Gettysburg Film (2 Viewers)

Thank you for the link to the deleted scenes.
 
Captain said:
I didnt care for Gettysburg. I thought the fake beards looked terrible and some of the fake southern accents were rediculous especially Gen. Lee's. I also didnt like the way they made Lee look like he was insane on the night of the 2nd. I almost got up and left at that point but stuck around to see Picket's Charge. I prefered Gods and Generals and thought Robert Duvall made an excellent Lee.
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G&G was very poorly edited and had the problem of actors that had been in Gettysburg ten years earlier trying to look several years younger as part of the time line of the story. I really didn't see Lee portrayed as insane at all in Gettysburg. In reality Lee was not well as you probably know. The scene played very close to the novel.

Duvall is a great actor but played the character too cold as opposed to a good man you had dignity. Lee just wasn't in the film enough but then again it seemed to be Jackson's story. The film is referred to among reenactors as "Jesus and Jackson." Lang's portrayal of Jackson was fun to watch.

Among reenactors, there is interest in seeing "Last Full Measure" made to finish the Shara, father and son, trilogy. I can't see why. Killer Angels is a great novel but G&G and Last Full Measure are not.
 
I enjoyed the movie but when I was watching it recently with my wife, who had never seen it before, she thought the acting was really third rate.
 
A lot of the actors in G&G were TV actors or movie character actors. I don't know why others can make lively history movies about other subjects, but Civil War films seem like history pageants. Robert Duval is a pro but there wasn't much for him to do in this film.

One bit that got me was the Reb that had the death premonition and told his friend, and then he gets killed. As fictional charactors, the friend should have died.

Another was characters disappearing in the middle of the story like Hancock and Chamberlain.
 
I met Mr.Duvall and Mr. Lang at a 1st Manssas reenactment at Leesburg a few years ago. Both extremely nice guys. A very fond memory. In fact I was in uniform and Steven Lang saluted me.
 
Scott said:
G&G was very poorly edited and had the problem of actors that had been in Gettysburg ten years earlier trying to look several years younger as part of the time line of the story. I really didn't see Lee portrayed as insane at all in Gettysburg. In reality Lee was not well as you probably know. The scene played very close to the novel.

Duvall is a great actor but played the character too cold as opposed to a good man you had dignity. Lee just wasn't in the film enough but then again it seemed to be Jackson's story. The film is referred to among reenactors as "Jesus and Jackson." Lang's portrayal of Jackson was fun to watch.

Among reenactors, there is interest in seeing "Last Full Measure" made to finish the Shara, father and son, trilogy. I can't see why. Killer Angels is a great novel but G&G and Last Full Measure are not.
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Hasnt it been announced that last full measure will not be done,,the name seems to be taken by some upcomong bruce willis film.
 
The Internet Movie Data Base is great for checking this information..


The Last Full Measure (2010)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783640/

"An ambitious government bureaucrat is given an unwelcome assignment that could harm his carefully orchestrated career, to complete a long-unfinished report on whether the nation's highest award for bravery should, after 40 years, be given to a fallen hero. His investigation leads him down a path he could not have imagined and changes his life and the lives of others in the process. Written by Capitol Films "


Welcome to Ron Maxwell's official website. Who made Gettysburg and G&G

http://www.ronmaxwell.com/index.html


Ronald F. Maxwell

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0561813/

"....... Currently, Ron is in pre-production on "Joan of Arc: Virgin Warrior" and in long range prep on "Last Full Measure," the final part of his Civil War Trilogy"
 
"In fact I was in uniform and Steven Lang saluted me."

With that fine beard no wonder. ;)
 
Scott said:
The Internet Movie Data Base is great for checking this information..


The Last Full Measure (2010)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783640/

"An ambitious government bureaucrat is given an unwelcome assignment that could harm his carefully orchestrated career, to complete a long-unfinished report on whether the nation's highest award for bravery should, after 40 years, be given to a fallen hero. His investigation leads him down a path he could not have imagined and changes his life and the lives of others in the process. Written by Capitol Films "


Welcome to Ron Maxwell's official website. Who made Gettysburg and G&G

http://www.ronmaxwell.com/index.html


Ronald F. Maxwell

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0561813/

"....... Currently, Ron is in pre-production on "Joan of Arc: Virgin Warrior" and in long range prep on "Last Full Measure," the final part of his Civil War Trilogy"
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With of course Willis beaten to a bloody pulp over the course on mumbling his way thru the film,,is hans out of brothers by now? not that I watch such drivel
 
kilted vampire said:
..... My favorite scene is when Jeff Daniels yells :BAYONETS!". The look in his eyes just says look out here we come! The other scene is when the rebel officer points his revolver at JD and it falls on an empty cylinder. There is palpable look of relief as he lets his breath go and his mustache moves.:)
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The Bayonets scene still gives me chills. Daniels really owned this movie and was a treat to watch in each of his scenes. I also really enjoyed Tom Berenger, Steven Lang, Richard Jordan, Patrict Gorman and Sam Elliott. I even got a kick out of seeing Ken Burns and the one time James Bond actor.:D

