"The Worst ACW Movies Are..." Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 20 Dec 2018 8:44 p.m. PST |
You were asked – TMP link Worst ACW Movies?And in the final round, you chose… 17% said "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)"
14% said "Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies (2012)"
12% said "Curse of the Screaming Dead, The (1982) AKA Curse of the Cannibal Confederates"
10% (tie) said "Birth of a Nation, The (1915)" and "Gods and Generals (2003)" |
| Wackmole9 | 20 Dec 2018 10:11 p.m. PST |
Gods and generals is one of three movies that I left before the movie was over. |
| Winston Smith | 20 Dec 2018 11:21 p.m. PST |
You can't call something "the worst" that was never intended to be taken seriously in the first place. |
| PzGeneral | 21 Dec 2018 5:07 a.m. PST |
My question is how many people have actually seen the Vampire Hunter / Zombie movies and voted just because? I have, Hunter was a typical Vampire genre movie. Zombie was a typical, laughable SyFy Channel original with a GREAT ending. Brilliant!! Did you know Abraham Lincoln actually set himself up with JW Booth at the Ford Theater? He (Lincoln) had just been bitten by a Zombie and didn't want to turn….  |
| Dynaman8789 | 21 Dec 2018 11:33 a.m. PST |
The first three are not ACW movies – being set in the time frame in question does not make it an ACW movie. If Gods and Generals gets a vote then The Field of Lost Shoes would beat it out. Then again the Shoes one was shorter. |
| 14Bore | 21 Dec 2018 12:31 p.m. PST |
Never saw any of them so thanks for the heads up guys |
 Dan Cyr  | 21 Dec 2018 9:17 p.m. PST |
Birth of a Nation Gone With The Wind Gods and Generals |
 Bobgnar | 22 Dec 2018 5:47 p.m. PST |
While there is certainly racial prejudice in birth of a nation, as evidence by Woodrow Wilson liking it, it does have some good battle scenes in the first part. Of the actual movies with battles in them, The version of red badge of courage with John boy Walton Ranks towards the bottom for me. Gone with the wind? Is the movie that is set in the era of the Civil War, a Civil War movie? |
| mildbill | 23 Dec 2018 6:44 a.m. PST |
The main problem with Gods and General is that the complex flowery language of the time does not translate to the modern ear. You should read some of the original stuff that the movie shortened to use as dialog. Now I read a lot of this kind of thing and you have to mentally switch gears. This was an era when preachers would speak for 4 to 5 hours and the audience enjoyed it. The TV mindset will not work with the 19th century man.
Both movies titled 'Birth of a Nation' are propaganda and must be viewed as such. Of the two, the turner revolt movie is the least historical and more offensive. |
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