10 Movie Biopics That Lied To Your Face

There's twisting the truth, there's bending the facts, and then there's making s*** up...
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[@ejay1118]

David Gerrold's book "The Martian Child," was a strong story about a gay man, adopting an autistic child. The movie had him adopting the child to get over the death of his wife! Like the kid was a puppy or a kitten! Gerrold disavowed the entire project.

[@Mandalore863]

It's pretty funny that Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg was more Lex Luthor than Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor... Funny, isn't it?

[@donaldtusk2678]

Now I want mark zuckerberg to play lex Luthor I mean they are quite similar

[@Beamboy555]

@@donaldtusk2678 Jeff bezos trying to go to space. And he’s bald. I rest my case

[@donaldtusk2678]

@@Beamboy555 he works even better

[@anastasious]

@@Beamboy555 Elon Musk would be my choice....

[@bujin1977]

@@donaldtusk2678 He's got acting experience. Look at that time he played Star Trek's "Data" while being questioned by the Senate.

[@TNTITAN]

Wait you mean the founder of Facebook isn’t friend requesting that woman who dumped him more a decade ago?

[@seankenno7]

The Greatest Showman deserved a place on this list...it’s thoroughly enjoyable and Jackman is brilliant...but the real PT Barnham was more of an authoritarian tyrant than a likeable ringleader

[@pangypirate]

Yeah i remembered patch adams not being super accurate either but i guess there was already a robin williams film on the list so whatever

[@Hammer4iv]

I think the distinction is The Greatest Showman was never billed as a biopic though. It certainly never claimed to be based on fact the way some of the films in the list do.

[@KTPinto]

...and it was a MUSICAL. If you really think it was based on reality and a biopic, that's on you.

[@KinkyTails]

True... I was wondering whether The Greatest Showman was gonna be on here. I know it wasn't officially claiming to be a biopic but it used all of the names of real people and a lot of people believe it to be true to history... apart from all of the random musical numbers anyway.

[@WhiskeyPapa42]

If it's a biopic, or even "based on a true story", and made by Hollywood, I already assume it's grossly inaccurate and wildly exaggerated.

[@David8n]

After some research I discovered that Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter wasn't entirely true to Lincoln's life story.

[@jjmanzano9]

You lie!

[@mpstab6276]

Oh no, say it isn't so! 😂

[@danbasford7456]

The Mandela Effect at work, lol.

[@DarkAoiishi]

Ah, because he was shorter in the film right? Yeah, guess they had to make him shorter so that he wouldn't take away from the vampires presence too much.

[@berthalongstreth4359]

It has to be true I saw it on the TV and it said it was true 😆

[@dangeldoll]

Patch Adams- wasn't even mentioned? even tho the real Adams is horrified by the portrayal, and debunks the whole movie also they added a love interest-that gets murdered in the movie -that person never existed! they created a whole fictional character-to a real person's life just for the movie - most of the things in the movie never happened

[@danielrodriguez6080]

I think the movie is so bad it’s not worth even mentioning.

[@GentlyHewStone]

You missed a great one: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. True story: a French man's car crash paralyzes him, except for one eyelid, which he uses to blink out the letters of an entire biography. His mistress sees his crippled body and runs away for good, leaving the wife he cheated on to take care of him. Selfless and noble of her, right? EXCEPT, that's the movie version. In real life, the *wife* took off and the *girlfriend* stayed to care for him. But when he died, the wife owned the rights to the very popular book he dictated. She said that the movie couldn't be made unless they switched the characters so the mistress looked bad and she looked good.

[@dangeldoll]

Thank you! I was just about to mention that one, thank god more people know this fact

[@mchamber366]

I never heard of that movie before I'm going to check it out now

[@unklesalty3732]

Calling Bohemian Rhapsody a biography is like calling Tommy Wiseau a good actor. HTF did Malek win an Oscar for that performance? He sounded like he was badly re-creating Guy Pierce's role from The Count of Monte Cristo.

[@BassPlayerSusan]

I thought Malek sleptwalked through his entire performance.

[@TheObi78]

Dragon, the Bruce Lee biopic, wow it's has many Inaccurate things.

[@melanieszelong4664]

Yes!!! The 'fight' and the broken back for starters

[@TheBlazingDead]

You're telling me Bruce Lee didn't fight a demon samurai?

