10 Shockingly Tasteless Movies Based On Real Disasters
There are dozens of movies released every year based on true events, and much fuss is always made about how true they actually are to the actual events. This is particularly pressing when the events are real-life disasters in which thousands, perhaps even millions of people, lost their lives; if you tell the story wrong, you're going to piss off a lot of people. Further to the point, it's not just the issue of truth, but also of taste and tone; there is an urgent need to be respectful to those who died and their surviving family members as well, rather than positioning their suffering as the fuel for Hollywood greed. These 10 films are a mixed bag; some clearly didn't give a solid gold s*** about what actually took place, whereas some at least tried to go the noble route before mutating into something no less tacky than everything else on this list. Here are 10 shockingly tasteless movies based on real disasters, be it natural or man made...