I found Pearl Harbor annoying because WW2 piston-powered aircraft
just didn't FLY that way. The CGI creations behaved like spacecraft
in Star Wars flying in a vacuum, not like aircraft flying in the
air. The angles of attack were all wrong, they went WAY too fast,
and they wouldn't know what an accelerated stall was if it (or
the ground) smacked 'em in the face.

The real aircraft, using real pilots, were few and far between.

I have flown in (and flown) one of the ACTUAL aircraft used in
that film, in Tora Tora Tora, and in Midway. A replica of a 'Kate'
torpedo-bomber, built from a bastardized North American AT6 (on
which, in fact, the Zero was based).

Pretty effective at stopping the games at the local soccer fields
when flown down the railroad tracks at a few hundred feet on
a Saturday morning, torpedo and all.

At the other end of the spectrum you have movies like 'The Blue
Max' where real good pilots risked everything.