[@Trayton]

The demon thing, dressing him as a little girl to hide him from said demon , going to america on a rickety boat, having a single father in a ramshackle apartment, breaking his back in a fight, being poor, the list goes on lol. Oh yeah, he didnt actually invent the Kung Fu tv show later to have it stolen from him either.

[@drdarkeny]

@@Trayton - he sort of did create the KUNG FU series with James Coburn, actually? Admittedly, it didn't go much beyond "Chinese Kung Fu Master Comes to America During the 19th Century, Fights LOTS of Bigoted White People", so it was on the order of "I have this great idea, I just need somebody to WRITE it!" that is oh so beloved of movie and television writers....

[@Trayton]

@@drdarkeny that's circumstantial at best. The only corroboration is Lee saying this in an interview on a talkshow and Linda stating it in the memoirs. No other legitimate proof exists that he created it

[@ralphyetmore]

Although the real Jamaican bobsledders from Cool Runnings like the Disney version of the ending crash. "Yeah. It was the bobsled. Not us. Heh." 😆

[@joelbrown2782]

Bohemian Rhapsody also got it wrong with Freddy's diagnosis, the film makes out that he got diagnosed with AIDS in 1985, just before the Live Aid performance, when in reality, he was diagonsed with AIDS in 1987!

[@dominicmako4649]

Hidden Figures has so many made up events and characters that you could do a whole video on it alone, starting with the entire segregation subplot.

[@florencepierce1864]

Hidden Figures - hidden behind fake characters, masquerading as real people - ah, Hollywood.

[@friedrichwilhelmvonsteuben7952]

we wuz...

[@TheFrugalAudiophile]

Could add Braveheart and the greatest showman to this list, but I guess those are never intended to be bio pics.

[@MattDW45]

Braveheart is pretty much a fantasy movie

[@marccolten9801]

Rick Steves visited a town that remembers Braveheart very well. He led his army into their town, herded their people into the church and set it on fire, burning them alive. Was that in the movie?

[@therandomgeek85]

I'm surprised "all eyes on me" wasn't on this list, that movie was a pack of lies.

[@markvicferrer]

It would take hours to point out the inaccuracies in Bohemian Rhapsody. But Rami Malek's acting was impressive & the actor who played Brian May was uncanny.

[@MrDanielatruman]

Before Queen, Brian May and Roger Taylor were in a band called Smile. Once Freddie joined the band, he renamed them Queen, with all the connotations that that name entails. With some crazy luck, John Deacon got onboard. One of the greatest bass players of all time. And a fantastic song writer. Together, these 4 men would go on to write some of the most endearing rock anthems of all time. Shortly after Freddie's passing, John Deacon left the band. The entity that Adam Lambeth warbles along with is Smile. It definitely ain't Queen.

[@johnbossart1575]

"The Dallas Buyer's Club" deserves a spot

[@AlbieStarr]

The whole point of Amadeus is that the story is told by an old man in an insane asylum, to a man who doesn't know him. The movie (and also the play, by the way) didn't "lie", it made a very clear, very purposed, narrative choice.

[@LucyLioness100]

Precisely. The movie is not meant to be an actual biography since there’s so much we don’t know about Mozart & Salieri. The movie purposely teases us to believe Salieri much like the priest. The film is accurate in many details though & Salieri did claim numerous times he killed Mozart, but it’s quite certain he didn’t as these claims came after he fell into mental illness later in life

[@AlbieStarr]

@@LucyLioness100 yeah the movie and the play are basically based on a book that was based on a fake rumor that Salieri killed Mozart, it was never supposed to be biographical to begin with. By the way, if you analyse the movie, all the Mozart stuff is mostly right and all the Salieri stuff is mostly wrong. That's because its on PURPOSE!!!!! Fucking idiots I swear 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@drdarkeny]

I know that's the play, which I've seen -- in his lifetime Salieri was Imperial Kapellmeister of the Hapsburg Empire and a highly regarded Italian Opera composer and teacher. The play also makes it clear that the rivalry is in Salieri's head, and that publicly he was always seen to support Mozart.

[@hansyoyo7541]

I think Walk Hard is the most accurate biopic movie I've ever seen

[@BlindJedi]

This comment made my day.

[@onelyfemusic6213]

It turns your bad feelings into good feelings

[@KTPinto]

One last thing: Never put John Candy and Doug E Doug in the same category of "comedic genius".

