Cracked magazine's web site has an amusing essay by Michael Swaim that lists movies that benefited from being historically inaccurate. Mel Gibson's flicks rank high on the list with Braveheart, Apolcalpyto and The Patriot, but we like the reasoning behind including Kubrick's 2001 which was released in 1968: if the filmmaker had known what the year 2001 would really be like, he might have been dismayed by the fact that it included Tim Burton's lame Planet of the Apes remake. For more click here