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jim semler
Princeton Junction, NJ, USA
Posts: 476
 | | Da movie | | Posted on: 1/26/2010 5:23:14 PM | This has been done much before, but we always have new members coming aboard, and it was always fun.
So let's play the old movie (Gettysburg) game while the winter weather still sucks!
Who said?: "They'll come boomin in the morning!"
Jim
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Steve F
Hampstead, NH, USA
Posts: 1758
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/26/2010 5:37:32 PM | ... with skirmishers, three deep" ?
Gen. Sam Eliot aka John Buford
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"Live free or die. Death is not the worst of evils." Gen. John Stark
"I sure wish I lived closer. Have I said that before?" Steve F.
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jim semler
Princeton Junction, NJ, USA
Posts: 476
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/26/2010 6:43:41 PM | How bout....."I thought the war was in Virginia"
Jim
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Bill N-T
Hicksville, L.I., NY, USA
Posts: 1864
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/26/2010 6:56:13 PM |
Quote:....."I thought the war was in Virginia"
That would be that woman on the side of the road as the Union (20th ME?) troops march into Maryland. The only woman in the movie with a speaking part.
Who said "Seems to me that we're the back door"
Bill N-T
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jim semler
Princeton Junction, NJ, USA
Posts: 476
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/26/2010 7:24:00 PM | You don't need a correct answer to post a question...
Just throw out anything you want at any time.
Jim
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Bill N-T
Hicksville, L.I., NY, USA
Posts: 1864
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/26/2010 7:45:22 PM | Of course there's "Howdy friend, Where ya headed?"
Bill N-T
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Steve F
Hampstead, NH, USA
Posts: 1758
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/26/2010 8:03:45 PM | Interesting how the quote instantly conjurs an image. I can see Harrison ducking the tree limbs when the fat picket steps out. Rather beefly reb for having campaigned with Bobby Lee.
Steve
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"Live free or die. Death is not the worst of evils." Gen. John Stark
"I sure wish I lived closer. Have I said that before?" Steve F.
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civilwarguyincanada
Southern, ON, Canada
Posts: 1416
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/26/2010 8:04:53 PM | Bill's line is the soldier on picket duty, who intercepts Harrison...who eventually says something like..."We'll take you there, but if nobody knows you, well, unfortunately, you'll have to be hanged" (or something close to that).
Cheers
Ed
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Bill N-T
Hicksville, L.I., NY, USA
Posts: 1864
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/26/2010 9:57:09 PM | That sounds pretty accurate to me Ed.
Bill
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civilwarguyincanada
Southern, ON, Canada
Posts: 1416
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/26/2010 10:17:08 PM | Or how about this one?
I gotta hand it to you George. You certainly do have a talent for trivializing the momentous and complicating the obvious. You ever considered running for congress?
Cheers
Ed
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Bill N-T
Hicksville, L.I., NY, USA
Posts: 1864
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 6:57:38 AM | And who can forget:
"Up Men! Up and to your posts! And let no man forget that today your are from Old Virginia!"
Or
"Virginians! Virginians! For your Lands! For your homes! For your sweethearts! For your wives! For Virginia! Forward.......March!"
Bill N-T
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john malone
Cochranville, PA, USA
Posts: 974
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 10:00:00 AM |
Quote: I gotta hand it to you George. You certainly do have a talent for trivializing the momentous and complicating the obvious. You ever considered running for congress?
Kemper, as they are sitting around the fire at night discussing the war and politics.
"Oh, hell yeah, they'll come in - they'll come in when we don't need 'em no more. Just like some damn bank gon' loan you money when you no longuh in debt."
John M
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graniteman
Merrimack, NH, USA
Posts: 1050
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 10:05:06 AM | What?! No Buster: "There's only one aristocracy, and that" -tap on head- "is right here."
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Alan
"...a few clear visions surrounded by a thousand shadows dancing on the wall of our ignorance."
Red Bailey
"We few, we happy few, we band of nuts" (with apologies to W. Shakespeare)
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jim semler
Princeton Junction, NJ, USA
Posts: 476
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 10:27:26 AM | "I left my spectacles over there....what is the name of this town?"
Jim Semler
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Stan Petestreet
Hatfield, PA, USA
Posts: 90
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 10:37:04 AM | Makes you wonder what kind of lines Sickles would've had, had he been in the movie?
Quote:Frankly, Meade, I don't give a damn.
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john malone
Cochranville, PA, USA
Posts: 974
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 10:38:46 AM | Sickles: "Yes sir, my II Corps was a large buffer for the Union Army."