[@crowvalclamore3320]

Lmao "the same George Bush who" ... (interrupted by anti Trump ad) as someone who didn't vote for both that hysterical.

[@chuck.u.farley]

Amadeus was great, but Milos Formans masterpiece surely was One flew over the cuckoos nest.

[@bheast86]

AMADEUS improved on a play that needed; ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST bowdlerised a superior novel

[@yepperdeedooda]

I want to see the movie with that giant yellow arrow pointing at that girl. I totally missed that one.

[@eriklehnsherr5784]

The Last Airbender?

[@John.Handle]

03:18

[@donaldtusk2678]

@@eriklehnsherr5784 ah yes the gravity benders with yellow arrows

[@tcodes27]

For Bohemian Rhapsody, I think they just wanted that classic coming together at the end trope.

[@kerrumz1]

Sad they essentially slandered Mercury though. May never did like the way Freddy lived his eccentric and self endulgent life. Oh well. Apparently the remaining member STILL need to have their ego's stroked.

[@wedge72]

I was 6 the first time I saw The Amityville Horror. As ridiculous as it all is to me now, it terrified me then with it's heavily billed "based on a true story" tagline. Not a biopic, I know, but it made me aware of Hollywood's "facts" early on after lots of nights afraid to glance out the window for fear of red demonic floating eyeballs.

[@e8412561]

...Milos Foremans masterpiece...??...is that One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest at the door..??...

[@LucyLioness100]

Both “Cuckoo’s Nest” & “Amadeus” are his masterpieces 😄 they are so well done

[@reuvengershon6625]

When pointing out inaccuracies of these movies its probably a good idea to pronounce the title character's name correctly. Its pronounced Mo- ts- art- Motsart. The Z is hard. He's probably the most famous composer ever.

[@KB-lr4pl]

That's being pretty nitpicky, since the typical British pronunciation in this video is very common outside of German-speaking countries. Many famous people from many parts of the world end up with their names commonly pronounced differently from the pronunciation in their home language or era. You should hear how Germans and Austrians pronounce the names of famous historical figures from outside their countries!

[@jayc5942]

You left off my personal favorite: Young Einstein, with Yahoo Serious.

[@BitcoinMotorist]

You mean Einstein was not an Australian who split an atom with a chisel and invented surfing and rock n’ roll?

[@auntieelaine]

You're going to mention Bohemian Rhapsody without discussing the bi erasure? Really?

[@alp21188]

I loved bohemian rhapsody. However I researched it after I watched it and you left out so much of the injustice his band mates threw on his name . It’s extraordinarily appalling to say the least. You should do a video absolutely dedicated to this specific movie

[@carolinealba2598]

I saw a Reelz Biography special before I saw the movie and was very disappointed, the movie made him off like a lonely isolating person, which he was not.

[@theleap2946]

And the worst part, May and Taylor produced this movie and signed off on it. Wtf!!

[@solidsnake4214]

Pitch Meeting on Screen Rant covered it well

[@gfear24]

I knew the chronological order of the things before I went to see it. Then I remembered that biopics ALWAYS take creative licence and that there is always going to be inaccuracies. I went anyways and enjoyed the movie despite knowing all the inaccuracies going into it. Quite frankly, if you're expecting 100% accuracy from a biopic, you'll be very disappointed every time. There are 3 types of "bio" movies. Biopics, Biographies & documentaries. Biographies & Documentaries tend to be the most honest. Biopics are never accurate.

[@drdarkeny]

@@theleap2946 - that's how THEY want it remembered.

[@pjkorab]

How can you live on this planet and not know how to pronounce MOZART?? XD

[@mattdickie4696]

Same way you can sit through the Blind Side but still not know how to pronounce the main character's last name. Rhymes with Or!

[@BitcoinMotorist]

Moe who?

[@chichiboypumpi]

"Well all good stories deserve embellishment" - Gandalf

[@MarcLombart]

You missed a particularly offensive one, Ellen Brockovich Unlike the film, the real person's ONLY contribution to winning the case was doing research in a library.

[@AnarkeeSoundVibes]

When I first learned that "A Beautiful Mind" wasn't entirely accurate to the true story forever changed how looked at any movie marked "based on a true story".

