Originally Posted by
Nick
I never knew he made The Patriot. I loves me some patriotism and all but the British were so cartoonishly bad in that one it rubbed me the wrong way.
That's a lot of crappy-to-mediocre movies though.
It's also constantly in lists of "Most Historically Inaccurate" movies, up there with Braveheart. (Want to be wrong and still make money? I guess Gibson was the lead you needed.)
Irony of that is him saying in interviews that he strove for accuracy on Midway. No idea if he succeeded with it or not.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."