My Plea - PLEASE SUPPORT GODS AND GENERALS!

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2003-03-08 05:21pm

For you Americans on this board, and those that are interested in US history. PLEASE go see Gods and Generals! Learn about one of the most pivotal points in American history that is beginning to fade into obscurity and PC-myth. Help us support the director and Ted Turner (brrr), so that this wonderful trilogy including Gettysburg, can be completed bringing a wonderful dramatization of the Civil War to the screen.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-03-08 05:23pm

This thread has alread been done weeks ago.

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2003-03-08 05:23pm

Darth Pounder wrote:This thread has alread been done weeks ago.

No, it was a review on it. I'm just entering a plea

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-03-08 05:24pm

PC myth?
And the last I checked, Civil War history has the largest number of titles available in the history section of every bookstore. Civil War sells, it's not fading in the slightest.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2003-03-08 05:25pm

I'll wait for the DVD.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-03-08 05:26pm

Superman wrote:I'll wait for the DVD.

I agree with the hat-cat....too little time to see movies currently.

And Freelancer sucks up the little freetime I have.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2003-03-08 05:30pm

What's Freelancer?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-03-08 06:02pm

Trytostaydead wrote:For you Americans on this board, and those that are interested in US history. PLEASE go see Gods and Generals! Learn about one of the most pivotal points in American history that is beginning to fade into obscurity and PC-myth. Help us support the director and Ted Turner (brrr), so that this wonderful trilogy including Gettysburg, can be completed bringing a wonderful dramatization of the Civil War to the screen.

Right. If people don't see Gods and Generals, all knowledge of the Civil War will fade from the American consciousness

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-03-08 06:03pm

Superman wrote:What's Freelancer?

It's a fun Space sim game...in a similar vein to Privateer...you go out...get a ship, get money, kill people who are not you...make alliances, and defeat some oncoming doom.

Plays better then I make it sound

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-03-08 06:04pm

One of the extras in that film goes to my high school. The one that gets his arm blown off.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-03-08 06:07pm

Alyrium Denryle wrote:One of the extras in that film goes to my high school. The one that gets his arm blown off.

Cool...hey he can at least say he's been in a movie

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-03-08 06:07pm

Alyrium Denryle wrote:One of the extras in that film goes to my high school. The one that gets his arm blown off.

That's nice to know Alyrium, if I decide to see the movie (Which I probably won't) I'll look for it.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-03-08 06:39pm

Alyrium Denryle wrote:One of the extras in that film goes to my high school. The one that gets his arm blown off.

I was in a movie once, the imortal classic Surf II, starring Ruth Buzzi, Cleavon Little, and Lyle Waggoner. And featuring Eric Stoltz in his first(I think) role. I'm the Sousaphone player with the fiberglass horn.

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 2003-03-08 07:37pm

I saw that Movie, man was I pissed with it.

It went away from the book a wwwwwwwhhhhole lot. Instead of showing a more or less 50-50 view of the Civil War, with Winfield Scott Hancock and Chamberlain on the Union viewpoint and Lee&Jackson on the Confederate viewpoint, we had Chamberlain and a Confederacy Masterbation(sic) fest.

I was freaking appalled. Once more, American media (to say nothing for the education system) is elevating a bunch of slaveholding traitors to Mythical Heros. Sure they were great military leaders. Some of the Finest West Point produced. But they were not heros. And Gods and Generals skewed their true selves mightily.

The movie also managed to omit the Battle of Antietam, an important part in the book and the bloodiest day in American Military History.

So, for you Americans on this board, don't go see this movie if you want to "Learn about one of the most pivotal points in American history that is beginning to fade into obscurity and PC-myth." (If he means "it was about slavery" = "PC myth" Lonestar would have to turn big&Green and smash stuff)

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-03-08 07:42pm

Why should that surprise you? The growing political power of the South means that we're starting to see an awful lot of revisionist history. Give it another five years, and we'll be hearing that the Union was unmitigated evil, and that the Noble South Will Rise Again (oh wait, we're already hearing that).

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 2003-03-08 07:49pm

Darth Wong wrote:Why should that surprise you? The growing political power of the South means that we're starting to see an awful lot of revisionist history. Give it another five years, and we'll be hearing that the Union was unmitigated evil, and that the Noble South Will Rise Again (oh wait, we're already hearing that).

It doesn't, sadly. My Family's from the South(Texas) and are odd in that they consider the Confeds a bunch of filthy traitors. I have relatives on my Mother's side who fought as pro-union partisans in North Texas. North Texas was a hotbed of anti-Confederate activity, with the world's largest single mass hanging (33!) being executed by Confederate forces on locals who didn't want to submit to the Confederate draft.

Of course, orgs like the "United Daughters of the Confederacy" have long sinced erected monuments that completely ignore the event. Most Texans don't even relise that half the damn state was in rebellion againest the pro-confederate state governement.

Go figure.

Lonestar, who ripped off the "You fucking Lost and you Marry your sister too" bumper sticker from somethingawful.co* for his car.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-03-08 07:50pm

Yeah, the states didn't secede over slavery. Just liberal PC revionist history (even though the secession documents say otherwise)

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-03-08 08:08pm

My 8th grade history teacher was in Gettysburg.

On that note, yes, go see Gods and Generals, it is an awesome movie.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2003-03-08 08:11pm

I heard that it's problems wren't that of history, but that it was longwinded and boring. Even good history can't fix a movie when it's longwinded and boring.

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 2003-03-08 08:15pm

Gil Hamilton wrote:I heard that it's problems wren't that of history, but that it was longwinded and boring. Even good history can't fix a movie when it's longwinded and boring.

Incorrect. It was longwinded, boring, had bad history, and, oyeah, 4 freakin' hours long!!!

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-03-08 08:23pm

Alyrium Denryle wrote:One of the extras in that film goes to my high school. The one that gets his arm blown off.

Be more specific! I bet there are at least a dozen extras who get an arm blown off!

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2003-03-08 08:41pm

Though I support all movies that attempt to bring a bit of history to you, this movie just seems like it would be painful to watch.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-03-08 10:41pm

No thanks. I'm not going to sit through 4 hours of pure crap.
My brother-in-law, who is a huge Civil War fanatic LEFT at the intermission. This man is die hard when it comes to anythng dealing with the Civil War. Even he called the movie a bunch of crap.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-03-08 11:12pm

I LIKE a good movie. There are some things that just cannot be told in two hours.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-03-08 11:15pm

I knew a guy at camp who kept saying that the South Would Rise Again.

He lived in western PA.

What's between Philly and Pittsburg?

Alabama. Figures.

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