Review of Yanks

Yanks (1979)
5/10
Disappointing
11 May 2005
I can't believe, after all the work done for authenticity in this film that was set in WWII, the director would include not ONE but at least FOUR shots showing modern Three-Mile-Island style nuclear power plant cooling towers!!! They walk up a hill with them in the background, then the GI's set up camp, with them in the background. Then the GI's tear down the camp, and there they are!! There's a fourth shot of folks walking down a road and the cooling towers are letting off steam in the background!! The film just went in the toilet for that reason, because then I started looking for other things that weren't correct. Most that I spotted would only be noticeable by a 'purist', so I'll let them slide. But I just find it hard to believe that those shots were allowed in a film that was based on a period of our time where nuclear power was unheard of by 99% of the populace. The atomic bomb was still being developed in secret!!
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