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marshaul wrote:
Tomahawk wrote:
Deanimator wrote:
I forgot "The Patriot"! "Aim small, miss small."
That movie made blood shoot from the eyes of the antis! "He gave guns to CHILDRENNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!"
I thought that movie was cheesy and played too fast and loose with history, but that one scene made it worth the ticket.
I
detest Gibson's ever-present historical revisionism.
Braveheart and The Patriot rank #1 and 2, respectively.
To be honest, the man has become so ridiculous, the last time I watched The Patriot (for some reason I bought the DVD) I basically laughed from start to finish.
What an absurd pile of @#$%.
Good fight scenes, though. No denying that.
Well, except for the fact that the fictional Lt. Col. Tavington (modeled on the real-life SOB Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton) never missed when firing at moving horsemen at extreme range with his flintlock pistol, and the magic musket reloading rates, and the giant cannon fielded by the British army, which looked a bit too heavy for field peices and more like garrison or naval guns, yeah, the action was okay.
The main characters in the film are modeled after real people, and the battles are based on real events, but the whole glossing over of slavery was silly, especially the white landowner having a wedding on the beech with a black family. That was hard to swallow.
Also over the top was the church-burning scene. Tarleton is regarded as one of the worst war criminals of the Revolution, and even he would never have have done anything so horrific; he was best known for a rumor that he executed American POWs after they surrendered. The British army was known for burning towns down, notably Charleston in the battle of Bunker Hill and numerous coastal raids, but they never locked the residents inside and forced them to burn to death.
To be fair, Tavington was leading American loyalists in the film, and the war was used by many Southerners as a cover for settling old scores and feuds. Many people's houses and barns were burned down under the guise of guerilla action against enemy supporters.
To be honest, I thought the movie was about Waco, since the FBI committed a similar atrocity. Gibson was clearly pushing people's buttons about freedom, and was not above embellishing historical facts to illustrate it.
Okay, enough overanalyzing Mel Gibson. Back to pro-gun movies. One of the things I remember abouot the Death Wish films was a scene in which the cops confiscate a revolver used by an elderly couple to defend themselves from intruders, which of course leads to their death by the intruders. These films bludgeoned the audience over the head with the pro-gun, anti-crime message.
