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What’s a Good Movie to Watch on Independence Day?
July 04, 2023, 12:31 PM
TMatsWhat’s a Good Movie to Watch on Independence Day?
Other than the Will Smith obvious…
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despite them
July 04, 2023, 12:37 PM
chbibcGettysburgh
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You can't fall off the floor.
July 04, 2023, 01:01 PM
smschulzJust watched
Flags of Our Fathers this morning, should be available streaming as well.
July 04, 2023, 01:59 PM
GustoferThe Patriot.
TURN: Washington's Spies.
Sons of Liberty.
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It is long past time for a Convention of States. The Founding Fathers gave us this tool to fix an out of control government and we need to use it.
July 04, 2023, 02:02 PM
pace40Just finished Gettysburg. Jaws is on now. Will be followed by Day After Tomorrow because its too forkin hot.
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Pace
July 04, 2023, 11:10 PM
corsairLast of the Mohicans
John Adams
The Crossing
All for Liberty
Midnight Riders
July 05, 2023, 07:52 AM
erj_pilotcorsair beat me to John Adams. An absolute MUST...
But alas, today is the 5th.
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne
"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 July 05, 2023, 08:26 AM
TMatsThanks. I looked up a few of the movies/series mentioned (John Adams was a series, wasn’t it?) and they were PPV, not expensive mind you, but I just didn’t feel like going that route. I actually ended up watching
Blazing Saddles, I guess I can rationalize it as a good movie for July 4th.
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July 05, 2023, 10:11 AM
RogueJSKquote:
Originally posted by TMats:
(John Adams was a series, wasn’t it?)
Yes. As are Turn: Washington's Spies, and Sons of Liberty.
July 05, 2023, 04:18 PM
BMR“The Patriot”
July 05, 2023, 04:37 PM
jhe888quote:
Originally posted by TMats:
Other than the Will Smith obvious…
Which isn't really that good.
Patton.
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. July 05, 2023, 05:05 PM
TMatsquote:
Originally posted by jhe888:
quote:
Originally posted by TMats:
Other than the Will Smith obvious…
Which isn't really that good.
Agreed
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July 05, 2023, 09:42 PM
chongosuerteWe settled on Top Gun Maverick. Pondered all listed already (and I loved Turn).
Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here.
Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard.
-JALLEN
"All I need is a WAR ON DRUGS reference and I got myself a police thread BINGO." -jljones
July 06, 2023, 06:33 AM
Captain MorganA little late to the party but watch Sons of Liberty with Claude Rains.
I saw this short film when it and aired in-between two movies being shown on TMC.
Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.
Benjamin Franklin July 06, 2023, 09:26 PM
ArtieSThey Were Expendable.
"Patton" for runner up, and "The Longest Day" if you want a trifecta.
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.