"I said to him, General Ewell, these words. I said to him, 'Sir, give me one division and I will take that hill.'And he said nothing. He just stood there, he stared at me. I said, 'General Ewell, give me one brigade and I will take that hill.' I was becoming disturbed, sir. And General Ewell put his arms behind him and blinked. So I said, General, give me one regiment and I will take that hill.' And he said nothing! He just stood there! I threw down my sword, down on the ground in front of him!"
John M
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Bill N-T
Hicksville, L.I., NY, USA
Posts: 1864
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 10:45:50 AM | "They don't even need guns to defend that! All they've got to do is roll rocks down on us!"
Bill N-T
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Almira H
Gettysburg, PA, USA
Posts: 72
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 1:22:31 PM | Arrrrggghhhh!
Isn't it bad enough that my supervisor and one of my coworkers have spent the entire morning quoting the movie to one another (interestingly enough, many of the same quotes as to be found here). Must I have it on my computer at lunch as well?
My favorite line, delivered by an apparent Ed Grimley clone:
"Well it's nothing to be ashamed of, I might tell you."
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texasbob
Texas Hill Country, TX, USA
Posts: 624
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 1:56:23 PM |
Quote:Arrrrggghhhh!
Isn't it bad enough that my supervisor and one of my coworkers have spent the entire morning quoting the movie to one another (interestingly enough, many of the same quotes as to be found here). Must I have it on my computer at lunch as well?
My favorite line, delivered by an apparent Ed Grimley clone:
"Well it's nothing to be ashamed of, I might tell you."
--Almira H
Too bad it can't be done in Looneytunes characters' voices online. Why quote lines from an awful movie ... unless they're delivered in Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny voices? Of course, too bad it's done at all, when the whole thing is best forgotten.
On second thought, there was this guy who did the lines in a stereotypical pirate's voice. "Avast me hearties" and such crap. Now that was funny!
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Cheers y'all,
And with full respect for all who fight the fight against obfuscation, the sowing of confusion, deception, falsification, fabrication, and other intellectual dishonesties,
texasbob
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Rick Schaus
Capon Springs, WV, USA
Posts: 504
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 1:56:50 PM | "Can't lead from behind."
VR, Rick Schaus
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Bill N-T
Hicksville, L.I., NY, USA
Posts: 1864
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 2:13:17 PM | Don't Call Me Lawrence!
Bill N-T
(TB...whadda ya mean "awful movie"?  )
Bill
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Lisa Shower
Gettysburg, PA, USA
Posts: 818
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 2:21:49 PM |
Quote:"Can't lead from behind."
VR, Rick Schaus
--Rick Schaus
Good old "Pete" Longstreet!
Lisa
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"We never expected a battle..."
Jennie McCreary, July 1863
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graniteman
Merrimack, NH, USA
Posts: 1050
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 2:26:40 PM | Sorry, but I'm w/ Bob here: that was a pretty awful movie. Lacked so much in terms of believability. Of all the problems with it, the casting of Sheen for Lee was most atrocious. (Either that or Sheen's interpretation.) I just don't see Lee being so passive. I've always pictured Lee as someone who dominated any room he was in - even when Old Pete was in the room.
I dunno, saw it once, have it on the shelf, but I don't see myself really watching it ever again...
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Alan
"...a few clear visions surrounded by a thousand shadows dancing on the wall of our ignorance."
Red Bailey
"We few, we happy few, we band of nuts" (with apologies to W. Shakespeare)
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jim semler
Princeton Junction, NJ, USA
Posts: 476
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 2:54:46 PM |
Quote:I just don't see Lee being so passive.
Alan
"There will be none of that. There is no time."
Jim
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Rick Schaus
Capon Springs, WV, USA
Posts: 504
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 3:07:09 PM | “Porter, how old are you son?”
“Sir, I’m twenty eight, sir”
“Un-huh”
VR, Rick Schaus
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graniteman
Merrimack, NH, USA
Posts: 1050
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 3:57:44 PM | Good quote Jim: but I envision RE Lee not needing to say as much as he is pictured doing. A simple glance, a specific stress on a certain word was probably enough to cow even the great Stuart...
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Alan
"...a few clear visions surrounded by a thousand shadows dancing on the wall of our ignorance."
Red Bailey
"We few, we happy few, we band of nuts" (with apologies to W. Shakespeare)
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tom barrett
Turbotville, PA, USA
Posts: 43
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 4:27:19 PM | "Bayonets!!!!!"
My wife and I saw Jeff Daniels in "God of Carnage" on Broadway last spring. I kept conjuring an image of him as Chamberlain.
