"Who Cares?"

I love World War 2 movies as much as the next guy, but something that has always ruined a good World War 2 movie for me has been historical accuracy. I bring this up because the other day I was talking with my non-history studying friends about the movie Pearl Harbor, I liked it (especially Kate Beckingsale) but some of the scenes in it were terrible from a historical perspective. For example late war painted Zero's or a U.S Army Air Corps pilot volunteering to serve in Britain (this was against the rules of neutrality). After I stated these facts and others my friends looked at me and said "Who Cares".
I can see how in movies the filming would start, thousands of dollars in pyrotechnics are going off and you see that, lets say someone has the wrong canteen cover but you can't stop the scene to change out the canteen so you keep rolling, or you are making a movie in the 1960's and you have no special effects (which gives no excuse for movies today). These make sense but in, like say The Pacific (which is a great miniseries) the landing craft would never embark from the LST's so close to the beach and head directly in, they would circle around out of the artillery range, form up and head in. This isn't as dramatic as going straight in. That is the reason I put for all historical inaccuracy in movies "This way adds more drama".
I did like my English teachers always told me to do, add a concession it makes you look educated, if I am anything its that I am educated! So now to answer my friends' question, with "I do". I think it is morally wrong to spare historical accuracy for drama, and for the sake of getting more money. In the case of The Pacific I think it would of been more dramatic to see the tension build as the landing craft circled around waiting to head in. Another counter I have heard to this exact statement is "that would be boring", I think circling around would build up the tension as you are anticipating the landing. I also think that in sacrificing historical accuracy you also do a great disservice to veterans and their memories.