So much Heart

Rating: 10/10 (30 May 2010)

The realism of this version gives it more heart than just about any movie that I've ever seen. Like several others on the site, I'm surprised at how few people have seen or even heard of this unknown gem. The casting of the core characters is superb. Dennis Quaid is exceptional as the unyielding and visionary Sam Houston, as is Jason Patric playing a smoldering James Bowie, whose restrained aggression is as commanding as the knife he's so famous for.
Patrick Wilson is the perfect fit for a Colonel Travis that has too long needed rescuing from the almost prissy rendering proffered in John Wayne's celebrated production of The Alamo, which is also good - but this is the one for our generation. The self-effacing Davy Crockett played by Billy Bob Thornton is both endearing and charming in his genuineness. The whole production is both very likable and believable.
A beautiful and unexpected mystical quality runs through much of the film, from the formation of Texas and Houston's pursuit of his vision, to Bowie's dreamlike memories of his former life and later attempts to heal him, to the legend surrounding the life of Davy Crockett. It's an excellent movie with a beautiful score, and stands as one of the very few that is both one of my favorite war films as well as one of my favorites period.
California and New York are the center for both the liberal media and the liberal elite mindset as a whole. There is rivalry, jealousy, and strife between all men and their various institutions, at every level of all Society. It's no surprise to find it here. It has been this way since man fell from God's grace 6000 years ago in the Garden of Eden. Don't let anybody fool you, it is the anti conservative sentiment of this elite - against both the former President and the very successful southern state he hails from, that is behind this vitriolic and acidic denouncement of something not just good, but very good. A politician is someone who will compromise principles to stay in power. Set the politics aside and see this movie on principle - you'll feel its power, and you'll enjoy it . . . immensely.
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