Favourite movie based on Real Life

[moneoa]

Serpent and the Rainbow is highly reccomended as my fave in this category

[mfgbypooter]

Goodfellas.

I'm goin out to get the papers get the papers.

[TheBlackSnow]

"texas chainsaw massacre (the orig.)" and the "amityville horror"

[TheBlackSnow]

Rainbow
its pretty cool!!! I had forgotten that one...

[Mels_Smileys45]

Wonderland, Boogie Knights (very Loose),Ed and His Dead Mother, Beautiful Creatures, Fargo, Boy in The Bubble (not BubbleBoy!), Dodge Ball a True UnderDog Story

[SanDiegoKid]

Chopper

Eric Bana's finest acting yet.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221073/

[Atheist Icon]

Office Space for the 4 years I was in the Military...

[Mels_Smileys45]

They're making the real story of Deep Throat. That will be my new favorite. I don't know if its going to be the fabled "Deeper Than Deep" thats has seemed to have vanished off the radar or another projest.

Its said "The Girl Next Door" is based the real life of Stacey Valantine. Shes sueing the makers for it

Rated X is cool too. Its about the Mitchell Brothers who produced a lot of early porn classics.


I can't get enough of porn history.

[infringer]

The Matrix,

Though not exactly real it does have some definate relations to life though a little more over the edge then real life I think the real message behind what happens in the matrix throught the course of the movie you could relate certian principals not exactly as they are put but in a differnt manner it is quite like what real life is... But if real life was that I want a dam matrix chair...

-infringer-

[mfgbypooter]

I liked "Brubaker" which was based on real life events at Cummins Prison farm in Arkansas.

[tackdaddy]

i have 2,they are movies about world war 2. midway is the 1st and tora,tora tora is number 2,both excellant movies about 2 famous battles.well one famous and 1 infamous since tora,tora tora is about the sneak attack on pearl harbor.

[TheBlackSnow]

i have 2,they are movies about world war 2. midway is the 1st and tora,tora tora is number 2,both excellant movies about 2 famous battles.well one famous and 1 infamous since tora,tora tora is about the sneak attack on pearl harbor.
well, i could say "pearl harbour" was based by true story... the movie was awesome.

[moneoa]

Mel that might be worth a check out when its avail

[SanDiegoKid]

Midway's alright.. it uses a lot of stock footage and has a lot of cheesy Charleton Heston saving the day.

Tora Tora Tora is fairly unique as it shows both sides of the attack, using an American and Japanese director respectively.

I like war movies, but they almost always show any combatants on the opposite side of the country who produced the film as slimy evil bastards.
I prefer to see soldiers portrayed as soldiers, regardless of their nationality. Cases in point: Das Boot, Tora Tora Tora, The Thin Red Line (1998).

[TheBlackSnow]

The Thin Red Line (1998).
maybe it was based on a true story... but I think in the movie alot of things were embellished.

[SanDiegoKid]

My point was that the Japanese in that movie were portrayed as humans, which is rare in American movies depicting WWII.

The film (both the original and remake) is based on one soldier's autobiography of the battle for Guadalcanal. Most of the situations shown (Capt. gaff taking the hill bunkers, Capt. Staros refusing direct suicidal orders, Sgt. Keck blowing himself up with a grenade) really happened.

If anything is embellished, it's the artistic film making style. It's been described as a "war poem", and there's quite a bit of symbolism involved.

It goes beyond the typical war movie in many ways.

[tackdaddy]

well the things that made miday and tora,tora,tora 2 of my fav's was that they stuck to what really happened in true life without all that garbage they threw in to the more recent peal habor movie and showing the japan as more human than just enemies was a great touch.

[moneoa]

maybe it was based on a true story... but I think in the movie alot of things were embellished.
I hope you realise Pearl Harbour was so embarassingly embellished its silly

[TheBlackSnow]

I hope you realise Pearl Harbour was so embarassingly embellished its silly
sure! it was very embellished...

[SanDiegoKid]

Pearl Harbor.

Ugh.

What a real filmmaker could have done with that budget and source material... ahh, to dream.

[shawners]

Barbershop?