Tom
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Richard Bach
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civilwarguyincanada
Southern, ON, Canada
Posts: 1416
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 5:00:54 PM | Ed Grimley!
Now there is a blast from the past Maria! My old buddy Martin Short!!
Now back to our regularly scheduled program,
Cheers
Ed
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Bill N-T
Hicksville, L.I., NY, USA
Posts: 1864
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 6:40:11 PM | Alan, Bob,
I disagree, I think that although the movie certainly has it's flaws, I wouldn't characterize it as "awful". Heck it's the flaws that endears it to many of us: The portly Santa Claus picket in the beginning, Longstreet's beard, Armistead crying over "Old Winnie", Hood's age, Warren's Monument hiding in the trees on "BRT" (portrayed by LRT). As far as Sheen's portrayal of Lee, I don't think it was alll THAT bad, in fact I think it was credible, after all Lee was not the picture of health at Gettysburg.
That's me anyway.
Bill N-T
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Bill N-T
Hicksville, L.I., NY, USA
Posts: 1864
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 6:43:31 PM | "No! Not both of us! Not all of us! Please, God!"
Bill N-T
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Jim Cameron
North Bellmore, NY, USA
Posts: 940
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 7:48:52 PM |
Quote:Too bad it can't be done in Looneytunes characters' voices online. Why quote lines from an awful movie ... unless they're delivered in Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny voices? Of course, too bad it's done at all, when the whole thing is best forgotten.
Basically, an overblown made-for-TV miniseries. And don't even get me started on that fat Confederate sentry at the beginning. The first view the audience gets of the ANV, and instead of a lean, mean, tough as leather veteran, what do we get? Some fat old grandfather that hasn't seen his feet in years.
Quote:On second thought, there was this guy who did the lines in a stereotypical pirate's voice. "Avast me hearties" and such crap. Now that was funny!
"Here's to swimin' with bow-legged women." Arrrr.......
No, wait, that was a whole different movie....
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Jim Cameron
Every time I go to Gettysburg, I learn two things. Something new, and, how much I still don't know.
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texasbob
Texas Hill Country, TX, USA
Posts: 624
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/27/2010 8:15:03 PM |
Quote:instead of a lean, mean, tough as leather veteran, what do we get? Some fat old grandfather that hasn't seen his feet in years.
--Jim Cameron
Hey Jim. Leave me out of it. 
bob
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Cheers y'all,
And with full respect for all who fight the fight against obfuscation, the sowing of confusion, deception, falsification, fabrication, and other intellectual dishonesties,
texasbob
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Bill N-T
Hicksville, L.I., NY, USA
Posts: 1864
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 1/30/2010 1:57:46 PM | Hey Jim, give the guy a break, maybe he gained all that weight feasting on the "Hospitality of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania"
Bill N-T
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Ed Bell
PA, USA
Posts: 123
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 2/9/2010 9:32:30 AM |
"Zweifellos 'beanspruchte' er zu vieles Pennsylvania-deutsches Fleisch und Kartoffeln während sein 'Besuch.' Nein?"
Certainly he 'requisitioned' too many Pennsylvania German meat and potatoes during his 'visit.' No?
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Larry Purtell
Little Meadows, PA, USA
Posts: 722
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 2/9/2010 10:07:17 AM |
Basically, an overblown made-for-TV miniseries. And don't even get me started on that fat Confederate sentry at the beginning. The first view the audience gets of the ANV, and instead of a lean, mean, tough as leather veteran, what do we get? Some fat old grandfather that hasn't seen his feet in years.
--Jim Cameron
That ANV sentry was me, or least it could have been. I thought my performance was creditable.
Larry
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KSC
Gettysburg, PA, USA
Posts: 46
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 2/11/2010 11:57:29 AM | "I'm fighten for my rats"...
Kim
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Dave G
Halifax, NS, Canada
Posts: 400
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 2/11/2010 12:08:41 PM | "I think we may have an opportunity heah!" (or words to that effect)
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Bill N-T
Hicksville, L.I., NY, USA
Posts: 1864
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 2/11/2010 12:39:55 PM | "Get that man a tent ... and Oh yeah, a Ceeegar"
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Bill N-T
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Culp's Hill
Reisterstown, MD, USA
Posts: 247
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 2/24/2010 1:21:52 AM | "How are you TJ?"
CH
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Steve F
Hampstead, NH, USA
Posts: 1758
| | Re: Da movie | | Posted on: 2/24/2010 8:33:08 AM | "Tolerable."
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"Live free or die. Death is not the worst of evils." Gen. John Stark
"I sure wish I lived closer. Have I said that before?" Steve F.
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