View Poll Results: Which American war needs more films?
The Revolutionary War
13
25.49%
The War of 1812
6
11.76%
The Civil War
2
3.92%
The Spanish-American War
1
1.96%
World War I
7
13.73%
World War II (European front)
2
3.92%
World War II (Pacific front)
3
5.88%
The Korean War
4
7.84%
The Vietnam War
3
5.88%
Other (please specify)
10
19.61%
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Weekly Poll (7/18/04): Which American war needs more films?
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Weekly Poll (7/18/04): Which American war needs more films?
Which American war would you like to see more in films?
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Previous Weekly Polls:
7/11/04: Best film directed by Ron Howard?
7/4/04: Best Denzel Washington film?
6/20/04: Best James Cagney film?
6/13/04: Best Coen Brothers film?
6/6/04: Best Blake Edwards directed film?
5/30/04: Best Yul Brynner film?
5/23/04: Best Dustin Hoffman film?
5/16/04: Best John Huston directed film?
5/9/04: Best Billy Wilder film?
5/2/04: Best John Ford film?
4/25/04: Best Stanley Kubrick film?
4/18/04: Best Oliver Stone directed film?
4/11/04: Best Martin Scorsese directed film?
4/4/04: Best Las Vegas film?
3/28/04: Best Audrey Hepburn film?
3/21/04: Best Ridley Scott film?
3/14/04: Best Hitchcock film?
3/7/04: Best Tom Cruise film?
2/29/04: Does film runtime affect your judgement toward a film's quality?
2/22/04: Best David Lean directed film?
________________________________________________________________________________
2/2/04: Best Cameron Crowe directed film?
2/1/04: Best Jim Carrey film?
1/31/04: Best film starring Kevin Costner?
1/11/04: Least liked Disney 2D animated film of the recent era?
1/6/04: Best Robin Hood film?
1/5/04: Do you view film credits?
Last edited by smirnoffski; 07-25-04 at 11:27 AM.
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The French and Indian War (1756-1763) aka The Seven Years War.
Or The Revolution or War of 1812. or The Mexican-American War - basically anything pre-Civil War.....Can't get enough of that kind of stuff.
Bacon's Rebellion would make a great movie as well.....
Or The Revolution or War of 1812. or The Mexican-American War - basically anything pre-Civil War.....Can't get enough of that kind of stuff.
Bacon's Rebellion would make a great movie as well.....
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Revolutionary. There are very, VERY few good Revolutionary War pics out there. WWII and Vietnam have been done to death. Korea is downplayed, as is WWI. Some good Civil War stuff out there. But really, we need a GREAT revolutionary war pic.
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The War of 1812. I want to see the Brits sack Washington!
(Of course knowing Hollywood in the movie version President Kenau Reeves would singlehandedly save the White House from the torch by winning a slow-mo kung fu battle with King Gary Oldman III.)
(Of course knowing Hollywood in the movie version President Kenau Reeves would singlehandedly save the White House from the torch by winning a slow-mo kung fu battle with King Gary Oldman III.)
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In regards to "normal" wars, I have to go with WWI... There were some decent WWI movies before WWII came about, but I can't think of one made in quite some time. It was such a revolutionary war fought like no war before it.
That said, I voted other... There's a semi-war not on the list that I'd be interested in seeing a decent movie of: The Boxer Rebellion. Just bought a book on it last week, and the whole thing was quite amazing.
Regardless of the fascinating details of the diplomats struggle, you had Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Japan, America, Britain and other countries in an international conflict against China trying to get into Peking to rescue the diplomats... They had been surrounded by thousands of Chinese for a couple of months in the heart of China. News stories has gone across the world saying they had all been massacred while they were still trying to fight off the Chinese Imperial Army and the Boxers.
But the fact you had all those countries working together in 1900, with the seeds that caused WWI and WWII already planted, in addition to it's unique aspect of being a true "International" coalition against a country long before such things were considered to be normal. Would we ever see a modern movie on the Boxer Rebellion? Not a chance in hell. But it would have the potential of being a great movie.
That said, I voted other... There's a semi-war not on the list that I'd be interested in seeing a decent movie of: The Boxer Rebellion. Just bought a book on it last week, and the whole thing was quite amazing.
Regardless of the fascinating details of the diplomats struggle, you had Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Japan, America, Britain and other countries in an international conflict against China trying to get into Peking to rescue the diplomats... They had been surrounded by thousands of Chinese for a couple of months in the heart of China. News stories has gone across the world saying they had all been massacred while they were still trying to fight off the Chinese Imperial Army and the Boxers.
But the fact you had all those countries working together in 1900, with the seeds that caused WWI and WWII already planted, in addition to it's unique aspect of being a true "International" coalition against a country long before such things were considered to be normal. Would we ever see a modern movie on the Boxer Rebellion? Not a chance in hell. But it would have the potential of being a great movie.