The Lincoln movie was a joke at best, the key part missing was revealing that the south were democrats and the killer of Lincoln was a democrat if they had been republicans you can bet it would have been repeated over and over again.
“Do you believe in miracles!!!!???”
I was 12, and I did :)
Like I’m ever going to see F%$kin’ Selma!
How ‘bout ‘The Patriot’?
Sergeant York?
Yankee Doodle Dandy?
Otherwise the PC list of movies is complete...
Thema and Louise
Stand and Deliver
Based on Howard Fast's novel of the same name, it did show me how gut-wrenching it was to be at Lexington and Concord to face the professional soldiers of the King. People died and there was heartbreak and this is what I remember from the movie, that ordinary men, farmers & tradesmen, gathered at that "rude bridge" and started the AMEREXIT!
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
"Concord Hymn" - Ralph Waldo Emerson - July 4, 1837
Actually, I have a place in my heart for “The Marine Who Lived 500 Years.”
(William Bendix)...as MGySgt Lou Diamond USMC!
Heard it on radio early in WWII, i think.
Never saw/heard it again.
Dick.G: AMERICAN!
aka: Gunny G
*****
(Old Corps!)
Semper FIDELIS
*****
“Bridge of Spies” is terrific and worth seeing just for Mark Rylance’s incredible,low-key performance.
That said,I find it an odd list.
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Band of Brothers
Apollo 13
The Right Stuff
Don’t care much for PC Liberal take on history,
Band of Brothers is the only one you need to see.
I saw 2 of them. Lincoln which was boring. The good one was lone survivor which I saw twice. Can’t imagine watching it on 4th of July. Who has time for watching a movie with BBQ, beer, guests and then fireworks. No thanks.
The description states”Luttrell and his fellow officers”. Lutrell was not an officer, neither were 2 of his 3 squad mates.
Selma really did a job on LBJ. I didn't care when Johnson's surviving people were complaining. I figured the filmmakers reshaped what happened to make a better story. But when they twist things to fit some preconceived pattern of heroes and villains and exploit cheap emotionalism it makes for a lousy movie.
Played by David Oyelowo, King takes center stage in Ava DuVernay’s remarkable 2014 drama, Selma. The feature captures King’s use of nonviolence protests to show the brutality that African-Americans faced in this country. The feature captures King’s obvious personal flaws but it also showcases his fight for a better America — an America that grants all of his citizens equal rights.
Oyelowo had some nerve, taking the role away from deserving African-American actors and then complaining about Hollywood not providing better roles for African-Americans.