Quote Originally Posted by Revolutionary_Jack View Post
It's based on real historical figures and actual events that happened in real life.
That it's "Based On..." has nothing to do with the way that it tells the story. It is a strictly "Paint By Numbers" version of the characters whose story it tells.

"Based On" doesn't mean you are even remotely close and not telling a story without much of a connection to reality.

Quote Originally Posted by Revolutionary_Jack View Post
The main character is Irish-American and he marries a Jewish woman (who is given a major voiceover and is one of the major characters of the movie), and he's excluded from becoming a real part of the Italian mob's inner circle which values "pure blood Italians" and so on.

So if you're trying to say the movie is some ethnic ghetto tour and so on...then that's not really the movie.
No one has said that.

That said, the idea that those two films are not painting a pretty specific version of the ethnic group that founded the Mafia is on shaky ground.