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Posted: Sun Jun 21st, 2009 04:20 pm

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Scarlett
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   I disagree with most of you on this board on this subject. I really loved both Gods and Generals and Gettysburg. When GAG came out in 2003 we went to see it. It was long and left you feeling sore but I thought it was well worth it. If it hadn't have been for GAG I would of never become interested in the Civil War. We went to see it again when it came to our town theater. I would agree that most young people would not find it interesting but I myself found it very entertaining even if it lacked the stuff that a lot of the shows have in them now.

   As for being historically accurate, (eg. Lee's beard), GAG was based on a fiction book and in such a huge movie project they may have not gotten everything just as it was in the Civil War.

   I don't exactly see how Maxwell is such a bad director. I thought he did a good job on both of the movies. You know you can't include everything from a 500 page novel into a 3 1/2 hour movie. If you read GAG the book Shaara says in the beginning that Maxwell encouraged him to finish the trilogy that his father had started. I am glad he did because the books are great too. I read all three in a matter of 9 months finding them hard to put down once I got started.

Gettysburg I have seen more times than GAG. The only thing I don't like about it was Martin Sheen playing Lee, in my opinion Robert Duvall was a much better actor. I have not watched either for quite some time, (not since I have read the trilogy) but when I get around to I won't be falling asleep during them.

I really hope they somehow make LFM. It will be really neat to see it after I have read the book, (since it didn't happen that way with the other 2). I'd love to see parts from the book acted out on screen and I'd like to have basically the same cast even if they are 10 years older.

I've been wanting to write this forever. This topic is what led me to this forum and it just took me awhile to register and give my 2 cents.