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Appreciate the feedback, Sailor Steve. By tackling my personal objections, you meant bolstering them, right?

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I just finished watching The Tudors. It's a combination of great film-making, taking great lengths to explain historical details and causes to an unfamiliar audience, then turning around and butchering other parts of the story. I enjoyed it, but still had several teeth-grinding moments...no, make that hours.

One of the problem with doing historical dramas or films is that the further you move away from the present day, the more "alien" your subject matter becomes to a present day audience and the less reliable and scarce your sources become. To make the story palatable or even understandable to modern audiences, I can imagine taking certain liberties with the source material. Let's face it, not all history is that interesting. It is also inevitable that you will get some things wrong, simply because they are disputed, you asked the wrong expert or something like that. There's a difference between artistic freedom and real mistakes, though.

I quite enjoyed the Tudors, by the way. Despite the faults it has.

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I thought the u-boat was operating on the western side of Greenland, but I'm not going to watch it again to make sure.

In the film, U-571 was reported here. That's almost in the middle of the North Atlantic.

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Well, the depth charges in Das Boot were so close that any one of them would have cracked the hull and sank the boat, so I have to give them that one.

True, but then again, Das Boot has many redeeming features so this one was easier to forgive.

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Everybody knows German are stupid and have the worst soldiers and sailors possible. That's the real reason they lost the war.

Oh, a destroyer full of Bernhards? That would explain why they were in the middle of the Atlantic too. They probably got lost!

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Heinz-Wilhelm Eck torpedoed the Greek freighter Peleus on March 13, 1944 and then proceeded to shoot survivors in life rafts. Three men survived to tell the tale, and Eck's war diary survived the wrecking of U-852. On November 30, 1945, Eck and two of his officers were executed by an Allied war crimes court.

Yes, JazzJR corrected that already. I got my facts wrong too, so perhaps I should cut the film makers some slack...

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I'm pretty sure German destroyers had active sonar, but verification will hinge on me getting my copy of German Destroyers of World War Two out of storage, and that may be awhile.

If they did, I've never seen it mentioned anywhere. That doesn't mean they didn't have it, of course. I might have been reading the wrong material.

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Don't you hate it when they put things in perspective?

Just now, she mentioned "Are you still going on about that movie?" I showed her some of the other responses in this thread and the reaction was a shrug and a sighed "men".