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Agreed...IT DIDN’T WORK!!!!

I often think, I would LOVE to see a great movie done about George Washington. I think he is one of the most amazing men who ever lived, and you couldn’t get a pipsqueak to play THAT part. (I always thought Liam Neeson would be perfect to play that part, he is a big guy, has the same kind of bone structure in his face and those piercing gray-blue eyes, same as Washington. There was a pretty decent movie a few years back where Washington was played by Jeff Daniels in “The Crossing”, and I have to say...I thought he did a fine job.

But NO MATTER how hard I tried to see him as General George Washington, I kept seeing Jim Carrey beside him. I just couldn’t do it...

Washington was amazing. While it is true that he never threw a silver dollar across the Potomac, he DID throw a stone over the Natural Bridge in VA, which is something like 215 feet to the bottom of the arch (I think) which is pretty impressive!

"There was a pretty decent movie a few years back where Washington was played by Jeff Daniels in “The Crossing”, and I have to say...I thought he did a fine job...But NO MATTER how hard I tried to see him as General George Washington, I kept seeing Jim Carrey beside him."

Daniels made a great Joshua Chamberlain in Gettysburg and Gods and Generals, but I agree...there was something slightly lacking in his Washington.