sean_harris
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- Feb 20, 2005
1.Robert Duvall repeats every word as if Lee is trying to convince himself of what he says. Martin Sheen did not, in the same role for the movie, "Gettysburg," . As a reviewer for the Dallas Morning News noticed, Robert Duvall repeated the wording of his script as if thinking aloud. Duvall, like his famous ancestor, actually had to convince himself to believe in that horrid script.
2. Horrible box office numbers will give writer/director Ron Maxwell no leverage needed to secure funding to complete the film trilogy of which this is one part. Thank God for small favors!!!
3. Many professional critics would rather you watched something else.
4. As Daniel McCarthy wrote recently for this site, "Gods and Generals is more or less explicitly Forsaken, Southern, and even libertarian."
5. If you like accents, this is a famine: both regional dialects and the Bible-soaked patterns of nineteenth-century American speech are laughingly reproduced.
6. Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in prayer, need we say more?
7.If you haven’t been to a movie with an intermission since "Lawrence of Arabia," you’re not overdue, be thankfull!!
8. Ron Jeremy as Burnside!
9. Kevin Conway as Union Sergeant "Buster" Kilrain. No, we can't say anything bad about him
10. Frankie Faison as the loyal but conflicted cook, Jim Lewis.
Less prayer more "Big Jim"
11.The poignancy of the battlefield clash between northern and southern Irishmen. Men, up and to your posts! Wait I have spotted Patrick Cleburne!!!
12. The mid-river meeting of Johnny Reb and Billy Yank on Christmas Day. hey, if it was up to Ted Turner they would still be standing there in the next movie!
13. The performance of the song, "Bonnie Blue Flag." That guy was umm, "speacial" My vote goes to "Silent Night" performed by the Confederate Command with speacial "Electric" slide performed by Jeb Stuart!
14.The regimental (read: state) flags under the opening credits, which offer silent but eloquent testimony to Confederate notions of patriotism and or made you fall asleep after 3 minutes of that dribble!
15.Few movies take philosophy or religion as seriously as this one does, right,then Jackson should be played by Charlton Heston!
16."Gods and Generals" director Ron Maxwell had nice things to say about Ang Lee’s "Ride with the Devil," another under-rated movie about the War Between the States. I would say nice things to when comparing what I attempted to what they acomplished!
17.Ken Burns’ famous "Civil War" mini-series needs company. Wait, Ken Burns will find better company than this!!! Give em Hell 54th!!!
18.Intelligence, passion, and fair-mindedness on the big screen is a good thing. Wow, I must have missed it!!
19. Rubber Bayonets
20. Ted Turner
2. Horrible box office numbers will give writer/director Ron Maxwell no leverage needed to secure funding to complete the film trilogy of which this is one part. Thank God for small favors!!!
3. Many professional critics would rather you watched something else.
4. As Daniel McCarthy wrote recently for this site, "Gods and Generals is more or less explicitly Forsaken, Southern, and even libertarian."
5. If you like accents, this is a famine: both regional dialects and the Bible-soaked patterns of nineteenth-century American speech are laughingly reproduced.
6. Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in prayer, need we say more?
7.If you haven’t been to a movie with an intermission since "Lawrence of Arabia," you’re not overdue, be thankfull!!
8. Ron Jeremy as Burnside!
9. Kevin Conway as Union Sergeant "Buster" Kilrain. No, we can't say anything bad about him
10. Frankie Faison as the loyal but conflicted cook, Jim Lewis.
Less prayer more "Big Jim"
11.The poignancy of the battlefield clash between northern and southern Irishmen. Men, up and to your posts! Wait I have spotted Patrick Cleburne!!!
12. The mid-river meeting of Johnny Reb and Billy Yank on Christmas Day. hey, if it was up to Ted Turner they would still be standing there in the next movie!
13. The performance of the song, "Bonnie Blue Flag." That guy was umm, "speacial" My vote goes to "Silent Night" performed by the Confederate Command with speacial "Electric" slide performed by Jeb Stuart!
14.The regimental (read: state) flags under the opening credits, which offer silent but eloquent testimony to Confederate notions of patriotism and or made you fall asleep after 3 minutes of that dribble!
15.Few movies take philosophy or religion as seriously as this one does, right,then Jackson should be played by Charlton Heston!
16."Gods and Generals" director Ron Maxwell had nice things to say about Ang Lee’s "Ride with the Devil," another under-rated movie about the War Between the States. I would say nice things to when comparing what I attempted to what they acomplished!
17.Ken Burns’ famous "Civil War" mini-series needs company. Wait, Ken Burns will find better company than this!!! Give em Hell 54th!!!
18.Intelligence, passion, and fair-mindedness on the big screen is a good thing. Wow, I must have missed it!!
19. Rubber Bayonets
20. Ted Turner