Recomend me War Movies.

[Excalibur]

LOL, just messing with you. Hey you're that age where people start to wonder about sex and who they should fuck.

[Gunmaster45]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

LOL, just messing with you. Hey you're that age where people start to wonder about sex and who they should fuck.

I like women.

Soooo, lets get back on topic.

Glory and Dances With Wolves are good movies if you want to go a little farther back in time. I hate how the Union is always the bad guys though in Civil War movies.

[Excalibur]

The Thin Red Line was ok.

[Nyles]

Gettysburg is fucking amazing. Zulu is great.

[Ace Oliveira]

Glory and Gettysburg are great movies. Zulu too. And John, i don't really think the Union are always the bad guys.

[Alcatrazz]

Gods and Generals was okay, but it was so goddamn talky. Shut up and let me see the battles. Enough of Jeff Daniels!

[Ace Oliveira]

Gods and Generals was horrible.

[Gunmaster45]

Originally Posted by Ace Oliveira

Glory and Gettysburg are great movies. Zulu too. And John, i don't really think the Union are always the bad guys.

They typically tend to be shown that way. In The Outlaw Josey Wales, in Dances With Wolvers (Kostner was an exception, but everyone else was against him), The Good Bad Ugly (Angel Eyes and his thugs). There's more but I can't think of them.

It just seems like sometimes filmakers tip the favor to the confederates too often. Not to offend southerners, but the confederates were kinda the "bad guys" of that war, since they wanted slavery. And that's wrong.

[k9870]

Peopel wer ecomplaining about how the souh was portrayed as racist bad guys so they try to show "the struggle for states rights" and get all the viewpoints, then notice there being partial to the south, lol. Trying to please everyone.

[Yournamehere]

Originally Posted by Gunmaster45

It just seems like sometimes filmakers tip the favor to the confederates too often. Not to offend southerners, but the confederates were kinda the "bad guys" of that war, since they wanted slavery. And that's wrong.

That's a common viewpoint, but the North didn't want to end slavery itself, though it was considered a haven by abolitionists. The North had hinted that the freedom of slaves was to come, through ceasing expansion of the slave trade in new territories, but they were ultimately only freed because of inflamed politicians trying both to cripple and piss off their enemies, more enflamed politicians,Southern of course. Their freedom was a stroke of dumb luck which made the North look like they were advocating the end to this the entire time, as well as the "good guys" to the rest of the world, which was more or less acting on the cool new fad of freeing slaves.

All in all, abolition just sort of happened, and was not a major issue involving the war itself, though the (imaginary, in some cases) contrast between Northerners and Southerners is often portrayed in film work because........ it's easier to understand than what actually happened. It's also a pity that the dumb luck that freed the slaves wouldn't actually free them for another hundred or so years. Some say we are still in a "Second Reconstruction", but you'll learn all of this jibbery joo in your High School history class too .