Man. Looks good...
Click-a-peek-a-loo...
Man. Looks good...
Click-a-peek-a-loo...
"And the truth is that no circumstance can ever defeat us unless we let it... Resilience in the face of failure is a manifestation of the mind..." -Wayne Coyne
Caught a good part of it last night. Very, very good. Especially cool if you have been to Williamsburg/Jamestown/Yorktown area of Virginia where alot of that happened and, I believe, was filmed. Women of that era had it tough.
I've heard that it's going to completely fall short of it's potential, and that casting Paul Giamatti in the lead role does a great disservice to the character.
"The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat." - Sam Snead
I laughed when Jon Stewart said "Ummm....Paul...Being picked to portray John Adams is not a compliment."
It does look good though.
Giamanti has played way to many pyschopaths in the last few years IMO.
I caught part of it last night and all of the "making of" stuff on HBO. It looks like they have put a pretty high value on authenticity, at least as far as the sets/costuming go. The casting is OK with me, too. I'm excited about it. I've always been much more interested in Revolutionary War stuff than the Civil War or other conflicts.
Well, crap.
ripping good stuff. harrumph.
"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever they can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser; in fees, expenses and waste of time." -- Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) Lawyer and President who saved the United States.
"Without opportunities on the part of the poor to obtain expert legal advice, it is idle to talk of equality before the law"-- Justice Chas. Evans Hughes
Yes, Dang good. Morse played a good George Washington and Franklin was good too. It makes me realize I don't know jack past the basics of us history.
I want to see it.
One day before seeing the "Adams" premier, I watched that Clooney lawyer movie. The guy who plays Franaklin is the same guy who went off his meds and got nekkid in a deposition in the Clooney flick. wierd.Originally Posted by Blue
The thing about the Adams flick I really enjoy, besides Paul Giamatti (the manager in "Cinderella Story" BTW) is the extensive use of CGI for the backgrounds and sets. I've never seen anything like it. It's amazingly realistic. Way more so than the incredible background CGI effects in "300" and which were awesome.
"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever they can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser; in fees, expenses and waste of time." -- Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) Lawyer and President who saved the United States.
"Without opportunities on the part of the poor to obtain expert legal advice, it is idle to talk of equality before the law"-- Justice Chas. Evans Hughes
Giamatti was getting hosed for his portrayel but I thought he did a good job. Not that I know what J. Adams was supposed to be but neither do all the dumbass critics. I thought he was good.
franklin was also Gen. Cornwallis in the Patriot. Heh.
By all accounts, Adams was a brillaint but dumpy, irritating little pr1ck. At least that's the way I remember him from David McCullough's book. Hey, history with the warts left on. That's the kind I like.
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"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever they can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser; in fees, expenses and waste of time." -- Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) Lawyer and President who saved the United States.
"Without opportunities on the part of the poor to obtain expert legal advice, it is idle to talk of equality before the law"-- Justice Chas. Evans Hughes
Our forefathers were no saints by any stretch, but Adams was a good guy in my book.
The only thing I didn't like, being a southerner of course, was the over the top jab at slaveholders in the South. If you could have swapped the economies and agriculture of the north and south, I am of the belief, the north would have done the same damn thing.
They portrayed Abigail and the north as morally and intellectually superior than those savage southerners. Self righteous BS.
I think they did a pretty good job overall with the casting. I also absolutely LOVE the music, especially the intro theme, which I've had stuck in my head. It feels right for the Colonial period, yet is modern.
To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high
Still true today.
<ducks>
Boomer Sooner
I heard HBO is also making 1776 by David McCullough into a mini-series
To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high
yeah but we's got moonshine and NASCAR.
Sooner All-World
Yeah, but we got Dentistry.
Hey-O!
Also the son of former baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti. Strange but true.
"The choices we discern as having been made in the Constitutional Convention impose burdens on governmental proceses that often seem clumsy, inefficient, even unworkable, but those hard choices were consciously made by men who had lived under a form of government that permitted arbitrary governmental acts to go unchecked." INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 (1983) (Burger, C.J.)
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