Okay, ordinarilly, I HATE the Lifetime network. But last night, err... Early this morning, there was a show as I was trying to find something to watch called "The 60's". It was all about a family (Mom, Dad, 2 sons and a daughter). The oldest son joined the Marines and went to Nam, the daughter got knocked up and kicked out of the house and went to live in San Fransico, and the other son was an anti-war activist. The dad was a hardheaded conservative nutjob. So, the guy who went to nam came back and was protesting it with his brother and then the dad got upset and confused about all that. It had a lot of differant stuff going on in it... Oh, and there was also this one black guy who's dad taught him to fight for civil rights peacefully and when his dad died at the hand of a white cop, he became really angry and joined the Black Panthers. Anyways, the movie was awesome. It included a lot of stuff from the 60's such as: Martin Luther King Junior, the war in 'nam, Height and Ashburry, cumunal living (even the Hog Farm!), Woodstock, Civil Rights, Bob Dylan, the progression from folk to psychadellic rock, and a bunch of other stuff. I think it captured it pretty well... Anyone else see it?
I don't know, maybe. It WAS pretty long for a movie (Like 3.5 to 4 hours I think). So it could have been. But that also included commercials... But still seemed pretty long for a regular movie. Anyone know where it could be bought from?
I've been wanting to see this...but I haven't gotten around to it with all the other movies I want to see...
Yeah, it was bad by any means. It's funny when Brian chokes that dude out at Woodstock and Wavy Gravy comes and like tells him he ate some LSD.
Yeah, but it also shows how screwed up wars make people... Rule of thumb, if you have a tendancy to have flashbacks out being in hand-to-hand combat... You might not want to drop acid... I thought the kid Rainbow was pretty awesome. Especially at the end when they were playing football, and he had like super long hair. That is truly how I want my kid to look at that age.
They did not show any conservatives in a good light, did they? Those like Charleton Heston, who marched with Dr. King? Figures.
it was made awhile ago. and you can buy it at any video store. or rent it. unless you are describing a new movie with the same name and same story line as this one that came out when i was in high school.
How's the movie's name?? I don't think you can find it at Blockbuster..unless it's a nice-commercial movie..
you can find the movie "The 60s" at Blockbuster. I promise video stores have it. I used to work at one. It was there.
Yeah I saw it on Lifetime a couple nights ago too, I recorded it and have been watching it since, awesome flick, huh? Yeah it was a mini-series a while back on NBC, you can buy it from Amazon, "The 60's" starring Julia Stiles. But a far-out movie none-the-less.
Here were the problem lays is a movie based on speculations and fantasies. and twisted and turn by a hollywood writer that prob is too young or was really no where near the real hippie scene of the 60s.
I have to disagree, it is more than "speculations and fantasies" (Can you fantasize about the FSM and the Civil Rights Movement?) but it's a fictional movie, it's Hollywood, of course the characters are fake, but the events are all too real, the Haight-Ashbury scene, the voting registration in the south, the walk on D.C. with King, Woodstock, the rebellion at Columbia University, I could go on because it was a fucking great movie. And Justwow, nope, no conservatives in a good light, but you are forgetting: that's not even possible. And remember Heston was a lot more liberal in the 60's. That's pre-NRA and AIM (you know the group that defends McCarthy and the red scare?)
my friend i hate to tell you this but, it is a fact = many of the real old hippies moved to the hills and bought lots of guns becouse in the long run he knew he was not going to beat the goverment with flowers that was proof at Ohio state unversity in early 70s.
Well, that's just awesome La Dulce Vita, why don't we all just drop the idea of Flower Power period and all go out and buy a gun. Dude, if there's one thing we can learn is that violence doesn't work, period. It will only beget more and more and more violence in a devestating cycle. And, you may be right, many of the old hippies went out into the mountains and bought guns, some joined the coke disco phase, etc. and they ALL forgot about love and peace (thus they were not hippies anymore but just crazy, armed, old hermits paranoid of the government) and maybe, just maybe, that's why we're in the shit-hole we are in today, because they failed in their mission of spreading peace and love.
