Don't care if it was inacurate, it was great entertainment. The scene when the little girl spoke to Gibson for the first time and ran after him brought tears in my eyes.

The music was as perfect as can be. I apreciate the score more than I did before. Certain section where I wondered why Williams composed it the way he did, were finally answered. I just wish he would have left the opening cue on the cd out and replaced it with the night scene at the beginning of the movie, what a moving cue that was.

All of this is, of course, only my, uneducated, opinion.

This is one that I missed in the theatre, can't wait to see it on DVD. I bought the score and I love it, I'm glad to hear that it is even better in the movie.

It was just lame American propaganda.

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well, Sean,

I don't know. Call me patriotic. Call me sissy. Call me an idiot. I just know the tears just came running.

Case in point: Opening comic sequence with the rocker was unnecessary, cliche (slapstick stuff been done before), and not really very funny anyway. Plus, this guy has time ( a precious commodity on a farm) to build several bad rockers, an item which any utilitarian man of his day should be able to understand a viable piece of furniture from a fiasco... especially the hero.

I will hold the specific analysis to that one scene, but when movie opened with it I knew they were going to go overboard with more than just that. There's a lot to be said for the art of being subtle with a screenplay.

Visually, the movie was magnificant, and the actors and actresses were well chosen for their parts. A better screenplay would have made the movie Oscar worthy.

Sorry for the contrary opinion, but that's what these boards are for... discourse.

Oh yeah, the score was quite good, I will check it out sometime and hear what it sounds like on the CD.
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What has the world come to...

Good to see ya again Jens.

I didn't think they set up the daughter-not-speaking bit in The Patriot well enough for it to be moving. It was odd, actually.

FIRST SCENE SHE SPEAKS IN: I hate him, I hate my father!

SECOND SCENE, IN WHICH SHE SEES HER FATHER: (nothing)

THIRD SCENE, AS GIBSON IS LEAVING: I love you, daddy!

I don't know, thought it was missing something.

Still, I bawled like a little girl.

Shaun

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I don't know, thought it was missing something.

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No, it's not essential that the movie be a history lesson, but it does need to stay reasonably faithful to the times to maintain plausibility and interest. Now that I am fully aware that Roland Emmerich (Godzilla, Independence Day, Stargate) directed this film, it's considerably easier to understand the approach taken.

As I mentioned before, the movie has its good points; it just could have been so much more.
Ride With The Devil (directed by Ang Lee) was finally released to VHS recently. This is another wartime period drama; excellent cast, direction and screenplay. RWTD takes a much different approach in maintaining its focus on an effective storyline without resorting to formulated techniques. Of course, the critics generally panned the movie, which saw virtually no distribution and was probably a financial flop. So, once again it's easier to understand the approach taken with The Patriot. It may not be a runaway success, but it will earn its way at the box office.
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