OK, I can't stand it, so here goes.
The Patriot Aimed Big and Missed Big. The two scenes where it looses all creditability are the slave/beach paradise segment and the 3rd Riechish Church burning.
The beach getaway had everything but Bob Marley and a fuel drum player.
The fighting in the South in 1780 was bloody and savage, most was Tory vs Patriot or neighbor against neighbor.
British/Loyalist troops would not have burned townspeople in a Church like the Nazis did at Lidice.
Now they may have hung all the men, raped the women and burned everything but the church, that would have been accurate and just as dramatic.
Instead of using real 1780 history for the dramatic turn of the movie, the writers never got further back than 1942. I can see why the Brits got P Oed.
Entertainment, yes Education, No.
Lets hope Alone yet Not Alone sticks to fact which is always more dramatic than anything a cornball writer can come up with.
