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Posted on 2/26/18 at 1:04 pm to jlovel7
Captain America Civil War
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Posted on 2/26/18 at 1:39 pm to jlovel7
1) Glory
2) Ride with the Devil (one of the, if not THE most authentic as far as uniforms, weapons, storyline)
3) Gettysburg
4) Wicked Spring
5) The Blue & The Grey Full Director's Cut mini-series.
2) Ride with the Devil (one of the, if not THE most authentic as far as uniforms, weapons, storyline)
3) Gettysburg
4) Wicked Spring
5) The Blue & The Grey Full Director's Cut mini-series.
Posted on 2/26/18 at 1:47 pm to Drank
Surprised nobody has mentioned Gangs of New York, Cold Mountain or Sommersby. I have to go Outlaw Josey Wales..
Posted on 2/26/18 at 4:32 pm to skrayper
quote:
Red Badge of Courage - the book is great, has anyone seen the movie from the 50s? Was it any good?
I really like it, but I saw it one Sunday night on Walt Disney's show as a kid. If you read the book, you know it's a good story, with some great characters. A real war hero, Audie Murphy, plays Henry, and the guys around him are very believable as Confederate soldiers. I think you'd enjoy it, if you loved the book.
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Posted on 2/26/18 at 9:00 pm to jlovel7
Captain America...
Really doh...
Cold mountain.
Really doh...
Cold mountain.
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Posted on 2/26/18 at 11:11 pm to REG861
Be quiet, Yankee.
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Posted on 2/26/18 at 11:32 pm to GumpInLex
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Gods and Generals was damn good.
very underrated film
Posted on 2/27/18 at 8:16 am to chinese58
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I really like it, but I saw it one Sunday night on Walt Disney's show as a kid. If you read the book, you know it's a good story, with some great characters. A real war hero, Audie Murphy, plays Henry, and the guys around him are very believable as Confederate soldiers. I think you'd enjoy it, if you loved the book.
Thanks :) I think I'll see if I can get it queued up for our movie night.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 8:38 am to jlovel7
So Glory ... we were living in Charleston at the time and owned a home not far from where Fort Wagner had been located. A lot of things were happening around then, like Cussler's search for the Hunley and they had also found a mass grave where some soldiers had been buried out on James Island.
I have always been a been relic hunter (metal detecting) ... I own a Deus now but back then I was using a Garret Master Hunter VII and I had two buddies and we were doing a lot of orivy digging. (We'd find old outhouse locations downtown and dig them for artifacts.)
One of my buddies owned a small bar and grill downtown known as The Patriot Pub and he also owned Shaw's original candleopera ... which the director of the film used in the movie when Broderick was writing letters by candlelight.
Later in '89 we were hit by Hurricane Hugo and a lot more digs opened-up for us. That following year, in '90, I found my first CSA plate (brass belt buckle) and a silver pill box dated 1629 with a London Sikversmith's mark. The pillbox I figured was dropped in the privy accidentally by someone who was sick and throwing-up and the belt buckle was probaby dropped in the privy by a soldier taking a dump.
We also found two gold rings that year, both at Civil War depth. We figured the citizens were so emaciated that the rings probably fell off while they were wiping their butts.
We found wash bowls and piss pots and thousands of Palmetto Dispensery bottles ... all very collectable stuff over the years.
Later, the movie generated so much attention that we were interviewed by CNN at the pub about some of the relics we had found, as well as the candleopera that he eventually sold to the Director of the movie.
Now, my cousin owned the old Tidal Home for years ... the house used in The Great Santini and The Big Chill, and it was through him that I met Tom Berringer (The Big Chill) who still lives in the area and wanted to get married at the house. He gave my cousin a beautiful Civil War era silver tea set as a gift ... and he bought the silver pill box from me for far more than it was worth - and it was worth a lot.
So yeah, while Glory is not exactly historically accurate it is a good movie and one of my favorite Civil War movies.
Gone With The Wind remains my favorite. My wife is actually a Butler, from the Charleston Butler clan Margaret Mitchell based her Rhett Butler character on.
My son is named Butler.
Next would have to be Red Badge of Courage.
Made for TV movie ... North and South. Highly underrated.
I have always been a been relic hunter (metal detecting) ... I own a Deus now but back then I was using a Garret Master Hunter VII and I had two buddies and we were doing a lot of orivy digging. (We'd find old outhouse locations downtown and dig them for artifacts.)
One of my buddies owned a small bar and grill downtown known as The Patriot Pub and he also owned Shaw's original candleopera ... which the director of the film used in the movie when Broderick was writing letters by candlelight.
