Filmmakers love adapting true stories to the big screen, and studios will always use the “based on real events” angle to draw in audiences and generate interest. They say that truth can be stranger than fiction, and sometimes what happens in the real world can be more compelling than anything a screenwriter can come up with. At the same time, it’s important to remember that fact-based narrative movies are not documentaries and can stray from the truth. Even if a majority of the facts presented are right, there will always be some elements that are overly dramatized for the sake of making a more interesting film. Here are 10 true story movies that were completely inaccurate.
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Everything Wrong With Captain America: Civil War
Captain America finally gets his own Avengers movie. Wait… I mean… The Avengers finally show up to help out in one of their members’ solo films. Wait… Spider-Man finally doesn’t suck in a film about not-Spider-Man… wait…
Everything Wrong With Shrek In 13 Minutes Or Less
Shrek is a great movie, but it’s not without sins
Honest Trailers – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Join Michaelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Donatello for the sequel that gave you everything you asked for… and still kind of sucked – TMNT: Out of the Shadows!
9 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Beetlejuice!
Movies are a very complicated mess of time, money, people, and strange decisions. Inevitably, in the hodgepodge of life that goes into creating a movie, a few strange and interesting things happen here and there that are rather fascinating little tidbits of information.