Exactly, and an M60 Patton does look just like a Panzer III or IV.... from about ten miles away if you screw up your eyes and stand on your head, right? (as long as the only way you know a tank is by the fact that it is the thing with tracks but isn't a bulldozer)
I suppose that if the main concern is the profit we have films on a par with "red top" newspapers who never let the truth get in the way of a good story
What happened to the profit being the thing that allowed the art to continue?
I think that low budget and todays "straight to video" productions are false economy and of course the public tend to take the view that if it is in a movie it must be accurate.
Spielberg doesn't seem too limited by budget constraints. He certainly makes a profit and it is very difficult to pick holes in his authenticity (eg Saving Private Ryan and the rifles in plastic bags that "experts" said was inaccurate for the period until Spielberg produced period archive images).
Anyway, the sight of Hardy Kruger wearing his KC in the back of an M3 halftrack firing a Browning .50 leaves me totally cold whether or not it is for the sake of the budget. I'd just rather they made a film about shopping!
Regards
Mark
PS Don't forget The A Team with their 1000 rounds fired and not so much as a broken fingernail, but that' a kids programme right? A much different set of issues there I feel
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