[@mpdalyful1]

According to sylia Nash john Forbes Nash Jr was domestically violent. Ron Howard and brian grazer excised that from the screenplay. Sylvia Nash was not happy about that

[@LucyLioness100]

@@mpdalyful1 I can understand why they cut that detail out, but it does dilute the picture of who the late John Nash was

[@virginiadare1587]

Freddie Mercury was 5'9" and slight. Rami was perfectly suited physically.

[@oldDNU]

24 Hour Party People has a funny scene where the real life version of a character says a particular scene never happened, and the narrator admits that when given the option between the facts and the legend, they’ll go with the legends. (It’s one of the best biopics ever made, by the way. It’s a lot like American Splendor in structure and fourth wall breaking.)

[@dangeldoll]

Rudy -the Rudy Ruettiger story -was all made up and changed for the film by Rudy himself, or the story goes the real people and his coach and other players do say that he was the worst player in history, but who are we gonna fact check?

[@lukedavies4732]

Greatest Showman and Braveheart lied more than most movies on this list 🤣

[@drdarkeny]

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN isn't a biopic, it's a musical based (very loosely) on the life of P.T. Barnum.

[@brittanycarriger5502]

Your best list yet Kirsten.

[@trentlomelino]

The funny thing is, there are endless stories you don't have to do major change and also make very compelling films. If the industry comes through 2020 with wheels running maybe imagine accurate real stories that may not have the name recognition, but the real substance.

[@musological]

@3:17 "which the film 'elides' entirely" (rather than 'eludes') is probably the word you meant.

[@Skeksistential-crisis]

Sooo basically the entirety of Lords Of Chaos then?? 🤔

[@TheHive616]

Oh Lord Satan, don't get me started. 'You were supposed to be TRUE EVIL! You're not REAL!' They tried to make it out to be some emotional thing between best buds or something, Varg and Oystein were never all that close and they certainly never had those emotionally stirring breakup arguments

[@aswallace88]

Not even going to mention The Greatest Showman? It's not just flawed, the whole idea of it was a lie. P.T. Barnum wasn't some messiah to the pariahs of society at the time, he was a business man who knew he could make a buck off the backs of the people considered freaks.

[@robertdoherty2001]

The most fictitious mess I know of is “Lady Sings the Blues”.

[@maxpiemuse9584]

The Dragon irks me to no end. Bruce Lee was an amazing guy that had a fascinating life. But Hollywood had to throw in a bunch of nonsense that never happened.

[@MikeMaduxx]

This topic deserves to be a 10 part series. I enjoyed it a lot. Plus, so many bio-pics take liberty just for entertainment.

[@pr0ject_nihilist]

So “house of wax” wasn’t a true story? It seemed so real. Especially the dude that was covered in wax and still alive playing the piano. I’d love to see how Genifer is spelled different than Jennifer. Is that the same thing as Indiana Jones spelling Jehovah with an I? Probably before this movie ever came out “John Nash” came to our high school. He had an “interesting mind”. If you asked him to answer 1+x=2 he couldn’t answer X, but he could catch a football. You just showed a clip of a “dreadlock” breaking off because it was cold. Kind of sure anyone who would watch that movie would’ve taken it with a grain of salt and a PS point; remember the “original” Jamaican bobsled dude Who got acquitted of smuggling pot in the Canada or some weird place?

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

I love topics like this, and it's why I always do research after seeing films like these. A few notes: A Beautiful Mind created that final scene out of whole cloth. Nash never gave an acceptance speech for his Nobel, since the committee didn't want to have him start screaming at Jews who weren't there during a speech. Also, Rudy and The Hurricane are good biopics that are totally fake once you do a bit of digging.

[@garyelder4610]

I remember when the Jamaican Bobsled team crashed and were under the sled, then when I saw the movie where they pick up their bobsled I couldn’t stop laughing

[@GrinderCB]

Here's another. Interestingly also by Oliver Stone. "The Doors" from 1991, about the 60's rock band and its lead singer Jim Morrison. Lots of fighting between Stone and Doors members Robbie Krieger and Ray Manczarek over how the story should be told lead to lots of inaccuracies, especially around Morrison's relationship with Pam Courson, his interest in Wicca, and the circumstances surrounding his death.

[@rome8180]

A lot of these sound more interesting that the actual movie that ended up getting made.

[@douglasphillips5870]

Never trust the accuracy of a bio pic. They are entertainment first and foremost.

