[Grand Old Partisan]

I'll see the movie, but not until it comes out in video. In fact, it would be better to see such a long movie that way. The pro-Confederate/anti-USA stance of the movie is not a deal-breaker for me. What is troublesome is -- according to the reviews -- the endless speech-making, faulty editing, and other cinematic blunders.

My father, a WWII combat veteran, laughed at the notion that soldiers of any era quoted the classics or made erudite speeches before and during battles.

[Jael]

Many of the things said during the movie were lifted verbatim from letters and reports written at the time. That having been said, the editing could have been better. :-)