Gilligan wrote:

I want to see Mel Gibson make a movie about the oldest commisioned ship in
the US fleet - the USS Constitution!

Why Mel Gibson? Plenty of others would make a really good historic drama....
agreed that if the writers/producers who made 'Braveheart' and 'The Patriot'
could stick a bit closer to the facts, they could make a great USS Constitution
movie.



I want to see British cannonballs bouncing off her sides as she defeats two
equal British ships by sailing backwards!

How about unreeving the course & topsail sheets to kedge away from & escape a
British squadron in deep water?



I want to see the British (and others) tuck tail and run when they see Old
Glory!

I want to see American medium bombers flying off of aircraft carriers (minus
that whining Van Johnson), atomic bombs dropped from B-29's, farmers from
Westchester running off the Black Watch, George Patton and Lewis Puller!!

How about the performance of the American militiamen in the all-or-nothing
Battle of Bladensburg (War of 1812)?

Regards-
Doug King