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* The Netflix blurb for Kingdom of Heaven states that Orlando Bloom's character takes up his sword to free the Holy Land from the Turks. That would be true if the movie were about the first crusade-it's actually about Saladin's recapture of the Holy Land *from* Crusaders, who had been occupying it for almost a century. And that would still be wrong, because the conflict is between the Chrusaders and ''Arabs''. Turks were not involved, and only became a significant political power centuries later.
**Um...you're thinking of the ''Ottoman'' Turks. The ''Seljuk'' (based like the Ottomans on a tribe led by a conqueror from whom they took their name) Turks were the ones invading the Holy Land before the First Crusade; and more to the strategic if not the religious perspective. invading Byzantium's main manpower source. And the fact that there was already a Crusader kingdom is immaterial as there is no reason recruiting posters were more likely to stick to facts in the Middle Ages as opposed to today. More to the point, ethnological classifications were different at that time and in any event neither Christians nor Muslims knew much about each other except for those who regularly traded, negotiated, and fought in the same area. The general if anachronistic term ''Saracen'' might have been more likely. Both Turks and Arabs were Saracens, except for those Turks that were still pagans.
***In fact the Crusades started when the Emperor started screaming for help to the West after losing to the Seljuk warlord, Alp Arslan at the Battle of Manzikart. Alp Arslan was, be it known, a Turk.
* The ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]'' films:
** In a ridiculously inaccurate negative review for ''[[X2: X-Men United|X 2 X Men United]]'' by Stephen Hunter of ''The Washington Post'' it quickly became clear that he [[Did Not Do the Research|did not bother to watch the movie]], or was distracted for most of its length. At one point, he said that Rogue had the power to ''reverse time'', even going so far as to call her "the Mistress of Rewind." He was apparently confused by the scenes in which she extinguishes flames (using Pyro's power) and makes Wolverine's wounds reappear (he let her borrow his [[Healing Factor]]. His wounds reappearing is [[No Ontological Inertia|another problem]]).
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