Founding Fathers
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Movie Reviews of Founding Fathers
Movie Review: Sublime yet superficial... Does no justice to the founders!!
Summary: 2 Stars
Apparently the former reviewers just haven't studied the Founding Fathers and the War for Independence enough to discern that this video set doesn't do them and their cause any justice. Furthermore, most insights of historical value are usually accompanied with some politically correct rejoinder that holds the founders in contempt. It is fittingly post-1990's, post-Clinton since it earnestly strives to lower them to Bill Clinton's level. It focuses on making their cause lofty while caustically attacking their character... with such witty anecdotes as "John Adams would have needed Prozac..." Moreover, most of the panel of 'scholars' consulted for this puff-piece, haven't proven themselves in any way. A revisionist tale of the American Founding typical of the mass-media, which cynically reveres the founders. The good presentation and production put into the film is still unredeemed by the shoddy scholarship. It wasn't hardly worth watching when the History Channel aired it for free on TV- so why drop money to buy it on DVD.
The books, tapes and videos of Thomas Fleming's 'Liberty! The American Revolution' are a much better work.
Movie Review: Good Cover, No Meat
Summary: 2 Stars
What a waste of time. I wanted to learn about the founding of America, instead I am force-fed moronic "professors" obviously chosen for their willingness to say stupid things. One said he was surprised the Founding Fathers were able to function because they were so drunk, using about four different descriptive slang terms rather than "intoxicated." Another said that John Adams was a candiate for Prozac and implied that the first child he had with his wife may have been illegitimate despite being born 9-10 months after the wedding (married in October, baby born in July). I am so sick of the tripe A&E and the History Channel release. The History Channel used to seem more legitimate than A&E, now it's just the same nonsense. Something calling itself "The HISTORY Channel" should do more than try to revise it.
Don't waste your money.
Movie Review: Aurgh
Summary: 2 Stars
I suppose this production might have some value for introducing people to the Founding Fathers. It has the advantage of playing up their human side, which many people have a hard time getting in touch with. But overall, the history is superficial and at times inaccurate.Movie Review: Haven't watched this but....
Summary: 1 Stars
after reading the reviews I think I'll pass. This sounds like a liberals dream DVD on the framers. One woman is talking about sexual exploits and there are mentions of drunkenness and Prozac and another is praising it to high heaven and talking about passing this crap on to her grandchildren. Sheesh, how abominably silly.
First of all, I have found that most of the stuff the History Channel puts out is biased towards big government and globalism in its implicit messages. Putting a negative spin on the framers and making them seem quite ordinary comes as no surprise to me. It's just another way to trash our Constitutional freedoms which is probably the overall intent. Instead of focusing on the remarkable aspects of the document that was worked out in intense heat without modern comforts by men balancing between State sovereignty and the need to strengthen specific aspects of a unified government (as reflected primarily in Article I, Section 8 of the document) the focus is on the "assumed to be true" flaws in our founders.
Is this really important? I mean really, who gives a flying you know what? Is it not more important to examine the results and the overall intent of those results which was a Federal government limited to specific powers while maintaining State and individual sovereignty and protecting the natural rights of all citizens? Instead, this seems to me to be an attempt to undermine those accomplishments by focusing on flaws that in the end, even if true which is questionable from my previous studies of the framers, actually have no direct impact on our lives at all.
This sounds like a crock of propaganda that has the Marxist oriented glowing and the more sober minded cringing. Who needs it? What understanding does it really advance? So the framers had flaws? Anybody that doesn't that you know? It doesn't do anything useful except to undermine our founding document by tainting the reputations of the framers which those who wish to convert us into a failing liberal state of centralized control relish. To hear of this nonsense being pushed in the classrooms tells me how imbecilic our educational system has become. Our children should be taught the value of the Constitution and Bill of Rights not the dirty laundry of our framers, if in fact, it were even true. Sounds like a waste of time and money and not worth a second look to me and should be renamed "Founding Trivial Nonsense for the Moronic Liberal and Closet Marxist".
Watch "A More Perfect Union: America Becomes A Nation - The Making of the U.S. Constitution" instead. It's not perfect but focuses more on the intent and the results, not the trivial character flaws of the framers.
Movie Review: Founding lies
Summary: 1 Stars
This propaganda piece from American companies makes the Russian's work look good. Histrionics, lies, and all around elevation of men who were inherently less than idealistic than what most schools teach about. Your best bet is to look at this as nothing more than cheap agitprop or some type of hilarious cover up of wealthy white agrarian men with outdated values. Most of the "great Founding Fathers" owned slaves, denied expression to women, believed in wage-slavery, didn't think Native people were human and didn't want to pay centralized taxes for England's protection. America (USA) has never been a "democracy", it has always been controlled by a small minority of powerful and wealthy elites, using indoctrination, a contorted educational system, a specialized intelligence police force, and propaganda, such as this, to shape the masses.These are the "men" to blame for the gigantic, bureaucratic war state that is America today. Go read Orwell or Howard Zinn again, unless of course you like to believe in lies.