Gods and Generals

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Superior to Gettysburg, albeit not perfect. They didn't overdo it with Glory. And it was shorter, mercifully shorter.

It's been many years since I have seen it...

I never got around to seeing Gettysburg. At least not all of it. I saw the previews and watched a little of the battle scenes but it didnt grab my attention.

Has anyone seen Andersonville. It was a TNT movie i believe sometime back. It was a little long but It was pretty good. Lot better than what I saw of Gettysburg.

[MRT144]

i liked andersonville...but i was hoping for more lunacy, like cannibalism and a antagonist like the colonel klink

[Lawrence of Arabia]

At the end of the war. the north shoulda rounded up all the people who fought for the south and had them shot.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
At the end of the war. the north shoulda rounded up all the people who fought for the south and had them shot.

Yeah, that would have helped North-South relations a lot...

I think the North should have been a little less conciliatory, just to stamp out the future strains of Southern revisionism and apologism, but that would have been quite a bit too far, dontcha think?

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Sprayber


I never got around to seeing Gettysburg. At least not all of it. I saw the previews and watched a little of the battle scenes but it didnt grab my attention.

Has anyone seen Andersonville. It was a TNT movie i believe sometime back. It was a little long but It was pretty good. Lot better than what I saw of Gettysburg.

I still think the best Civil War movie I've seen is the TV miniseries The Blue and the Gray. It's pretty balanced, free from too much maudlin sentimentality, and gives some interesting (albeit fictional) stories. There aren't really any spectacular battle sequences, but that's not what it's about anyway.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
I think the North should have been a little less conciliatory, just to stamp out the future strains of Southern revisionism and apologism, but that would have been quite a bit too far, dontcha think?

Then we'd still be plinking your sorry asses from the bushes every chance we got.

"We'll fight 'em till hell freezes over, then we'll fight 'em on the ice. "

[Az]

Woohooo, go Union!

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat


Then we'd still be plinking your sorry asses from the bushes every chance we got.

"We'll fight 'em till hell freezes over, then we'll fight 'em on the ice. "

Then we'd just have to come back and stomp your asses a second time, and this time not be so nice about it.

[Az]

Burn, Dixieland!

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Like I said . . . we shoulda had them all shot.

[MRT144]

who needs a war to burn dixieland? im for it now! mama wont be able to get out of the doublewide!

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
I still think the best Civil War movie I've seen is the TV miniseries The Blue and the Gray. It's pretty balanced, free from too much maudlin sentimentality, and gives some interesting (albeit fictional) stories. There aren't really any spectacular battle sequences, but that's not what it's about anyway.

Any movie with Patrick Swayze in it, is automatically suspect.

ACK!

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Tuberski


Any movie with Patrick Swayze in it, is automatically suspect.

ACK!

That would be North and South.

The Blue and the Gray has Stacey Keach!

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


That would be North and South.

The Blue and the Gray has Stacey Keach!

Oh you are right, I've laways gotten the 2 confused.

ACK!

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Tuberski


Oh you are right, I've laways gotten the 2 confused.

ACK!

You mean Patrick Swayze and Stacey Keach? How odd...