The Monuments Men

For any student of history, the irony in this movie is thick: portraying the Rothschild bankers as "victims" because they had some of their art collection stolen is absurd given that they financed most of the wars of the 20th century; and portraying the American military as some kind of noble defender of the world's cultural treasures is equally so given that its bombing, looting and vandalising of the priceless archaeological treasures of the Fertile Crescent, the Cradle of Civilisation, go on in Iraq -- without a squeak of protest from Hollywood. Clooney had an opportunity to make a statement about the inherently anti-civilisation, anti-culture nature of wars of aggression, but he chose instead to make entertainment. Archaeologists and historians the world over have been insulted once again by Hollywood.