1. Pearl Harbour
Buena Vista PicturesAnyone expecting a nuanced, mature examination of the nature of warfare from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay should probably get their head examined, but for fans of mindless action and terrible characterisation Pearl Harbour certainly didn't disappoint. A war movie for the Ritalin generation, Bay took the serious subject matter of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and addressed it with the same level of maturity he brings to the Transformers franchise - loud, dumb and simplistic. The complete lack of background and context leading up to the attack was entirely expected, as was the sickly sweet tacked on love story designed to appeal to those who loved Titanic and the copious nostalgia tinted shots of military hardware. Survivors of the attack itself were less than impressed with the depiction of events - from planes which shouldn't have been there to Americans flying with the RAF and a timeline of events that is all but a fabrication, those who were there at the time had their work cut out picking out all the many faults in the movie. Of course, the biggest distortion - commonplace in Hollywood war movies - is the simplification of good versus evil, with the Japanese depicted as mindless psychotic villains and the Americans as faultless and noble. But then who would really expect anything else from Michael Bay? Which movies based on real life wars have you seen that were terribly inaccurate? Why not post a comment below and let us know?