People Are Sharing The Movies They Thought Were True Stories, But Actually Couldn't Be Further From Real Life

I'm going to beryllium wholly honest: erstwhile a movie pops up with a "based connected a existent story" tagline, I've always believed the full crippled to beryllium 100% factual. What tin I say? I'm incredibly gullible — yes, I person fallen for the "gullible is written connected the ceiling" gag 1 excessively galore times.

But it turns out, I'm not alone. Over connected r/movies, radical are sharing the films they believed were a existent communicative — until idiosyncratic crushed their dreams with the facts. If you believed immoderate of these were real, I'm atrocious to beryllium the bearer of atrocious news...

1. "Do not justice maine but I really thought the movie Life of Pi was a existent communicative astir a existent idiosyncratic who survived astatine oversea with a tiger. I don’t cognize wherefore 😭."

—ReztB

2. "I cognize a feline who takes the 'based connected a existent story' tag truthful seriously, that helium honestly watched Cocaine Bear and believed everything was wholly true. I besides utilized to enactment with a woman who watched the Weird Al movie with Daniel Radcliffe and asked 'did each that truly happen?' I was like: 'are you asking if Weird Al truly went to Colombia and killed Pablo Escobar and his full pack successful bid to rescue his woman Madonna?'”

—Boner666420sXe

3. "My big sister asked maine if The Martian was based connected a existent story. No, we haven’t near idiosyncratic connected Mars."

—Dustyh1982

4. "I've watched Fargo with idiosyncratic and erstwhile I archer them it's not truly based connected a existent communicative they accidental thing similar 'they can't legally accidental that if it's not true.' This has happened with much than 1 person."

—StarPhished

5. "I haven't seen it but A LOT of radical deliberation American Sniper is real. The lone happening that's existent is that the feline existed, that's it. There's (almost) zero grounds of thing helium wrote successful his book."

—Vesalii

"'American Liar,' arsenic Jesse Ventura calls him. Sued for defamation and won."

—garrisontweed

6. "LOL…my hubby erstwhile asked maine however they knew each the details of Rose and Jack’s communicative to marque a movie astir it (Titanic). Bless his heart."

—Mypizzasareinmotion

7. "Bloodsport. Years later, they figured retired Frank Dux made it each up and sold 1 hellhole of a prevarication to Hollywood. Still a large movie to watch."

—griz75

"Yeah, I work an nonfiction years agone that exposed a batch of his claims. One of the biggest is that for him to bushed 60 opponents successful a azygous elimination tournament, it would person taken thousands of different fighters to beryllium successful the tourney and would person taken forever."

—LHGray87

8. "Braveheart. 'Historians volition accidental that I americium a liar'...Yes, due to the fact that it is each a implicit fabrication."

—tomhalejr

9. "The Blair Witch Project. Back upon archetypal release, I was successful precocious schoolhouse and EVERYONE swore up and down that it was an existent documentary. 'This is real?' I kept asking — astir of it was somewhat believable. My buddy didn’t assistance due to the fact that helium was 100% believing everything and staving my skepticism. It was until the precise past country wherever I realized. I was like, 'okay, nah nary way.'"

—dogmaisb

"Yeah it was presented that mode for sure. They did a great occupation astatine marketing it truthful everyone conscionable went on and dispersed it was real."

—dogmaisb

"This movie and Donnie Darko had 2 of the champion movie websites I've ever seen. Blair Witch Project's tract filled successful a batch of backstory and mythology astir the witch, and Donnie Darko's tract revealed that an artifact of the closed loop timeline was near down successful the main timeline."

—KarlBob

10. "Well my reply is The Perfect Storm, which was supposedly a existent story. At the end, I realized it had to beryllium each a conjecture arsenic to what truly happened connected the boat, since nary 1 could really say...so I felt it was much similar fiction."

—MoviePopcornGuy

11. "There is simply a movie called The Fourth Kind. It’s a movie astir alien oregon extraterrestrial abduction. It goes beyond the 'based connected a existent story' trope. It has dramatization intermingled with 'real' recovered footage, and recoded interviews of the 'real' radical the characters successful the dramatization segments are based on. It’s incredibly convincing. I aboriginal recovered retired (after being perfectly terrified from the film) that perfectly 100% of everything that was 'found footage' and 'interviews' was completely fabricated. Honestly, I gotta respect however good played and clever that attack was. Knowing the truth, the movie is inactive efficaciously chilling. It’s a beauteous cosmopolitan fear: thing incomprehensible that you someway cannot forestall from entering your location and doing things to you that you don’t remember."

—SomethingLikeRigby

12. "Catch Me If You Can. In retrospect, it should person been obvious. Ah well."

—Negative_Gravitas

"His biggest con was getting everyone to judge the brainsick crap successful his book. He didn't bash overmuch much than constitute atrocious checks and scam his girlfriends family."

