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The Patriot Remuxed (2000) (1080p)

Liked it - 2 April 2008

Author: cleverfox from United States


Just watched this movie for about the 20th time (I have it on TiVo) and for the life of me I cannot find the disdain many who have written here have commented on. Last I heard, this was FICTION - NOT a documentary; Ken Burns did not produce not write nor direct nor narrate this piece - Roland Emmerich, a man known for action FICTION did. Yes the depiction of the Revolutionary War was NOT 100% accurate but was never intended to be; just a drama set against the background of a war and it was refreshing to see the war in the background, whereupon American blood is spilled on American soil, was the Revolutionary War and not another Civil War piece; indeed, the Civil War has been played so many times in films over the past quarter century it was just refreshing to see a different war....

Being somewhat of a military historian I will say that the depiction of soldiers going musket to musket in the open field was indeed accurate; many may find it interesting to know that according to the gentlemanly practices of King George's army, both sides would also recess for tea at noon every day and resume the fighting afterwards - guerrilla warfare was not popular during the day which is why Gibson's militia unit was so overtly successful early on. That being said, the comments about the accuracy with the muskets are fairly accurate but I will say that I only see straight barrel musket rifles - none of the bell shape tipped muskets; the longer you keep a projectile on a straight course the more accuracy at longer ranges despite the lack of rifling grooves in the barrels (I spent time on Rifle Teams for 5 years). The prime inaccuracy I noted was when Tavington shot the rider (running away on horseback) in the back with a musket pistol at probably 40 yards or more - so unlikely, it tarnished the whole scene.

My favorite person - Billings; Leon Rippey's cynical, almost giggly snickering laugh completely stole the every scene where it was used and he is a long term favorite actor of mine; Jason Isaacs absolutely best screen villain of this movie (and perhaps in top 10 screen villains of all time).

I guess it boils down to "different strokes for different folks" we all have our opinions on this and I've aired mine. 

Mel Gibson  ...  Benjamin Martin  
Heath Ledger  ...  Gabriel Martin  
Joely Richardson  ...  Charlotte Selton  
Jason Isaacs  ...  Col. William Tavington  
Chris Cooper  ...  Col. Harry Burwell  



Disc Title: The Patriot Remuxed (2000) (1080p)
Disc Size: 36,809,165,884 bytes
Protection: AACS
BD-Java: No
Playlist: 00000.MPLS
Size: 36,808,998,912 bytes
Length: 2:55:06
Total Bitrate: 28.03 Mbps
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 23201 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 2273 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
Audio: English / Dolby Digital Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps / DN -5dB
Subtitle: English / 19.133 kbps
Subtitle: Arabic / 10.715 kbps
Subtitle: Bulgarian / 18.078 kbps
Subtitle: Croatian / 17.851 kbps
Subtitle: Czech / 16.997 kbps
Subtitle: Danish / 16.673 kbps
Subtitle: Dutch / 18.833 kbps
Subtitle: Finnish / 17.193 kbps
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Subtitle: Swedish / 16.438 kbps
Subtitle: Turkish / 17.542 kbps

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