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Dear Hollywood,

If you are setting a movie in the seventeenth century, please, please do not have people say "OK." Or in any historical period, really. I understand updating language so as not to have the whole thing be incomprehensibly archaic, but there are limits.

Additionally, I will connive at almost any amount of silliness in swordplay, improbable things happening under fire, ridiculous things falling over each other, slapstickery, and general buffoonery, but having ships making twenty knots in glass-calm seas under full sail? Is ridiculous. Couldn't you make it a little less obvious? Also, your ships weren't keeping any lookouts. That's just stupid.

Oh, and the bit when the flag was flapping mightily but all the ropes in evidence were hanging motionless? Have you ever actually looked at a harbour on a windy day?

Yeah, I didn't think so.