How come there is a severe lack of Revolutionary War movies? We have 1776 and the Patriot. WWII has more movies than I can even count, same with Vietnam. Even Desert Storm has movies. The Civil War got a glorious theatrical release by Ted Turner with 2, 4 hour epics. What gives? I thought this was America?
It’s easily the most important war in this nation’s history. Without it, we wouldn’t be here right now. Come on Hollywood, churn out the definitive Revolution movie and stop raping our childhood for movie ideas (Scooby Doo, Garfield, Transformers, G.I. Joe, etc.) enough is enough!
While were at it, why not make some great first person shooter games that deal with the Revolutionary War? What would be more fufilling than bucking red coats with musket balls and watching powdered whigs go flying? A Civil War game of the same style would be equally incredible. One where you get to pick which side you fight on. Shit, i’d even take a game based soley on Pickett’s charge. My only stipulation would be that at some point in the game Robert E. Lee compliments both your fighting and your facial hair in his southern gentlemanly voice.
A compliment from Robert E Lee in his southern gentlemanly voice on my facial hair???? I would pay 60 dollars for that alone..The only part of the game that would suck is the Reload time….those musket guns take forever to recharge, but a compliment from E-LEE as I call him would be a life changing experience
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I honestly believe that hollywood only makes anti-war movies and the easiest ones are Vietnam and anything afterwards. these movies show the U.S in a bad light and the soldiers as drug addicts or nuts. A movie about the American Revolutionary war would be pro-America and show the military or fighters in a positive light. Can’t have that in a modern day Hollywood movie.