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Title: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: FYB on April 18, 2009, 04:24:19 PM
Starship Troopers, Starship Troopers 2, and Starship Troopers 3!

Number three sucked, but i still love Starship Trooper. I got it for my PSP, computer, television, phone and car.

-FYB
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Post by: Bark0 on April 18, 2009, 04:30:18 PM
A Goofy Movie

I am David

Pearl Harbor

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Post by: Treize69 on April 18, 2009, 04:42:53 PM
Blazing Saddles. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Young Frankenstein. Sleepy Hollow.

I know, one of those things is not like the others.
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Post by: AWwrgwy on April 18, 2009, 04:45:43 PM
Starship Troopers, Starship Troopers 2, and Starship Troopers 3!

Number three sucked, but i still love Starship Trooper. I got it for my PSP, computer, television, phone and car.

-FYB

No offense but, all three of them sucked.  Some books don't translate well to film but this was truly a travesty.


wrongway
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Post by: crazyivan on April 18, 2009, 04:47:20 PM
My favs are movies I can stand to watch more than 1 time.  :rolleyes:

I peg wrongway for a Kellys Heroes  guy. :rofl
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Post by: AWwrgwy on April 18, 2009, 05:08:56 PM
My favs are movies I can stand to watch more than 1 time.  :rolleyes:

I peg wrongway for a Kellys Heroes  guy. :rofl

Ding Ding Ding!!

I don't like to limit it to just one though. 

The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming  (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060921/)

But, the watch more than once thing, there are lots of movies I just love to watch whenever I come acros them on t.v.

Caddyshak
1941
Stripes
Animal House


Cinemax used to show Used Cars (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081698/) late at night all the time and I got hooked.

There's no accounting for taste.

 ;)

wrongway
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Post by: StokesAk on April 18, 2009, 05:12:52 PM
Knowing was really good.  :aok
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Post by: Saxman on April 18, 2009, 06:22:08 PM
Lord of the Rings
Pre-Lucasized Star Wars Original Trilogy
Indiana Jones
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Post by: mentalguy on April 18, 2009, 06:26:48 PM
Nothing to lose
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Post by: Getback on April 18, 2009, 07:46:52 PM
Starship Troopers, Starship Troopers 2, and Starship Troopers 3!

Number three sucked, but i still love Starship Trooper. I got it for my PSP, computer, television, phone and car.

-FYB

Was there a 2 and 3?
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: redman555 on April 18, 2009, 07:58:23 PM
Saving Private Ryan, i have watched atleast 300+ times


-BigBOBCH
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Post by: Treize69 on April 18, 2009, 08:00:01 PM
Does it sync up with Dark Side of the Moon, or is that just an urban myth?
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Post by: ScottyK on April 18, 2009, 09:39:20 PM
All 6 STARWARS.   BRAVEHEART.  TOPGUN.    BIG LEBOWSKI   ( F'IT Dude lets go bowing)  lebowski is a great drinking game movie
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Post by: Clone155 on April 18, 2009, 09:56:34 PM
STARWARS! and I also love starship troopers, the first was the best, second was a little stupid... but the third I kept waiting it to cross the line but ended happy!
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Post by: FYB on April 18, 2009, 11:21:50 PM
Was there a 2 and 3?
Yes.

-FYB
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Post by: SuBWaYCH on April 18, 2009, 11:22:23 PM
Blazing Saddles, Monty Python, U-571, Man on Fire, Letters from Iwo Jima, V for Vendetta, Never Back Down, Redbelt, Caddyshack #1/2, and Spinal Tap.
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Post by: mechanic on April 18, 2009, 11:32:01 PM
Zulu
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Kelly's Heroes
Life of Brian/Holy Grail
Happy Gilmore

have to stop at 5, but its just not fair.
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: Kazaa on April 18, 2009, 11:56:08 PM
I love Starship Troopers, 1st time I watched it for the action, after that it was all about Denise Richards. :D
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: FYB on April 18, 2009, 11:57:14 PM
I love Starship Troopers, 1st time I watched it for the action, after that it was all about Denise Richards. :D
:lol :lol :lol

-FYB
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Post by: uptown on April 19, 2009, 12:14:49 AM
Starship Troopers, Starship Troopers 2, and Starship Troopers 3!

