Gettysburg (1993)
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.
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Such a frustrating disappointment
If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
I recently reviewed Gods and Generals and gave it a one star, so I thought it was only fair I review Gettysburg.Now I read all 3 books at least once year: Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure.Maxwell comes pretty close to getting everything right, which makes me wonder why he just made stuff up for Gods and Generals. The lighting and photograghy by Kees Van Oostrum is outstanding, especially in the interior scenes - they didn't have electricity back then, you had to duplicate candle light and lanterns.I watched this again the other week. It was made for TV and it shows. The action scenes are dodgy. The battle of little round top was excellent but during the bayonet charge, you can clearly see the extras stopping in the middle of things and standing around awkwardly - almost like they are not getting paid for this and they don't want to get hurt.
4 and a half hours of drivel. While accurate on the timeline and events, the dialogue and acting in this made for TV turkey are hideous. And those beards!! Who did the make-up? Didn't anyone see how laughably awful they were. Watch something else. This is an over-long, over-boring soap opera that's DOA.
Lots of pretty, gentlemanly Southern dialogue interspersed with battle scenes where hardly anyone dies until close to the end. No mention of Dan Sickles, or much at all about General George Meade. Yes, the fight scenes become more intense during the final 60-90 minutes, but this was the bloodiest battle on American soil, 620,000 plus American lives lost, yet this reminded me of a Disney production. It should be remade in a grittier style, like Saving Private Ryan, then we'd see what it was really like. Better still, want to learn about the Civil War? Go to Gettysburg!!!
One of the greatest Civil War movies in its class, truly shows the struggle of the war. And love the actors, each actor plays the part of each general, Martin Sheen was a great Robert E. Lee. The battles were awesome talking about how important Gettysburg was to the war. The fighting was very real and how the soldiers looked really portrays the war in a personal way. The costumes were very well made and facial hair were great details to add to the movies setting and locations. Also another great actor was Jeff Daniels as Col. Joshua Chamberlain he really gave the part a personal part and showed how being in a high position like that has a heavy effect on their guilt. But was very great movie and taught me more about the war.