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Posted on 3/16/18 at 8:45 pm to Harry Caray
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Baseball is an embarrassment for how it wrongly portrayed Ty Cobb
The more and more i learn it sounds like this doc was a great injustice to the Cobb's legacy.
Posted on 3/16/18 at 8:48 pm to danman6336
Lol dude makes 75% of this stuff up. Sheep
Posted on 3/16/18 at 8:59 pm to Melvin
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Lol dude makes 75% of this stuff up. Sheep
Well the Civil War was based on Shelby Footes 3 volume Narrative.
So then, Shelby Foote just made shite up about the Civil War. He could have I guess, but he spent 30 years writing the books.
I'd think if you made stuff up - it would take a lot less time.
This post was edited on 3/16/18 at 9:01 pm
Posted on 3/16/18 at 9:57 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Posted on 3/17/18 at 1:50 am to LSUgusto
Civil War. I spent a month in Ireland right after it aired on BBC. Those folks heard my accent and thought l was the coolest person on earth. Visits to the pubs were incredible.
Unbeknownst to them, I'd just finished a civil war class taught by a southern history scholar. I left them all thinking that every southerner was a fallen angel.
Unbeknownst to them, I'd just finished a civil war class taught by a southern history scholar. I left them all thinking that every southerner was a fallen angel.
Posted on 3/17/18 at 3:08 pm to GetCocky11
America - Episode 4, Huey Long, 1988
Posted on 3/17/18 at 3:32 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Shelby Footes
Love this guy. Wish I could have sat down and listened to him in person.
My favorite documentary was Baseball, followed closely by Civil War. The narration, the still photos, the background sound effects, the music. It all comes together for an enjoyable experience.
Posted on 3/17/18 at 3:52 pm to danman6336
Civil War is #1, thanks to Shelby Foote and that other old historian that talks a little bit.
Shelby Foote is just awesome at those little short recounts of conversations and describing the commanding officers.
Shelby Foote is just awesome at those little short recounts of conversations and describing the commanding officers.
Posted on 3/17/18 at 10:26 pm to Bill Parker?
quote:Thank goodness you didn't give them the wrong impression about us
I left them all thinking that every southerner was a fallen angel.
Posted on 3/19/18 at 12:43 pm to danman6336
Rewatching Civil War right now and it's not holding up 100%. The old woman with the cotton in her ear reciting poetry is a drag on the show.
Posted on 3/19/18 at 1:08 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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Rewatching Civil War right now and it's not holding up 100%. The old woman with the cotton in her ear reciting poetry is a drag on the show.
Talking about Daisy Turner?
I don't think there were many other children of slaves alive at the time Ken Burns made this documentary.
Posted on 3/19/18 at 2:21 pm to GetCocky11
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I don't think there were many other children of slaves alive at the time Ken Burns made this documentary.
I get it, but he goes back to her repeatedly for the poetry recitals. It gets old quick.
Posted on 3/19/18 at 2:29 pm to Fewer Kilometers
quote:lol, i had to fast forward through her scenes
The old woman with the cotton in her ear reciting poetry is a drag on the show.
she is the worst
still worth it to hear Shelby Foote talk though
Posted on 3/19/18 at 2:29 pm to Harry Caray
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Baseball is an embarrassment for how it wrongly portrayed Ty Cobb
This is the overriding theme with most Ken Burns' docs.
He hates the South and he hss never been afraid to let it be known. He pushes the white guilt thing irl every time he gets a chance and hell, even when he was recently on Finebaum promoting one of his latest works he took the opportunity to take a shot at the South and blammed Trump on us ... which I took as a compliment.
Burns is an OT, not OG mind you, but OT as in Original Transitionor or Original Transvestite. Incredibly talented but unbelievably and incredibly well funded mostly by tax payers.
Given that fact I have always said he could have done better. After Civil War all of his docs have had political overtones strongly in favor of his openly socialist and communist beliefs.
#frickKenBurns
Posted on 3/19/18 at 2:33 pm to scrooster
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After Civil War all of his docs have had political overtones strongly in favor of his openly socialist and communist beliefs.
#frickKenBurns
Uh, no they haven't.
Posted on 3/19/18 at 2:34 pm to scrooster
quote:You're not wrong. And it is pretty annoying.
After Civil War all of his docs have had political overtones strongly in favor of his openly socialist and communist beliefs.
But I just take the good with the bad. Sure he gets on his high horse a lot. In the baseball documentary he spends more time on Jackie Robinson than he does on almost all the other players put together.
But the man knows how to make a historical documentary. I'll take some shitty politically motivated stuff 10% of the time and enjoy the other 90% of unbiased history discussion.
Posted on 3/19/18 at 3:09 pm to danman6336
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still worth it to hear Shelby Foote talk though
I could listen to Shelby Foote read the want-ads and be entertained.
Posted on 3/19/18 at 4:46 pm to danman6336
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Been watching a bunch lately, they're great to fall asleep to. While also some of the best historical documentaries in the game, imo
1. Civil War (the undisputed champio)
2. Baseball
3. Vietnam
4. Dust Bowl
5. Roosevelts (would be higher if it just covered Teddy, not FDR or Eloleanor)
lol ... you wanna cover "the roosevelts" but leave out fdr and his wife ... okey dokey ...
Posted on 3/19/18 at 4:48 pm to LSUFreek
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Jazz easily.
Maybe I'm biased because I worked for 15 years in the French Quarter, but I was fascinated over it's humble origins, its viral spread across the world, its reign as sonic king for decades until RnR arrived, then to watch its evolution from dance joints to subdued lounges.
i don't know if it's better than the CW - and it may be -
but it's damned good ... it's humbling to see how those cats dealt with segregation, the Depression & their demons and still made great music ...
This post was edited on 3/19/18 at 4:49 pm
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