Movies Based on real events

[PowerfulPies2023]

I like that one based on Richard Ramirez. The Night Stalker. I get that confused with the Night Crawler which is also a goody. But yeah the Night Stalker is a good movie I reckon Lou Diamond Phillips is Grade-A in that one. * in reality though that Ramirez was evil to the core way to crazy and sinister. Lucky they caught that crazy ass mofo but as for the movie I like it.

Which one's do you like based on true stories?

 

[HirdyLannister]

Armageddon!!!

The Big Short would have to be up there for me.

 

[Shell]

Off the top of my head..

Imitation Game (watched that last night)
Boys Don't Cry
The Walk
Spotlight
Zero Dark Thirty
United 93
Zodiac

 

[GROTTO]

Which one's do you like based on true stories?

Im quietly waiting for T2 Judgement Day to be a true story.

Till then

I Tonya
Zero Dark Thirty
Moneyball
Catch me if you can
American Sniper
Spotlight
Schindlers List
12 Years a Slave
Goodfellas
Apollo 13
Wolf of Wall Street
Erin Brockovich
The Imitation Game
The Big Sick

 

[Gasometer]

United 93

The helplessness of that doomed flight and that horrific last minute

Suffocating movie I’ve only watched once

 

[Colonial]

Spotlight is one of the best I’ve seen.
Zero dark thirty is up there.
Danger close is really good.
Catch Me If You Can.
Apollo 13
Goodfellas
Donny Brasco
Untouchables is awesome though not very factual.

 

[Shell]

United 93

The helplessness of that doomed flight and that horrific last minute

Suffocating movie I’ve only watched once

Oh I've watched it several times, it's brilliant

/And tragic obviously

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Off the top of my head..

Imitation Game (watched that last night)
Boys Don't Cry
The Walk
Spotlight
Zero Dark Thirty
United 93
Zodiac

Zodiac has been cranking on Fox non stop lately. Good movie. Gyllenhall is good at playing a weirdo. Just watched Night Crawler he's weird as *.

BDC is a good one. Cruel ending. Shameful.

Zero Dark Thirty is good. Chastain is HAF.

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Im quietly waiting for T2 Judgement Day to be a true story.

Till then

I Tonya
Zero Dark Thirty
Moneyball
Catch me if you can
American Sniper
Spotlight
Schindlers List
12 Years a Slave
Goodfellas
Apollo 13
Wolf of Wall Street
Erin Brockovich
The Imitation Game
The Big Sick

American Sniper now that's a great movie. BC is a gun. Pardon the pun. Love that guy on the dark side too. The sniper that was in the Olympics. One ruthless ass mofo.

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Spotlight is one of the best I’ve seen.
Zero dark thirty is up there.
Danger close is really good.
Catch Me If You Can.
Apollo 13
Goodfellas
Donny Brasco
Untouchables is awesome though not very factual.

Goodfellas and Donnie Brasco. Man they are some of the All Time Greats.

 

[Gasometer]

Forrest Gump

 

[Shell]

I wish Inglorious Basterds was a true story.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

The Damn United

 

[Shell]

The Damn United

I love that movie.

Not interested in English soccer in the slightest, but I love that film.

 

[Gasometer]

In the name of the father
DDL at his best supported by Mr Postlethwaite as a heartbreaking father
The injustices broken down to a personal level


Life is beautiful
A fictional account of a father who saved his son through humour and magic. A sweeping score with a devastating ending

The boy with the striped pajamas
A fictional account that both book and novel bother me in the fantasy of the conclusion that imo undermines the loss of real life children to the gas chambers

Pearl Harbour
So many inaccuracies it should be fiction. The ending…a redemption that added nothing to the actual event the title is meant to tackle

They shall not grow old
Undoubtedly the greatest documentary movie of WW1 that brings to life the horrors with colour and sound. The last 15 minutes of how veterans who returned home were treated is shocking compared to what we do today.

All quiet on the Western Front
Any variation is epic for its time with the latest Netflix version brilliant

1917
So many gripping scenes; from the shot at the back of lines as they walk through the hundred yards of trenches. The shocking scene of the Pilot scuffling and fatal shot.

Dr Zhivago
I watched this on tv in the late 80’s knowing nothing about the context and stayed up close to midnight to watch the devastating ending. Sweeping cinematography matched with a score for the ages. A timeless favourite

Dances with Wolves
Marlon Brando in his latter years believed America needed a film on the native Americans and a short time later this appeared. Since criticised for playing off the Sioux v Pawnee, it was epic for its time. If you can catch the longer version it adds more weight to the gravity of the problems facing the Plains indigenous.

Other notables

The Killing Fields
The chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
Gallipoli
Fringe dwellers
American Gangster
Goodfellas
Casino

 

[Shell]

In the name of the father
DDL at his best supported by Mr Postlethwaite as a heartbreaking father
The injustices broken down to a personal level

Brilliant movie.

Add My Left Foot to that, another DDL based on a true story.

 

[Shell]

Am watching the tail end rn of a "so bad it's good" one- Diana

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Schapelle was ******* terrible. That movie could have been a top class flick. It was worse than second rate. Putrid stuff.

 

[Shell]

The "bios" that the TV channels do are pretty woeful- Olivia Newtown John, the Shane Warne one.

The only one that was semi-decent from my POV was the one on INXS.

 

[GROTTO]

American Sniper now that's a great movie. BC is a gun. Pardon the pun. Love that guy on the dark side too. The sniper that was in the Olympics. One ruthless ass mofo.

Cooper gained about 20kgs for the role, he had to eat about 6000 calories per day.

Brilliant movie, worthy of a rewatch as its been a while.

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Cooper gained about 20kgs for the role, he had to eat about 6000 calories per day.

Brilliant movie, worthy of a rewatch as its been a while.

Yeah he got quite big/fat. I reckon it suited him though.

6000 calories, sounds like heaven.

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Chopper - Don't let the truth get in the way of a good yarn.

 

[ShooterMcGavin8]

Captain Phillips was good

 

[Shell]

Captain Phillips was good

 

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Skylab crashing
Dogs In Space