Best 'True Story' film?

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Originally Posted by Shaolin
The Passion of the Christ

Funny. I get jokes....and people's religious beliefs. Funny.
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Originally Posted by Sleezy
Amistad
Amistad blew monkey balls. One of Spielberg's most overwrought and head bashing preachy films. Completely horrible. When the dude cries out "let free" I nearly ran to the toilet vomitting.

Also I don't know if you can or should do this or not but I don't consider bio-flicks in the same category as true story flicks. A bio-flick is more about the person like say Raging Bull or Lawrence of Arabia. While a good true story film will naturally be about the person involved, it's everybit as much about the story itself as well. In that regards I'd say this is the best true story film head and shoulders above the rest...







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a movie based on a book, based on a true story.
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Schindler's List

hands down, need I say more? That movie is incredible.
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Originally Posted by Caitlyn
Ed Gein is a very well researched movie based on actual facts without the extra Hollywood fluffing… If you’re interested in learning more about a real serial killer, you should find it interesting… but a word of warning, this movie is not for the faint of heart or anyone with a weak stomach… Hope that helps...
thanks i will be sure to rent this one.
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Originally Posted by Maniac
Schindler's List

hands down, need I say more? That movie is incredible.
Eh it's alright, not as incrediable as In Cold Blood



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for christs sake people!!no more Spielberg movies!!!!

i think you can pretty much rule him out of the category 'based on a true story' and put him into the category "very, very loosely based on a semi-non fictional story but totally re-glamourised and twisted by a hollywood fat cat that is responsible for the destruction of cinema"

........stupid speilberg. *takes another shot of tequila*



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Remember the Titans
Redemption (the Stanley Williams story)
The Straight Story
Cofessions of a Dangerous Mind (which may or may not be real)
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Saw a great little film on IFC a few weeks ago that they only showed a few times and now I'm kicking myself for not having taped it... "The Straight Story". It's about an old man who's last name is "Straight" who rode his riding lawn mower (pulling a trailer) 300 miles to his brother's house after his brother had had a stroke. Not a lot of action (except when the lawn mower runs too fast down a hill) but a very moving story. And it has Richard Farnsworth as the main character... a very lovable, soft spoken character-actor who I would adopt as a grandfather any time.

I know this was a true story because I read it in the newspapers and saw it on the TV news when it was happening.
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Originally Posted by Hauberinia
Saw a great little film on IFC a few weeks ago that they only showed a few times and now I'm kicking myself for not having taped it... "The Straight Story". I know this was a true story because I read it in the newspapers and saw it on the TV news when it was happening.
But apparently you weren't aware of the movie, which was released in 1999, directed by David Lynch (yes, THAT David Lynch), and garnered Farnsworth a Best Actor Oscar nomination. It turned out to be his last role before he took his own life with a shotgun rather than let the cancer ravage his body one moment longer.

So yeah, that little film ain't so little. It was also mentioned two posts above yours.



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I'm suprised nobody has said "Antwone Fisher"!

Others are...
- A Beautful Mind
- Blow
- Bowling for Columbine (probably doesnt count as a movie)
- Erin Brokovich
- Girl, Interrupted
- Goodfellas
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (we'll never know how true that was!)
- The Pianist



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Originally Posted by Holden Pike
I'm not.
Haha, did you not like Antwone Fisher, or have you just never heard of it?



Originally Posted by Holden Pike
But apparently you weren't aware of the movie, which was released in 1999, directed by David Lynch (yes, THAT David Lynch), and garnered Farnsworth a Best Actor Oscar nomination. It turned out to be his last role before he took his own life with a shotgun rather than let the cancer ravage his body one moment longer.

So yeah, that little film ain't so little. It was also mentioned two posts above yours.
Oh, I missed that... meaning both the facts that it was mentioned already, and that he suicided... RIP Richard.



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Originally Posted by Holden Pike
Oh, I've heard of it. I've seen it. It stinks.
Any reason why? Or just not your type of movie?



Originally Posted by Xethmir
Any reason why? Or just not your type of movie?
It's overwrought, paint-by-numbers TV-movie-of-the-week stuff, with lackluster direction. And the acting was only average. But other than that....