Number three sucked, but i still love Starship Trooper. I got it for my PSP, computer, television, phone and car.

-FYB
:rofl what are you...14? Out of all the movies ever made and this is your list? You really should tune to AMC one of these days.
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: mechanic on April 19, 2009, 12:21:21 AM
The first starship troopers was great you got boobs and violent death, give the man some credit.
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: FYB on April 19, 2009, 12:25:23 AM
The first starship troopers was great you got boobs and violent death, give the man some credit.
Thank you.  ;)

-FYB
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: uptown on April 19, 2009, 12:26:05 AM
boobs? i'll check into Starship Troopers right away  :D
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: FYB on April 19, 2009, 12:29:07 AM
boobs? i'll check into Starship Troopers right away  :D
That's the spirit! Boobs and violence, all in one movie.

-FYB
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Post by: Masherbrum on April 19, 2009, 12:31:43 AM
High Sierra
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Post by: ElGuapo1 on April 19, 2009, 12:44:17 AM
Three amigos:)
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Post by: Angus on April 19, 2009, 04:46:45 AM
Dark Blue World comes to mind as well as The Pink Panther strikes again.
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: JunkyII on April 19, 2009, 05:35:40 AM
Saving Private Ryan, i have watched atleast 300+ times


-BigBOBCH
I saw somewhere that this was like the #1 movie of all time but the group that was polled was probably bias, but Saving Private Ryan, We were Soldiers, Blackhawk down, Gladiator, and Braveheart are my favorites
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: Xasthur on April 19, 2009, 06:39:19 AM
In Bruges is my favourite at the moment.

Laugh-your-bollocks-off funny... No hollywood cack, either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHLhiRwMbdg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHLhiRwMbdg)

^ Swearin' all t'at, probably not work safe.

*insert Irish accent* "Ken, I grew up in Dublin.... I love Dublin.... If I grew up on a farm and was...... retarded, Bruges might impress me...... but I didn't.......so it doesn't"
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: PhantomBarron on April 19, 2009, 06:56:22 AM
Preditor
The Terminator
Terminator 2
Terminator 3
The 6th day

Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: BnZs on April 19, 2009, 10:28:56 AM
Conan the Barbarian.

Sahara.

The Searchers.

Red Dawn.

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean.
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Post by: Speed55 on April 19, 2009, 10:39:06 AM
Couldn't pick just one.
The Vikings, Terminator, Return Of The Living Dead, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Flying Leathernecks.
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: Cthulhu on April 19, 2009, 10:40:06 AM
Ben Hur (1959)
Lawrence of Arabia
The Shootist
The Day The Earth Stood Still (if you have to ask which one  :rolleyes:)
Fail Safe
Seven Samurai
The Defiant Ones (just found out "Alfalfa" had a bit part in this :))
Lonely are the Brave
Spartacus
Singing in the Rain
Jackson's Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: Belial on April 19, 2009, 10:57:44 AM
Forrest Gump, Fear and Loathing Las Vegas, The big leboski, Night of the living dead, Braveheart, The Patriot, The Departed.   Just a few off the top of my head, I watch to many movies to remember.
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Post by: caldera on April 19, 2009, 11:04:39 AM
"LET'S ROCK!"

(http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/vasquez1.jpg)



Aliens is the coolest movie ever!

(http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/anialiens.gif)
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: FYB on April 19, 2009, 12:31:23 PM
Forrest Gump, Fear and Loathing Las Vegas, The big leboski, Night of the living dead, Braveheart, The Patriot, The Departed.   Just a few off the top of my head, I watch to many movies to remember.
I like the movie Forrest Gump, its got a sad part to it, but its highly inspirational.

