Comment by red_admiral
11 hours ago
Brett has said in his past reviews of the battles of Minas Tirith and Helm's Deep that the important part of a film is that it works _on screen_. So he points out differences between the book and the film, but says this is not meant to be criticism of the film. Except the bit where they get the logistics wrong.
He absolutely tore into Rings of Power, but that only makes me like him more.
He does get a bit worked up, understandably, when the Romans attack with an M777 howitzer firing napalm shells. Rome wiped everything that stood in their way for a long while, but not like that.
Yeah, since the M777 doesn't have a napalm shell [1] that would be totally absurd! :D
In fact, since I got curious, it seems nobody fires napalm out of howitzers, it's non-trivial to combine the thin easy-to-break shell skin needed by napalm with something tough enough to be fired from artillery [2].
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M777_howitzer#Ammunition
[2]: https://www.quora.com/Was-napalm-ever-used-in-artillery-roun...