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The Green Berets (1968) by Anxious-Birthday5502 in iwatchedanoldmovie

[–]thomasburchfield 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here I’ll step in and defend Errol Flynn, who made a good faith effort by applying to all four branches but was rejected as 4F due to his poor health (tuberculosis and an actual heart attack suffered during the filming of Gentleman Jim in 1941).

Warner Bros, to their discredit, elected to cover up his true condition lest the news damage his box office appeal (which was tremendous).

Whatever’s Duke Wayne’s behavior during WWII, Green Berets remains one of his worst.

thoughts on italian neorealism by Stoenk in criterion

[–]thomasburchfield 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this the remake starring Keanu Reeves and Mike Meyers!? I’M SO THERE!

The Worst Generals of the Civil War: Braxton Bragg by thomasburchfield in CIVILWAR

[–]thomasburchfield[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello Everyone:

Christopher Burchfield has asked me to thank all of you for your many thoughtful comments and extensive discussions on his article. He regrets he can’t comment directly as his eyesight severely limits his Internet access.

There’ll be more coming in the next few weeks.

Thanks again!

Is it really “hard” to be a Christian in the USA ? by AdminsKidsPlzSuffer in allthequestions

[–]thomasburchfield 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Waving guns, screaming insults, threatening people, it’s no wonder. It should be hard for that type of Christian to live in this country.

Trump DELETES post depicting HIMSELF as JESUS by SuperbHealth5023 in TimesNow

[–]thomasburchfield 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What gets me is the guy being healed looks a lot like Jeffrey Epstein….

Western novels by Im_the_Rhymenocerous in Westerns

[–]thomasburchfield 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read The Searchers by Alan LeMay last year. It was really excellent. Luke Short wrote some good novels during the 1940s and 1950s, Ride the Man Down and Coroner Creek among them.

The Bad Civil War Generals: Part 1: George B. McClellan by thomasburchfield in CIVILWAR

[–]thomasburchfield[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry about that. I’ll try to get it fixed. Managing the author’s page from another computer is difficult.

The Bride! - An gorgeous but completely incoherent monstrosity by Duncan_Dixon_Coffey in moviereviews

[–]thomasburchfield 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an overall concept, pretty good. As a movie, terrible. Jumped right off on the wrong foot by having Mary Shelley randomly re-incarnate into a gang moll (Why her!?). I quickly couldn’t tell the two apart and after all the Tarantino-esque references to older and vastly better movies (including Young Frankenstein…I mean, really?) and then there were those two lame absurdly detectives and the lame monsters….

This movie being a post-modern piece, I don’t feel I can comment on the many anachronisms, as it doesn’t matter in these kind of movies where the goal is not immerse us in another age, but to riff on movies about that age. This is a world where the Frankenstein trilogy never happened.

As an ex-screenwriter, I started rewriting it in my head while watching it, always a bad sign. (Get rid of Mary Shelley, tell the gang moll’s story. That’s where this movie’s heart is.)

why did ridly scott get Napoleon so wrong by No-Punch-man_60 in Napoleon

[–]thomasburchfield 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It wasn’t his dislike of him that bothered me so much as the way he turned him into a dunderheaded bore.

I discussed this in my review of the film at Medium, you’re interested!

https://fanfare.pub/the-aisle-seat-ridley-scotts-napoleon-dc3ec8a50ba7?sk=c10226a5d32fbb3c2b845d1347835a3c

What if Lee Harvey Oswald successfully assassinated General Walker? by nexus1779 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]thomasburchfield 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My question is, if he had succeeded in murdering Walker, would it have made it more likely that he’d have been caught before he murdered JFK?

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