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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rpm on March 17, 2008, 12:26:49 AM
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Anyone watching the HBO miniseries? This is good stuff.
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Wanted to but no longer have HBO
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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.
ROX
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not yet. looking forward to it now tho.
:)
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dumped HBO as being worthless last week. What is the series about, how evil the founders were?
lazs
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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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Didn't know it started already.. what night is it on?
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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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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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yep i dumped HBO after they cancelled Deadwood, i'll rent it next summer.
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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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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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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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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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Who the hell has time to watch TV at night! :furious :mad: :cry
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According to my grandfather's geneaology study, I am related to John Adams.... never looked into it, but it would be cool if it is true.
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In radio, I once worked for a general manager who was a direct blood decendant of his.
Scarry....he looked JUST like 'em!
ROX
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In radio, I once worked for a general manager who was a direct blood decendant of his.
Scarry....he looked JUST like 'em!
ROX
My great grandmother was an Adams... I really should try to find his old geneaology stuff.
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Bodhi...was her name Morticia perhaps? ;)
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Paul Giamatti is generally recognized as one of our most talented working actors. How would this bother Adams?
Because he is one of the most left leaning ultra liberals in all of Hollywood. Not that that is unusual at all in Hollywood, but in real life, he is certainly nothing like John Adams.
So I am speaking about him personally, and not professionally.
Professionally, he is a good actor. Not a great one, but a good one.
I cannot ever see him deserving to actually win an academy award. Perhaps he could get nominated again sometime, though.
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I know his brother Samuel make great beer!
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I believe Sam is his second cousin. He has a great role as well and Danny Huston does a great job. The only weak link I have seen is David Morse as George Washington and that's mainly because of the nosejob as Stang pointed out.
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Thoughts: This should be required viewing for School Children. More then likely with all the vid games and hanging around at the Mall this is one of the ways I think some of our children would learn American History. Is it sensationalised? More then likely. But the Story is true.
Already we have those that don't know what Pearl Harbor is about.....know nothing of the Holocaust.....and think 911 is a television show.
Might remind some of how America was designed to work at an early date. And how the Constitution has been interpreted through the years for convienience rather then fact (more so lately) And compare the brilliance of our early founding Fathers as compared to the Congress and Senate of today. Geez.....and there were fewer men in Colonial times to come up with these ideas as compared to the hundreds of doofuses we now have making laws for us and getting paid. Getting paid by not only the taxpayers but Lobbyists, Special Interest Groups and Corporations.
I've got to stop thinking like this and making comparisons between the two....raises my blood pressure.
This is a case of the Then being better then the Now. Always thought with time the Now gets better.....guess not.
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Paul Giamatti is generally recognized as one of our most talented working actors. How would this bother Adams?
I concur. He's a great actor and the series is beyond oustanding.....
the selection of David Morse as George Washington was also great casting.
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Because he is one of the most left leaning ultra liberals in all of Hollywood. Not that that is unusual at all in Hollywood, but in real life, he is certainly nothing like John Adams.
So I am speaking about him personally, and not professionally.
Professionally, he is a good actor. Not a great one, but a good one.
I cannot ever see him deserving to actually win an academy award. Perhaps he could get nominated again sometime, though.
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Adams was a conservative? hehe
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The first two episodes were excellent and I also am looking forward to seeing the next installments. It is television at its finest
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It is television at its finest
It's not TV, it's HBO. :aok
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On my property
In my front yard
Exactly 232 years ago
Nothing happend
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yep i dumped HBO after they cancelled Deadwood, i'll rent it next summer.
Same here.
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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.
From what I have read about Jefferson, this is how he actually was. He was not a particularly good orator, but was magnificent at expressing his thoughts on paper. In fact, in 1801 as president he began sending the state of the union message to Congress in writing rather than deliver a speech in person. This was partly due to his lack of public speaking skill.
The state of the union message was delivered in writing until Woodrow Wilson resumed the practice of making the speech in person in 1913.
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7 episodes in all. I'll have to try to catch up. I haven't seen anything but bits and pieces of the first two.
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Man this is a great series. I hope that Tom Hanks continues to make shows like this. He could do a "History of America" series that could run for years. Everything he has ever produced on American history is shear greatness.
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^^^ For sure. Just finishing my yearly watching of "From The Earth To The Moon". Another reason why Houston > Dallas. :)
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LOL