Gettysburg

Azza

Anyone ever watch this American civil war movie. One of my personal favourites and I have seen alot of movies. Clocking in a around 4 and half hours its extremely long and there is some cheesy pontificating in it (no where as bad as the much poorer Gods and Generals prequel) but on the whole its excellently shot with not one damn useless cgi shot in the entire movie thankfully. Particularly the end battle Pickets charge was brilliantly shot with with one hell of alot of extra's. Considering its a true story the end is almost heart breaking for the poor sods that actually did do it for real. Anyone else see this?

gandalf

Excellent film enjoyed it alot. The only person I thought was weak in it was Martin Sheen as Robert E Lee. Sorry to hear Gods and Generals was not as good.

Azza

Yeah Gods and Generals is much poorer half the cast shows up with the exception of Tom Berneger and Martin Sheen .Robery Duval takes up Lee's role. I don't know I found Sheen quite good in the first one. I don't know much about Robert E Lee the character maybe thats what you where refereing to. Gods and Generals focuses on Stephans Langs character Stone Jackson Lang who played Picket in gettysberg gets most of the screen time. Bascially the 3 Union lead actors return from the first as well as the hancock character all played by the same actors. The Confederate Colonel Alexander the guy in charge of the artillery is back too but for a prequel he look way old then he did at Gettysbeg. LongStreet and Picket are all played by different cactors. Problem with the movie is based on a book with alot of unessecary dialogue and pontificating and some really corney scenes involving crying irishmen.

Anyways there is a third movie on the series coming. But infortantly all Gods and Generals did for me was fill in background information running up to Gettysburg but alas rather painfully.

mewso

Gods and Generals had it's moments. Not as good as Gettysburg but I thought Duvall was a more interesting Lee. I agree some of the pontificating was too much and the praying before battles. I suspect this may have been due to an attempt on the directors part to be too faithful to the book.

nhughes100

I agree that Duval was the far better General Lee, I thought Stephen Lang was excellent as Stonewall Jackson. I very much enjoyed both films, Gods and Generals was the story of Jackson and the South's ability to outwit the larger, more well equipped enemy which fits into the 3 books written by Shaara. Gettysburg is the story of Lee's need to end the war but in the third book(The last full measure) Lee constantly thinks about how different Gettysburg would have been with Jackson in the field.

Sadly it doesn't look like the last full measure will be made into a film. I hope Ted Turner digs into his pockets again. Haven't finished the book yet but it's great so far.

Karl Hungus

4 year old threads should not be dragged back up.