Hopefully, Brad's reference to third rate acting was intended to apply to G&G, to which I would agree. I thought the Gettysburg acting was first rate.
 
bromhead said:
With of course Willis beaten to a bloody pulp over the course on mumbling his way thru the film,,is hans out of brothers by now? not that I watch such drivel
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I watch it as great escapist fun; drivel to one is a not so quilty pleasure to another. I hope Hans does have a few more brothers. Yippie-ki-yay m*******:D
 
A friend of mine in the movie business was watching Gettysburg with me an pointed out actors like George Lazenby (Bond and Brig. Gen. J. Johnston Pettigrew) and William Morgan Sheppard ("Blank Reg" from Max Headroom, and Maj. Gen. Isaac R. Trimble). A number of the Gettysburg actors went on to do Tombstone with better beards and mustaches, Eliot, Lang and Buck Taylor.
 
Funny thing about G&G I heard it was horrible and slow. I thought it was a great build up to Gettysburg. I loved it.

I also thought Martin Sheen as Lee was great too. I do not know what a Southron gentleman should sound like but it works for me.

If Robert Duvall was cold,,,, Well I read Marse Lee could be that way. Two different actors playing the same man differently.
 
"Gettysburg" was an epic aimed movie made on a low budget. As a result, it comes off like a reenactment filmed for TV. Not a particularly great film or acting, but at least well intentioned. Very difficult to capture the entire three-day battle in a movie format without turning it into sound bite history.
 
Gettysburg is one of my top 10-20 favorite movies. I thought Lang was excellent in both movies. His portrayals of Jackson and Pickett were right on the money. I got to meet him for an autograph and hear him speak about Jackson once. Also met the guy who played Hooker in Gods. Gettysburg takes some liberties with the way the 20th Maine's charge actually happened, but still it does a great job with the battle scenes. It would help though if it had a bit of the grit and realism of Glory, which I think has the best Civil War battle scenes I have ever watched in a movie. The book Killer Angels, on which Gettysburg is based, is very much like the movie - it only covers some parts of the battle, so you can't use either as an overall picture of the battle.

Gods and Generals was supposed to have included Antietam, which I really wanted to see on screen. That was not in the release. There are good moments in Gods and Generals, such as some of the Fredericksburg town fighting, but all in all I was so disappointed with how preachy and unrealistic the non-fighting parts seemed. When I re-watch, I skip to the fighting. I went to see it the first day it was out and had high hopes. I do love the opening credits though with the song playing while various battle flags flap in the breeze. As someone familiar with many of the regiments and who likes flags, it is beautiful and haunting.
 
Spitfrnd said:
I watch it as great escapist fun; drivel to one is a not so quilty pleasure to another. I hope Hans does have a few more brothers. Yippie-ki-yay m*******:D
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I have not found drivel I wouldnt sink down to watch,,unless it has commercials,,Lang as Ike Clanton,,,the marvelous Johnny Ringo and Doc Holiday,,,nonsense ,by all means move..,the tombstone directors cut,,quite a purchase w deleted scenes.
 
The differing viewpoints on the same movie are amazingly varied. Isn't it great that all are heard regardless of their veiws????? :):DI loved both movies! Would love to see the third. I have read the books as well. I have to reread the "Last Full Measure". I can not remember if I read it or just have it laying around waiting to be read.:confused:
 
kilted vampire said:
I can not remember if I read it or just have it laying around waiting to be read.:confused:
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It's THAT memorable...and I have read it.

I tried to read Jeff Sharaa's "Gone for a Soldier" about the Mexican War. I gave up after the second reference to "good ground", a term beaten to death in the movie Gettysburg.

"Is this good ground?" was reenactor joke for a while about parking spaces, camp sites, and places to relieve ones self.
 
Scott said:
It's THAT memorable...and I have read it.

I tried to read Jeff Sharaa's "Gone for a Soldier" about the Mexican War. I gave up after the second reference to "good ground", a term beaten to death in the movie Gettysburg.

"Is this good ground?" was reenactor joke for a while about parking spaces, camp sites, and places to relieve ones self.
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"Worse ground I ever saw...... We should have gone around to the right"

Pretty funny:D about the re-enactors
 
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