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gods & generals
director: ron maxwell
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| My avant-garde version of this Ted Turner financed film would be a giant of a Moses-like (what?) Stonewall Jackson standing in a field and talking to heaven for three hours--in this version it's only about 45 minutes--the rest is battles, which are detailed, and well-orchestrated, as are the DVD extras which one must watch to lessen the weirdness of the film's historical slant. It's only audience may be the tens of thousands of Civil War reenactors who star in it, which is a shame--so watch it late at night with your mouth open and your favorite pipe handy and a time portal back to the 1939 when films like this got made, and thank heaven that 'The Patriot' people didn't get hold of this script or Stonewall Jackson's character would have been renamed Stanly Johnson. |
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reviewed by: john ball |
August 2003 [link] |
recommend
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