09-20-2004, 04:44 PM
Quote:</em></strong><hr>It doesn't annoy me if the main scenes of the movie are not historically accurate, but they just don't bother to make even the easy parts correct.<hr><br>
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I completely agree. Almost all Hollywood Historical fictioni movies spend a *ton* of mony and do a lot of things right, but then fall down on some of the easy and trivial stuff. My favorite example is in the movie "Pearl Harbor" where the producers went to enormous trouble and expense to acquire 3 of the only 5 flyable *real* Japanese Zeros in the whole world for the movie, and then painted them the wrong color. Which, somehow, every other movie made about Pearl Harbor was able to avoid doing, even if they didn't have authentic A6M's.<br>
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Likewise, I can accept Maximus killing Commodus (it is historical fiction), but using Napalm on the Germans?<br>
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Rich K.<br>
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I completely agree. Almost all Hollywood Historical fictioni movies spend a *ton* of mony and do a lot of things right, but then fall down on some of the easy and trivial stuff. My favorite example is in the movie "Pearl Harbor" where the producers went to enormous trouble and expense to acquire 3 of the only 5 flyable *real* Japanese Zeros in the whole world for the movie, and then painted them the wrong color. Which, somehow, every other movie made about Pearl Harbor was able to avoid doing, even if they didn't have authentic A6M's.<br>
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Likewise, I can accept Maximus killing Commodus (it is historical fiction), but using Napalm on the Germans?<br>
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Rich K.<br>
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