Whats with all this epic bashing?

Rating: 9/10 (27 August 2006)

I just wanted to start out on this review by asking the other commenter's, whats with all the movie bashing? Its as if these people expect a movie presentation to be as accurate as possible in every little detail down to the point of a needle, and yet they want a flying spaceship and aliens to attack earth and humans to colonize mars! Lets first get it down that Hollywood and no one else for that matter promised to deliver you a movie that was entirely truthful and accurate, they promised to deliver you an out of this world movie loosely based off history, and that is what they delivered.
If no one reading this review owns the extended cut DVD version of this movie then I feel sorry for you, in the special features the writer of this movie goes through a list of everything that is fictional and how loosely or not loosely a character is based on an actual person, for instance Mel Gibson's character is an entirely fictional character, which is to be expected... but the French-Man is loosely based off a french officer who truly did go to the colonies during this time as an act of proof that the French were helping the Americans defeat the English. Now obviously scenes are going to be fictional, perhaps or perhaps not a church was burned by the British or by the Americans, but that doesn't change the fact that British and Colonials alike did what could be consider sadistic things during the Revolutionary War, which is to be expected, I mean come on its war.
As for the rest, costume design, accuracy on how the war progressed, the dividing of the colonies neighbors when one man went with the British and another with the Americans, that is all accurate and was in my opinion well researched, all in all though nobody should expect a movie to be accurate they should expect a movie to be entertaining, unless of course the movie is a documentary, then it should be accurate.
If you are looking for accuracy go to Barnes and noble and pick up 3 or 4 different Historical books, read through each one, make a list of all the differences of opinion, research online the differences and come up with your educated reasoning for what 'theory' is correct... and please don't come back complaining that the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow' is globally inaccurate because not only would the northern hemisphere freeze from a global storm but so would a third of the southern hemisphere, because I nor does anyone else give a crap.
As for the movie, I think it was a very well done epic movie, sure a bit of the dialogue was cheesy, especially when the girl made her speech in the church to convince the people to take up arms in the militia, but many movies contain cheesy lines and whenever a movie is trying to take it to the extreme you will often find a cheesy speech or two in the dialogue... but I would rather take a well-produced movie with a good theme and intense battle scenes along with well acted out drama then have a lame movie that cost $5,000 to produce, contains actress's like Hilary Duff and has a car in it that's headlights act as eyeballs and the car has feelings, yes I know it was Lindsay Lohan who acted in that movie, but its all the same thing anyway.
So the next time you decide to gripe about falsehood in a movie how about you make a New Years Resolution that inclines you to only read textbooks instead of watch movies :]