Gettysburg was a very good film, but I never bothered with Gods and Generals because of reviews like Timby's. 
Gods and Generals: I want my Bruce Boxleitner
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The score, outside of Randy Edelman's contributions, is probably the best part of the movie.
Gettysburg was a very good film, but I never bothered with Gods and Generals because of reviews like Timby's.
I like Gettysburg. Especially the scene with Jeff Daniels as Joshua Chamberlin explaining the situation at hand to the conscripts he's been stuck with. I think Daniels is an actor who has yet to get the recognition he deserves.
I have yet to make it all the way through Gods and Generals.
G & G was just - treacly. That is the only word that properly describes it. The oh-so-precious little doomed Southern girl, the nauseating music.
Gettysburg had lots of action and a great score. It only had one scene that was nominal, the obligatory "slavery was WRONG, dammit!" bit with the runaway slave.
G & G had only one good bit - the sneaking up up the poor German troops at Chancellorsville. Did I mention that my great-grandfather was one of those poor German guys in the 11th corps who was captured in that battle? So I watched the scene, seeing the guys taken unawares and subconsciously looking for Max.
Supposedly G&G had a bit on Antietam filmed, but cut it. WHY? It would have been far superior to the morons sitting around singing the Bonnie Blue Flag (Ted Turner's vanity scene) or the stupid family.
Ah well. We'll never even see the extended version of G & G, much less Last Full Measure.
Gettysburg had lots of action and a great score. It only had one scene that was nominal, the obligatory "slavery was WRONG, dammit!" bit with the runaway slave.
G & G had only one good bit - the sneaking up up the poor German troops at Chancellorsville. Did I mention that my great-grandfather was one of those poor German guys in the 11th corps who was captured in that battle?
So I watched the scene, seeing the guys taken unawares and subconsciously looking for Max.Supposedly G&G had a bit on Antietam filmed, but cut it. WHY? It would have been far superior to the morons sitting around singing the Bonnie Blue Flag (Ted Turner's vanity scene) or the stupid family.
Ah well. We'll never even see the extended version of G & G, much less Last Full Measure.
The part of Gen.Longstreet was played by Tom Berenger in "Gettysburg",an infinetly stronger,more cohesive film.
Director Ron Maxwell seems to have lost focus in the second movie (the slavery angle,though laudably tackled,did detract from the narrative).
What Maxwell did capture IMO,was the almost fundamentalist religiousity of the main characters especially Jackson.Stephen Lang did a marvellous jobIMO,but it was disconcerting seeing Bill Campbell play two different parts.
Director Ron Maxwell seems to have lost focus in the second movie (the slavery angle,though laudably tackled,did detract from the narrative).
What Maxwell did capture IMO,was the almost fundamentalist religiousity of the main characters especially Jackson.Stephen Lang did a marvellous jobIMO,but it was disconcerting seeing Bill Campbell play two different parts.
Your great grandfather? That was like 147 years ago. Jesus Christ, how old are you?
Ok, that was rude. Sorry. But seriously, your great grandfather? Hell my grandfather is 101, and HIS grandfather arrived in the US in 1863 shortly after Fredericksburg and would have been just old enough to be in a battle.
That's where I come down on this, but it's probably because I'm such a civil war fanatic that I can take most anything.
*grins*. Max was born in 1838 in a pretty little town in Bavaria. His son and my grandfather was born in 1880 (He was ancient when I was a kid. He died in 1971 when he was in his early 90s.) My dad was born in 1939, when his father was 59.
It is weird to be able to say that my great-grandfather was in the battles of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville. But he was!
I don't know of any ancestors fighting in wars 
I do have a friend who traces an ancestor back to the battle of Hastings.
I saw part of Gods and Generals and was fairly bored (it was one of the slow parts with Jackson and some little girl). I had nothing better to do, so I watched for 20 minutes and then turned off. The only thing cool that happened during that time is Jackson getting shot by his own men. I saw a doublepack Gettysburg and Gods and Generals for sale for $10 so I got that. Gettysburg is a cool movie and, maybe, some day, I'll watch G&G.
I do have a friend who traces an ancestor back to the battle of Hastings.
I saw part of Gods and Generals and was fairly bored (it was one of the slow parts with Jackson and some little girl). I had nothing better to do, so I watched for 20 minutes and then turned off. The only thing cool that happened during that time is Jackson getting shot by his own men. I saw a doublepack Gettysburg and Gods and Generals for sale for $10 so I got that. Gettysburg is a cool movie and, maybe, some day, I'll watch G&G.
My grandmother was born in 1888, her father was a preacher who was of age and in Virginia during the war, but did not participate.
*grins*. Max was born in 1838 in a pretty little town in Bavaria. His son and my grandfather was born in 1880 (He was ancient when I was a kid. He died in 1971 when he was in his early 90s.) My dad was born in 1939, when his father was 59.
It is weird to be able to say that my great-grandfather was in the battles of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville. But he was!
I had several ancestors in the Civil War and siblings of ancestors. One sibling of an ancestor died just after being released from Andersonville.
My ancestors lived (and before you laugh and say "Well d'oh!", remember they could have procreated *before* the Civil War)
All on the Yankee side and thus far, all from Pennsylvania. Some of my Marylanders, while not in the war itself, were said to be Confederate sympathizers though.
I still want "Last Full Measure," dammit!
My ancestors lived (and before you laugh and say "Well d'oh!", remember they could have procreated *before* the Civil War)
All on the Yankee side and thus far, all from Pennsylvania. Some of my Marylanders, while not in the war itself, were said to be Confederate sympathizers though.
I still want "Last Full Measure," dammit!