Show Posts
1
Films and TV shows about the Romanovs and Imperial Russia / Re: Anastasia: Once Upon a Time
« on: June 01, 2025, 12:50:14 AM »
Watched this on Tubi yesterday. As we all know, the plot involves Rasputin sending Anastasia to 1989, where she makes a new friend, before returning to the past, where she saves her family. As fantasy comedy, it's fine. But if historical accuracy is what you want, well, where do I begin!?
The movie opens in Russia of 1917, at a ball at the Winter Palace, in which Gregory Rasputin is attending. A neat trick, as Gregory Rasputin was killed in 1916.
And there were certainly no balls happening in 1917, not with the war happening. Of course, you could be forgiven for not realizing a war is happening by watching this movie, as there is no sign of it.
This movie's version of the Russian Revolution is Lenin and about ten mooks storming the palace during the aforementioned ball. WHAT!? And there were two revolutions, the first, that deposed the Imperial Family, was led by Kerensky. Lenin's revolution happened later. I don't think Lenin and Nicholas II ever met face-to-face like the movie shows. And the IF were not killed at the Winter Palace in 1917, as this movie hints (albeit we don't see it actually happen).
And there was this nonsense about an evil witch backing Lenin. Believe me, Lenin needed the help of no evil witch to do terrible things.
Brandon Routh is a good actor, I liked him in Superman Returns and Legends Of Tomorrow, but he looks as much like Nicholas II as Jughead Jones looks like Clark Kent.
Anyway, magic happens and the Imperial Family is saved. Yeah...
The ending has the friend Anastasia made in 1989 meeting the now aged Anastasia, who says she is 83 years old. Had Anastasia lived until 1989, she would have been 88.
As I said, they could have made up a character to travel to the future and told the same story. They didn't need to use Anastasia who, by the time this was made, was confirmed to have been murdered in 1918, with the whole family.
They didn't need to trample all over real history to tell this story.
The movie opens in Russia of 1917, at a ball at the Winter Palace, in which Gregory Rasputin is attending. A neat trick, as Gregory Rasputin was killed in 1916.
And there were certainly no balls happening in 1917, not with the war happening. Of course, you could be forgiven for not realizing a war is happening by watching this movie, as there is no sign of it.
This movie's version of the Russian Revolution is Lenin and about ten mooks storming the palace during the aforementioned ball. WHAT!? And there were two revolutions, the first, that deposed the Imperial Family, was led by Kerensky. Lenin's revolution happened later. I don't think Lenin and Nicholas II ever met face-to-face like the movie shows. And the IF were not killed at the Winter Palace in 1917, as this movie hints (albeit we don't see it actually happen).
And there was this nonsense about an evil witch backing Lenin. Believe me, Lenin needed the help of no evil witch to do terrible things.
Brandon Routh is a good actor, I liked him in Superman Returns and Legends Of Tomorrow, but he looks as much like Nicholas II as Jughead Jones looks like Clark Kent.
Anyway, magic happens and the Imperial Family is saved. Yeah...
The ending has the friend Anastasia made in 1989 meeting the now aged Anastasia, who says she is 83 years old. Had Anastasia lived until 1989, she would have been 88.
As I said, they could have made up a character to travel to the future and told the same story. They didn't need to use Anastasia who, by the time this was made, was confirmed to have been murdered in 1918, with the whole family.
They didn't need to trample all over real history to tell this story.
