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I'll go out on a limb and mention every film ever made about Jesus, none of which, to my knowledge ever paint anything resembling an accurate picture of Jewish society at that time in history. Nobody who actually had power is represented as having any, and people who never had any are represented as having it, who was and was not popular among the people is never portrayed well, not to mention a few other errors about how Jewish society worked, although to be fair, those come from the gospels, and not from the filmmakers....
The recent Marie Antoinette movie was fairly disastrous, although I'm not sure anyone expected any verisimilitude from it.
Pearl Harbor, not for details of the bombing assault, but just because I'm positive a wuss like Affleck would never have made it to a plane in that situation.
The recent King Arthur movie, also. There seems little evidence to suppose that Arthur was that heavily Romanized, rather than simply being a Celtic chieftain.
Kingdom of Heaven. A number of incorrect political details, not to mention details of Arabic society at the time, and one or two other things....
Michael Collins. Gorgeous film. Details not so smooth. Also...Julia Roberts?!
Titanic. 'Nuff said.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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