YMMV / History Buffs

• Broken Base:
  • Nick's rant against Mel Gibson at the end of his Apocalypto review. While many agree with him that Mel Gibson takes a great deal of artistic license in his historical films that leave them highly anachronistic or flat out false and more care should be taken to avoid this to provide an authentic representation of history, especially when one is adapting the culture of a group that is not your own, many felt his rant was excessively anger to an unnecessary decree and he came off as unprofessional in the process. It didn't help he included the Patriot as an example of an inaccurate Mel Gibson historical film, when that film was the product of Roland Emmerich. Nick himself recognized this and promised to give Mel Gibson's next historical film, Hacksaw Ridge, a more balanced and fair analysis.
  • His reviews of both Agora and Tombstone are particularly infamous for Nick actually making several painful and glaringly obvious historical mistakes and misclaims. Unlike his even more infamous Mel Gibson rant however, he has never commented on the mistakes and was known to actively delete youtube comments that pointed them out.
• Heartwarming Moments: At the end of the Bohemian Rhapsody video, Nick tells a story about how Mike Myers sent Queen a tape of the scene from Wayne's World featuring the titular song in order to get their approval. Despite Freddie Mercury being very sick with AIDS at this point and confined to bed, he absolutely loved the scene, feeling that it took him back to the early days of the band and captured the way in which he wanted his music to be enjoyed. Naturally he and the other members of the band gave it their full blessing. Though he wouldn't live to see the release of the finished film, it would go on to play a part in reviving Freddie and Queen's popularity after his death, ensuring that they would be remembered as one of rock music's all time greats.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The entire ending summary of Dances with Wolves dealt with ongoing poverty on the reservations and the recent protests against Standing Rock Pipeline, which the police used extreme measures against the pipeline protestors.
  • His description of what really happened to American pilot Bruno Gaido: unlike what we see in the film, he was gruesomely tortured until he cracked and told the Japanese everything he knew, before being fitted with weights and tossed overboard, screaming for mercy the entire time. He then goes on to describe just how murderous and rapacious the Japanese military was before and during the war.

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