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Wondering Wednesday, 28 December 2016, Do you hate-read/watch bad pop history? Tell us about your favorite bad history media. (self.badhistory)

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I think we all know what ByzantineBasileus' answer to this one is, but what about the rest of you? Do you hate-watch some terrible history shows? Do you secretly, or not not so secretly, love Ancient Aliens? Is the Volcano lady's website your go-to place for some hilarious craziness? Is there something else out there that makes you cackle with glee at its badness? Let us know your favourite So-Bad-It's-Good, or So-Wrong-It's-Hilarious history! Links to examples are encouraged.

Note: unlike the Monday and Friday megathreads, this thread is not free-for-all. You are free to discuss history related topics. But please save the personal updates for Mindless Monday and Free for All Friday! Please remember to np link all links to Reddit if you link to something from a different sub, lest we feed your comment to the AutoModerator. And of course no violating R4!

P.S. if you saw last week's topic for an hour or so, you haven't gone mad. With all the Christmas days in the way, I forgot to update AM to post a new topic this week. Sorry!

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[–]40kfreak"that guy" 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I hate to love me some deadliest warrior, it's my go to "this is america" thing to show foreigners if I can't get my hands on Rudy

[–]cleopatra_philopaterOther countries had their own artists. France had Chekhov 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Well, I do not know about anyone else but The Last Legion is an excellent film for this, as shows go I like watching Ancients Behaving Badly and Crash Course. Things like Spartacus: Blood and Sand are too inaccurate for me to be able to actually process and shows like HBO's Rome waffle between high amounts of dedication to accuracy to complete lunacy in a matter of moments which kind of takes the fun out of criticising them for me, I like simplicity with these things.

That said, older sword-and-sandal films are the best things to hate-watch because they are really terrible for accuracy but sometimes are really epic way Thisisaneastereggmightnotmatteryet.

[–]Imperium_Dragon 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Ancient Aliens is my guilty pleasure. Also Deadliest Warrior.

Also I liked the beach landing scene (where one side used basically 13th century Higgins boats made of wood) in Robbin Hood because it looked cool.

[–]57001 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I just watched a Korean drama called Splash Splash Love that was pretty cute. High school girl gets transported back in time to a drought-stricken Joseon and adopts the identity of Jang Yeon-sil and falls in love with Yi-Do,teaches him math, oh and ends the drought or something. W-what do you mean it's not historically accurate?

[–]Spartacus_the_trollTheir Volcanic majesties request 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

The Alamo. I like both versions, for different reasons. The 1960 John Wayne movie for it's Cold War woo 'Murica better red than dead motifs. It's kinda interesting how the Duke could moralize almost anything into right vs wrong, freedom vs tyranny, us vs them, etc. He first came up with the concept of the movie as an anti-High Noon, which is why I like watching one after the other one.

The 2004 version tries to demythologize the story and partially succeeds, plus introduces more than spending two weeks in a fort, and then everyone dies. It can feel kind of disjointed because of that, but is still a good movie to me.

Both have their historical issues, and I smugly pick up a few more inaccuracies each time I watch them, as I read more about Mexican Texas the Texas Revolution.