“What fresh hell is this?”
"A man who picks a cat up by the tail learns something which he can learn in no other way." - Mark Twain
How was Lincoln? I assumed it would be filled with a lot of white hatred of blacks. It does seem that many historical recreations really like to foment the racial anger. The Ken Burns History of Baseball series was largely a history of how persecuted black players have been since the sport was invented.
I can't believe no one's mentioned Star Wars yet. Without that movie we wouldn't even know what happened a long time ago in a Galaxy far far away.
Let's Rid3!!!!
I said this in another thread, but what irritated me about Lincoln was that it was really about his life. It started right before his second term. I thought "The 13th amendment" would have been a more suitable title. There's a lot of what you described in the movie. But also, there are a lot of people for slavery but think freeing the slaves would break the south and win the war.
There's a lot more to the civil war than slavery, but that seems to be the sole mention even in textbooks nowadays. I guess that's how it will be remembered in history. The good people of the north versus the racists of the south.
From my standpoint it was great - but remember, two years previous to that I had been in a decrepit open bay Gomer Pyle type 40 man basic trainee barracks at Harmony Church. I had a little fridge, a maid made my bed and cleaned my room, and I thought I was living large. Its all about context.
“What fresh hell is this?”
"A man who picks a cat up by the tail learns something which he can learn in no other way." - Mark Twain
Excellent movie and not filled with anything that you thought. It's about the 13th amendment, and all that surround the passing of that amendment.
Some were looking for more cherry trees to be chopped down, or maybe a History Channel biography, but I was much more entertained with this.
(the previous comment was not directed at any particular individual and was not intended to slander,disrespect or offend any reader of said statement)
Black Hawk Down is one of my all time fave movies. We named a a small town in Baghdad little Moge in honor of its resemblance to the movie and all the people shooting at us...lol
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