[Lincoln] Park

manwiththemachinegun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJcuYKyHEgs

Wait, wrong movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiSAbAuLhqs

This movie was so good. So good. Just got back from it.

Talk about how good Lincoln was everyone.

Oh man at the end my feeeeeels Yes, it's a hundred year old spoiler but it was still depressing as hell.

Anyway, this was the first movie in a while I felt Spielberg just knocked it out of the park. So to speak.

spono

I couldn't believe it turns out that John Wilkes Booth was his father all along

Blake T

In the end, it doesn't even matter.

manwiththemachinegun

The CGI dragon duel between Grant and Lee was the only part I wish they had spent more money on.

Muggins

Probably my favorite thread title in a good long while

Sterica

A movie about a amusement park full of cloned Abraham Lincolns would be pretty cool.

Goatmon

It got really crazy when General Lee murdered the heads of the Red Dragon Syndicate.

TheStig

Bro, spoiler that shit

UnbreakableVow

The way they handled Lincoln's assassination was just fucking awesome

Genuine spoilers

Wrong theater, assholes!

Loved that shit

What movie will go up against this at the Oscars next year?

Mr Fuzzbutt

i heard lincoln kills hitler in this movie

confirm/deny

Goatmon

Mr Fuzzbutt wrote: »

i heard lincoln kills hitler in this movie

confirm/deny

He kills, like, 30 Hitlers.

You aren't aware of the alternate timelines thing?

Shorty

manwiththemachinegun wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJcuYKyHEgs

look at dave chappelle

he just a baby

Xehalus

CRAWLING

Raijin Quickfoot

Daniel Day-Lewis actually went back in time to study Lincoln...wait, I've said too much.

Dex Dynamo

Daniel Day Lewis got mixed up and thought he was cast in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

It's a shame all those people had to die, but you can really see the weight in his eyes about going to war.

JoeUser

Goatmon wrote: »

Mr Fuzzbutt wrote: »

i heard lincoln kills hitler in this movie

confirm/deny

He kills, like, 30 Hitlers.

You aren't aware of the alternate timelines thing?

Sweeney Tom

This is my favorite film of the year. Nothing else even comes close. It is a crime if Day-Lewis doesn't get his third Oscar because of this movie.

Before seeing this, I had never personally witnessed a movie viewing at a theater that concluded with a standing ovation from the audience. This movie brought everybody in my packed theater to their feet at the end credits. It was a beautiful moment.

Dex Dynamo

JoeUser wrote: »

Goatmon wrote: »

Mr Fuzzbutt wrote: »

i heard lincoln kills hitler in this movie

confirm/deny

He kills, like, 30 Hitlers.

You aren't aware of the alternate timelines thing?

FUCK, I LOVE TIME LINCOLN.

Raijin Quickfoot

I can't wait for the sequel Johnson starring Dabney Coleman as Andrew Johnson.

Aneurhythmia

I generally like Daniel Day Lewis, but Spielberg's penchant for sentimentality has made me super wary of this sort of treatment. Dunno if I'll end up watching this or not.

Kaplar

JoeUser wrote: »

Goatmon wrote: »

Mr Fuzzbutt wrote: »

i heard lincoln kills hitler in this movie

confirm/deny

He kills, like, 30 Hitlers.

You aren't aware of the alternate timelines thing?

The 0 on his left ear looks like a hoop earring. Lincoln went around time and he got faaaaabulous.

PiptheFair

Aneurhythmia wrote: »

I generally like Daniel Day Lewis, but Spielberg's penchant for sentimentality has made me super wary of this sort of treatment. Dunno if I'll end up watching this or not.

that article is filled with more white liberal guilt than the movie holy shit

PiptheFair

As in “Schindler’s List” and “Saving Private Ryan,” his purpose is more to entertain and inspire than to educate.

you're shitting me here?

a movie is made to entertain people?

well I never

PiptheFair

also, the movie was entirely about lincoln's efforts to get the 13th amendment through the house

that's it

it was not about emancipation as a whole, or the climate in DC, or the accomplishments of african americans during the bellum period

it was completely about the 13th amendment in the house

Abracadaniel

I now feel that 13th Amendment should be a MC's name

Aneurhythmia

PiptheFair wrote: »

As in “Schindler’s List” and “Saving Private Ryan,” his purpose is more to entertain and inspire than to educate.

you're shitting me here?

a movie is made to entertain people?

well I never

Is this a legit criticism of the article? That she identified that the movie emphasized narrative themes over facts? You know not all movies are like that, right?

