No_Brakes23
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Uh, I don't get what is so bad about The Patriot. Granted I just usually watch the LotM style rescue where he says "Aim small, Miss small," but I don't get what is so bad about this film.
Are there any good movies about the American Revolution?
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rhkirk1
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I agree about Last of the Mohicans book, movie and soundtrack. As for a good book about the Revolution, try "the Glorious Cause" by Jeff Shaara. This guy is my favorite writer (his dad was Michael Shaara who wrote "The Killer Angels" ) and this book is a great one dealing with some of the big figures in the Revolution.
Here's why I think the movie "The Patriot" sucks.
1) The movie fundamentally doesn't know what it wants to be. Is it a comedy? Is it an adventure story? Is it a love story? Is it a war movie? Is it a buddy picture? Is it a historical drama? What is it?
The director doesn't know what it is....that's obvious.
And thus, the movie has several good moments sprinkled here and there, but overall, it doesn't do any of the above in a really outstanding manner.
It's sort of like a gun that someone has designed to be a CCW piece and a home defense gun and an assault rifle and a precision sniper rifle and a sporting clays gun that you can also shoot IDPA and NRA Highpower with.....
As such, it's really not that great at anything.
2) The final battle scene wherein Gibson's good guy character is about to kill the British officer bad guy character (ostensibly mangled versions of Marion and Banastre Tarleton respectively, although Tarleton survived the war and wasn't near as awful as "Tavington" in the movie) is so overblown and over-dramatized and so unrealistic and so predictable as to completely ruin all the previous good moments that might have made the movie tolerable until that point.
I mean any time, and I do mean ANY time that a director resorts to slow-motion in a scene to tell the audience, "Hey, pay attention, this is like important and significant or something" that's a sign that the movie is beginning to suck......a lot..........
hillbilly
1) The movie fundamentally doesn't know what it wants to be. Is it a comedy? Is it an adventure story? Is it a love story? Is it a war movie? Is it a buddy picture? Is it a historical drama? What is it?
The director doesn't know what it is....that's obvious.
And thus, the movie has several good moments sprinkled here and there, but overall, it doesn't do any of the above in a really outstanding manner.
It's sort of like a gun that someone has designed to be a CCW piece and a home defense gun and an assault rifle and a precision sniper rifle and a sporting clays gun that you can also shoot IDPA and NRA Highpower with.....
As such, it's really not that great at anything.
2) The final battle scene wherein Gibson's good guy character is about to kill the British officer bad guy character (ostensibly mangled versions of Marion and Banastre Tarleton respectively, although Tarleton survived the war and wasn't near as awful as "Tavington" in the movie) is so overblown and over-dramatized and so unrealistic and so predictable as to completely ruin all the previous good moments that might have made the movie tolerable until that point.
I mean any time, and I do mean ANY time that a director resorts to slow-motion in a scene to tell the audience, "Hey, pay attention, this is like important and significant or something" that's a sign that the movie is beginning to suck......a lot..........
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