it's unfair to judge period films by the standards of our time
you may not like The Patriot but it's pretty easy to throw stones from the comfort of 250 years away
oh Aliens3 or whatever wasn't up to your standards? and you haven't been to space? color me unimpressed
the duty of the film Year 1 -- "critics" and their Critical Theories notwithstanding -- is to honour the people and time it represents. If it pleases them, that should be good enough for us, with all our oh-so-superior Puritan morals

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