Film God's and General's

[Copper]

Our showing was packed and very quiet for about 20 minutes or so, aside from a few intermitent chuckles, when out of the silence a sixty year old man in the center of the theater proclaimed loadly: "This SUCKS!" and walked out.

unfortuantely this is also my feeling about the movie, I watch it now only to see the brief if not somewhat lacking battle scenes, but it will be a dust collector.
I felt if that was the way Jackson was for real then how the hell did he do what he did for the rebel army. I expected a more Pattonic version of the man, not some bible thumping (not meant to be offending to anyone)hammed up Hollywood version. Nevertheless I watched the entire 4 hour movie 1 time only.

Gettysburg is worth any money you put down for it, as is Stalingrad & Winter War. Recent additions to my collection include Saints and Soldiers(an excellant movie BTW), When Trumpets Fade & Downfall (Subtitled, but very intense and riveting movie of Hitler's last days)