Whats your favorite movie?

[uptown]

Uptown Girls ! 

[Treize69]

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?

Not so much, there were recent Scots immigrants on both sides, and first and second generation "English" on both sides as well. But the southern war was a lot closer to a civil war than what we usually think of as the Revolution- more use of guerrillas and partisans, and a lot of loyalist and rebel mobs attacking and retaliating (the movie got that part of it right at least). It wasn't so much a religious or national thing as a "how much do you hate your neighbors" thing.

[Marauding Conan]

Not so much, there were recent Scots immigrants on both sides, and first and second generation "English" on both sides as well. But the southern war was a lot closer to a civil war than what we usually think of as the Revolution- more use of guerrillas and partisans, and a lot of loyalist and rebel mobs attacking and retaliating (the movie got that part of it right at least). It wasn't so much a religious or national thing as a "how much do you hate your neighbors" thing.

Facinating, shame you live in the other side of the pond. I wouldn't mind going over a bottle of "scotch" while picking your brains on the subject.

[Treize69]

Considering I reenact the War in three different units (2nd Continental Light Dragoons, 2nd Continental Artillery, and 3rd New York Infantry) I do a lot of reading and researching on it- its a much harder and more confusing war to get into than our Civil War (which I also reenact, 8th New York Cavalry), but its a fascinating one.

Though if I'm ever "over there", the scotch sounds good.

[gusman]

MoonStruck

"If you feed one more scrap of my food to those dogs old man I'll kick ya till you're dead"

gus

[Marauding Conan]

Considering I reenact the War in three different units (2nd Continental Light Dragoons, 2nd Continental Artillery, and 3rd New York Infantry) I do a lot of reading and researching on it- its a much harder and more confusing war to get into than our Civil War (which I also reenact, 8th New York Cavalry), but its a fascinating one.

Though if I'm ever "over there", the scotch sounds good.

 

[Saxman]

Considering I reenact the War in three different units (2nd Continental Light Dragoons, 2nd Continental Artillery, and 3rd New York Infantry) I do a lot of reading and researching on it- its a much harder and more confusing war to get into than our Civil War (which I also reenact, 8th New York Cavalry), but its a fascinating one.

Though if I'm ever "over there", the scotch sounds good.

You should try keeping the Civil War in Missouri straight, that will get your head spinning.

[Treize69]

You should try keeping the Civil War in Missouri straight, that will get your head spinning.

About as bad as Rev War in the Mohawk Valley of upstate NY- German immigrants who joined the Rebels (most of the Palatines) fighting German Mercenaries in the employ of the British (the so called "Hessians"), Rebel militias (locally, the Tryon County Militia) fighting Loyalist units (like the Royal Greens and Butlers Rangers, who were American colonists fighting tooth and nail for the British), two tribes of Iroquois (Oneida and Tuscarora) fighting alongside the Rebels against the other four tribes (Mohawk, Onondaga, Seneca, and Cayuga) allied with the British...

You almost need a who's-who program to sort it all out, and I have to try and explain all this to people at Fort Stanwix and the Oriskany Battlefield every weekend. 

[ink]

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.

I hear ya, although I never looked at it as history, but a movie based in history, doing what you do, I can see why you have an issue with it.

oh ya I forgot another all time great movie

The Count of Monti Cristo

[Speed55]

Some more: Flash Gordon, Maximum Overdrive, Repo man

[moot]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sztwH9h1Os

[Pannono]

Major League
Caddyshack
Forrest Gump
Saving Private Ryan
U-571
Top Gun
*insert any Bond movie here*
Happy Gilmore
Platoon
Das Boot

So many more.....I wont bore you guys