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I Am Upset

Sooo.... my US history class requires us to watch a history based movie every week, then write about the accuracy.
I think a lot of people would like this type of assignment, but I don't because I'm not really into watching movies. I'd rather read something, than watch some hollywood bullshit, that's more than likely inaccurate as hell. Plus I hate movies based on historical events.. I know, I know.. I'm taking US history, but WHY WATCH MOVIESSSS!? Why can't we just read the text book, and take tests like a regular class? My prof is extra as hell. All the movies we have to watch are about colonial America, or about battles/wars. Pretty much a bunch of people being killed. super boring. I'm through! 馃檮
lasergraph70-79, M
I can understand what you are saying. Most movies will not be accurate because things have to be left out just to fit the time frame. Some things just can't be recreated in a movie, like Washington's men spending the winter at Valley Forge, marching and training with few shoes, coats, and blankets and even less food. Huddled together in huts with holes the size of a Buick. Or depicting Lincoln at Gettysburg where more than 60,000 men had been killed in that battle alone. Lincoln addressed the country while the stench of the dead was still ever present . It was a somber delivery and I doubt it was made without a tear rolling down. They couldn't get it right when they showed Harry Truman, pacing the corridors of the white house trying to decide if he should drop an atomic bomb on Japan. He knew he could save thousands of American lives but at a great cost. A heavy burden but a decision that had to be made.
SW-User
Just look up a summary of the movie or speed it up by 2.0x
originalGOS26-30, F
@SW-User Why haven't I thought of this!??!
SW-User
Sounds easy as hell.
originalGOS26-30, F
@SW-User Watching loooong movies each week, about a topic you aren't interested in, then having to write an essay about it is annoying and draining. Not easy.
SW-User
@originalGOS That's your own issue then I suppose.
originalGOS26-30, F
@SW-User That's why I wrote this story under the "I Am Upset" group :)

 
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