OT: Gods and Generals

[HornedFrog Purple]

I got this DVD for X-mas and finally had time to watch it. This is the prequel to Gettysburg which came out a few years back. This movie is very, very good. It is as good as Gettysburg in my opinion which is my favorite Civil War movie.

I just read that they are reissuing the DVD of Gettysburg for saps like me who didn't get a hold of it the first time. (I have it on VHS) It is coming out Feb 3rd I believe.

Just thought I'd share...

Does anyone know a timetable on the 3rd movie?

[JonInMiddleGA]

Depending upon which source you believe, the sequel will either
a) never be made
or
b) begin filming in 2007

FWIW, I've had G&G on DVD for quite a while now but still haven't found the time to actually watch it.

[HornedFrog Purple]

I know what you mean about finding the time heh.

I really hope they make the 3rd one. The fact they filmed G&G entirely on locations was pretty darn cool.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Financially, this might have to be a mini-series instead of a feature film.
Seems as though Turner lost serious money on G&G, as it looks like there simply isn't a big enough market for epic-length features .

[finkenst]

"We don't obey rebel law."

my favorite quote from a TNT movie.

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

I would love to see ''Last Full Measure'' on any screen as long as it is done right . It would be awesome if it were made like Band of Brothers .
I would also like to see the following made into film .
The Lost Regiment by William Forstchen

[sabotai]

Financially, this might have to be a mini-series instead of a feature film.
Seems as though Turner lost serious money on G&G, as it looks like there simply isn't a big enough market for epic-length features .
No, I don't think there is. You can't find time to watch the DVD of it, so the chances of people finding 4 1/2 hours of their time to sit in a theator to watch it is pretty small.

[Sun Tzu]

I saw Gods and Generals in theaters and I also own it on DVD. I agree in full that it is a great movie and IMO is better than Gettysburg (which I also own on DVD). I am a huge civil war buff and I am forever in debt to Ted Turner for shelling out the $$$ to make these movies. Turner knew G&G was going to lose money. The point of the movie wasn't to get rich, it was to get accross with pinpoint accuracy what the beggining of the Civil War was like. I remember a lot of critics ripped the movie because it wasn't PC...I can only laugh.

[Mike D]

I remember God's and General's was hard to follow and waxed poetic quite a bit. Maybe that's how people talked back then, I don't know. I'm also not a big civil war buff.

I really enjoyed Gettysburg. Just seemed to flow much better. And Col. Chamberlain practically made that movie all on his own. "Fix bayonets!!!"

[Sun Tzu]

blah, nm

[Senator]

HFP, If it wasn't for OJ we would agree on every topic.

This is a great movie if you love the Civil War period. I still give the nod to Glory as the best movie about the Civil War, but these two are really good as well.

[Buccaneer]

Fascinating thread, one that I did not expect to come up. As posted a few times here early last year, G&G was perhaps the most anticipated movie for me in 20 years since Gettysburg is my all-time favorite movie (sorry Fritz). After seeing it in the theatre, it turned out to be one of the most disappointing movies I had ever seen. I followed the huge controversy closely on the official forum and it was amazing to had witnessed such extreme opinions (even to the point the fanboys ridiculing the rest of us for not understanding true art).

G&G, I felt, should have been a mini-series since it was filmed as a series of vignettes. With the exception of a few scenes, it was almost completely unwatchable and embarassing. Despite Turner's money, it was Maxwell that mortgaged everything he had to make this movie and ended up bankrupt, thus eliminated the plan to put the entire 6-hour movie on DVD, as well as making LFM anytime in the foreseeable future. He did not help himself in his lengthy diatrabe against Ebert's ludicrous review (it should have just been ignored), thus fanning the flames of the diehard fanboys and the rest of us who were too stupid to understand. It had nothing to do with not being PC therefore invalidating what many are targeting what the critics said. It had to with the overemphasis on Jackson, extremely stilted dialogs (Maxwell claimed that was how they talked - wrong - that was how they wrote but not talked) and many, many scenes distracting from the overall story (this was done on purpose, he said, because it was more of period piece of life in the 1860s as oppose to a story). I don't think I would ever watch the DVD and that is a shame because he had the golden opportunity to tell the story of the first 2 years of the war, which the book did very well.

[Fritz]

My good friend Bucc remembers that I think Gettysburg is one of the worst movies ever made.