Anyone else pissed at the new movie "The Alamo"?

[GePap]

Interesting..do the producers expect this flick to do well in the overseas markets?
Oh, and I have not seen the previous, and I will see this film about the same time I see Pearl Harbor.......

[Dr Strangelove]

I wonder how many versions of "The Alamo" have been made since the dawn of cinema? Is it possibly the most re-made picture in motion picture history?

[MrFun]

And they're all Anglophilic in nature . . .


surprises, surprises.

[GePap]

I am sure Frankenstein and dracula are well ahead. Now, if you mean just historical pics, maybe Custer gives it a run for it's money, and that is not even going into non-American film industries. Maybe other states really like to beath their own dead horses.

[Dr Strangelove]

Well, Mexico has a film industry. Why don't they make their own version?

[MrFun]

How the hell should I know why they haven't produced their own version?

[TCO]

I hope they have the part where Jim Bowie gets carried accross the volunteer line on his bed.

[Drake Tungsten]

And no John Wayne in this movie

[Imran Siddiqui]

Texans were illegally crossing the border in large numbers

Not true, actually. Mexicans wanted Americans to come into Texas and were inviting them in. Of course the American settlers violated the slave laws.

It seems 'The Alamo' is just about that one battle, with little exposition. However, the TRAILER says it is a true story about what "TWO sides fought for what they believed... protected what they loved... and gave the world a legend".

Looks sweet though .

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Wait...Mexicans aren't evil?

[GePap]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Well, Mexico has a film industry. Why don't they make their own version?

Whom would they cast as a bunch of gringos in the Alamo? It probably is more expensive for them to get enough whites than it is for an American unit to get enough Chicanos. Plus American crews get to examine the actual Aamo withou that whole immigration problem.

[MrFun]

Mexico welcomed white settlers initially -- until white slaveowners decided to come in large numbers, and ignore Mexico's abolishment of slavery.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Who cares about accuracy, we greased all your gringo Tejas asses anyway.



The Alamo was really about having more balls than brains and waiting 24 hours too long.

[GePap]

It is important to realize that the slavery issue was only one. Had the democratic gov. of mexico lasted, then the Texans woud have had a much harder time justifying their actions, specially since a fair number of neighboring Mexicans did join them: the collapse of the democratic gov, and Santa Ana's rise gave the Texans a great motivator for their revolt.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Mexico welcomed white settlers initially -- until white slaveowners decided to come in large numbers, and ignore Mexico's abolishment of slavery.

The Mexicans never shut off the spigot... and the fighters at the Alamo were mostly all original settlers.