For all history geeks...and those who are interested

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According to Yahoo's Movie Section,
they have an article concerning
the "10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies!"

Here they are.

Braveheart
Isabella of France was three years old in William Wallace's day, not in her mid-20s,
and King Edward III was born seven years after Wallace was executed.

10,000 BC
Wooly mammoths were not used to build the pyramids.
We all know that.

300
In the battle depicted in the movie,
the soldiers wore nothing but capes & leather Speedos.
Xerses is depicted as an 8-foot monster covered in bling.
Fact: The soldiers were covered head-to-toe in armor.

The Last Samurai
Japanese samurai probably would have killed
a fortysomething alcoholic Civil War veteran,
NOT welcomed him with open arms.

Gladiator
Marcus Aurelius was not killed by his own son.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Queen Elizabeth was 52 during the events of the movie,
not a gorgeous 36. Also, Queen Elizabeth did not give
her army a pep talk before the big battle.
Instead, she rode quietly alongside her army,
carrying a 1585 version of a baton.

Apocalypto
Only high-ranking soldiers during battles
were taking into capture, not everybody.
The Mayan did have a human sacrifice every now & then, not every day.
If you are considering a major in anthropology, skip this movie.

Memoirs of a Geisha
The geisha did not wear platform shoes.
Nor did they use fake snow and strobe lights during their performances.

The Patriot
Yay, another Roland Emmerich movie!
In the battle sequence where Mel Gibson is carrying an American flag,
the British actually won, not the Americans.

Last but not least...

2001: A Space Odyssey
By 2001, we should have had flying cars,
mainstream voyages to space, and creepy-voiced computers.

Instead, the MIR space station fell from the sky,
gas prices began to go up, and the Bush Administration.

LOL!

Actually it based on the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion led by Saigō Takamori, and also on the story of Jules Brunet, a French army captain who fought alongside Enomoto Takeaki in the Boshin War. They just replaced the European powers with Americans basically. The U.S. wasn't involved with modernizing of Japan yet Japan sent people to learn from us in order to modernized themselves and maybe push the hairy barbarians from the home islands. Also the movie promotes terrorism which was funny for me to find out because a history professor told me that and it is true in a way.

Concerning 2001: A Space Odyssey,
it was probably for the best that Arthur C. Clarke
and Stanley Kubrick got the majority of their predictions wrong.

Right?