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This was one of the most vulgar and disgusting things I've ever seen in my life. And you straights think we gays are the freaks? You guys really need to look in the mirror. When something like this is played at an international awards ceremony and everyone laughs, you know we're near the end of the world. It's sick that everyone gets off on the genital mutilation of men. I guess since everyone is so use to mutilating the genitals of new born baby boys it comes as no shock. I'd like to see how everyone would have reacted if it was Sarah Michelle Gellar, instead of Jack Black, that had a ring ripped out of her genitals on national television. Yeah, a laugh riot. Thank God I'm Gay. You straights can do all that nasty stuff to each other, and take pleasure in each other in this sick way, all you want. Just don't EVER criticize gays as being the sick ones.

YUK!!!

This movie came out the year I was born. I finally saw it when I was 6, and I was so attracted to Leonard Whiting I felt heat flashes in my chest and face - at six years old! I had no idea back then that the reason I felt that way was because I was gay. So naturally this movie rates as one of my all time favorites. (I think that experience pretty much proved that people don't choose to be gay!) But aside from getting a stirring in my loins at the sight of Romeo, this movie has much to be praised for. The settings, costumes, music and locations were all of Academy Award-winning quality. The actors reveled in their roles of this arguably most famous of love stories.

I was thrilled to see Olivia Hussey go on to play Mary in the now famous mini series "Jesus of Nazareth".

I first saw 1776 in middle School. I'm now 37 and have made it an annual tradition to watch this movie every Independence Day.

The actors portrayed America's founding fathers with humanity and honesty - not stuffy and mythologically. We see the real fear and real hopes of real men. We see the grief and hardship of the wives who must bear the burden of loneliness and chastity during the long terms that their husbands are off in Philadelphia to represent their colonies to the Continental Congress. The lyrics of the love songs sung between John Adams and his blessed wife, Abigail, are not fictional tripe, but are real words gleaned from actual letters sent between the two.

What tips the scale in favor of this movie is the carefully placed humor, without which this movie would surely have failed as being too boring for modern viewers. But the humor is not tasteless or pointless jokes. Ben Franklin, the biggest jokemeister of them all, uses his humor to slam dunk logical and rational points which make the audience really think about what liberty is.

The music in this movie is delightful - and even bearable for today's non-musical theater crowd. The songs tell stories, and the songs themselves make the viewer feel that it is a release of tension for the characters.

While the story itself contains several minor historical errors (for example, Judge Wilson of Pennsylvania was not the person to cast the tie-breaking vote for independence), the literary license taken by 1776's authors is totally forgivable because they brought the past to life for us and made real that which was truly important. Anyone who sees this film will have a new found respect for the men who established this nation - from Congress to General Washington to the poor soldiers on the battlefield to their extended families and to the people of the Colonies themselves, without whose determination there would be no Sovereign American United States.

Now, if only the President of the United States would watch this film...