Gods and Generals Personal Review

[Blockaderunner]

Does anyone know if 'The Last Full Measure' is to be made?

[James George]

This was a movie that tried too hard to be historical acurate and it ended up being boring and not correct on Jackson.
The book is a little diffrent from the movie on the fact that Ron Maxwell wrote the screen play. In a interview that Jeff Shaara did with World talk radio he was ask how he felt about the movie. He answer that he was surprise to see that Maxwell took out a lot of story and he added his own to the movie.
The results was a bad movie that did horrible at the box office. This movie didn't make any money so that has stop the production for "The last full measure"

[Blockaderunner]

Shame really. I thought it was a reasonable effort. Not surprised it didn't make money though. As far as I know G & G was never even released outside the US, and has only been available on video and dvd.

[samgrant]

I think "Gettysburg" was critcally and popularly sucessful. Then they followed it with G&G, which was neither of the above, and should have been titled "God Awful".

I think "Last Full Measure" would have had a better chance if G&G did not sour alot of folks on the genre.

[James George]

Originally Posted by samgrant

I thing "Last Full Measure" would have had a better chance if G&G did not sour alot of folks on the genre.

As long as Ron Maxwell dosent touch it

[brigance]

Basically it's just not going to happen. I saw on Shaara's web site a message that said that it wouldnt be made due to Gods and Generals poor box office outing.

[Nico_Davout]

The movie was very poor in my 'foreign' opinion. Where was 7th Days Battle, Antietam, where was 2nd Manassas? Hey, these were not some skirmishes. What about Emancipation? No word about it.
There were 'Gods' in the movie (rather only one) and there were General Jackson and no one else...
R.E.Lee had almost no dialogs and someone could think that Confederacy was winning cause they had Jackson...
I was also missing Martin Sheen as R.E.Lee which was so so so so so so so so great in Gettysburg that watching him I understood why soldiers were following him to the death ... he had this 'magic' around himself which R.Duvall was missing in G&G.

[ole]

On the other hand, Nico, I thought they could have dressed Martin Sheen a little better for the role. In G&G, Duvall looked like death warmed over. If Lee ever looked that sickly????????

You haven't been around in a while. Busy?

Ole

[larry_cockerham]

Ole, Bob Lee was up in his early 60s and had a rough four years with a bit of stress while carrying a bad ticker. His later photographs show a man with some miles, not the dashing young officer at West Point and Mexico. I'm hoping Lee was taller than Sheen? Sheen's deportment and character seemed to protray what most of us southern boys would like to think Lee might have been. DuVall, a great cowboy, was not at ease as a southern Gentleman. Yes, welcome back, Nico!

[cash]

Originally Posted by larry_cockerham

Ole, Bob Lee was up in his early 60s and had a rough four years with a bit of stress while carrying a bad ticker.

Uh, mid-50s.

Lee was 56 at the Battle of Gettysburg. He died 5 years after the war at the age of 63.

Regards,
Cash