[@oldenweery7510]

The old phrase, " 'Twas ever thus," nearly always applies to Hollywood's efforts. They always think any additions and deletions they make are much better than the original facts or authors' words. Stay safe, everybody.

[@dmacmillion]

Wow, Hollywood finds it difficult to condense a person's entire life into a watchable two hour movie?

[@vincevvn]

The issue is not that they can’t compress a persons life it’s that they flat out lie.

[@AJ-xc4qe]

There are also bio-TV shows that embellish the storylines like Little House on the Prairie and American Soul.

[@maestroclassico5801]

Yes....Laura Ingalls Wilder's books dont line up too well with the television series do they? They hit a lot of places besides Walnut Grove!

[@joeytorontocanuck8682]

They do it for dramatic effect and creative purposes. Once they buy the story they own the story and they make changes to the story.

[@Mo_Ketchups]

“a nagging, shrill nightmare ...” The irony. 🥴

[@jalabi99]

How about all the fictional characters added to the otherwise-quite-good _Hidden Figures_ like Jim Parsons' character?

[@daryl772003]

Jimi: all is by my side could have a spot on this list

[@AngelicusImmortus]

Sacha was sacked for wanting to focus the whole film on Freddie’s sexuality. Thing was they boosted John Deacons influence. And though it does suggest Brian was closest to Freddie when actually it was Taylor.

[@lethopeane4365]

So a movie called the Blind Side turned a blind eye to the truth in favour of their version of it,who'd have guessed?

[@scottdaniels8129]

Who considers Cool Runnings a bio-pic? It's an "inspired by true life" pic.

[@rikquishewright2167]

Sacha Baron Cohen is a legend, and I'm still disappointed we will never see his version of Bohemian Rhapsody. :(

[@ThaloniusPFunk]

Exactly! He was trying to tell the real Queen story. But Brian and Roger weren't having it.

[@lucyhurst2534]

Thalonius P. Funk they could have got a good middle ground between what we got, and sacha baron cohens visions. Bohemian rhapsody was quite insultingly tame.

[@drdarkeny]

@@ThaloniusPFunk - I think Cohen said at one point May and Taylor seriously floated the idea of the movie showing how THEY had triumphed after losing Freddie Mercury! I think that's the point where he decided playing a boorish Kazakh journalist would be less offensive....

[@3Dsjk]

@@drdarkeny Pretty much; Baron Cohen was all excited for the role, and then he was told the plan was to have Freddie’s death in the middle of the film, with the whole second half being about the remaining members soldiering on without him. He dropped out pretty quickly after hearing about that.

[@nickgov66]

It is pronounced "bio-pic" not "bi-opic" from "biographical picture".

[@orionred2489]

October sky/rocket boys had a lot of changes revolving around homer's relationship with his dad, and his mother's relationship with her husband.

[@ferociousgumby]

I cannot BELIEVE you don't know how to pronounce MOZART. It doesn't rhyme with "OZARK".

[@brucenatelee]

I really can't get over entertainment making education easy, yet Hollywood avoids doing so. "Based on a true story" with great emphasis on "based."

[@brucenatelee]

This is where the idea of just changing facts and making an original movie should come it, inspired by true events, not taking history and fucking the facts over.

[@howler109]

I didn't see it until years later, but I always thought Amadeus wasn't made with the intention of being an accurate retelling? At least I never got from the tone of the movie that was the impression.

[@nouchireiss2223]

Amadeus is an adaptation of a play. It was never intented to be a biopic. It's a phantasy and a reflection about genius. I'm astonished by the fact that they didn't mention it on their video, it's a mistake.

[@geezerpleasers_OG]

A big question would be, could you consider "JFK" a Jim Garrison biopic? If so, it's the runaway leader, and nothing else is even close. That movie had more falsehoods and distortions than any other 20 movies combined.

[@grahampowelljr1]

In The Imitation Game, Knightly's character was based on a real person and she and Turing did get married. Since they both knew he was gay at the time there's no good explanation. And Turing was apparently much more outgoing and less tormented in real life. But it was still a pretty good movie.

[@OhMellyCat]

They never got married in real life actually. They were engaged though. And Joan Clarke herself said that they were close friends but she wasnt at all surprised when he told her he was gay.

