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I saw the film and thought it would have been better as a mini series on TV. I think it tried to cover too much ground. I loved the book. I’ve enjoyed other Ayn Rand books. But the film was disappointing.

Gods and Generals was the same way. Gettysburg was a critical and box office success, but it had actually been filmed for TV (TBS). Turner and Maxwell got really ambitious for Gods and Generals and set it up as a theatrical movie.

When it bombed, it killed any chance of seeing Last Full Measure hit either the big or the small screen. Shame ...

IMHO, Gods and Generals was the better of the two films. Duvall was a hands-down better R.E. Lee, and and I think Jeff Daniels did a great job with Chamberlain. In Gettysburg he just had to play him as the hero at one battle. In G&G, he had to show his transition from family man to officer to battlefield commander, which, IMHO he did very, very effectively.