We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future. to the Battle of Fredericksburg. However, we're really not allowed to see inside his head. Stephen Lang tries to make him interesting, but the awful dialogue leaves him no room for exploring the character. Please enable it to continue. While Not Politically Correct, It Is Undoubtedly Historically Correct - Well Acted & Protrayed - Worth Watching Several Times, Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2017. I be struck down if the extended cut didn't crowbar in a subplot with John Wilkes Booth (Yeah, because the theatrical cut didn't have enough overemphasized subplots) that, outside of giving us further insight into how the war and political issues affected notable men a ways away from the battlefield, served no terribly organic purpose and was understandably omitted, yet its restoration is still enjoyable, thanks greatly to the previously unseen Chris Conner, whose involvingly charismatic and subtle portrayal of the legendary actor and assassin explores a degree of depth and layers within Booth at this pivotal time which helped in bringing him to the gruesome intentions that his fulfilling has become much more recognzied in him than his once famed acting (Speaking of forced, melodramatised history lessons), which isn't to say that the aspect of good acting was incorporated into the film with Conner. Speaking of absurd stuff that I love to poke fun at, I love how I keep barking on about this film being so long, when really, even though it hit the theaters breaking the three-and-a-half hour mark, it was actually much shorter than "Gettysburg", and its timeline is actually broader than that of "Gettysburg", or at least that shorter length was the case until the extended version came along, because now, this film is finally longer than any version of "Gettysburg", including its own extended cut. General Kemp (Royce D. Applegate) gives a speech to his troops before marching in. Just leave us a message here and we will work on getting you verified. Just confirm how you got your ticket. The big battles impress, but become somewhat samey. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Granted, this film's extended cut is only nine minutes longer than that of "Gettysburg", which is nothing when you consider the length of these films, yet that's still twenty minutes shy of five hours, and people were having enough trouble getting through the film when it was only a nudge over three-and-a-half hours. Watch Gods and Generals Online: Watch full length episodes, video clips, highlights and more. The 3rd Battalion get their orders to enter the battle. However, I now know a lot more about who was who and where was where in this war and the second half of Gods & Generals was good and it is worth buying if you like these types of films. Remember: Abuse of the TV.com image system may result in you being banned from uploading images or from the entire site – so, play nice and respect the rules! A labour of love with special interest to history buffs, this epic film is extraordinary in many ways. | Rating: 3/5 Combo trailer for Gettysburg. Don’t worry, it won’t take long. Your Ticket Confirmation # is located under the header in your email that reads "Your Ticket Reservation Details". Kees Van Oostrum's cinematography may not be as relatively impressive as his, albeit somewhat dated, yet still lush work in "Gettysburg", yet there is the occasional breathtakingly colorful shot, as well as many a shot boasting sweep to capture the scope of the world, with a fine production and authentic locations augmenting an immersive feel that may not be quite as sharp as it was in "Gettysburg", yet is still palpable enough for you to feel the world, no matter how much Ron Maxwell's (Still sounds like the lead in a bad '80s cop show) faulty storytelling, especially when we get to the action sequences. Sep 11, 2010. A modern classic, as good as Gettysburg, some of the reviews on here talk absolute rubbish. Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2018. I bought the Bluray to have a copy of the painstakingly authentic depiction of Civil War battles in high definition detail. Union generals attempt to stop band practice on the campgrounds. 3/5 - Good, I sat throw the long nearly 6 hour cut of the film drinking Tea and by the end i only asked "WERE THE FUCK DID MY DAY GO?". A moving portrayal of a nation divided, the film illuminates heroes from both sides of the war, and encompasses 158 speaking roles and thousands of battlefield 're-enactors'. back at America's bloodiest conflict. I don't care which side was just or had God on their side. -- America's bloodiest conflict, in which more than 620,000 lives were lost. At least watch this film once in your lifetime, because it is story that every American must take to heart. A sweeping epic charting the early years of the Civil War and how campaigns unfolded from Manassas to the Battle of Fredericksburg. This movie is an exception. | Rating: 1/5 A sweeping epic charting the early years of the Civil War and how the campaigns unfolded from Manassas I to the Battle of Fredericksburg, this prequel to the film "Gettysburg" explores the motivations of the combatants and examines the lives of those who waited at home. | Rating: 2/5 The film is badly fragmented and disjointed, and at 3 and a half hours, its horrible to endure. Four hours including the intermission, I felt like I was seeing the Civil War in real time for awhile there. The film is unrelentingly and often forcibly sentimental, so much so that it seems to be built