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

[TCO]

Originally posted by 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.

Who you calling "we", paleface?

[GePap]

I think Santa Ana might be a reason Mexican versions of the Alamo aren't common..how to portray him? He is not a hero in Mexico in any meaning of the word, so who is the big Hero on the Mexican version of the Alamo? There are plenty of famous Whites, but besides Sant Ana..what famous Mexicans participated?

[MichaeltheGreat]

How does one "shut off the spigot" precisely? Build a massive chain of forts along the Red and Sabine rivers?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well that's true, Santa Anna messes the whole Mexican side up. I don't think many Mexicans would be too offended if Santa Anna was portrayed as a bad guy, because he is one to them as well. He overthrew democratic governments and wanted to rule as dictator... and got his ass handed to him.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by TCO


Who you calling "we", paleface?

Got a lot of sun today, gringo. Besides, I'm home, 300 meters south of the border.

[Imran Siddiqui]

How does one "shut off the spigot" precisely? Build a massive chain of forts along the Red and Sabine rivers?

That's one way .

They could have cracked down on settlers entering, but it just wasn't that important to them at the time. What did they care? Until the Texans started getting uppity, of course.

[GePap]

While this may not sound pretty, the Mexicans (at leats those in power) were not doing much to develop their vast northern provinces, whcih is why they were so eager to let whites in..let them do it for the central gov. That is probably why the whole nothern part of mexico was easy pickings, a few missionaries, very small Mexican pops and a bunch of Injuns. Though the exicans weren;t doing much to attract many cahtolic immigrants either. Imagine if all those irishmen had moved to mexico instead....

Major O'Hannigan of Mexico City....

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by GePap
I think Santa Ana might be a reason Mexican versions of the Alamo aren't common..how to portray him? He is not a hero in Mexico in any meaning of the word, so who is the big Hero on the Mexican version of the Alamo? There are plenty of famous Whites, but besides Sant Ana..what famous Mexicans participated?

It depends on your definition of famous.

I would suspect the real reason is the utter lack of drama. Small delaying force of green stuff between their teeth rednecks holed up in a run down ex-Spanish mission sticks around a day too long and gets greased by the main force of Santa Anna's army when it arrived on the field.

What's the excitement? Next on ESPN, world champion fish-in-barrel shooting, It's about the same.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

How does one "shut off the spigot" precisely? Build a massive chain of forts along the Red and Sabine rivers?

That's one way .

They could have cracked down on settlers entering, but it just wasn't that important to them at the time. What did they care? Until the Texans started getting uppity, of course.

They also didn't have the population base up there to maintain a large force on indefinite garrison duty.

[Ted Striker]

true

that's why they originally encouraged americans to settle there to make the land into something productive

[yavoon]

no not really

[TCO]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat


Got a lot of sun today, gringo. Besides, I'm home, 300 meters south of the border.

Yeah, yeah Lone Ranger...

[MichaeltheGreat]

Put a hat on to cover the brown hair, and I can blend, man. You're SOL though.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
Put a hat on to cover the brown hair, and I can blend, man.

I call BS on that. We've seen your pic.

[MichaeltheGreat]

You haven't seen me when I'm brown. Besides, there's lots of honkier than me looking Mexicans.