Whats your favorite movie?

[Treize69]

Lot of good lists here, but I have to give a nod to Ink for The Patriot, the Mel Gibson one, not the Steven Segal one.  Haven't seen that movie in years, gonna have to find a copy.

I know a few reenactors and historians who were hired as advisors and consultants for that movie (including my CO), all but one of them walked and the one that didn't asked them not to put his name in the credits.

[Swager]

Master and Commander: Far Side of the World
Good Will Hunting
In Harms Way
Animal House

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I know a few reenactors and historians who were hired as advisors and consultants for that movie (including my CO), all but one of them walked and the one that didn't asked them not to put his name in the credits.

how come?

[Treize69]

how come?

Because every time they tried to keep it anywhere close to accurate, His Holiness Mel I overruled them, and he changed the original script so much that it was almost unrecognizable. His character is a conglomeration of at least 2 real people, "Tavington" is a poorly disguised version of Col. Banastre Tarleton, and the big battle is a combination of two real ones- Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse. The character Tavington was based on didn't die in the war, he lived will into the 19th century and ended up being knighted and joining parliament. They make it seem like the war ended as soon as Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, when it actually went on for almost 3 more years. About the only thing close to accurate is the drill the soldiers use, and even then they just perpetuate that annoying myth about the soldiers closing their eyes or looking away when they shoot.

[Saxman]

Couple problems my dad has is that Gibson played a farmer in South Carolina, yet didn't own slaves. Also the fact that the war in the Southern Colonies was much more brutal than the film depicted. Most of the sorts of atrocities committed by the British in the movie were actually carried out by the Colonists on BOTH sides. Gibson's character was a heavily white-washed caricature of Marion, who was a real cut-throat bastard.

[Treize69]

Couple problems my dad has is that Gibson played a farmer in South Carolina, yet didn't own slaves. Also the fact that the war in the Southern Colonies was much more brutal than the film depicted. Most of the sorts of atrocities committed by the British in the movie were actually carried out by the Colonists on BOTH sides. Gibson's character was a heavily white-washed caricature of Marion, who was a real cut-throat bastard.

He also had a lot of elements of Thomas Sumter (or Sumpter), the Carolina Gamecock. Who is less well known than "Swampfox" Marion, but equally brutal. The only reason we remember those guys as heroes is that they were on our side.

Tarleton is seen as a brutal monster in the US but was, and is, a hero in the UK.

[stodd]

Well here is my list, ya kinda long but here it is...
(In no particular order)
Black hawk down,
Saving private Ryan,
All John Wayne movies (way to many to list),
The Patriot,
Brave Heart,
The Good The Bad and The Ugly, (I have a dog named after tuco ),
The Alamo,
We were Soldiers,
Enemy at the gates,
Zulu,
Fixed Bayonets,
Behind enemy lines,
BAA BAA Black Sheep,

  Give me time and the list will grow.

Oh and not a "movie" but the Billy Mays commercials are good too.

[falcon23]

I have alot of favs,but 2 come to mind..

 Treasure of the sierra madres with bogart..

 Apollo 13...

[minke]

star wars (original trilogy)
the dark knight
indiana jones 1,2 and 3 (NOT 4)
bourne trilogy
aliens
AvP 2
monty pythons holy grail and life of brian

[Jag34]

I can't believe no one has said anything about the best all time WWII movie ever made. This movie has now set the standard for All WWII movies to come. This is "Band Of Brothers" 
At lest in my mind, this is the Best of all WWII movies.

Then comes
Saving Private Ryan
All John Wayne movies
Black Hawk Down
Heck, just look at Stodd list, I would add all of his also
Ohhhh, and "Revenge Of the Nerds" (Talk about BOOBS!!! )

[1pLUs44]

Forrest Gump - Don't know why, but it never gets old. (even though, the book is a HELL of a lot more different than the movie.)
We Were Soldiers
Flags of our Fathers - With the book, even though there wasn't much action as most people expected, it really gave the viewpoint of the book for the guys themselves IMHO.
The Alamo (New one)

[Treize69]

Band of Brothers is a minseries, not a movie. Unless you consider about 14 hours to be a movie, in which case I rename you "ironass" 

[Jag34]

I here by call myself, IronAss 

[Kuhn]

The postman always rings twice.   

[Marauding Conan]

He also had a lot of elements of Thomas Sumter (or Sumpter), the Carolina Gamecock. Who is less well known than "Swampfox" Marion, but equally brutal. The only reason we remember those guys as heroes is that they were on our side.

Tarleton is seen as a brutal monster in the US but was, and is, a hero in the UK.

I read somewhere that the fighting in the south was a continuation of the religious wars and jacobie wars in the UK, fought by local colonist out to settle scores left over from those wars. Is that true?