-FYB
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Post by: Swoop on April 19, 2009, 12:54:09 PM
Tenacious D - The pick of destiny.
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Post by: Kermit de frog on April 19, 2009, 12:55:01 PM
Three amigos:)



 :lol


I never would have guessed you'd say that.
 :rolleyes:
 :lol
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Post by: MstWntd on April 19, 2009, 01:00:38 PM
A few of my FAVS:
1.) Top gun
2.) Iron Eagle (1-3)
3.) U-571

No order:
Caddy Shack, K19, Fever Pitch, Christmas Vacation, Vegas Vacation
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Post by: Halo on April 21, 2009, 10:58:07 PM
Man for All Seasons
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Post by: DMBEAR on April 21, 2009, 11:05:49 PM
Debbie does Dallas.  Where's my beach towel?
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Post by: phatzo on April 21, 2009, 11:14:26 PM
Snatch
Lock stock and two smoking barrells
Bicentenial man

(http://www.valpo.edu/library/imls/2005/shawn/pics/snatch.jpg.jpg)

de ya like dags
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: FYB on April 22, 2009, 12:16:42 AM
That movie was hysterical!  :lol

-FYB
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Post by: phatzo on April 22, 2009, 12:32:54 AM
That movie was hysterical!  :lol

-FYB
Its a shame I can't put some of the funny quotes on the board
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: ink on April 22, 2009, 01:47:56 AM
Conan  (both)
The Last Samurai
13th Warrior
300
Braveheart
the Patriot (mels)
Passion of the Christ
Kill Bill (both,but Vol1 is the better one.)
seven samurai
The Vikings  (...Would thou deny me the right, to enter Valhalla.) all time favorite line)
Kingdom of Heaven
13 Monkeys
Fight club
all of Bruce Lee ( of course )


there is just too damn many to list....
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: Dadano on April 22, 2009, 02:10:43 AM
Hmmmm...

Blow
Snatch
Full Metal Jacket
Heat
The Usual Suspects
Reservoir Dogs
City of God
American History X
Shawshank Redemption 
Fight Club...


Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: mechanic on April 22, 2009, 02:19:09 AM
dano your list wins.

this is why i hate having to pick on the spot.  :mad:

I have not even considered Ong Bak, whats wrong with me.
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Post by: Cthulhu on April 22, 2009, 02:01:47 PM
there is just too damn many to list....

Well yeah.  Unless you're some monolithic twit, you can't have just one favorite movie. Or one favorite anything for that matter. Paradoxically, the more you try to decide which movie is your favorite, the longer your personal list will get. ;)
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Post by: xNOVAx on April 22, 2009, 03:25:19 PM
Top Gun (Watched it all the time as a kid)
The Big Lebowski
The Matrix 1
Austin Powers 1
300
The Bourne Triliogy
Saving Private Ryan
Terminator 2
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Heat
The Oceans 11 Movies
Shawshank Redemption
Aliens
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: Bosco123 on April 22, 2009, 03:31:25 PM
My list!
Starwars (all 6)
Matrix (all three)
Hot Fuzz
Snatch
Casino Royal
Full Metal Jacket
Saving Privte Ryan
Citizen Kane
Raging Bull
The Godfather (why am I the only one to throw that one down??)
Scarface
300
Iorn Man

I think that will take care of everything :)
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: 100Coogn on April 22, 2009, 03:35:34 PM
1.  Anything with Clint Eastwood...
2.  Tombstone
3.  Pulp Fiction
4.  Wolf Creek
5.  Porky's I/II
6.  The Exorcist I
7.  The Onion Field
8.  Kill Bill  I/II
9.  Clerks I
10. Quigley Down Under


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Post by: Xasthur on April 23, 2009, 03:15:08 AM
Lock stock and two smoking barrells

Haha! Yes! Lock, Stock... is awesome.
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Post by: moot on April 23, 2009, 03:31:51 AM
Cremaster cycle.
Brazil
The big blue
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: Dadano on April 23, 2009, 04:52:31 AM
Cremaster cycle.
Brazil
The big blue

Brazil was great.
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Post by: Tec on April 23, 2009, 05:56:56 AM
The first starship troopers was great you got boobs and violent death, give the man some credit.

For boobs and violent death I recommend Rise of the Footsoldier.

