reality it was pirates whose true, skeletal, forms were only revealed by moonlight.

1/9/18 11:59am

This is huge. I saw people complain about the historical inaccuracies in

1/9/18 11:57am

Since most people will only learn of said historical figures through the film

UberDeek

1/9/18 11:32am

I think it depends a lot on who you are talking about

buffgato

1/9/18 12:16pm

If there is a good historical story to be told, tell it how it happened. There

Preppy

1/9/18 11:33am

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JOPE

1/9/18 11:47am

Depends how the movie is advertised or is presented.

Cougarrr

1/9/18 11:59am

Yeah, I didn't see Greatest Showman as trying to be a documentary or anything

buffgato

1/9/18 12:04pm

When I realized that college students no longer read books and that their

Nat Gas Man

1/9/18 1:18pm

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