—Slight_Ad5318

"Finding retired the world kinda makes the movie adjacent amended successful a meta way. A prevarication truthful palmy helium got ol' Spielberg to marque an grant winning and highly palmy movie that makes him retired to beryllium mode much than helium ever was. If it was real, it would person been a precise absorbing story. But the information that it isn't doesn't detract it for me. It's a existent con antheral fantasy."

—CronoDroid

13. "I thought Picnic astatine Hanging Rock was a existent happening that happened for astir of my life."

—fairlycaffeinated

14. "I cognize idiosyncratic who works astatine a room and has had aggregate arguments with their brag due to the fact that the brag insists connected cataloging Tár with the non-fiction movies adjacent though it is fiction. His excuse is 'well, it SEEMS similar a based connected a existent communicative movie.' It's genuinely caput boggling."

—ghostcaptain

15. "Not me, but my Vietnamese grandma thought Django Unchained was a existent story. She was wholly transfixed the full movie. She couldn't adjacent laughter astatine the comic parts. The taxable worldly was excessively superior for her. She's truly horrified by America's past slavery, which is amusing due to the fact that she's 1 of the astir racist radical I've ever met."

—sssyjackson

16. "Girl with a Pearl Earring is this 1 for maine and my mom. I support telling her it's based connected a fictional book, but is inspired by the creator and painting. She volition not spot it arsenic thing different than a biopic LOL."

—axl3ros3

17. "There were a LOT of radical successful Alabama who thought Forest Gump was real. It was to the constituent that the Alabama Athletic Department had to contented a statement that they don’t person his records due to the fact that he’s not real."

—alabamdiego

18. "I honestly thought The Brutalist was based connected the beingness of a existent architect. It seemed truthful earthy and similar it came from a existent story."

—ReasonableLeader1500

19. "Semi Pro. I can't judge Jackie Moon wasn't a existent person. Gutted."

—Icaruskillswitch

20. "When I saw Sinners successful the theatre and the mid-credits country finished, my person said: 'Was that based connected a existent story?' The full theatre cracked up."

—skidstud

21. "JFK. When I archetypal saw it erstwhile I was younger, I assumed that determination was immoderate factual ground for the theories. Once I got older and really learned much astir the assassination, I realized however overmuch of it is conscionable made up. There are characters and 'witnesses' that simply didn’t beryllium successful existent life. [William Oliver] Stone is precise effectual astatine what helium does, however. He throws successful a batch of 'maybe it happened similar this' oregon 'let’s speculate for a moment' lines that precede the astir fictionalized parts of the movie. But unless you’re cautiously listening for those types of qualifiers, it’s precise casual to get sucked successful and deliberation it’s each true."

—Doctor_Juris

22. "Anastasia. When the animated movie was released, it captured the anticipation that Anastasia could person survived and lived retired her beingness either not knowing who she was oregon successful hiding. Once each the Romanov bodies were identified successful the years aft the movie released, I deliberation it someway changed the animated movie to being intolerable fiction."

—BetterNamesAllTaken

23. "The Princess Bride. I believed it was based connected a publication astir the grandad telling the communicative to the kid. Turns out, the publication was made up on with the writer and it was each made by William Goldman for the film."

—StarHutch

24. "Eddie and the Cruisers. I believed it for years. One night, I was flipping done the channels and came crossed an infomercial for those aged clip beingness CD collections of 50s and 60s music. They had small skits of actors successful play attire, talking astir thing that would pb onto a clip of the song. One skit had a dude asking his buddy if helium decided who helium was taking to homecoming. He said 'I don't know, but I cognize 1 miss I won't beryllium taking...' and it leads into 'Runaround Sue.' But not the celebrated mentation by Dion, it was the mentation from Eddie and the Cruisers and onscreen it says: 'Runaround Sue by Eddie Wison.' I cannot explicate this, but I curse it happened and successful those pre-internet days determination was nary mode to truly find the answers. So for years, I believed Eddie and the Cruisers was a wholly existent story."

—WilliamMcCarty

25. "That Thing You Do. The opus is bully capable that I assumed it was a existent one-hit wonder."

—AegisToast

27. "I saw Gravity with a person and erstwhile it was over, she asked successful each seriousness, however she hadn't heard astir that happening. She thought it was a existent story."

—Hot_Car6476

28. "The Help. I was truthful confused erstwhile I tried Googling the 'original' book."

—Dry-Guy-

29. "The world’s dumbest newsman erstwhile asked a palaeontologist if Jurassic Park was existent and if we tin truly marque dinosaurs."

—Corporation_tshirt

Did immoderate of these stump you too? I'll admit, I fell for Catch Me If You Can andThe Blind Side earlier I recovered retired the truth.

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