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Mrmystro123

Always a makes me happy seeing you release a new reaction!

Lonnie Vannatter

i never noticed this until the orderly that is treating Captain Shaws neck injury is Ethan Phillips the actor that played Neelix in Star Trek Voyager

JBlaze24

Why did they just walk in formation straight at enemy and let them shoot them all without even shooting back? I don't understand.

gak9319

It's Napoleonic tactics. The weaponry evolved faster than the tactics. Result, bloodbath😅

gak9319

The balls on these guys. Taking part in this kind of warfare🫡

Call me Lilly, Lilith if ya Nasty.

Guarantees of rations of any quality was sporadic in armies up into the late 19th/early 20th centuries and prior to that soldiers would often have to make do otherwise they were stuck with hard tack or salt-beef or nothing at all. This isn't like a modern army where everything was provided, the goat is there because it was a food source.

Lonnie Vannatter

William Harvey Carney received the Medal of Honor for saving the 54th’s flag when the color bearer fell. He was shot multiple times yet despite his injuries, Carney protected the flag for the remainder of the battle. he carried in the dark crawling back to the Union front. The 54th Massachusetts’ valor at the Battle of Fort Wagner paved the way for more African Americans to enlist.

gak9319

"My father discovered evidence of an alien civilisation, predating our own. In the Rubal' al Khali in Arabia"😁

JBlaze24

Ya that would suck being in back then not having any idea what your walking into. When I was in we did a 3 day convey from kuwait to Baghdad in armored vehicles with a.c. while being escorted by a blackhawk lol. The 2nd time we didn't even have to do the convoy they just helicoptered us straight into the base.

JBlaze24

The only catch was we were stuck in small bases in middle of city and got mortared all the time. They used guerilla warfare. You would just be walking then explosions would start hitting everywhere throwing shrapnel. We had 765 rocket and mortar impacts in our camp the 1st tour I went. I hated being outside. I stay off grid now and don't go around crowds unless I have to cause my adrenalin kicks up and I start getting anxiety. It's annoying cause I know nothing is gonna happen but my body starts freaking out so I just have to avoid certain situations.

gak9319

Flogging was a common punishment for desertion and other infractions. Though if you deserted enough times you would be hanged.

gak9319

He's done a lot of voice acting as well, recognised his voice right away😄

gak9319

That is indeed Mark Margolis, Hector Salamanca 😄

John Dodo

You nailed it when you said we have a beautiful country. I will be fishing on a creek bank in about 4 hours that looks just like that exact scene. I am truly thankful to live in this country with all of our freedoms.

Mister_Bleak

i remember watching this in school. interesting film. never noticed, back then, just how many big names were involved. Great choice for a reaction :)

gak9319

The Confederates buried the Colonel in a mass grave with his black soldiers, thinking it was a sign of disrespect. His father said he was proud too know his son was buried with his men.

slimsycentaur37

Matthew Broderick is a terrible overactor who brings this movie down. Sorry had to say it.

ezza

I hadn't seen this one. Decent movie

Lonnie Vannatter

The Union had wrote Col Shaws parents because it was customary to dig the officers up and bring. His parents declined and said they were proud that he was buried a long side of his men. This is one favorites along with Gettysburg. I was an reenactor in that movie. I have a lot of respect for the soldiers on both sides that offered their lives so that we may learn from their mistakes and that the government made of the people, by people and for the people will not perish from this earth.

D Montano

Never tried to watch this due to Mathew Broderick. Dude is awful and so is his wife.

Susan B

A movie suggestion out of nowhere: District 9. Sci fi and social commentary about an alien species stranded in South Africa and confined to a walled camp.

Scott Asher

Being a troop in the Civil War doesn't look like it was too much fun. It's Summer in Virginia or some other super humid place and you're sleeping outside with the bugs and wearing a wool coat for some reason... I don't blame them for lining up and walking into each other's gunfire. New shoes are great, but let's not forget how barbaric the Civil War could be: those were just shoes. Not size 12 or size 9 shoes, just shoes... that you had to wear everyday on the walk from Boston to Atlanta. Also, you get 2 pairs of socks... on top of that, WAR! Yes, that's Hector Salamanca (Mark Margolis)

Scott Asher

Fun Fact: The timeline for this movie begins (Battle of Antietam, 1862) 1 year after Django kneecaps Samuel L Jackson and blows up Candyland (1861)

Teth

I was waiting for you to get to this since you saw the Lincoln movie. Great reaction, and a great movie even if it's a tough watch.

Teth

The Civil War had the same problem as the Great War to an extent; outdated tactics that didnt keep up with modern weapons.

Teth

I'm surprised! I think he's quite muted in general, but especially in this one. Not a dramatic actor, but he has that earnest quality that makes him believable, like Kevin Costner.

Madmanmarz1981

Steller reaction Sir. One of my Top 10 War Films. Powerful. I would love to see your reaction to the 1987 Vietnam film Hamburger Hill. Also based on a real incident. It is considered the most realistic of all the films about Vietnam. Also , Black Hawk Down (2001) would be another I believe you would quite like. Peace

Alejandro Rosiles

A really good war movie is 1917. That movie was edited to make it look like the whole thing was one continuous shot.

Susan B

Forgot to mention that District 9 is produced by Peter Jackson who created the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Susan B

Yes 1917 is a great film. So is the recent version of All Quiet on the Western Front. IMO both of those films stand alongside Saving Private Ryan for giving viewers an idea of what it was like to be in the trenches.

Susan B

And WWI was not far removed from the American civil war in its sheer face-to-face brutality. My great grandfather served in “the meat grinder” in France and there are photos of the front that look like they could be from the civil war. Misery.

SnakeandNape

The General in South Carolina is Bob Gunton. He played CAPT. Benjamin Maxwell in the TNG episode "Wounded".

Susan B

He gives a decent performance here.

Susan B

The other characters act like they’ve never seen Morgan Freeman before. Ya’ll, that’s Morgan Freeman.

Susan B

I have one issue with the filmmaking here as I often do with historical dramas: being able to guess the decade when it was made based on the men’s hairstyles. That blow-dried look on Matthew Broderick.

Susan B

Beaufort SC is pronounced BEW-fort.

Susan B

I live in Atlanta now and the city’s Civil War history is mostly paved over, but at Kennesaw Mountain north of Atlanta there was a battle in the woods on a 45 - degree slope. You can almost feel the terror when you walk those woods. The claustrophobic nature of the fight, the difficulty in keeping their footing in that tangle.

ViperBreeze

@Andrew Clifton From Greenup County, KY myself! My wife and I visited Serpent Mound in Adams County, OH on a date back in college. Such a cool historical site. If you ever get the chance, there are some really neat mounds up in Newark, OH east of Columbus.

Susan B

I was going to suggest a reaction to the Underground Railroad limited series based on the Colson Whitehead novel. It’s a surrealist take, with an actual railroad under the ground. Magical realism? Beautifully done series, but I didn’t suggest it because it might not be a popular one for a reaction,