Reply #30: I've given up caring. I just watch the film for what it has [View All]

[jobycom]

It's almost unheard of for a period film to actually attempt to capture the period's mindset from its perspective. They are all films from modern perspectives, worrying about modern things, but pretending to be about people from another era. Usually those people wouldn't have cared about the things we care about and make films about. It's just what we find interesting about the past.

Given that, I don't often care if they use gunpowder in pre-gunpowder eras, or wear the wrong type of corsette, or adopt naval titles that don't exist. They are so far from historical that a few incidental details don't bother me. I just watch for the story the director is telling, and judge it on whether he made me care.