| Films based on true stories 15:41 - Aug 30 with 5868 views | dickythorpe |
I sometimes struggle to watch films but in recent months I watched the Straight Story ,and Into the Wild.
I much prefer films that aren't made up but are based on actual events.
Any others to recommend by discerning PS film buffs? |  | | |  |
| Films based on true stories on 15:57 - Aug 30 with 2581 views | Hidden_Hand |
In to the Wild is brilliant, but slightly depressing.
Have you seen Beautiful Mind? |  | | |
| Films based on true stories on 16:01 - Aug 30 with 2577 views | Hidden_Hand |
Also Moneyball and Lincoln. | | | |
| Films based on true stories on 22:29 - Aug 30 with 2463 views | ScoobyWho |
Apparently 'Jack to a King' is based on a true story. |  |
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| Films based on true stories on 22:31 - Aug 30 with 2464 views | Jackfath |
Titanic |  |
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| Films based on true stories on 22:58 - Aug 30 with 2428 views | Tummer_from_Texas |
| Films based on true stories on 22:31 - Aug 30 by Jackfath |
Titanic |
Wonderland - about the Los Angeles Wonderland murders that involved porn star John Holmes in the summer of 1981.
Dark movie with a lot of drugs, but Val Kilmer's best performance IMO. |  |
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| Films based on true stories on 22:59 - Aug 30 with 2422 views | Jackfath |
| Films based on true stories on 22:58 - Aug 30 by Tummer_from_Texas |
Wonderland - about the Los Angeles Wonderland murders that involved porn star John Holmes in the summer of 1981.
Dark movie with a lot of drugs, but Val Kilmer's best performance IMO. |
127 hours is good too. | |
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| Films based on true stories on 23:01 - Aug 30 with 2420 views | lifelong |
I enjoyed The Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, directed by Clint Eastwood. |  | | |
| Films based on true stories on 23:17 - Aug 30 with 2397 views | oldgrey |
I saw that brian wilson biopic "love and mercy" yesterday. A bit slow going I thought. Saved by the music and recreations of the pet sounds era recording sessions. |  | | |
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| Films based on true stories on 00:28 - Aug 31 with 2329 views | Highjack |
I liked UP! |  |
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| Films based on true stories on 00:33 - Aug 31 with 2321 views | Rancid |
'Stop at Nothing' was a very good watch.It basically hangs Lance Armstrong out to dry and shows all the interviews where he'd condemned doping.It also has the interview where after being suspected he uttered the immortal words 'Do you think as an ambassador for people living with cancer that I'd dare cheat and take drugs (EPO) in my field of sport'.
He was very convincing and a great liar right up until his admission where he was cornered like a rat.
Another good watch is 'The Grizzly Man'.Timothy Tredwell a deluded eccentric who lived amongst Grizzlies in Alaska for 13 years.He films nearly all of it and thought he'd morphed into a Bear himself and become one of them. One day he got too close and soon realized he was no bear.
'Blackfish' is a superb documentary too.The tale of killer whales kept in captivity in Seaworld, Florida.One frustrated and depressed orca called Tillikum killed 2 of it's trainors and a pisshead who thought he'd go for a dip one night.It was all kept hush hush and each death blamed on the negligent trainors he'd killed.The real reason was his sperm cost 250,000 dollars a shot and was in high demand given his size and Seaworld skills.It's an eyeopener and highlights the length humans will go to and how greed and money is more important than the lives of fellow human beings.
I watched 'Point and Shoot' recently and again really enjoyed it.A bored American 20 something decides to go on a motorbike adventure armed with a camera and ride through the middle East.He gets caught up in all sorts of bother in Syria where he ends up in prison for months before escaping.He then joins the rebel forces in Libya and helped on the frontline in getting rid of Gadaffi.It's all caught on his own camera and a very good documentary. |  | | |
| Films based on true stories on 04:10 - Aug 31 with 2260 views | Thursday |
The Straight Story is a wonderful film. Fly Away Home and Black Stallion have similar tone, but the other end of the age spectrum.
