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Originally Posted by Cindy Claveau  I'm afraid I do that sometimes, too  One of my degrees is in history, and if we see a movie that purports to be based on history, they'd better fucking get the details right or I'M POINTING IT OUT TO EVERYBODY!! 
It's a bad habit, I know. And I realize that war movies can't always afford to use accurate mockups of authentic equipment, but forgodsakes don't try to pass off a 60s-era M60 tank as a fucking WW2 Panzer. Don't try to convince me that Custer was the last soldier heroically standing on the hill at the end of that battle! You'll only piss me off! 
Then my husband quietly points out that "honey, nobody gives a fuck, hush up".  |
I know what you are saying, I hold degrees in History as well, and the Tank thing is a peeve, it is obvious in "Patton" and "The Battle of the Bulge", although they got it right in "Kelly's Heroes".
I try to take into account the era the film was made, and the intent, and if I am entertained by it, that's all that matters.. Hell ,I even enjoy Oliver Stone's paranoid ramblings.
As to the subjectiveness of art, which I do agree with...If "Piss Christ" and some of the other garbage that is out there, and sometimes subsidized by our tax dollars through the NEA can be considered Art, so can "Independance Day".