[@grahampowelljr1]

@@OhMellyCat Ah, my bad. I knew they were close, thought they actually were (briefly) married.

[@maccadees22]

The Greatest Showman needs to be on your next list. Barnham was apparently an asshole, bad to the circus performers and animals and never had a relationship with the opera singer or vice versa. Zach Efron’s character didn’t exist and nor did Zendaya’s. There’s so much about it that’s fabricated that it makes no sense to be about people that really existed!

[@KTPinto]

And the movie was a MUSICAL. Never claimed to be a biopic. If you thought it was, that's on you.

[@prophetkillz]

Dragon: the Bruce lee story.. i heard Bruce's widow and family said the producers took liberties with the story and a lot of things didnt happen or they didnt happen the way the movie portrayed them..i.e: the premiere of the big boss, they said it was moderate clapping not an uproar of applause like In the movie and they definitely didnt carry Bruce lee around the theater,shouting his name. Also the fight on the set of the big boss did happen but it was a small scuffle that bruce easily defused and wasnt the long dragged out fight like it was portrayed in the movie

[@redman8903]

Rami far to short?? Freddie was 5ft9, Rami is 5ft7. Baron Cohen is 6ft3. If anything Baron Cohen is way too tall to play Freddie.

[@geezerpleasers_OG]

Another biopic that went completely off the rails as far as the truth of it: "Pawn Sacrifice", the Bobby Fischer movie. Start with the casting. In order to play up the poor little underdog angle, they cast 5'8" Tobey Maguire to play the 6'1" Fischer, who in reality was one of the first Grandmasters to emphasize physical training and who deliberately tried to physically intimidate opponents. And the it went off a cliff as far as getting his childhood all wrong, while missing out on the real stories.

[@iangray1980]

Fargo? Texas chainsaw? Please don't tell whatculture

[@georgesouthwick7000]

Hollywood never did let the facts get in the way of a good story.

[@steel8231]

The Immitation Game was way farther off than just Turing's sexuality, weird of you to only focus on that. For instance his department had over 10,000 employees and was on a sprawling estate not 5 people in a wood shed, he wasn't Autistic/neurodivergent, and was (reportedly) very popular at parties with a large number of friends.

[@prototypep4]

I don't get the weird focus on Turing's sexuality here either? The film addressed it quite reasonably I thought.

[@PaulMcElligott]

P3 Gaming And Keira Knightly’s character, Joan Clarke, wasn’t invented for the movie, either. She was a real person, and Turing did have a relationship with her, although a platonic one, as I believe she was aware of his sexuality to some degree. When I first saw _The Imitation Game,_ I had just read the book on which the movie was based, and I barely recognized them as the same story. Cumberbatch’s performance never seemed connected to the real person I’d just read about.

[@pinktribble]

@@prototypep4 I assume due tothe fact it was illegal at the time.

[@prototypep4]

@@pinktribble i was referring to whatcultures focus on it and how apparently the film didn't scream rainbows or whatever enough for them. Obviously it was important during Turing's time I do know the history quite well.

[@Spbloomquist]

2009 must be the year Bill Burr was searching for in his SNL Monologue

[@danielrodriguez6080]

I’d like to add Braveheart and The Untouchables.

[@gilt2349]

You can add every gangster movie ever made

[@darrinoverby]

Argo is another one that could easily be on this list.

[@howler109]

Yeah I read Mendez's book and they made it way more exciting and suspenseful than what actually happened, which is Canada did most of the pre-exfil prep work with getting together fake passports and permits and such, Mendez went in and they boarded the plane the next day. No jaunt to the bazaar, no hiccups with the plane tickets, no extra interrogations at the gate and certainly no plane chasing by the revolutionary guards. But never let the truth get in the way of a good story huh? Still, fun movie, I love it.

[@cindygreene3353]

@@howler109 .. In real life, the plane was delayed for unrelated reasons for a few minutes, and then took off without a hitch.

[@rayg6497]

Young Guns 1 and 2 got all kinds of things wrong. Doc and Chavez both lived into the 1920s. Charlie Brodie survived the battle of Lincoln. Tom O'Foliard wasn't a teenage orphan, but was the same age as the rest of the Regulators. He was also from Texas, not Pennsylvania. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid were not friends, though they probably knew each other, but they didn't rustle cattle together. And Murphy wasn't killed by Billy the Kid, he died of cancer.

