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Unread 07-29-2011, 08:49 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Magic Jar View Post
If we scratched all the movies about the American west that have glaring historical errors (not to mention jet contrails) we'd have little to watch of that genre.

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There is a big difference between romanticizing the American West where everybody was a "rugged Individual" and getting an integral part of a nation's uniform wrong. By this definition you'd be ok watching a recreation of the storming of the Normandy beaches by troops wearing the modern "Fritz" helmet, (let's throw in M4 carbines, while we are at it).

This was an easy thing to get right since replica WW1 German helmets are available. This was just sloppy story telling and would put me off the entire film as a consequence.
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