The Dark Knight - [spoilers ahead, ye be warned]

[Alex]

I don't care what he claimed. I care the expectation it created in me as a viewer. I did not feel like I was watching an attempt to tell history so I do not care if it was not historically accurate.

And conversely, even when the author/director claims to not be offering history I still care about inaccuracies if I feel they are creating the impression of telling it (such as with The Da Vinci Code).