John Adams (1 Viewer)

[wayne556517]

This is on our TV over here ive missed the start so looking at buying the blu-ray is it worth it,whats the series like the previews look ok?Anyone want to sell me a copy i have a multi-regional blu-ray player so thats no problem,thanks.

 

[Scott]

Very much worth the effort to get it. The first part has the Boston Massacre and trial with a tar and featuring.

BTW, General Knox did NOT take a detour down to Quincy, Mass. with the Fort Ticonderoga cannon to show Mrs. Adams. You can't get to Cambridge that way. But it does look cool.

 

[jazzeum]

Great performance by Giamatti; he makes Adams come alive.

 

[Scott]

Did you like the William Daniels Adams from the 1970s? He played Adams in 4 different shows.

 

[The Military Workshop]

Does anyone know how many hours or episodes it is ? I have seen three episodes but know I missed some.
Regards
Brett

 

[theBaron]

The series got very good responses from critics and had high ratings. I don't know about the format, but it's worth having in your DVD library.

David McCullough's biography is very worth reading, too.

Prost!
Brad

And yes, William Daniels did a fine turn as Adams in "1776", even if it is a musical.

 

[Combat]

The scene I remember is Adams leaving the White House by himself at the end of his term - no one even telling him goodbye - getting in a horse-drawn carriage/cab with a group of strangers who had no idea who he was and driving away for the last time. Interesting that there wasn't even a fence around the White House until sometime after the 1870's. The public could come and go even during the Civil War.

 

[jazzeum]

Did you like the William Daniels Adams from the 1970s? He played Adams in 4 different shows.

I don't really remember those so I don't think I saw them.

 

[theBaron]

Actually, Daniels didn't play John Adams 4 times, he played the father, the son and the cousin, between different productions:

John Adams in the film version of the stage musical "1776" (1972);
John Qunicy Adams in "The Adams Chronicles" (1976) (George Grizzard played John Adams in that one)
Samual Adams in "the Bastard" (1978)
John Adams again in "The Rebels" (1979)

though you can argue that his Dr. Craig character on "St. Elsewhere" is what John Adams might have been like, if he had been a surgeon in the late 1980s.

And, of course, there's KITT...

Prost!
Brad

 

[Scott]

Thanks Baron!

 

[Cornwallis]

Really enjoyed the JA series and I bought it on DVD myself, would have been nice to have seen a couple of battle scenes thrown in, but made a change to see this side of the Revolution and gets 9/10 from me!
All in all movies and tv series on the American Revolution are few and far between but also seen Revolution (Al Pacino), Benedict Arnold (Aiden Quinn), The Crossing (Jeff Daniels) and of course The Patriot (even though its not exactly the most historically accurate film around)!

Bought the Devils Disciple (Patrick Stewart) which was awful and don't think I could sit through the 1776 musical!!!

 

[Scott]

"Bought the Devils Disciple (Patrick Stewart) ...."

I have seen that one but I prefer the movie version with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas with Sir Lawrence Olivier as Gen. Burgoyne


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052735/

It's literally a live action cartoon version of the war with some stop motion animation of the battles. Douglas and Lancaster made it into an action flick as well. VERY funny and worth a look.

You might like 1776. The recent DVD has a restored scene cut out at the request of President Nixon

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068156/

"....President Richard Nixon was given a private screening of the movie before its release by his friend, producer Jack L. Warner. The song Cool, Considerate Men offended Nixon, so Warner removed it at Nixon's request. The song was restored on the deluxe wide screen presentation laserdisc and later was included on the restored director's cut DVD....."



I found Benedict Arnold awful but I did like Kelsey Grammer as the "angry" George Washington.

Revolution has some good uniforms but makes the US of A look too European with the New York Alps and the Fjords of Yorktown Virginia.

 

[Phantom Warrior]

Does anyone know how many hours or episodes it is ? I have seen three episodes but know I missed some.
Regards
Brett

There are 7 parts.

Terry

 

[The Military Workshop]

Thanks Terry.