PiptheFair

Aneurhythmia wrote: »

PiptheFair wrote: »

As in “Schindler’s List” and “Saving Private Ryan,” his purpose is more to entertain and inspire than to educate.

you're shitting me here?

a movie is made to entertain people?

well I never

Is this a legit criticism of the article? That she identified that the movie emphasized narrative themes over facts? You know not all movies are like that, right?

yes they are called documentaries

PiptheFair

and even then the assertion that it does not education is flat out wrong

gonna go on a limb and say not too many people understand that lincoln straight up bought votes and artificially prolonged the war

Aneurhythmia

PiptheFair wrote: »

also, the movie was entirely about lincoln's efforts to get the 13th amendment through the house

that's it

it was not about emancipation as a whole, or the climate in DC, or the accomplishments of african americans during the bellum period

it was completely about the 13th amendment in the house

At least a few of the suggestions made in the article seem directly related to that, others definitely didn't, but some did. Hypothetical scenes aside, her point seems to be that a hyper-narrow focus on Lincoln himself seems to exclude necessarily attendant factors in the development of the 13th Amendment. And the movie plot does seem to extend past the 13th passing the house by several months.

Anyway, I can't comment on all of her points, since I haven't seen it yet. I just linked it as illustrative of my general concerns about Spielberg's directing style and Lincoln's image as a messianic figure.

Aneurhythmia

PiptheFair wrote: »

and even then the assertion that it does not education is flat out wrong

gonna go on a limb and say not too many people understand that lincoln straight up bought votes and artificially prolonged the war

I think you're reading that sentence totally differently than I am. I think the crux of it is the word, "more."

Ubik

how much is Ex Parte Merryman discussed in the movie

PiptheFair

Aneurhythmia wrote: »

PiptheFair wrote: »

also, the movie was entirely about lincoln's efforts to get the 13th amendment through the house

that's it

it was not about emancipation as a whole, or the climate in DC, or the accomplishments of african americans during the bellum period

it was completely about the 13th amendment in the house

At least a few of the suggestions made in the article seem directly related to that, others definitely didn't, but some did. Hypothetical scenes aside, her point seems to be that a hyper-narrow focus on Lincoln himself seems to exclude necessarily attendant factors in the development of the 13th Amendment. And the movie plot does seem to extend past the 13th passing the house by several months.

Anyway, I can't comment on all of her points, since I haven't seen it yet. I just linked it as illustrative of my general concerns about Spielberg's directing style and Lincoln's image as a messianic figure.

you need to see it then

her points are all completely unrepresentative of what the movie actually was about


it's tantamount to complaining that saving private ryan did not properly illustrate the efforts put forth by the jewish resistance in the ghettos, it's historically accurate but completely ancillary to the intent of the movie

on the spiielberg directing style I agree though, and there were some very speilberg moments, but it was overall excellent

and he does not pull punches with the questionable and downright illegal shit lincoln does

CorporateRed

This is one of few movies I'm interested in seeing.

Lincoln lives happily ever after, right?

Dex Dynamo

CorporateRed wrote: »

This is one of few movies I'm interested in seeing.

Lincoln lives happily ever after, right?

WHY WOULDN'T YOU SPOILER THAT, JERK

Zonugal

I haven't seen Skyfall yet, so it is down to that or this for seeing a film this weekend.

Hmm...

I may go towards the master thespian Daniel Day-Lewis with this one.

Mayday

Xehalus wrote: »

Xehalus wrote: »

CRAWLING

Joanne K.Rowling in my skin

FANTOMAS

I saw the movie, its entretaining, like... "Underworld", or something like that, it has good speed and timing, I never checked who the director was, I only now realice it was Spielberg, I seriously thought it was someone younger, willing to take more risks. For those who havent seen it, its not a documentary, its a very fun movie, good action, I dont WANT to like the movie, but I ended up liking it.

Grey Ghost

Uh

Zonugal

Why wouldn't you want to like the movie?

You payed money for it???

Sweeney Tom

I think he's talking about the Vampire Hunter thing, because Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" starring Daniel Day-Lewis is not filled with action, nor is it comparable to fucking "Underworld".

Zonugal

I am enraptured in confusion.