God and Generals?

[Mike Olbinski]

Anyone heard anything about this movie? Chap?

I guess this is the prequel to Gettysburgh, which was a fantastic movie, although over 4 hours long. I just watched it again sometime last year, and can't wait for this prequel.

And I guess they will be doing a finale movie in the future, which will conclude the Civil War.

Mike

 

[Bob Chebat]

I just took a look at the lineup for Friday because we wanted to see this when it came out. I think I am going to have to reconsider after learning that it is 229 minutes. That is almost four hours long. That is a long time to plant your keyster in a theater seat.

 

[Dan H]

There's an intermission, but some people are unhappy with the liberties taken with the book.

 

[Chaplin]

I've heard pretty mixed reviews about it.

But the glaring statistic is that its like 2 minutes longer than Gone With the Wind. Unless it's a complete masterpiece, it'll be hard to make any money on that movie. In fact, the movie will be a flop, no matter how good it is. It's just too long.

 

[Mike Olbinski]

Originally posted by Chaplin
I've heard pretty mixed reviews about it.

Mixed reviews? Man, Rotten Tomato's rating scale has a 0% for it, I mean, how much worse could it be, lol.

Doesn't look like it's mixed as much as everyone seems to think it downright sucks.

Bums me out, I was looking forward to it.

Mike

 

[Chaplin]

I haven't heard anything saying that it sucks. In fact, I've heard that Jeff Daniels is very good in it.

 

[maddogkf]

Say this last night - not too bad - a bit long & sometimes too much daitribe though.

The battle scenes were good.

I think I have to see Gettysburg now - is it on the same level as this, or is there more action?

 

[DbaxJ]

IMO Gettysberg was a million times better. I own both movies, but, and was really wanting to see G&G, so I bought it, and was rather disappointed after seeing Gettysberg. G&G is a good movie, but not as good as I hoped it would be.