Posted on 01/26/2015 11:05:56 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Thank you for that very cool family history story! :)
Or gay rights and African Americans.
What a disappointment - another lost opportunity to expose some know-nothings to some authentic history.
He also fought Zombies. SyFy Channel, 2/1/15 Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies flick. I won't be watching the Super Bowl so I've set my DVR to record the crappy movie. How do I know it will be crappy? That's the only kind of movie SyFy shows.
-— and a teen pin-up boy, Prince Caspian, as Sam Adams. -—
That’s what hooked my daughters. 8-)
And don't forget the gays.
Revere looks like Jack Black.
That guy in the pawn shop sure didn't know anything. Had to bring in Ben Franklin to authenticate every other item.
Im sure a dandy walking with his silk and pattern leather shod feet stepping into farmer browns bovine excrement would have swore an oath and exclaimed B*** S***!!!!!
it could have happened....; )~
Wow, it sounds like as long as you don’t get hit by a truck you’ll be posting here for a while. ;-)
The World Wars followed a similar procedure, even though there's more documentation about what happened. Also, the focus on a few selected figures (Churchill, Hitler, Roosevelt, Stalin, Patton, etc.) had a tendency to distort what happened.
It's sort of like what happened with the BBC. When you've filmed and televised every English novel at least once, and often two or three times, you can't just do a straight remake. You have to -- or they felt they had to -- tinker with things to come up with something that looks new -- and "new" isn't always better.
So once the History Channel and PBS make enough documentaries that rigorously keep the "docu" separate from the "drama" somebody decides to mix up "docu" and "drama" in hopes of coming with something fresh (or at least cheap and easy).
“What have you got?”
“I’ve got a box of tea that was recovered from Boston Harbor.”
“Capital! Listen, I’ve got a buddy who participated in the Boston Tea Party. You mind if I dispatch a rider to fetch him? He can tell me if this is authentic and what it’s worth.”
“Sounds good! I look forward to what he has to say!”
History Channel isn’t the only one that shows mostly reruns. We have Dish and most of the time it is difficult to find something you haven’t seen numerous times or didn’t want to see the first time it was on.
Good awful tripe. Within the first 20 minutes I knew this was not well done as history or entertainment. Turn, on AMC, at least is entertaining.
I hope so. But I was born with a bi-cuspid aortic valve (3%, tri-cuspid is normal) and had to have it replaced when I was 64 - while doing open heart, they insisted on a triple-bypass even tho I’ve been a runner most of my life.....but at 70 I’m still jogging & lifting weights, so I’ll be happy with anything in the 80’s......
Average age at death of all my paternal fathers is 90 for last 7 generations! That’s back to the 1600’s.......
I initially enjoyed the show. The commercials during the second hour, every five minutes, caused me to turn it off
took of ax-men for Sons of Liberty. Bummer.
I liked it too. Don’t expect it to be perfect portrayal, but I am glad they are finally doing something on the Revolution. About time.
I noticed a great many obvious boo boo's. The language was unbelievably 20th century English. My G-d, Paul Revere actually said "Lobstahs" rather than "Lobsters". There was a discussion of a 'boycott'. The word was born in 1880, from the name of Captain Charles Boycott. Not 1765.
One of Hancock's smugglers was seen smoking a cigarette. Not a cigar, not a pipe but a cigarette. Not even first rolled and used in any way in popular culture until the 1800's.
There were so many more...Samuel Adam's was not the outrageously obvious rebel reactionary as depicted (in all his UNSHAVEN glory) in this biopic that was CLEARLY written for consumption for an 18-22 year old audience.
Anyone who has read of American history would be laughing his or her arse off at this joke of a series.
I was going to watch all episodes but halfway through the first, I deleted all recordings got onto watching Season 4 of 'Breaking Bad'.
True story (I know the judge in question, who told me the tale): A defendant in a burglary trial took the stand in his own defense, and told a long, long cock-and-bull story about how he managed to wind up inside the auto parts store in the office with the broken cash box in his hands . . .
The D.A. (indignantly): "Mr. X, do you expect this jury to believe that story?"
The Defendant, all wide-eyed innocence, "Well, it could possibly be true."
The entire courtroom broke up in helpless laughter. My judge friend dropped his pencil so he could have his laugh out under the bench without anybody seeing him . . . the jury retired and convicted the poor sap in 20 minutes (5 minutes to pick a chair, 10 minutes to choose a foreman, 5 minutes to take a vote).
It became a watchword around the courthouse for any REALLY implausible excuse.
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