[wku man]

I agree. I saw the film this weekend, and didn't see any of the "hero deconstruction" we've been hearing about for a year and a half now. I saw believeable story of real, simple men who faced overwhelming odds, and died for their beliefs. The film in no way "deconstructed" those heroes, though I was disappointed that Goliad was ignored as it was.

All in all, what disappoints me most is that the cineplex had Hellboy and Kill Bill 2 playing in two theaters each, and they were packed. There may have been 8 other people watching The Alamo when I was there. Sad.

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[John H K]

I agree. I saw the film this weekend, and didn't see any of the "hero deconstruction" we've been hearing about for a year and a half now. I saw believeable story of real, simple men who faced overwhelming odds, and died for their beliefs. The film in no way "deconstructed" those heroes, though I was disappointed that Goliad was ignored as it was.

Goliad was filmed but cut from the movie, I think....original cut was 3 1/2 hours long, (understandably) Disney made him cut it.

Yep, I saw the movie and I frankly think the people behinf the various conservative lets-bash-the-Alamo-movie didn't even see the same film. (Of course, some of the bashers, like Mr. Idiot Joseph Farah, actually DIDN'T bother to see the movie at all.

It had flaws, not a "Great" movie, but I felt it showed flawed but heroic people. And it was moving. Shed a tear during Travis' speech.

However, it's clear people were simply just waiting and drooling and hoping to bash this film as PC and Leftist and be outraged by it, and it had to fit that "expectation", regardless of what the movie was ACTUALLY like.