Later in '89 we were hit by Hurricane Hugo and a lot more digs opened-up for us. That following year, in '90, I found my first CSA plate (brass belt buckle) and a silver pill box dated 1629 with a London Sikversmith's mark. The pillbox I figured was dropped in the privy accidentally by someone who was sick and throwing-up and the belt buckle was probaby dropped in the privy by a soldier taking a dump.
We also found two gold rings that year, both at Civil War depth. We figured the citizens were so emaciated that the rings probably fell off while they were wiping their butts.
We found wash bowls and piss pots and thousands of Palmetto Dispensery bottles ... all very collectable stuff over the years.
Later, the movie generated so much attention that we were interviewed by CNN at the pub about some of the relics we had found, as well as the candleopera that he eventually sold to the Director of the movie.
Now, my cousin owned the old Tidal Home for years ... the house used in The Great Santini and The Big Chill, and it was through him that I met Tom Berringer (The Big Chill) who still lives in the area and wanted to get married at the house. He gave my cousin a beautiful Civil War era silver tea set as a gift ... and he bought the silver pill box from me for far more than it was worth - and it was worth a lot.
So yeah, while Glory is not exactly historically accurate it is a good movie and one of my favorite Civil War movies.
Gone With The Wind remains my favorite. My wife is actually a Butler, from the Charleston Butler clan Margaret Mitchell based her Rhett Butler character on.
My son is named Butler.
Next would have to be Red Badge of Courage.
Made for TV movie ... North and South. Highly underrated.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 8:43 am to scrooster
Does the PBS Ken Burns Civil War series count?
My favorites are definitely Gone With The Wind and Gods and Generals. North and South was also really good though.
My favorites are definitely Gone With The Wind and Gods and Generals. North and South was also really good though.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 8:55 am to Peter Venkman
There are a lot of good ones out there. Glory, Gods and Generals, Gettysburg have all been mentioned a lot and they're good and/or entertaining movies. I really enjoyed Cold Mountain and I've watched it several times. One that has not been mentioned that uses the Civil War as a backdrop is a horror/thriller movie called Dead Birds about some Confederate deserters who rob a bank and then seek shelter in an old plantation home.
My favorite Civil War film, though, is Ang Lee's "Ride With the Devil".
My favorite Civil War film, though, is Ang Lee's "Ride With the Devil".
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Posted on 2/27/18 at 9:13 am to jlovel7
Wish they’d make a movie of Guns of the South.
THAT would be the GOAT Civil War movie.
THAT would be the GOAT Civil War movie.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:11 am to jlovel7
Glory. Followed by Gettysburg. There are actually a surprising few number of movies that are about the conflict itself. Most of them remain on the periphery of the war with films like Gone With the Wind, Shenandoah, and Cold Mountain being some of those examples.
There is a producer in Hollywood who has been working his arse off securing funding and network rights for a Civil War miniseries for the better part of this decade. He's finally got Mark Burnett and Rob Lowe on board to produce but is still shopping his 700-page script around to networks. Hopefully we'll get some news on that here in the next few weeks. The title of the miniseries was tentatively "To Appomattox" but has since been changed to "A Nation Divided."
There is a producer in Hollywood who has been working his arse off securing funding and network rights for a Civil War miniseries for the better part of this decade. He's finally got Mark Burnett and Rob Lowe on board to produce but is still shopping his 700-page script around to networks. Hopefully we'll get some news on that here in the next few weeks. The title of the miniseries was tentatively "To Appomattox" but has since been changed to "A Nation Divided."
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:13 am to GumpInLex
quote:are you serious?
Gods and Generals was damn good.
It might be the worst Civil War movie ever made. Pure trash
I can't believe I actually saw it in theaters and stayed after intermission
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Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:23 am to Pilot Tiger
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It might be the worst Civil War movie ever made. Pure trash
I can't believe I actually saw it in theaters and stayed after intermission
I saw it in the theater when it came out and didn't hate it, but that was in high school. I've never rewatched it as an adult.
I sometimes turn on Ken Burns' Civil War (or any of his other docs) for background noise/distraction when I'm working from home. When the music starts, my SO starts wailing, "Please not that again!"
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:43 am to Slagathor
quote:
Slagathor
how you been.
I actually just looked up Rotten Tomatoes and it has Gods and Generals at 8% so I knew I wasn't THAT off base saying it was trash
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:53 am to Pilot Tiger
quote:hey you! great, you?
Pilot Tiger
Aside from the merits (or lack thereof) of G&G, you pretty much can't get me to hate any historical fiction. If I see period costumes, I'm all about it- plot/acting be damned
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