Re: 10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies

What? You don't believe on the JFK conspiracy or MIchael Moore???????

HORROR! THE HORROR!

I thought you all were open minded and intelligent people, go figure...

WOW! I had never thought of 2001 as being an historical movie.
How do you REALLY know we didn't make it to Jupiter seven years ago?

Veeger went past it long before 2001.

Here's one that's a joke - RED DAWN... so, a few hundred thousand Soviet and Cuban military troops supposedly can invade and partially "take over" a major pro-gun rights large country (USA), with a population of upwards of 300 million people, many of which are fully armed. Along with our own US military forces to overcome. Like I said, the film is a joke. John Milius (Conan the Barbarian, Apocalypse Now screenwriter) here lacked common sense.

-JIMI (the Voodoo Child)

Yeah, that's what I always thought about Red Dawn. Leave the brain at the door and the movie's not that bad, but looking at it intelligently you realize how stupid it is. I mean, come on, the gangs in L.A. alone have enough fire power to take out legions of enemy soldiers over night. Besides, if Cuba did invade, all we'd have to do is cut off their food supply by taking out all the Mexican food chains.

Michael Moore is certainly biased, but that doesn't make everything he says untrue. Think what you want, but it is a fact that the U.S. has one of the worst health care systems in the western world. Why Americans don't fight for universal health care, I'll never know. Especially considering most countries that do have it don't pay any more in taxes.

Those countries can have universal health care b/c they are free riding on the U.S. innovations which will go bye bye when there is no resources for incentive to research and develop.

The U.S. system is already only 55% private.

To say that we won't pay anymore taxes w/ Universal Healthcare shows how little you know about the U.S. and its Congressman.

No, actually the only reason Americans would pay more in taxes for universal health care, is because Americans spend trillions of dollars on pointless "wars" to appease big oil. Of course Americans will never have universal health care, because pharmaceutical companies run the government along with big oil.

The U.S. is not the only country to make advances in medicine. The only difference is that the U.S. does it to make money, while other countries do it to help people.

http://canadianmedicine.blogspot.com/2007/11/canadas-greatest-medical-research.html

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they are free riding on the U.S. innovations which will go bye bye when there is no resources for incentive to research and develop

Pssst... just because most modern countries get public health care doesn't mean they don't have private companies that engage in research and development (for profit).

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Why Americans don't fight for universal health care, I'll never know. Especially considering most countries that do have it don't pay any more in taxes.

I don't know if you noticed, but Americans are not really the revolting type. At least not this generation. They always seem to be pretty happy with the status quo. Well, at least on the surface.
On the other hand, if this was Europe (I'm from there originally) people wouldn't think twice about taking to the streets and letting their government know that they're fed up with their current situation.

[Post edited by gvortex7 on Mar 21, 2008]