[Geek44]

This is what Hollywood does these days. Keep it simple because the audience are ignorant and aren't interested in changing that. It saddens me (as many will already know) that the standards are so low. Another example for the list...that utter waste of celluloid 'Pearl Harbour'. I watched it on TV 'just to see'. When Ben Affleck and his four buddies (inexperienced combat pilots) climbed into their hopelessly outclassed P-40s to take on the Japanese air force...Ben's tactical advice to his pals was 'stay low'. This breaks the cardinal rule...height equals speed, speed equals life. Of course we all aknowledge that 'Pearl' was an awful film...the only 'good part' was the death of Jon Bon Jovi...but it's another in a long line.
As history recedes the facts get blurry. Corporate entertainment doesn't care as long as the money keeps rolling in.
I had a conversation once with a woman who claimed that Hermann Goring was a drug addicted transvestite who wore pink uniforms and that this was 'common knowledge'. This may be true but I've never once read anything anywhere to support this assertion. I've also heard tales about the sexual weirdnesses of Hitler himself...all 'anecdotal'. Again, I've never read anything to support these theories. People will swallow anything if it's 'sensational' enough. Part of the reason I remain cynical about the things I hear about J. Edgar Hoover.