on that sentimentality, so for the sentimentality to have hardly any versatility to it, that means that the film, by extension, gets wildly repetitive, something I could get over a little bit more - seeing as how "Gettysburg" suffered from a similar problem - were it not for the fact that the thing they're playing on a loop over and over again is, again, sentimentality that's so overbearingly saccharine that it only taints the dramatic waters. Hollywood seldom gets it right. The underwritten and underused, yet well-cast Robert Duvall still engages quite a bit for the few and far between moments in which he's present with that classic sobering presence of pride, sternness and nobility that defined Robert E. Lee, both as a human and a great leader, while the also tremendously underwritten Stephen Lang steals the show by working very well with what material he has to work with, sharply portraying Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's unflinching faith and competence as what it truly was: the mere surface of a vulnerable and haunted human being who the writers and director betray greatly through severe under exploration, yet Lang pays justice to with an involving soulfulness that helps in making him a worthy leader and partial savior of this mammoth mess. As a Brit reviewing this film, whilst having read the Novel, and having seen most other Civil War films, Gods & Generals is the go-to-film for understanding the Civil War (mainly from the Confederate perspective) in the early years leading up to Gettysburg. While you can expect more battles in this film than in "Gettysburg", still don't expect that many at all throughout this mammoth epic, and expect what action there is to be as overlong and over authentic as it was in "Gettysburg", yet most of all, expect the action to still engage with its scope and spectacle, with rarely seen yet worth waiting for genuine emotional resonance powering the action with substance and weight to enthrall as it breaks down the horror of wartime battle as much as it breaks down the explosiveness of it. I do not expect to live to see the end of this war. I can't help thinking they ought to have spent more time with Robert Duvall's portrayal of Lee. It is not 100% historically accurate however. An unforgettable story of the Civil War, from the Director of "Gettysburg". Gods and Generals - Watch Full Episodes and Clips - TV.com Search And...intentionally or not...conveys the impression that the film uncritically celebrates the Confederacy. "Gettysburg" was made so entertaining because there was more wartime intrigue than politics, and with this being a much less intrigue-riddled period piece that runs close to three hours and forty minutes, or, in the case of the considerably extended director's cut that I watched, from beginning to end, in one sitting, approximately [b][u]four hours and forty minutes[/u][/b] (That's right y'all, I don't mess around), it's to be expected that this film drag its feet here and there and make it all the worse with a rather dry, dull tone, especially when you take into consideration to absurdly excessive padding (Having seen bits and piece of the theatrical cut, I can safely say that, ironically, it's that very padding in the extended version that makes it leaner and more organic, even if it does also make things more uneven and bloated); but regardless of how most make it sound, its slow spots are far and few between, and never terribly severe to begin with, so it's not that much of a problem, and yet, if it was, it would still be among the least of this film's problems, though certainly more of a problem than the "pro-evil-Confederate overtone" that everyone has a big problem with. That being the case, I don't so much have a problem with the film's glorifying the Confederates as much as I have a problem with the film's making a dire mistake that's absence in "Gettysburg" did wonders for the comfort in the storytelling: glorifying a single prominent layer to the point of making it seem stand-alone, until we eventually make a jarring shift in focus to another layer, which isn't to say that there aren't forcibly tossed-in sublayers all over the place within these major layers, making the film not only ambivalent in its focus, but extremely convoluted, because for this film to be so unrelentingly uneven in the midst of such a mammoth, heavily layered cast and story, things are bound to get pretty convoluted, and it doesn't help that the film feels so very underdeveloped, which isn't to say that the gratuitously long, five minute opening credits sequence with a song that felt too sweeping - to the point of making you feel like we're looking at the closing credits - didn't hurt in letting you build up investment. Some noticeable historical details get left out which were in the Novel by Jeff Shaara, such as Robert E. Lee not actually taking command of an army until before Antietam and the fact that the Peninsula campaign and Stonewall's Shenandoah campaign in Virginia didn't take place within the film's timeline. [Blu-ray]. John Wilkes Booth (Chris Conner) discusses the war, and his part in it. The awful romanticism of Jackson, and the lame dialogue defeated the armies in this film, not the opposing side. Some nice music but thats it this movie is crap lol. Then 15 minutes had passed and I realized I had to sit through another 3+ hours of this tripe. I expect I will be wounded. Gods and Generals is a sweeping epic that charts the early years of the Civil War and how campaigns unfolded from Manassas.

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