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.
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Post by: xbrit on April 23, 2009, 06:39:10 AM
Of the newer movies my choices would be Taken  and Gran Torino.
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Post by: Marauding Conan on April 23, 2009, 08:09:28 AM
Gran Torino.

Gran Torino? How do you figure? I found the acting lacking by nearly everyone... and the plot could have been handled better. But the story line was good. Shame, really, it had great potential.
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Post by: moot on April 23, 2009, 10:02:43 AM
Welcome to woop woop.
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Post by: Obie303 on April 23, 2009, 10:08:30 AM
A lot of great movies to pick from.  Some that I feel are classics.....

Star Wars (the original 3)
The Longest Day
Battle of Britian....... "Repeat please."
Blazing Saddles....... "Excuse me while I whip this out" and "Hey!  Where are all the white women at?"
Monty Python (Holy Grail)
The Great Escape (Steve McQueen of course)
Gone in 60 seconds (The original.)
The Blues Brothers......."It's 102 miles to Chicago.  We've got a full tank of gas, a half a pack of butts, it's dark out and we're wearing sunglasses."

And this is the short list.



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Post by: ink on April 23, 2009, 01:33:51 PM
For boobs and violent death I recommend Rise of the Footsoldier.

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.

 what a great movie, when he flips and goes to get his son back, WOW, some sweet Tomahawk work.

what about the first "Jurassic park", another great one.


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Post by: Treize69 on April 23, 2009, 01:50:03 PM
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.
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Post by: Swager on April 23, 2009, 02:40:40 PM
Master and Commander: Far Side of the World
Good Will Hunting
In Harms Way
Animal House
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Post by: ink on April 23, 2009, 06:15:55 PM
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?
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Post by: Treize69 on April 23, 2009, 06:34:55 PM
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.
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Post by: Saxman on April 23, 2009, 06:38:01 PM
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.
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Post by: Treize69 on April 23, 2009, 06:41:21 PM
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.
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Post by: stodd on April 23, 2009, 07:03:17 PM
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,

 :rofl Give me time and the list will grow.

Oh and not a "movie" but the Billy Mays commercials are good too.
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: falcon23 on April 23, 2009, 07:19:36 PM
I have alot of favs,but 2 come to mind..

 Treasure of the sierra madres with bogart..

 Apollo 13...
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Post by: minke on April 23, 2009, 07:39:45 PM
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
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Post by: Jag34 on April 23, 2009, 08:17:59 PM
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"  :rock :rock
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!!! :O)
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: 1pLUs44 on April 23, 2009, 08:33:51 PM
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)
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: Treize69 on April 23, 2009, 08:37:59 PM
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"  :salute
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Post by: Jag34 on April 23, 2009, 08:44:11 PM
I here by call myself, IronAss  :rofl :rock
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Post by: Kuhn on April 23, 2009, 10:00:02 PM
The postman always rings twice.   :D
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Post by: Marauding Conan on April 24, 2009, 03:45:24 AM
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?
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: uptown on April 24, 2009, 06:31:47 AM
Uptown Girls !  :aok
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: Treize69 on April 24, 2009, 06:45:47 AM
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.
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: Marauding Conan on April 24, 2009, 07:54:54 AM
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.
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: Treize69 on April 24, 2009, 08:30:32 AM
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. :)
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Post by: gusman on April 24, 2009, 09:15:13 AM
MoonStruck

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

gus
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: Marauding Conan on April 24, 2009, 09:28:45 AM
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. :)

 :aok
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: Saxman on April 24, 2009, 12:43:06 PM
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.
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: Treize69 on April 24, 2009, 12:59:15 PM
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.  :uhoh
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: ink on April 24, 2009, 05:38:22 PM
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
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: Speed55 on April 25, 2009, 08:27:09 AM
Some more: Flash Gordon, Maximum Overdrive, Repo man
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: moot on April 25, 2009, 09:42:51 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sztwH9h1Os
Title: Re: Whats your favorite movie?
Post by: Pannono on April 26, 2009, 01:59:49 PM
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