[TheBlackSnow]

What a real filmmaker could have done with that budget and source material... ahh, to dream.
there are a lot of such movies... very often filmmakers are wasting big big money.

[Undying Wizard NHD]

BraveHeart

I can never get tired of tht movie

[Atheist Icon]

I think the Band Of Brothers series showed what being a REAL soldier was like and how human all the characters were. Not too mention it is based on true events. And I love WW II movies...I have yet to see Tora, Tora, Tora....I'll have to check that out.

[Mels_Smileys45]

I would like to see the story of Mary Bell (http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/bell/index_1.html) made into a movie. Every since I read this story about this 10 year old and her friend Norma, who did a series of killings of other small children, It blows my mind. How can kids so young be so evil. Read the story and see what you think.

[Mels_Smileys45]

Auto Focus (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298744/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj 0wfHE9YXV0byBmb2N1c3xodG1sPTF8bm09b24_;fc=1;ft=21) A story about "Hogan's Heroes" star Bob Crane and his friendship with John Carpenter.

American Splendor (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305206/) Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

The People vs. Larry Flynt (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117318/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj 0wfHE9bGFycnkgZmxpbnR8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=20; fm=1) A partially idealized film of the controversial pornography publisher and how he became a defender of free speech for all people

Ed Wood (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109707/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj 0wfHE9ZWQgd29vZHxodG1sPTF8bm09b24_;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1 ) The mostly true story of the legendary director of awful movies and his strange group of friends and actors

Imagine: John Lennon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095360/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj 0wfHE9aW1hZ2luZXxodG1sPTF8bm09b24_;fc=7;ft=20;fm=1 ) Discover John...the angry youth, the musician, the radical, the husband, the father, the lover, the idealist...through his own words and personal collection of film and music.

Fargo (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj 0wfHE9ZmFyZ298aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=38;fm=1) Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of pregnant Marge Gunderson.

Wonderland (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335563/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj 0wfHE9d29uZGVybGFuZHxodG1sPTF8bm09b24_;fc=2;ft=74; fm=1) In the police investigation of a brutal crime scene, one man was at the center of it all: legendary porn star John Holmes.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290538/) An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impressario Chuck Barris, in which he purports to have been a CIA hitman.

Gangs of New York (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217505/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj 0wfHE9R2FuZ3Mgb2YgTmV3IFlvcmt8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc= 1;ft=21;fm=1) In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer.

[simon_says_horrible]

Gandhi (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0083987/) (1982) Biography of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British through his philosophy of non-violent protest.
Grave Of The Fireflies (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0095327/) (1988) A tragic film covering a young boy and his little sister's struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.
Schindler's List (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0108052/) (1993) Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them.
Saving Private Ryan (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0120815/) (1998) Based on a World War II drama. US soldiers try to save their comrade, paratrooper Private Ryan, who's stationed behind enemy lines.
City of God (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/) (2002) Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.
Osama (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0368913/) (2003) A 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother lose their jobs when the Taliban closes the hospital where they work. The Taliban have also forbidden women to leave their houses without a male "legal companion." With her husband and brother dead, killed in battle, there is no one left to support the family. Without being able to leave the house, the mother is left with nowhere to turn. Feeling that she has no other choice, she disguises her daughter as a boy.
Fahrenheit 9/11 (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0361596/) (2004) Michael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after September 11; and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

OTHERS:
The Eye (http://www.mongkolfilm.com/theeye/)
Iron Monkey
Forrest Gump
Romeo & Juliet
Paris Hilton: Sex Tape

[Auggie2k]

I would have to say Braveheart, I love the storyline to it and with mel starring and directing, it just kicks ass

[Hornet]

Favourites include:

Schindler's List (1993) Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them.

AND "Roots" about the life of an enslaved African Kunta Kinte who is forced to work (in the land of the free / Hollywood) without payment or any basic human rights but survives to found a dynasty.

Does this count as a movie?



Hornet :wings :wings :wings

[Betamax]

Lorenzo's Oil

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[SanDiegoKid]

The Beast
.. about a Soviet tank crew in their invasion of Afghanistan. One member (Jason Patrick) changes his tune when captured and offered mercy by the Mujahadin.

Rambo III
John Rambo kicks total ass in Afghanistan. This movie features sweet helicopter gunships.

