Film / TV that most misrepresented reality

[Vikeonabike]

Braveheart!

 

[WeeE]

Braveheart.

 

[lukesdad]

Peppa Pig.

 

[Yellow Fang]

All the Star Trek serials apart from the 60s serial. Usual scenario: contrived but inescapable disaster looming. Engineering officer thinks of ingenious, yet inexplicable in laymen's terms, solution to problem with about 20 minutes to go. Solution, incorporating new advance in science, is implemented in 19 minutes, and works first time.

 

[just jim]

All the Star Trek serials apart from the 60s serial. Usual scenario: contrived but inescapable disaster looming. Engineering officer thinks of ingenious, yet inexplicable in laymen's terms, solution to problem with about 20 minutes to go. Solution, incorporating new advance in science, is implemented in 19 minutes, and works first time.

And let's not forget the best fight scene ever!

 

[User169]

Battlefield Earth was a good laugh!

It beggars belief doesn't it? An excellent demonstration of the dangers of vanity projects.

 

[dellzeqq]

ITV wrestling - it was fixed wasn't it?

it was. I have that on really good authority.

 

[User169]

it was. I have that on really good authority.

Maybe, but that's not to say that they still didn't beat the living daylights out of one another.

And no one wanted to lose to Jimmy Saville.

 

[jimboalee]

Maybe, but that's not to say that they still didn't beat the living daylights out of one another.

And no one wanted to lose to Jimmy Saville.

I don't understand.

The wrestling on telly WAS reality. It was 'showmanship', not sport.

Now, the WWF from the good ole' US of A. Is that misrepresenting the 'real' TV wrestling we enjoyed in the seventies?

 

[dellzeqq]

Maybe, but that's not to say that they still didn't beat the living daylights out of one another.

And no one wanted to lose to Jimmy Saville.

as the Golden Boy of Peckham once said - 'you're not going to do all that for real for sixty quid'.

 

[palinurus]

All the Star Trek serials apart from the 60s serial. Usual scenario: contrived but inescapable disaster looming. Engineering officer thinks of ingenious, yet inexplicable in laymen's terms, solution to problem with about 20 minutes to go. Solution, incorporating new advance in science, is implemented in 19 minutes, and works first time.

Maybe it's because of watching those that I'm always getting myself into a fix at work.

 

[Fnaar]

Eastenders /Corrie / Emmerdale.

I've lived in my street of about 80 houses for 16 years and there has been no murders, road accidents, train wrecks, plane crashes. Oh, and we don't have a pub in the middle of the street which everyone goes to every night.... I just don't know what's wrong with us here.

Good post. And the fact that most of the characters don't sit in vegging in front of the telly most nights, watching soaps and reality shows Atr least in brookside, there was a soap that various characters sat down to watch now and again...

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Good post. And the fact that most of the characters don't sit in vegging in front of the telly most nights, watching soaps and reality shows Atr least in brookside, there was a soap that various characters sat down to watch now and again...

And have you also noticed that no two characters in a soap ever share the same name, even when it's a reasonably common one like John or Dave? I bet there's at least one other John living on my street.
However, for me the distortion of reality award goes to any of the recent Bond films - or any action movie - which show people outrunning explosions, floods and so forth. That's just not possible.

 

[Ghost Donkey]

That film where John Wayne plays Ghengis Khan. Superb casting .

 

[BrumJim]

And have you also noticed that no two characters in a soap ever share the same name, even when it's a reasonably common one like John or Dave? I bet there's at least one other John living on my street.

That's my line. Best delivered in a pub with at least half a dozen friends. You can guarantee that at least two of them will share the same first name.