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Offline rpm

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John Adams
« on: March 17, 2008, 12:26:49 AM »

Anyone watching the HBO miniseries? This is good stuff.
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Re: John Adams
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2008, 12:38:01 AM »
Wanted to but no longer have HBO
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« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2008, 07:05:04 AM »
I've seen some really great previews.  Good to see "pigvomit" get a great gig!

Nice to see Hollywood invest some cash in historical film.



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« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2008, 08:03:03 AM »
not yet.  looking forward to it now tho.

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Re: John Adams
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2008, 08:09:45 AM »
dumped HBO as being worthless last week.  What is the series about, how evil the founders were?

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Re: John Adams
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2008, 11:23:25 AM »
Quote from: lazs2 on March 17, 2008, 08:09:45 AM
dumped HBO as being worthless last week.  What is the series about, how evil the founders were?

lazs

It is based on the biography "John Adams" by David McCullough.  This book won McCullough his second Pulitzer Prize.   It also won Amazon.com's Best Book of 2001 award, the New York Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Year for 2001, and Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2001.

If the series is anything like the book, it will be absolutely fabulous.

PBS did a great documentary movie about the life of John and Abigail Adams two years ago back in 2006.   You can read about it here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/adams/filmmore/fd.html

In my opinion, McCullough's best book was his fascinating one on the life of the young Theodore Roosevelt growing up into manhood, called "Mornings on Horseback", because of the early morning horseback ride that Teddy Roosevelt often took.   That book really needs to be made into a mini-series or movie too.   It gives tremendous insight into the making of the man that would later become President.

His other great biography is "Truman", also a fantastic read that will make you appreciate President Truman a great deal.

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« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2008, 11:31:48 AM »
Didn't know it started already.. what night is it on?
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« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2008, 11:35:55 AM »
No HBO here unfortunately. It looked like a great show.   :cry
I guess I'll have to wait until it's released to History channel like Band of Brothers was.  :(
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« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2008, 11:38:09 AM »
Which epsiode has the part where someone in the Continental Congress says "someday they'll use eminent domain to take people's homes so that private developers can make a killing in beachfront property. We've done a good job here, making the Constitution perfectly clear for all time."

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« Reply #9 on: March 17, 2008, 12:24:48 PM »
yep i dumped HBO after they cancelled Deadwood, i'll rent it next summer.
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Re: John Adams
« Reply #10 on: March 17, 2008, 12:24:54 PM »
The only negative thing that I can see about this series is that actor Paul Giamatti plays Adams.

Adams would roll over in his grave if he knew this.

Here is a link to the schedule of showtimes:

http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/ScheduleServlet?CHANNEL=All+Channels&ACTION_SEARCH=SEARCH&KEY=TITLE&VALUE=john+adams
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Re: John Adams
« Reply #11 on: March 17, 2008, 01:10:53 PM »
Quote from: SIG220 on March 17, 2008, 12:24:54 PM
The only negative thing that I can see about this series is that actor Paul Giamatti plays Adams.

Adams would roll over in his grave if he knew this.

Here is a link to the schedule of showtimes:

http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/ScheduleServlet?CHANNEL=All+Channels&ACTION_SEARCH=SEARCH&KEY=TITLE&VALUE=john+adams
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Paul Giamatti is generally recognized as one of our most talented working actors. How would this bother Adams?
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« Reply #12 on: March 17, 2008, 01:29:44 PM »
Agreed, Paul Giamatti does an outstanding job as Adams. This series is very different from most Revolutionary War movies I've seen. It is not boring and stoic. It makes the characters actually interesting instead of some exercise in historical tedium. It breaks many stereotypes of our founding fathers.

For example, Thomas Jefferson is presented as a quiet, introverted man. I had always seen him portrayed as a great orator, but in this he is shown as a brilliant mind, but a quiet persona. Nobody really knows what he is thinking until he puts pen to paper.

This is every bit as good as Band of Brothers.
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« Reply #13 on: March 17, 2008, 04:37:57 PM »
Simply brilliant.  I'm pissed I have to wait 6 more days to see the next episode.

And no lazs, this one might surprise ya.

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I think they overdid David Morse's nose job though, heh.
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« Reply #14 on: March 17, 2008, 04:40:04 PM »
Who the hell has time to watch TV at night!  :furious :mad: :cry
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