The Patriot (Extended Cut) [Blu-ray]

Great story of the time America was fighting the British for its freedom to establish America as its own sovereign nation. The story follows a family and people from and area that suffers greatly at the hands of the British. Many exciting story lines, tragedy and blessings will bring tears and smiles. I look very when a good movie bring such emotions.

This Blu-ray movie looks great but the audio really shines in a multi speaker home theater. Bullets whiz past and voices often can be heard from the surround speakers. It's wild.

"Oh, say can you see,By the dawn's early light,What so proudly we hailedAt the twilight's last gleaming,Whose broad stripes and bright stars,Thru the perilous fight,O'er the ramparts we watchedWere so gallantly streaming?And the rockets red glare,The bombs bursting in air,Gave proof through the nightThat our flag was still there.O, say, does thatStar-Spangled Banner yet waveO'er the land of the freeAnd the home of the brave?" (Whitehouse.gov).The original was written byFrancis Scott Key in 1814.

Really liked this movie, Great acting

Love the film!

Had a problem with the DVD and they sent another out the same day. Great customer svc.

Full blown History, no - but like other epics that Holy-wood makes, there are nuggets of truth. The American Revolution and subsequent formation of Government is largely distorted in the history books of the American Fool system. Reading the reviews of some of the arm chair historians view of this movie is predictable, as each of them draw from the perspective of their personal views, which relies completely on various versions of revisionist history.The various distortions of American history became evident to me when I visited the Historical Archives of some of the original colonial States several years ago where I was able to review actual documents from the era. A distortion of history, in many cases, rewritten or slanted in such as way as to hide important truths are proliferated in history books utilized in schools and especially in the media. What is surprising is that Americans know this trickery is true in modern Politics, but they are largely unaware of its existence as a method of rewriting American History in the minds of the public.Some interesting movie moments: The beginning of the Movie, Mels trip to Charleston where the argument ensues as to whether America is a nation, or whether the States are free and independent. Read the DOI (Declaration of Independence) for the answer to that one. Today we are told that even in colonial times, America was a nation. Hogwash. A centralized government is a complete lie, but alas, the people have been duped into believing it. The constitution is said to have replaced the early organic documents, yet there is no evidence of it, and when you look in the front pages of the Federal Statutes, you will find that the DOI, the AOC (Articles of Confederation) and the NWO (Northwest Ordinance) are still considered to be the Organic Law, right along side the Constitution. (For more on this you can have a look at Dr Ed Rivera's website, where there are over 600 Blog entries on this issue alone). www.edrivera.com.Doug Casey during an interview once said, "America is no more, and has been supplanted by something called the United States". How true that statement is, yet the average American believes that America, and the United States are one and the same. There are few beliefs regarding our history as a people that is further from the truth.This movie is a great movie in any event, and some interesting truths are threaded in, probably to taunt those of us in the know. Seems Mel Gibson liked movies like that. Its a movie that is fun to watch, and I could imagine that those militia men knew then what we dont know now, that they were fighting for their own liberties, and honor and those of each other, and not for some imperialist empire that now calls itself the United States.

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