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re: Who's life story would make a great movie?
Posted on 5/8/18 at 1:49 pm to saltwaterdawg
Posted on 5/8/18 at 1:49 pm to saltwaterdawg
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Peter Hathaway Capstick
Good call. I’d add Karimojo Bell, Jim Corbett and Frederick Courtney Selous.
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Posted on 5/8/18 at 11:23 pm to JohnnyRebel
If you could get an honest doc,
Vincent Kennedy McMahon
Vincent Kennedy McMahon
Posted on 5/9/18 at 12:50 am to JohnnyRebel
This guy and there's no one else close
Perhaps the best golfer of his era along with ace card shark and con man.
Went on trial four times for murder and was acquitted each time.
Perhaps the best golfer of his era along with ace card shark and con man.
Went on trial four times for murder and was acquitted each time.
This post was edited on 5/9/18 at 1:03 am
Posted on 5/9/18 at 5:13 am to RD Dawg
I'll check this book out. Again, I highly recommend Jerry Weintraub's book.
Convinced Colonel Parker to let him take Elvis on tour after calling him everyday for a year and having to get a million dollar check in 24 hours.
Worked with everyone from elvis to bob dylan, Frank Sinatra, and even discovered John Denver in some hole in the wall bar in NYC.
Worked some with Bobby Fisher, even had GW Bush, I believe it was him, at his house when he got the call he had just been elected president.
Got into producing movies including the Ocean's trilogy.
Convinced Colonel Parker to let him take Elvis on tour after calling him everyday for a year and having to get a million dollar check in 24 hours.
Worked with everyone from elvis to bob dylan, Frank Sinatra, and even discovered John Denver in some hole in the wall bar in NYC.
Worked some with Bobby Fisher, even had GW Bush, I believe it was him, at his house when he got the call he had just been elected president.
Got into producing movies including the Ocean's trilogy.
Posted on 5/9/18 at 5:52 am to JohnnyRebel
If it's done right, Alexander The Great would be absolutely epic
I know a movie was already done, but it was so bad I like to pretend it doesn't exist.
I know a movie was already done, but it was so bad I like to pretend it doesn't exist.
Posted on 5/9/18 at 6:37 am to Vols&Shaft83
I completely forgot about that movie. Those titties couldn't even save that shitty movie.
Posted on 5/9/18 at 6:51 am to LewDawg
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I completely forgot about that movie. Those titties couldn't even save that shitty movie.
Probably the most disappointed I've ever been in a movie. It's just so bad in so many ways.
What a tremendous waste. Monstrous budget, epic subject matter, and Oliver Stone, you would think it's a layup for an Oscar. But somehow they managed to frick it up and make such an uncomfortably bad film that I couldn't even sit through the whole thing in the theater.
Posted on 5/9/18 at 8:15 am to Vols&Shaft83
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I know a movie was already done
A movie???
There's been FOUR movies made about Alexander The Great plus 2 foreign films plus NUMEROUS documentaries and you want to make another??
Good God,we get it already.
This post was edited on 5/9/18 at 8:16 am
Posted on 5/9/18 at 8:38 am to RD Dawg
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There's been FOUR movies made about Alexander The Great plus 2 foreign films plus NUMEROUS documentaries and you want to make another??
Good God,we get it already.
Link the other 3, I've never heard of any of them. Don't be a dick
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:05 am to Vols&Shaft83
Here ya go Young Alexander, 1956, 2006, Bollywood
Yea,I get the fact that it's a great story and the Stone movie was shite but what's there to tell that hasn't been told in other movies and TV documentaries?
Yea,I get the fact that it's a great story and the Stone movie was shite but what's there to tell that hasn't been told in other movies and TV documentaries?
Posted on 5/9/18 at 10:58 am to JohnnyRebel
Wernher von Braun. Starting as a youth. His Nazi period, coming to Amerika. NASA culminating in Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon.
Would be a great movie but might be hard to make without being too PC due to Nazi background.
Would be a great movie but might be hard to make without being too PC due to Nazi background.
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:38 pm to JohnnyRebel
Carlos Hathcock
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:50 pm to Vols&Shaft83
None of them have been good. I went on an Alexander the Great kick when the last one came out. Read a bunch of books about him and was super excited to go see it. I felt like someone had kicked me in the balls. He deserves a truly great, well done movie.
Posted on 5/9/18 at 11:34 pm to KSGamecock
Peter the Great
Rasputin
Nelson Mandela
Mossad killers of the state
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Rasputin
Nelson Mandela
Mossad killers of the state
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Posted on 5/10/18 at 1:16 am to KSGamecock
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He deserves a truly great, well done movie.
Once again,nothing new to tell or explain.I want to see and learn about someone who's story is extremely interesting aND relatives unknown.
Posted on 5/10/18 at 1:25 am to RD Dawg
What movie was well done for him?
Posted on 5/10/18 at 1:49 am to KSGamecock
WGAS?The story has been told multiple times...History Channel has done a good bio about em.
Posted on 5/10/18 at 2:18 am to RD Dawg
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WGAS
A lot of people including at least two in this thread.
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History Channel has done a good bio about em.
The History Channel hasn't produced a good documentary or bio on anyone ever. I'm not just bitching about how they don't cover history anymore, I mean generally speaking the documentaries that they DO make are biased and pop-history as frick, they just gloss over everything, throw out a slew of emotional adjectives, and describe anything European or Christian as bad. I just finished their four hour documentary on the crusades and it was utter shite. The History Channel was and always has been popular history for people too busy or dumb to read.
"But what about the 1990s History Channel!?!"
frick the 1990s History Channel, it was just as bad but instead of pawnstars it was back-to-back Hitler with Modern Marvels thrown in. Their Hitler stuff wasn't even nuanced or interesting, it was just more of the same moralistic bullshite...1940s propaganda updated with 90s production values.
I get it, you don't want to see another Alexander the Great movie and that's fine but the thread isn't "What movie do you want to see?" but rather "Who's life story would make a great movie" and it's not really debatable that ATG would make a great movie and that, at least the largest most popularly known one about him, was fricking terrible.
You don't have to worry though because the way the media and movie industry is going we'll never see another movie about him unless it paints him as Iskander the Terrible and tells his story from the Persian perspective or some shite.
This post was edited on 5/10/18 at 2:30 am
Posted on 5/10/18 at 4:21 pm to JohnnyRebel
Tiger Woods
Posted on 5/10/18 at 5:32 pm to pioneerbasketball
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John Daly
Has a great short book. If you have never read it, I highly recommend it. Lots of good shite in there.
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