[Christoph]

city of god

[moneoa]

Damn there was this movie with Christopher Walken and he is a father in upstate new york. (I Think)
Aliens keep visiting his family up at the cabin and I think it was based on actual accounts of a guy who claims it happened to him. Real or No it was a good movie....(I guess not if it's not a real movie)

Anyone know what movie I am talking about?

[moneoa]

O.k I am determined to find out what the hell this movie is called and who plays in it.
A family has a cabin in a nice rual area, maybe maine or upstate new york.
The story I am pretty sure focuses around the father who knows his family is being visited.
Its winter and I remember in repeated scenes he actually goes to the ship and meets a few "greys"
including a tall alien. cool thoughtful shit is revealed and then the movie ends.

I can only hope someone here knows what
I am talking about (I am thinking Mel?)

[infringer]

Absolon aside from the post apocalyptic setting the concept of the movie is basically the same as real life there is corperations with big money trying to control the masses one small aspect of the movie is like real life other then that it is very differnt.

-infringer-

[Digital Bliss]

Blow was pretty good along with antwon fisher

[moneoa]

O.k I am determined to find out what the hell this movie is called and who plays in it.
A family has a cabin in a nice rual area, maybe maine or upstate new york.
The story I am pretty sure focuses around the father who knows his family is being visited.
Its winter and I remember in repeated scenes he actually goes to the ship and meets a few "greys"
including a tall alien. cool thoughtful shit is revealed and then the movie ends.

I can only hope someone here knows what
I am talking about (I am thinking Mel?)
Communion, it's called communion.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097100/

[SanDiegoKid]

Communion had a high cow bell factor.

[moneoa]

Communion had a high cow bell factor.
It's all supposedly the true life account of author Whitley Strieber

[Induna]

Braveheart, Pearl Harbor, Matrix, Rambo III?! Where's the culture in this forum?

How can anybody fail to mention The Bridge on the River Kwai? Regarded as on of the best films ever made. Showing the great spirit and "stiff-upperlippedness" of the British.

And just to show I'm not anti-yank in anyway, how about Patton, one of your great WWII Generals.

Another David Lean classic, Lawrence of Arabia, again, considered one of the best films ever made.

And if you're looking for a more darker side to humanity then check out Men Behind The Sun.

Visit these films and open your mind.

[mfgbypooter]

The Matrix could use more cow bell.

[moneoa]

Matrix, Rambo III?! Where's the culture in this forum?


Well they aren't really based on RL either

[mfgbypooter]

You want culture?

A Clockwork Orange is as real as it gets.


.

[SanDiegoKid]

Braveheart, Pearl Harbor, Matrix, Rambo III?! Where's the culture in this forum?
How can anybody fail to mention The Bridge on the River Kwai?

The Rambo III comment was tounge in cheek.

Bridge Over the River Kwai? In my very humble opinion, classic does not always mean good. I prefer to get my dose of Sir Alec Guiness from Hitler: The Last Ten Days.

[muskrat_love]

The Shawshank Redemption was a great movie. Had a good meaning.

[MoonMan]

Enemy at the Gates is a personal favorite.

My mind has gone blank, though, so I can't think of any others right now.

[rebirth]

umm, Donnie Darko? no...uhh I dunno. lol. ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm something. I'll think about it.

[Betamax]

Lorenzo's Oil
Awakenings
Catch Me if You Can
Braveheart
Private Ryan
Shindler's List
Stander
Blow

[infringer]

Seen a movie called thirteen that has to be up there with real life standards now adays...

-infringer-

[Betamax]

Quiz Show
Man on the Moon

[mfgbypooter]

When I want to relive an era it's Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, or Apocalypse Now.

[Induna]

The Rambo III comment was tounge in cheek.

Bridge Over the River Kwai? In my very humble opinion, classic does not always mean good. I prefer to get my dose of Sir Alec Guiness from Hitler: The Last Ten Days.

As was mine.

Speaking of Hitler - and I feel like I'm being led into this question after your Alec Guiness recommendation - have you seen Der Untergang yet? (No, not a German gangbang film for the uncultured here). Hitler: The Downfall. I'm in the process of obtaining it.

It seems to be receiving good reviews.