Best damn miniseries I have seen in my life!!!! - John Adams (2008) Discussion

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[–] simba-18 15 years ago

I agree. I watched the first part tonight and I had to keep rewinding it and watching certain scenes over and over again because I cannot believe how what is happening today is so similar that it's frightening. The end of the first part is pretty emotional when they are reading the Declaration of Independence. At the very end when Adams looks into the camera it's as if he's talking to us from the grave.

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[–] pe81171 15 years ago

Yes, it's one of the best cinematic depictions of American history I have ever seen. I truly love the Declaration of Independence episode. Also in other episodes I enjoy the discussions between Adams and Jefferson over the future of America. The inauguration of Washington is truly wonderful and the scene where they play 'Hail, Columbia' is great. I also love Adams leaving the White House in the early gray dawn after his defeat and the miniseries has one of the best codas I have seen with Adams final words ringing through the ages. Really good stuff- all of it. Hope they eventually make '1776'.

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[–] dab6 15 years ago

I'd rank it lower than From the Earth to the Moon or Band of Brothers. Has a good beginning and end, but the pace is off in the middle episodes.

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[–] pe81171 15 years ago

After reading McCullough I would highly recommend going on to read the works on John Adams by John Ferling and Page Smith. They are highly excellent too and show that Adams had been treated well by 20th century historians even before McCullough's book.

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Harmonica: An ancient race.

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[–] Hancock_the_Superb 14 years ago

Joseph Ellis also has a few books on Adams that are worth checking out.

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[–] Speed-the-plow 15 years ago

I watched the whole series a second time, right away, and I never do that. I think it's my favorite mini-series of all time.

"You suck on a tit the movie gets rated R. you hack it off with an axe, PG" Jack Nicholson

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[–] senor_cheese04 15 years ago

While good, Band of Brothers and Generation Kill are both better than John Adams.

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[–] flowers_on_the_razorwire 15 years ago

I got the series as a Christmas gift and I couldn't stop watching once I started. It's absolutely superb and it certainly ranks high on my list of favourites.

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[–] TheLordofTheHarvest 15 years ago

Same here.

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[–] Sheriff_Of_Nottingham 14 years ago

Its certainly one of the finest I have seen. I'll put up there with the Horatio Hornblower series about a young officer in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.

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[–] Desertman84 14 years ago

It was a great miniseries.No question about it.

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[–] toni_from_wellywood 14 years ago

but i enjoyed deadwood, the wire, dexter, mad men, six feet under, the sopranos and oz equally.

timing is everything

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[–] MovieGuy22 14 years ago

Want to learn a few interesting facts about John Adams that the miniseries didn't cover? Check out this list!

http://www.best5everything.com/best5ListPages/facts-you-probably-didnt -know-john-adams-2nd-series-83901.php

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[–] hachmom-1 14 years ago

Its a very good miniseries,and I would probably put it in a top 5 with Masada, Holocaust, Brideshead revisted, and I Claudius (which just left no room for Band of Brothers, The Thorn Birds, Shogun, Edward and Mrs Simpson, The 6 wives of Henry VIII, Elizabeth R....its darn difficult picking)

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