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Post by alfuso on Nov 21, 2008 2:26:48 GMT -6
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Post by biggordie on Nov 21, 2008 11:37:16 GMT -6
Thanks for the post, Linda. I liked the original a lot, so if the sequel is better...........
Gordie
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Post by El Crab on Nov 21, 2008 21:22:04 GMT -6
Not a bad version of Custer there. Looks like they did the smart thing and just copied his entire uniform from the numerous pix of Civil War Custer.
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Post by El Crab on Feb 11, 2009 0:50:49 GMT -6
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Post by Diane Merkel on Feb 12, 2009 22:45:58 GMT -6
Thanks, Crab. I guess Custer is doomed to be the buffoon for the rest of eternity.
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Post by Diane Merkel on May 24, 2009 8:32:32 GMT -6
I haven't seen the movie yet, but I have made this photo the wallpaper for my monitors: www.flickr.com/photos/21281590@N08/3555161191/Just right click and save as background. Then you can go into your control panel and position it as you like. I made it full screen, and it looks great. |
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Post by Melani on May 26, 2009 13:02:25 GMT -6
Saw the movie last night. It was pretty funny, a lot like the first but with different characters, and Custer wasn't a much bigger idiot than the rest of them. Fun battle scenes.
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Post by alfuso on May 27, 2009 3:27:49 GMT -6
I just got back from seeing this. Good, fun, mindless entertainment.
Napoleon suffered much worse as a caricature than Custer. In fact, Custer was given quite a "special moment" when he admits to Larry how he feels about LBH and how can he still be seen as a leader after that? Poignant touch there, and unexpected.
Did anyone else notice that the evil Pharaoh was channeling Boris Karloff?
alfuso
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Post by Diane Merkel on May 31, 2009 9:04:45 GMT -6
We saw it last night. I couldn't wait for it to end, and I can't recommend it. A couple of OK moments isn't worth sitting through the rest of it. I think Hollywood is totally brain-dead. When they do try something new, as opposed to a remake, it's poorly written and executed. I can't believe that was the best they could do with everything in the Smithsonian.
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Post by Melani on Jun 1, 2009 1:54:30 GMT -6
It's really a kid movie. My son loved it.
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Post by Diane Merkel on Jun 12, 2009 7:37:23 GMT -6
McDonald’s Gives Away Gen. Custer Toys in Indian Country
Thursday, June 11, 2009
No one would ever expect to find a toy Ku Klux Klan figure in their Happy Meal in Mississippi, or for the McDonald’s in Tel Aviv to give out miniature Hitlers, so why would America’s legendary fast-food chain think it was good idea to give out toy replicas of General George Armstrong Custer in areas populated by American Indians? That’s the question on the minds of Native Americans living in the Midwest after finding out McDonald’s was giving away the Custer toys in Lakota country, which spans multiple states, including North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana.
The Custer toy is part of McDonald’s tie in with the movie Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. In other words, a marketing scheme derived from a film that takes creative license with many of history’s most famous figures and events managed to trump either the memory or sensibilities of McDonald’s executives in regards to the actual history of one of America’s most reviled military commanders. Custer is best known to the Lakota as an ‘Indian killer” who once led an attack on a group of Cheyenne/Arapaho that resulted in the slaughter of men, women and children, and who was later killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
When Tim Giago, editor of the Native Sun News, contacted a local McDonald’s frequented by Lakota customers about reports of the Custer toy being given away, the manager referred him to the company’s Midwest regional office for comment. Instead of addressing the matter publicly, McDonald’s officials quietly recalled the toys from area restaurants.
-Noel Brinkerhoff Article: www.allgov.com/ViewNews/McDonalds_Gives_Away_General_Custer_Toys_in_Indian_Country_90611 |
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Post by crzhrs on Jun 12, 2009 13:34:53 GMT -6
Anything to make a profit . . . stretch the true . . . lie . . . ridicule "others". Gotta keep those fries selling, 1/4 pounders, Fish Fillets . . . and let's not forget Ronald McDonald who should be put in a line-up as a Child Molester. And then we have the Amazon being clear-cut and the last "wild" Indians left in the Western Hemisphere slaughtered and/or exterminated so we can have those greasy, fat-loaded, and diabetes making hamburgers!
Of course, I mean that in the kindest of ways!
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Post by bc on Jun 13, 2009 15:09:48 GMT -6
I saw Night at the Museum Smithsonian Edition last night. I enjoyed it much better than the first one. Actually had a plot, had some comedy, and the love story was interesting. They chose to use the buffoon edition of Custer but the actor who played him made him fun and enjoyable. I saw him before and after the hand to hand battle scene, hiding during the first part of the battle scene, but not during the battle after Stiller convinced him to fight. Unless I missed it, he didn't participate in any fighting.
bc
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