Humor and Spoofs in Hollywood: Historical Inaccuracies Revealed

Filmmakers in Hollywood have never let history and the facts get in the way of a good story ripping entire chunks of factual data from the books and replacing it with some ridiculous nonsense that a test audience thought was way more entertaining than the truth. Sure they will always dip their toe in the truth pool but just find it a little too cold so they have to pour in a bucketful of sensationalism just to spice things up. Imagine what would happen if Hollywood took some of our more recent history and turned it into a summer action blockbuster......Hmmmm, let's see..

Attack On Berlin - A re-telling of the fall of the Berlin Wall except the showdown is between the Soviet Union and England. Prime Minister Ron Regent (Michael Caine in the roll as PM) tells Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall.....or we send in Bond". Gorbachev flatly refuses and agent 007 (played by 87 year old Sean Connery, reprising his role as the super spy) is dropped behind enemy lines to kick some butt. Miniature incendiary devices disguised a sliver spots are placed all over Bond's body and in an epic fight scene with the wall guards he places them on the surface and destroys it.

Tianax-men Square - Magneto takes complete mind control over the Chinese army and the X-men are flown in to save the day. In the most dramatic scene in the movie Storm stands in front of a tank that has been hurled at her by the evil Magneto. She stands her ground and makes the tank stop in mid-air in front of her...this scene wins Halle Berry her second Academy Award.

Alien Challenger - Sigourney Weaver reprises her role as the uber feisty Ripley as she is sent back in time to the 1980's to help NASA with its space program. Unfortunately for everyone involved on of those pesky aliens is trapped in the time machine with her and all hell breaks loose aboard the space shuttle. Ripley gains control of the shuttle but is forced to destroy it before the alien can take over and start going after all those tasty humans on planet Earth.

Katrina - An out of control hurricane heads directly for New Orleans and the incumbent president (played by Bubbles the monkey) ignores the warnings of scientists and meteorologists and stands idly by as the storm ravages the Big Easy. Thousands die in the aftermath before the government actually takes any action to help....oh wait, that is actually what happened. We should have let Hollywood get a hold of this one sooner. At least in the big screen version the President would have come up with some master plan to help the citizens of the city. I guess it would be nice sometimes if real life were just like the movies.