From our dear friends in Hollywood...
"Based on a True Story". No it's bloody not. It's a few facts cobbled together with absolute bullshit spun around it. Never was this more apparent than "The Perfect Storm'" What? They all drowned like rats? Then what did I just watch for 90 minutes? A steaming pile of crap that supposedly was "true" wasn't, and in fact was totally made up!. ( "bout tossed my drink through the screen when I realized this).
If this is "true" then so is the Wizard of Oz, 'cos one night after a tornado, a lass in Kansas had this really weird dream.
Now it's even worse..."inspired by true events." WTF does that mean? "Tron: Legacy" is true because computers really exist? Arrgghhh.