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algale wrote:

JPG wrote:The "she" in "she was wrong" was referring to DB5's wife, not Thunderbirdbat.

Yes "she" was expressing an opinion, but IMO, a largely unjustified one along with an incorrect description.

I thought DB5's original post was intended as a joke; and maybe something he read as opposed to something his wife said....

Considering 'the source', you are likely correct.

Hobbyman2 wrote:There are a few series on netflix that are pretty good

Longmire about a sheriff office in Montana

Heartland about a horse farm in Alberta

Hell on wheels about the railroad moving west in the 1800

My Wife and i are about half way through Hell on Wheels, and really enjoying it.

rpd wrote:

Hobbyman2 wrote:There are a few series on netflix that are pretty good

Longmire about a sheriff office in Montana

Heartland about a horse farm in Alberta

Hell on wheels about the railroad moving west in the 1800

My Wife and i are about half way through Hell on Wheels, and really enjoying it.

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LOL I am not a tv nut but I admit I binged watched that one ,longmire and heartland are both good, we are only in season 3 of 10 in heartland and it has become a family night thing lol

Hobbyman2 wrote:There are a few series on netflix that are pretty good

Longmire about a sheriff office in Montana

Heartland about a horse farm in Alberta

Hell on wheels about the railroad moving west in the 1800

The "New Mexico" branch of Wyoming.

Oh, "Branch" figures into the bunch,
too. As does Barlow Connaly. Branch's
father.

Yes, I just happen to be watching the
series, on NetFlix.

steve

Being a retired history teacher, "Hell On Wheels" had a lot of inaccuracies, but I still considered it great entertainment.
BPR

I'll mention with both a lot of joy and just a tiny bit of embarrassment that I worked on Hell on Wheels as the railroad history consultant in the final two seasons. It was great fun and an amazing experience. I'm an historic interpreter by trade, so the trade-off between dramatic license and accuracy always concerned me, but a TV show isn't a history lesson; ratings are what keeps the show on and pays the bills and the producers were very up front about this.

Without belaboring the point, one of the best things about the show is that over five seasons, they aired about 42 hours of content, quite a bit more than a feature film. This meant that the producers could explore details about culture, relationships and technology in ways that wouldn't be possible in a feature film, and some of the production details in are incredible. In my experience, some of what I contributed as factual content was repurposed and/or modified, such as entire speeches uttered by different historic characters in different contexts, and characters who saw and did far more than any one human could have done in the 1860s. But the result in some cases was to illustrate "truths" about the context of the times and the significance of the project in a way to capture popular imagination. The one anomaly that I just couldn't quite come to peace with is that the show was shot in Calgary, and the Canadian Rockies are most definitely NOT the Sierra Nevada. In the town set there was a saloon decorated with moose antlers, fer cryin' out loud!

I'll quit pontificating now just after mentioning that 2019 is the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad, and its existence still affect our lives today in many ways.

Back to sawdust now.

A sense of humor is an amazing gift.

Gene Howe wrote:A sense of humor is an amazing gift.

As is objectivity!

Thank you Phil for sharing.

Let us not forget “The Big Lebowski “ !
Paul

There are as many opinions on movies as there are movie watchers. Thank goodness most people like movies more than I do. I'm one of the few who seldom find a movie I feel is worth watching. Many years ago i already quit going to theaters where I have to pay for a movie. Usually I wanted to walk out after the first 20 minutes so it was a waste of money for me. The only way I attempt to watch a movie today is on free TV. Then, I can turn it off after a few minutes and it isn't a waste of money.
The movie makers would be out of business if many people felt like I do, so it is great for them that I'm the oddball and not the mainstream.

Thinking back, the last movie I watched all the way through and felt was worth the time was Forrest Gump. That one came out around 1996 so I'm pretty useless to the movie makers.

Give me a well done documentary or informational film and I'll watch and enjoy it.