[SwinneySwitch]

"Film is likely to fuel a battle of the Alamo"

Damn straight it will!

[tbird5]

"Crockett, played by Billy Bob Thornton"

Oh, Please!!! This ought to be good.

[dinok]

"The real shocker might be what comes next: the execution of Crockett by Mexican soldiers, a movie scene that's sure to be seen as sacrilege by rabid Alamophiles who like to imagine the myth-shrouded "Lion of the West" going down fighting."

Either way you see it...the Texas soldiers at the Alamo were murdered by Santa Anna's soldiers. And 1 in 4 of the Texas soldiers was a Mexican who was rebelling against Santa Anna's rule. He was the Saddam of his day.

Of cource now they have Vincente Fox who is leading and promoting a differnet type of Mexican invasion. May he rot in hell.

[Porterville]

Boycott? Yep for sure.

[Missouri]

"There are several documents that seem to support Crockett was executed, but there's plenty of room for scholarly dispute."

Everyone knows that Crockett died blowing up the Alamo's armory.

[Dallas59]

I thought maybe this movie would fuel Liberals, screaming about racism and and all that lot....until I found out that Mexicans to this day hate Santa Anna.

[SkyPilot]

His final words? "I'm a screamer."

Sounds like the screenplay was written by a homosexual with an ax to grind.

[Winfield]

Visited the sets where this was filmed, just south of Austin. It is amazing what they can do with papiermache, fiber glass, etc. Old San Antonio and an exact replica of the old Alamo still stands there (although it is deteriorating rapidly). I'm hoping for a historically factual "Alamo" movie, but previews aren't sounding hopeful. It has to be better than that terrible "The Alamo" they are showing at the Imax in San Antonio. I was disgusted after seeing that one (Native Texan that I am!).

[Solamente]

"I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm!"

[Reagan Man]

"Crockett, played by Billy Bob Thornton"

John Wayne's 1960`s epic "The Alamo" while somewhat pretentious, was also an ambitious effort that was nominated for best picture. Billy Bob Thorton playing Davey Crockett sounds like quite a stretch in my book.

[capitan_refugio]

It was my understanding that Crockett was taken alive and claimed to be a "tourist."

[Mortimer Snavely]

My favorite Alamo movie:

Viva Max! never fails to crack me up.

[xm177e2]

This is just an attempt to piss on an AMERICAN hero.

Imagine if someone re-wrote history and made a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. in which his last words were "I'm just a stupid n-----"

Or if someone re-wrote the Bible so the last thing Jesus ever said was "hey, I can see my house from here"

It's stupid and it's vile.

[phxsparks]

I have not seen any post that considers the relationship of the Disney films of the late 1950's and Disney television of the 1960's and, their effect on the attitudes of the BOOMERS.

Please remember that Fess Parker (a very fine gentleman) played Davy Crockett in the film and then went on to portray Daniel Boone in the DISNEY television series.

SUBMITTED FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION


I suggest that in the minds of the boomer generation who, were the first generation to grow up with "television" that we as a group have a "programmed" vision of reality.

What if we leave the final report in the hands of archaeologists and forensics scientists?

What if they determine that the end of his life was not as Walt Disney had depicted?

It does not matter! The Alamo is symbolic of the Texan's fight for Independance, the separate individuals; all legendary frontiersmen, obviously felt this cause was important otherwise, they would not have been at the Alamo!

I suspect Davy had no idea he would end up DEAD after this affair!

[Fiddlstix]

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[Centurion2000]

bump ... this will be an interesting film.

[al_c]

I'll watch this movie for only one reason ... my brother in law plays one of the Lousianna Gray volunteers.

[al_c]

I'll watch this movie for only one reason ... my brother in law plays one of the Lousianna Gray volunteers.

[Redbob]

Hallowed ground