Movies I Have Watched Recently

[bdunbar]

Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
Why in the world don't they make more fun musicals like this? I really enjoyed the heck out of it.

Joe Bob says give it a whirl.

Gettysburg (1993)
The director's cut is 4 hours at 31 minutes of boredom, with overly long scenes of meandering tedium, relieved by moments of really good acting. Then more krep. Another bright

Comments

[ford_prefect42]

"I'm fightin' for my rats"

Yeah, I have some problem with the portrayal of lee, because because he comes off so much as a doddering fool, and yet, is generally regarded as a brilliant general. However, Picketts charge was SO monumentally ill advised that I can't see anyone that would order it being anything BUT a "doddering fool".

On the other hand, Napoleon accepted battle at waterloo, Oh well.

Liked the 10th main.

[bdunbar]

Everyone has an off day. Having the God's eye view of that battle that we have, and hindsight, it's so easy - at least for me - to forget how _little_ Lee knew about the battlefield, and the stunted perspective one has of the Union position from below.

Which - give them credit - is one thing the movie showed well.

I think Lee's legacy would have been better served without the Lost Cause fools buffing it to a needless shine.

[selenite]

It's not perfect but I love it. It captures the feel of so much of it. Yeah, I can't tell which bunch of rocks they're fighting over, but hell, their regimental commander probably didn't know either, let alone the troops.

It's been the Memorial Day movie for the kids a few times, but sometimes I stop it after the defense of Little Round Top rather than go on to the second disk.