An Honest Liar is a documentary but tells a good story. [Post edited 31 Aug 2015 4:12]
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| Films based on true stories on 04:16 - Aug 31 with 2252 views | Thursday |
| Films based on true stories on 22:29 - Aug 30 by ScoobyWho |
Apparently 'Jack to a King' is based on a true story. |
Inspired by? | | | |
| Films based on true stories on 04:45 - Aug 31 with 2239 views | Humpty |
There was a very good film on BBC1 tonight. In the valley of Elah. Based on a true story. About what the Iraq war did to the poor bastards who had to fight it. Very good. |  | | |
| Films based on true stories on 05:29 - Aug 31 with 2220 views | ScoobyWho |
| Films based on true stories on 04:16 - Aug 31 by Thursday |
Inspired by? |
Some people who arent in it. | |
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| Films based on true stories on 09:29 - Aug 31 with 2163 views | Neath_Jack |
Kajaki.
British soldiers guarding the Kajaki Dam set out to rescue a three-man team after one of them loses a leg to a landmine. Not your typical shoot them up. |  |
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| Films based on true stories on 14:21 - Aug 31 with 2093 views | Banosswan |
| Films based on true stories on 00:33 - Aug 31 by Rancid |
'Stop at Nothing' was a very good watch.It basically hangs Lance Armstrong out to dry and shows all the interviews where he'd condemned doping.It also has the interview where after being suspected he uttered the immortal words 'Do you think as an ambassador for people living with cancer that I'd dare cheat and take drugs (EPO) in my field of sport'.
He was very convincing and a great liar right up until his admission where he was cornered like a rat.
Another good watch is 'The Grizzly Man'.Timothy Tredwell a deluded eccentric who lived amongst Grizzlies in Alaska for 13 years.He films nearly all of it and thought he'd morphed into a Bear himself and become one of them. One day he got too close and soon realized he was no bear.
'Blackfish' is a superb documentary too.The tale of killer whales kept in captivity in Seaworld, Florida.One frustrated and depressed orca called Tillikum killed 2 of it's trainors and a pisshead who thought he'd go for a dip one night.It was all kept hush hush and each death blamed on the negligent trainors he'd killed.The real reason was his sperm cost 250,000 dollars a shot and was in high demand given his size and Seaworld skills.It's an eyeopener and highlights the length humans will go to and how greed and money is more important than the lives of fellow human beings.
I watched 'Point and Shoot' recently and again really enjoyed it.A bored American 20 something decides to go on a motorbike adventure armed with a camera and ride through the middle East.He gets caught up in all sorts of bother in Syria where he ends up in prison for months before escaping.He then joins the rebel forces in Libya and helped on the frontline in getting rid of Gadaffi.It's all caught on his own camera and a very good documentary. |
I was disappointed with how one sided and almost propaganda like blackfish was. That being said, orcas should never be in captivity so feck em. |  |
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| Films based on true stories on 14:39 - Aug 31 with 2076 views | dickythorpe |
The French film The Intouchables was also very enjoyable and unexpectedly funny in parts. | | | |
| Films based on true stories on 14:45 - Aug 31 with 2070 views | exiledclaseboy |
Foxcatcher. |  |
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| Films based on true stories on 14:45 - Aug 31 with 2068 views | orion3016 |
Theres a great one on BBC2 now, the world's fastest Indian |  |
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| Films based on true stories on 15:04 - Aug 31 with 2043 views | Highjack |
| Films based on true stories on 14:45 - Aug 31 by orion3016 |
Theres a great one on BBC2 now, the world's fastest Indian |
Michael Chopra when the bookies are open? | |
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| Films based on true stories (n/t) on 15:16 - Aug 31 with 2022 views | Wingstandwood |
| Films based on true stories on 15:04 - Aug 31 by Highjack |
Michael Chopra when the bookies are open? |
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| Films based on true stories (n/t) on 15:24 - Aug 31 with 2006 views | Wingstandwood |
| Films based on true stories (n/t) on 15:16 - Aug 31 by Wingstandwood |
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 Chopra story?...... Now that would be some movie?......But!..........Surely if all the visit-to-bookie scenes are to get full dramatisation? Wouldn't a mini-movie series be more appropriate?........
And the accompanying book? Now I know War And Peace is supposed to have an incredible amount of pages and is known to be of ample girth?...... But the book for this one will have to be paperback cos a hardback might be too heavy to carry? | |
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| Films based on true stories on 17:45 - Aug 31 with 1946 views | Professor |
| Films based on true stories on 14:45 - Aug 31 by exiledclaseboy |
Foxcatcher. |
Good but really weird too.
Watched that at the excellent ex machina on a recent flight
Control is worth a mention too | | | |
| Films based on true stories on 19:18 - Aug 31 with 1892 views | Daithejack |
Watched Lone Survivor the other day that was pretty good. |  |
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