I enjoyed The Alamo. Don't watch this one late at night when you are tired!! I did this for 2 nights in a row!! Fell asleep during the "Talking" parts! LOL. In all seriousness, I did enjoy this movie and two big thumbs up to Billy Bob Thorton's performance as Davey Crockett. And I will echo a previous posters comment about the battle at the end of the movie...nice to finally see it!!

I still prefer the John Wayne version as that is what I grew up with! The Duke Rocks!!!!!!:D

Take care everyone!!

I just watched it this morning and I must say that while it wasn't the greatest Alamo film ever made, (13 Days to Glory was actually more entertaining), but it did have some good production values (costumes, sets, f/x), decent acting (great acting by BBT), and finally an on-screen representation of the Battle of San Jacinto. Oh, the sound mix was pretty good. A little lax in the bass, but great envelopment.

Question...did Billy Bob actually play the violin? Because if he didn't, he did some persuading "air violin" action there.

The commentary says that Mrs. Dickinson (One of the lone survivors of the Alamo) did state that Crockett did indeed play the fiddle while in the Alamo. And that he had "jammed" with a Scotsman who played the bagpipes.
There's no indication that Billy Bob did the playing himself...Unless you know how fiddles are played.

Billy Bob did indeed play himself...he apparantly learned a whole piece on the violin for the film. This was stated either in the making of featurette that ran on HBO or in an interview for 20/20 or Dateline (or one of those shows) that he did for the film's release. Not sure if it's mentioned on the DVD.

I was dissapointed with the movie.

I enjoyed it.