User:Mikado282/Movies
I have from time to time been asked to make recommendations of U.S. movies. To keep things straight, I have been meaning to make a list here. I am an old romantic, so don't expect anything particularly pop culture about my recommendations. Naturally, many of my recommendations are nostalgic, so in deference to our wiki's host, I will note where they tie into TF2.
★M★I★K★A★D★O★1776!★ 🎇🎆🎆🎆🎆🎇 🎇🎇 🎇🎇 (Talk with Mikado282 (SM)) | (contribs) (Help Wanted!) 15:45, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
Forth of July
- The Patriot (2000) Trailer
At a time when Hollywood had become wholly unpatriotic, a German directed this examination of the Revolutionary War. Besides its quality, I particularly like it for its focus on the campaigns in the southern colonies, an area generally overlooked by most movies about the war; it wasn't only Yankees that fought the war.
1776 is a playful but dramatic musical play that combined into a single event the debate over independence from the United Kingdom and the debate over the Declaration of Independence. Some criticize the play for historical imprecision, but that is only a result of combining a great many important historical persons, events, debates, and issues into a mere 2 and a half hours.
- Johny Tremaine (1957) clip
This is my wife's favorite, particularly the song in the clip. It is an early-style Walt Disney family movie. Naturally, for the style of historical fiction novel, the central characters are fictions, but they interact with the famous patriots and historic events of Boston on the eve of the War for Independence. (When I was young, I was fascinated by Sebastian Cabot.)
Science Fiction
There are now two official TF2 maps inspired by this movie! (I learned to program on the equipment in the backroom of the Norwegian base.)