[@elizshabear-encinas6302]

Now you guys have to do the Top 10 most Accurate biopics. Definitely would be a interesting list

[@justincox7955]

We Were Soldiers and Blow would be near the top of that list

[@paulcarr5918]

It would be impossible to come up with 10

[@vtmiller63]

For a list about movies that played hard and fast with the truth, it’s hard to ignore the assertion that The Help and The Blind Side were both released in 2009. The Help came out in 2011 (the novel came out in 2009, but that’s not the assertion). It would seem a less egregious mistake if the comparison wasn’t so unnecessary to the narrative.

[@AnyoneCanSee]

I read somewhere that the original Bohemian Rhapsody biopic wanted to have Freddie die halfway through and have the second half about how the rest of the band valiantly carried on without him to be just as successful. That's when Cohen walked. Apparently, they eventually realised Freddie really was the star.

[@GG3695]

Yeah it was originally going to be released in 2014 under the name Mercury with Cohen as the star.

[@dangeldoll]

Bohemian Rhapsody -the guy who said that the song is long to be put on the radio - Mercury jabs a joke about the 8minutes mark -that person does not exist! there was never a person who would tell Queen that their song is too long for the radio- the movie just wanted to have that joke in the movie, as if the band had any enemies or hurdles in their carrier to make it look like they struggled and had oppressors -but never mention real ones

[@Jackinthenoir]

You know who else lied to our faces? YOU, KIRSTEN-RIA! YOU DON'T HAVE THAT HAIR ON YOUR AVATAR ANY MORE! But, seriously, your new hairdo is lovely. As was your previous one.

[@GavinJ37]

Bohemian Rhapsody got virtually everything wrong. It should be classed as a parody

[@timmutohfan]

That and it's a bad movie by any standard. Why people glow over it is beyond me.

[@GavinJ37]

@@timmutohfan Couldn’t have said it better myself

[@reuvengershon6625]

I don't think Good Morning Vietnam or Amadeus were not meant to be bio pics as such.

[@KarenRose70]

Amadeus was based on a play. So it wasn't true at all.

[@douglasdea637]

The one that hurt me the most was Blind Side. The movie is enjoyable, one of the best of that year. When I learned the truth though... About 75% of the film is exaggeration or outright wrong. Another one, though not billed as such, is The Sound of Music. The events of Maria working for the Von Trapp family and her marriage to the Captain at best only inspired the musical and film. What appears to be a single year's worth of events, or less, took place over 8+ years. Children were born, college students lived in the house and there was no dramatic escape over the mountains. Maria wasn't even in love with the Captain.

[@drdarkeny]

Again -- it's a musical, you expect accuracy?

[@gnosis404]

WhatCulture misrepresents the film Amadeus. It is not a biopic. It is a film adaptation of a play that advertised itself as a work of fiction. Hard to call the filmmakers liars when they fully based their film on a work of fiction, no?

[@bradleywheat1028]

How did the Greatest Showman not make this list?

[@SewerTapes]

I would have much rather seen Sacha Baron Cohen's version of Bohemian Rhapsody. It would have certainly featured more drugs and debauchery.

[@bheast86]

- and bad acting; 'Look at me; I'm gay and flamboyant'

[@dynamicjaethought7788]

What about the Jimi Hendrix flop, that Andre 3000 starred in? The movie flopped because the actual people (besides Jimi due to him being dead) had to come out and say the movie was complete bullshit.

[@MajesticalHonky]

I'm a big Freddie Mercury fan. I bought Bohemian Rhapsody unseen and regret the purchase. Taylor and May should be ashamed of themselves.

[@kerriemccoy1647]

At least I know now why Sacha Baron Cohen decided to pull out starring in the movie, don't blame him either.

[@AlbieStarr]

Except it's not true. Sacha left because he wanted it to be a very dark, grim depiction of Freddie's final years dealing with AIDS, and Queen wanted it to be more family friendly.

[@kerriemccoy1647]

@@AlbieStarr But they wanted their version of the movie which now we spotted that either never happened or happened either on,

[@TNTITAN]

To be fair I do believe the family of McBeth does have a bone to pick with William Shakespeare

[@essencer.9494]

falsifying biographies is so terrible. I despise it so much. There is already a story to tell... one that already happened and exists. Why take such liberties when telling a story?