Nice of you speak for everyone and anecdotally make stuff up, but educated people don't appreciate obvious bullshit - like Napoleon blowing up pyramids as a geriatric old fart.
Meanwhile it remains true. I know historians, even some who have had their area turned into movies. The ones that aren’t addicted to being curmudgeons know the cycle. Yes the movie will be horrifyingly inaccurate to the point of laughter, or tears, or both. But somewhere during the press cycle they start getting phone calls for interviews as somebody wants to make a documentary. And then after the movie their classes suddenly get a lot more popular.
It’s a basic reality of movies and TV, never watch anything that’s “about” your profession. It’s always wrong. Crime scene techs don’t watch CSI, programmers don’t watch computer movies, finance guys don’t Billions, strippers don’t watch Striptease. They just get aggravated.
Of course Napoleon didn’t shoot at the pyramids, but it looked cool.