I do wish I was with seemingly everyone else on this movie. It was a waste of four hours of my life. What am I missing?
The first third is quite good.
What am I missing?
answer: Southern blood..age...education...and lack of real history..
An education in American history?
Are you kidding me?
For cinematography, it was ahead of it’s time; for swearing, too; excellent story and depiction of war; the love story was predictable but the citing excellent for the time....
Get your head out of the present-day CG world, use your imagination and try to appreciate it for the grand cinematic spectacle it was of that age.
Like a lot of things you have to catch it at the right point in life. When I was a kid I couldn’t believe how glued to the TV my mom was when GWTW came on. I might feel the same way now, but I did watch it and enjoy it at one time. It helps if you’re really interested in the Civil War or in film history.